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
Looking Outside Oneself
A Thorn in the Flesh, Eddie Linden, Hearing Eye, 52pp, £7.50 (paperback) Echo Soundings, John Weston, Shoestring Press, 88pp,…
The Politics of Humour
David Shrigley: Brain Activity, Hayward Gallery, until 13 May 2012 From the steel casket that is the Hayward Gallery…
A Collective Undertaking
Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam, British Museum, until 15 April 2012 The current ‘Hajj’ exhibition at the…
Damascus, Aleppo and their ‘Battered Caravanserais’
The horror of what can only be considered nascent civil war in Syria, the frustration of the international community’s…
Animal Avenue: Surviving a Third-World Megacity
Had Darwin lived long enough to visit twenty-first-century Manila he may have been intrigued by Katipunan. Day and night…
No More Coteries
Literary London’s reviewers united to empty a bucket of ordure over Richard Bradford’s Martin Amis: The Biography last November.…
The Poetry of Egon Schiele
An introduction to three poems in translation by the Austrian painter, Egon Schiele
‘No-Management Style’: Boris’s Lack of Impact at City Hall
As the 2012 mayoral contest enters its final stages, it is tempting to play up the differences between the…
Neville Cardus: Writing with the Wayward Charms of Schubert
‘That Mozart was born once, and once and for all, is a happening and consummation which beggars understanding and…
Iraq: Now We Must Learn Our Lesson
It is election year in the USA and, I suppose, we can only expect even less statesmanship than normal…
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