Mocking Gods
Lost in the library of Alexandria, proof Selene the moon goddess mocked Apollo her sun god twin, each mocking the…
Spare Room
Trees scratch at the panes with bony branches Tap away time, and its second chances. Strange. This bed is disused,…
One Night Only
Too few saw you in your last theatre role, the affected hero of La Forêt mouillée, Victor Hugo’s seldom-performed verse…
My Father’s Job Book
Rippled by snow, the cover’s blue rose into crests. At nine, he drew it from the sideboard drawer. Scrubbed, late…
Twofold Bay
1930 Then the curved tooth snaps with the tug of rope in Old Tom’s jaw as the Davidson’s whaling boat…
An excerpt from Beyond Elsewhere
From Beyond Elsewhere by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac, forthcoming from White Pine Press in March 2016, translated from the French by…
Installing Time
One More Time, Cornelia Parker at St Pancras International (until November 2015 ) Train travellers at St Pancras station in…
Difficult Cup
after Wu Hao’s Duke Cups The china cup is frilled at the rim like tired lace and all over…
Van Gogh: Art and Suicide
The peripatetic life of Vincent van Gogh (1853-90), the son of a Dutch Protestant minister, was an endless series of…
The Quest for Meaning
Shadows Waltz Haltingly, Alan Morrison, Lapwing Press, 2015, 84pp, £10 (paperback) The Beautiful Librarians, Sean O’Brien, Picador, 2015, 64pp, £9.99…
The Kid from Kogarah Grows UpÂ
Latest Readings, Clive James, Yale University Press, 2015, 192pp, £12.99 (hardcover) When Australian polymath Clive James was diagnosed with terminal…
No Longer Impregnable
When the Facts Change, Essays 1995-2010, Tony Judt, edited and introduced by Jennifer Homans, William Heinemann, 2015, £25 (hardcover) Ours is…
My London
Henry Eliot is a writer. Since 2011 he has run the map-magazine Curiocity with Matt Lloyd-Rose, available in bookshops across…
Becoming Who We Are: Concluding Thoughts
There are great advantages in for once removing ourselves distinctly from our time and letting ourselves be driven far from…
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