Translucence
:with time the skin thins; we become more see-through as if the drip —————-of it, passing, was diluting us.…
In The Late Night Cafés Of Despair
I have waited for them, the uncommitted, the deceivers, in those strip-lit archipelagos of uncleared tables, ketchup bottles, smears…
The Blue Bench (a pantoum)
Just for a little while I thought it was you on an old blue bench in the park there…
Trodden Before
From a sequence inspired by a five-page factual report of an Irish Colonel in the Indian Army 1916-1946. …
Crossing the Border
The fields were sodden from four days of late February rain and the cold dawn air smoked to every…
Notes For Landscape Painters
Knoydart September 2014 Smooth the barbs of night with forsaken stars; snag the waning sea its mackerel feather…
The Cowsheds
An extract from Arcadian Nights, The Greek Myths Re-imagined, to be published by Duckworth on September 24th 2015 …
Math son of Mathonwy
A re-telling drawn from the Mabinogion It was back in the time in Britain when there were many rulers.…
It’s generally kind
I brought round books and then we just sat in the living room and watched a documentary on silver-backed…
The Cornucopias of Our Time
Eduardo Paolozzi, Judith Collins, Lund Humphries, 2014, 304pp, £45, 290 x 245 mm (hardback) Front and back cover showing BASH,…
Two Jokers
The Golden Age of Smoking, John Hartley Williams, Shoestring Press, 2014, 79pp, £10 (paperback) Twentyone Men and a Ghost,…
My London
Alessandro is the twelfth writer in the My London series. He is the founder of Hesperus Press, Alma Books and…
The Woolfs’ Hogarth Press and Katherine Mansfield’s Prelude (1918)
‘We have bought our Press! We don’t know how to work it, but now I must find some young novelists…
Bodies Beautiful and Music of Time
Defining Beauty: The Body in Ancient Greek Art The British Museum 26 March 2015 – 5 July 2015 Panathenaia…
The Skull Beneath the Skin – free to read
Alexander de Cadenet, (1974-) , The Collector (Violet), 2015, Photographic print on aluminium , 120 x 95 cm (47,2…
Esquissateurs
Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Art Market National Gallery 4 March–31 May 2015 Photograph of Paul Durand-Ruel…
Waldegrave’s Weather
A Different Kind of Weather: A Memoir, William Waldegrave, Constable & Robinson, 2015, 320pp, £20 (hardback) The political memoir…
Classical Innovator
Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint The Wallace Collection 12 March 2015 – 7 June 2015 The most important image in…
On the Scales
The Disappeared, Roger Scruton, Bloomsbury, 2015, 292pp, £11.99 (paperback) Roger Scruton is employing ever more subtle means in his…
Poetry and Terror
The publication of Seamus Heaney’s Selected Poems in two volumes by Faber lends support to the convenient idea that his is…
Diffuse and Disconnected
A Woman Without a Country, Eavan Boland, Carcanet, 2014, £9.95 (paperback) Faithful and Virtuous Night, Louise Gluck, Carcanet, 2014,…
Transactions
Transactions Gillian Ayres: New Paintings and Prints, The Alan Cristea Gallery 13 April 2015 – 30th May 2015 Giacometti…
In The Tarkine
‘It is too far south for spices and too close to the rim of the earth to be inhabited…
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