Toby Horkan's Outputs (2)

Getting to the Point: Walking and feeling on the shorelines of Spurn (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horkan, T. (2024, March). Getting to the Point: Walking and feeling on the shorelines of Spurn. Paper presented at ACLA 2024 Annual Conference (American Comparative Literature Association), Palais des congrès de Montréal, Montreal, Canada

Spurn is a narrow sandy spit on the Holderness coast of East Yorkshire, UK, which juts out into the mouth of the Humber Estuary, and is a place of rich ecological and historical interest. Because of its position at the boundary of river and sea, Spur... Read More about Getting to the Point: Walking and feeling on the shorelines of Spurn.

Writing remoteness: Language and place-making at Spurn (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Horkan, T. (2023, June). Writing remoteness: Language and place-making at Spurn. Paper presented at Energy and Environment Institute Summer Conference 2023, University of Hull

What makes a ‘remote place’ remote? Using the example of Spurn on the Holderness coast, this flash talk will contend that ‘remoteness’ is a concept produced by the discursive juxtaposition of closeness and distance, the ‘here’ and ‘there’, both in sp... Read More about Writing remoteness: Language and place-making at Spurn.