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The Villager

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New writing on landscape, music, books, folklore, psychedelia, the natural world and other misty magical things outside the mainstream.

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About Tom Cox

Author of 21st-Century Yokel, Help The Witch, Ring The Hill, Notebook, Villager, 1983 and (published March 2025) Everything Will Swallow You.

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