The Fury of Existence: The Young Martin Heidegger
Nur ein Gott kann uns noch retten: Only a god can save us. Heidegger, interview in Der Spiegel, May…
The Demise of Art Criticism
I’ve been writing art books, most but not all of them about contemporary art, for the whole of my…
The Wind in the Willows: An Absolute Necessity to Move
Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind and the Willows, though written for children, is a subtle and sophisticated work. The animals’…
Self-Portrait as a Francis Bacon
You painted with a scalpel, each canvas a wound excavated by pain, the body always something flayed and suffering,…
Dog Fox Slips Under the Fence
You rely on light to steal his show, as if the pouring in will force out the richest secrets,…
L’Heure Bleue
in this last blue flash of dusk the violins of our eyes are playing to the south west wind’s…
Gospel Oak
The fight dog’s name, said its proud owner, was Jake, an old white bull terrier, brindle circle around his…
The Western Wynde John Taverner 1490-1545*
I walk in sunlit Christ Church meadows, the skies not Lincolnshire – the grazing cattle and unfamiliar deer –…
A Student of Rock-Pools
At the tremor of his footsteps Little transparent eft-like things sank And disappeared into the wet sand, But he…
The Abstractionist
How could he be eighty-one already? Looking out through his one decent eye, nothing seemed to have changed at…
Puggy Booth’s Secret
The admiral’s teeth have been giving him gyp. He’s had to have all his real ones out. The new…
The Voyage of the Ancient Mariner as Automythography
I… never exist wholly present to any Sight, to any Sound, to any Emotion, to any series of Thoughts…
In Gauguin’s Shadow
Emile Bernard, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris and Kunsthalle, Bremen Emile Bernard (1868-1941), Musée D’Orsay/Glammarion, $39 17 September 2014 –…
Tough as Old Boots
The Letters of Samuel Beckett: 1957–1965 edited by George Craig, Martha Dow Fehsenfeld, Dan Gunn and Lois More Overbeck,…
A Glinting Scree
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde, Lavinia Greenlaw, Faber and Faber, 2014, 240pp, £16.99 (hardback) The poetic image can…
An Artist at Work
Rembrandt: The Late Works, 15 October – 18 January, Sainsbury Wing, The National Gallery (The Rijksmuseum, 12 February –17…
The Magus of Cheshire
In 2010 – on 10/10/10, to be precise – Alan Garner celebrated fifty years of The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, his…
John Keats and the Vale of Soul-Making
like this place very much. John Keats to J. H. Reynolds, 22nd November 1817 That which is creative…
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