On the centenary of Dylan Thomas’s birth, Karwowski examines Thomas’s ‘Altarwise by owl-light’
Palazzo Vecchio
Watch where compass quivers, pendulum swings as time in its magnificence betrays all things with proof stands aside in shadow,…
The Hanoverian Succession
The Hanoverians on Britain’s Throne 1714-1837 Lower Saxony State Museum and Herrenhausen Palace Museum One Coach and Two Kingdome: Hanover…
‘Beirt daoine uasal’: Two Noble Persons The Irelands of J. M. Synge and Heinrich Böll
The London premiere of Robert J. Flaherty’s film, Man of Aran, was held on the 25th of April, 1934.…
Three Sonnets
These three sonnets are taken from ‘Sketches from the Sierra de Tejeda’ (in Andalusia), a sequence of forty-one sonnets John…
Bilbao’s Other Serras
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Bilbao Fine Arts Museum Since its completion in 1997 the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, designed by Frank…
Old Men in Jeans
‘This should be our starting place,’ I reckon, said Bill to his old friend Jack. ‘Good choice, looks like.’…
The Colour of Money
Sheaved millions wallow in the vaults, as unreal as the half-brained dreams of humpback whales, in bands of silver, dappled…
Killers of The King by Charles Spencer
Charles Spencer has written an essay on the execution of Charles I
By the Rim of an Ancient Well
(after Georg Trakl) The meaning of water is dark; the night has a broken brow. Footsteps fall in the ancient…
Sebastian Barker: ‘A Glass That’s Rubbed Enough To Sing’
I saw too little of Sebastian Barker. Our paths crossed every so often – at a lecture, a poetry reading…
Independent Metaphysics
All in One Breath, John Burnside, Jonathan Cape, 2014, 96pp, £10 (paperback) Terror, Toby Martinez de las Rivas, Faber,…
Here Because We’re Here
The War That Ended Peace: How Europe Abandoned Peace for the First World War, Margaret MacMillan, Profile Books, 2013,…
Nasty, Brutish and Short
The Dead Zoo, Ciaran Berry, The Gallery Press, 2013, 90pp, £10.50 (paperback) Echo’s Grove: Collected Translations, Derek Mahon, The…
Peter Pan Meets Elvis
I Knew the Bride, Hugo Williams, Faber, 2014, 65pp, £12.99 (hardback) Hugo Williams has been called many things in…
Curious Insulations
The Hotel Oneira, August Kleinzahler, Faber, 2013, 96pp, £12.99, (hardback) Nice Weather, Frederick Seidel, Faber, 2013, 112pp, £14.99, (hardback)…
A Child of World War I
If World War I had never happened, I wouldn’t be here. My father, John Dudley Lucie-Smith, met my mother,…
A Liberal Flirtation: Edmund Wilson & Sir Isaiah Berlin
Isaiah Berlin affected me like nobody else I had known; though he was not particularly handsome, I tended to react…
My London: The Serpentine and The Sinuous
This is the sixth of our series in which writers say what London has meant to them. Holly Luhning…
William Blake and the Forging of the Creative Self
William Blake and the Forging of the Self
T. S. Eliot and La Figlia Che Piange
Today’s younger readers approaching T. S. Eliot’s poetry for the first time are faced with two alternatives. They can…
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