Murkund and the Upholding of a Bureaucratic Machine
Mukund breathed a sigh of relief as he left the immigration office in Dembe, capital of Babanya Letu. He…
Edward Ardizzone Wins his Place
The occasion of both a major exhibition in a public museum and the publication of a monograph devoted to…
Ford Madox Ford: ‘An Incurable and Dedicated Work of Fiction’
‘He sensed the virgin sucker at once. So we had the stories about Ruskin, and my Uncle Gabriel and…
Animated Machines
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany, Norman Ohler trans. Shaun Whiteside, Allen Lane, £8.99 (paperback) When the Nazi Wehrmacht finally…
In The Split Screen of the Heart
What do you say when both here and two hundred ———and twenty latitude degrees away no one lines up on…
New England
From neon-lit cheap motels you hear the plainsong of the highway – the dogs and wolves of the hills,…
A Mosaic of Memories
War and Turpentine, Stefan Hertmans trans. David McKay, Harvill Secker, 2016, £8.99 (paperback) ‘People from the age of Europe’s…
October Wood
Some niche: rested in planks with its own electric fingers hovering light to become our hands, caressing a mahogany…
Many Realities
Picasso Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, 6 October 2016 – 5 February 2017; Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 17 March –…
Turmoil and Stillness
Paul Nash, Tate Britain, London, until 5 March. When, in his 1943 book British Romantic Artists, John Piper included a…
A Different Kind of Prison & Philomel by Patricia McCarthy
A Different Kind of Prison They were always there at the window when I awoke, nostrils squashed against the pane,…
Hemingway and the Gangsters
Hemingway believed that insults could be crushed and arguments settled, gangland fashion, with menacing threats or physical violence. His…
How’s your eldest? asked Andrew the barber.
Daily unwanted meetings On the underground train His black brush of a moustache glistening (Obviously dyed). He’d told me…
Eduardo Paolozzi and the Borrowing of Art
Walking from his Dovehouse Street studio on to the King’s Road to catch the number 19 bus to the…
Talkin’ ’bout my Generation
Feminist Avant-Garde of the 1970s, from the Verbund Collection at The Photographers’ Gallery, 7 October to 15 January 2017…
The Man who was Marked for Death
The Rack: The Restored Edition, A.E Ellis, Ashgrove Publishing, 2010, £14.99 (paperback) The Rack is a fugitive classic:…
Modest Modernists
Slakki: New & Neglected Poems, Roy Fisher, Bloodaxe, 2016, £9.95 (paperback) Float, Anne Carson, Jonathan Cape 2016, £16.99 (paperback)…
The Dilemma of Edward Thomas
If a death can be good then the poet Edward Thomas probably had one of the best. A casualty of…
Stories from the Camino
Communing on the Way On an icy ridge during a storm, a faithless priest cancelled mass. When a devout…
Bear Country
Why had he brought her to this place? She lay on the bed reading, listening to the insistent beat…
Poem in which my Mother is Monica Galetti
I am a child. In our yellow kitchen before school she whistles breakfast from the London smog and plates…
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