Creating the Past: Archaeological Interpretation and Poetic Imagination
On a rushy hillside in Lubitavish, Co. Antrim, a group of stones overlooks Glencorp and Glenaan onto Scotland. An…
‘Not Without Violence’: The Disappearing World of Weldon Kees
A warm night in San Francisco, October 1954. Weldon Kees is enjoying an evening’s jazz. In nine months’ time,…
Under the Golden Arches
Dictes moy ou, n’en quel pays, Est Flora la belle Rommaine? Archipiades ne Thais Qui fut sa cousine germaine?…
Tiger Head Sonnets
I An offering of grain; an offering of drink. Blind tiger forgive us for making you a stuffed head.…
This Great Beech
This great beech merges with my life. Each day its canopy of wind-carved branches filters nuances of sun as…
The White Stag
Come October my father would get the urge for musty woodland. On Sun- days he would shake us gently…
Summer Night Garden
Outside, night has shaken its sleeve. Moths mob the street lamp, dozens of tiny mandibles tear and munch. The…
Italian Air
A breathless train ride in the heat of things, I squeeze my red knees to the rough skin of…
Forster’s ‘Cow’: The Longest Journey
Among novels by Forster, The Longest Journey seems to have been the least written about independently – not as…
First Encounters
We’d been sleeping in separate rooms for two months. Denise said she needed to get her head straight. I’d…
Eighth Letter Akhmatova
Like a first love, the man you made from words instead of from snow, fitting him together like a…
The Labyrinth and the Fountain
Abducting a General: The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete, Patrick Leigh Fermor, John Murray, 2014, 200pp, £20 (hardback) In…
Sacred Hearts and Shadows
The Water Stealer, Maurice Riordan, Faber and Faber, 2015, 64pp, £9.99 (paperback) Gangs of Shadow, Michael O’Neill, Arc Publications,…
Finding a Language
Archipelago, Antonella Anedda, translated by Jamie McKendrick, Bloodaxe Books, 2014, 160pp, £12 (paperback) From Elsewhere, Ciaran Carson, The Gallery…
Elegy for the Passenger Pigeon
Some Letters Never Sent, Neil Curry, Enitharmon Press, 2014, 79pp, £9.99 (paperback) William Cowper: A Revaluation, Neil Curry, Greenwich…
Slow Realism
Let Me Be Frank With You, Richard Ford, Bloomsbury, 2014, 256pp, £18.99 (hardback) Richard Ford’s early attempts at novel…
A Peripatetic Life
After the Titanic: A Life of Derek Mahon, Stephen Enniss, Gill & Macmillan, 2014, 304pp, £26.99 (hardback) Derek Mahon…
Hell on Earth
Goya: The Witches and Old Women Album The Courtauld Gallery 26 February – 25 May 2015 Anyone fortunate enough…
Earthy Intimacy
L’Ormindo, Francesco Cavalli, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse 3 February – 5 March 2015 ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, John Ford,…
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