Man of Sorrows: Abraham Lincoln’s Civil War
Off Manchester’s Albert Square stands a copy of George Grey Barnard’s bronze portrait statue of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). A…
I’m Going Digital – Goodbye, Herr Gutenberg
Edward Lucie-Smith goes Digital with his new iBook ‘100 London Artists’
Ghostly Encounters
One of the most respected explorers of the day shares with us, his ghostly encounters…
A Makeshift Homeland
A Place in the Country by W.G. Sebald, trans. by Jo Catling, Hamish Hamilton, 224pp, £20 (hardback) It may…
A Lament For Many Things
The Italian Visitor, Grey Gowrie, Carcanet, 112pp, £9.95 (paperback) The title sequence of this collection is a clever and…
Night Ride Home
I don’t know where the fox was going when it started to trot beside my bike, but we shared…
Cleft in Ullswater
Lacustrine love is A merging – two feelings: Sweet catching of a hundred waters Plash of the blue and…
At Middle Life
(after Friedrich Hölderlin) In the lake the land hangs thick with yellow pears and wild roses. Blessed swans, you…
Translated
‘The more languages you speak, the more people you are.’ – Eastern European proverb It’s true. You start as…
Corn Dolly
He cut her out of the last corn standing and our dry throats called across the stubble, called her…
The Rhyme of the Reddleman’s Daughter
Part I Wine berry, ta diddle, wagtail, den, he counted as he walked; to the spring of St Catherine…
Hunting the Jaguar
‘Where are you going?’ Inez asks ‘Nowhere,’ says Raoul. ‘Just out.’ The door slams and the house is empty.…
The Balm of Oranges
Harry Woodruff is sitting across from me at my table in the Sydney Free Legal Centre. His eyes are…
Telling Stories, Telling Lies?
Well Done God! Selected prose and drama of B.S. Johnson, Edited by Jonathan Coe, Philip Tew and Julia Jordan,…
Rameau and the Vertical
O/Modernt, Confidencen, Ulriksdals Slottsteater, Solna, Sweden, 9–17 June 2013 Combining the pursuit of excellence with highly imaginative program- ming,…
A Stable of Old Warhorses: Opera Holland Park, 2013
Les pêcheurs de perles (25 June, 2013) Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci (28 July 2013) Madama Butterfly (29 June 2013)…
Songs in the Key of Rhyme
The Word on the Street – Rock Lyrics, Paul Muldoon, Faber and Faber, 96pp, £12.99 (hardback) Songs and Sonnets,…
Full Immersion in a Darkening Time
The Sea Inside, Philip Hoare, Fourth Estate, 374 pp, £18.99 (hardback) Staring up at the frescoes of a medieval…
Mr. New York
All That Is, James Salter, Picador, 304pp, £18.99 (hardback) ‘It will be a stronger book, pruned, treated as if…
Taking the air at Glyndebourne
Reviews of two Opera productions at this years Glyndebourne Festival
A Revolution Turns: A Coup Stalls
Who remembers Muhammad Naguib? His name is most often seen today by passengers on the Cairo underground, which honours…
Revolution in Hungary: A Country still Strangled by Political Corruption
From revolution to revolution, I have watched Hungary evolve over the past half-century. The more dramatic of the two…
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