Thrum in Tandem
An Aviary of Small Birds, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Carcanet, 2014, 88pp, £9.95 (paperback) The Weather Wheel, Mimi Khalvati, Carcanet,…
The Pope Gives His Approval
Summers always have to come to an end. As the children went back to their respective schools, I realised…
Marilynne Robinson: The Gilead Novels
With Gilead (2004), Home (2008) and Lila (2014) Marilynne Robinson has produced a body of work of a quality…
Mailer on Hemingway and Lawrence
In the New York Times of November 28, 2014 Dwight Garner called Norman Mailer’s letters ‘mostly low-wattage, a rolling…
Glatt’s Ronda
Justin Glatt. Remember him? Probably not, but, for a while, he was a name, not mega, as they say,…
Death’s Dream Kingdom
Fire Songs, David Harsent, Faber and Faber, 2014, 80pp, £12.99 (hardback) Sailing the Forest – Selected Poems, Robin Robertson,…
Zhivago and Ulysses
The Most Dangerous Book, Kevin Birmingham, Head of Zeus, 2014, 432pp, £20 (hardback) The Zhivago Affair, Peter Finn and…
Free Radical
Egon Schiele – The Radical Nude The Courtauld Gallery, London 23 October 2014 – 18 January 2015 Vienna has…
Growing Pains
It is a question I have, from time to time, asked myself. If I had had the sort of…
Elizabeth Bishop: Art From Life and Life Itself
Happiness is not a word readily associated with Elizabeth Bishop. Despite the voluminous accolades and honours showered upon her…
On Robert Louis Stevenson’s Journey
Robert Louis Stevenson was in his late twenties and not yet widely known as a writer. He had been…
Myths of the MacArthur Suite
When the tour guide throws open the doors to the Douglas MacArthur Suite, I’m fairly sure what to expect.…
An Unlikely Friendship
From his room in West London he could hear the approach of footsteps on the street below. The birds were…
Son Of A Firecracker
She’d leave me in a motel room, toy tipper truck and a dream of the ocean for company as…
The Women and King Harold
Ubi Harold interfectus est … – Bayeux Tapestry Along the margins of embroidery when the women grew bored with…
How the Ghosts Get Out and About
It’s easy to assume the ghosts travel through London on the tube – they seldom do, preferring to avoid…
The Man Who Disliked Crocuses
My neighbour had a dislike of crocuses, though he loved gardening. The leaves were a mess; hung about too…
The Windows
The windows’ crispy cataracts conceal a small garden where the tickled chemistry of frost has electrified the few shrubs…
Easy Rider
Translated into English by Rimas Uzgiris i will ride the blazing bus in the dark through the station of…
Solomon’s Stables
Caressing mare’s ribs, the master coaxes the foal into odd environs as sibling colts munch fresh hay, sifting after…
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