Grey Gowrie introduces the paintings of Vicken Parsons
Thomas Mann and von Sternberg’s, The Blue Angel
Josef von Sternberg’s film The Blue Angel (1930) was supposedly based on Heinrich Mann’s novel Professor Unrat (literally: Professor…
Bringing Back Buchan
The works of John Buchan have returned to the bookshops to a remarkable degree in recent years – a…
Frank Lloyd Wright: An Architect who Believed in Personal Freedom
I came to appreciate Frank Lloyd Wright by a rather roundabout route. Most people take architecture for granted, especially…
The Nine Muses: Where Writers Get their Ideas
Current theories of creativity do not mention divine inspiration. It is not politically correct to suggest that the best…
Edmund Waller and Andrew Marvell: Two Poems Contrasted
Apart from the attention of specialists, Edmund Waller (1606-1687) is one of the lost voices of English poetry –…
Landscapes of Transformation: The Art of Harold Mockford
The surroundings are familiar – as all the landscapes are to me – and yet this difference forces me…
Ronan
Do not compare me to him For I live in his glowing shadow The now mist of his sway…
In Sant Joan Baptista
For Fernandito Our early morning chat on your cool terrace explained the little grunting noise you often make, as…
Formentera
For Anna Roy Among the island’s first visitors after the war, you landed, innocently, with two volumes of Lorca…
Where your Breath Now Waits
To hear your voice To hear it fall back into this night Where your breath now waits, Too hot…
ArcelorMittal Orbit: The Middle of Nowhere
A deconstruction of London’s newest construction
Dad’s the Word
A dear friend of ours had just lost his wife. She died, after a traumatic, brief illness, of a…
Broken Statues
After George Seferis Trees are breathing the darkened calm of the dead. A river flows through my hands yet…
I Have Been Thinking of You So Loudly
I have been thinking of you so loudly that perhaps as you walked down the street you turned on…
The Hyacinths
Pressed in the soil’s black web, nursed by the rough offhand embrace of frost, the hyacinths turn in their…
Zoffany, Gilbert and George
Johann Zoffany RA: Society Observed, Royal Academy of Arts, until 10 June 2012 Gilbert and George: London Pictures, White…
In Our Own Hard Times
A Mutual Friend: Poems for Charles Dickens, edited by Peter Robinson, Two Rivers Press, 160pp, £10 (paperback) It is…
Wandering Star
A review of Joseph Roth’s letters edited by Michael Hofmann
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