Heyshott Harvest
Three gold headed children bent in prayer, sun through the west window on the copper ear of barley, marking Cobden’s…
Unseen London
London is one of the world’s most photographed cities, so you might think there’s nothing left to see. But you’d…
An Overflow of Violent Bacchanalia
Accounts of the storming of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg on 25 October 1917 read more like those of…
The Last Connection
The way I came, to get my next connection meant me hoofing it through central Glasgow on a night the…
The Difficulties of Writing a Eulogy
Having entered my late seventies, I continually receive the painful news of friends dying. This fills me with complex and…
Moving Energies
Raking Light, Eric Langley, Carcanet,April 2017, pp. 136, £9.99(hardcover) Cavalcanty, Peter Hughes, Carcanet, May 2017, pp.72, £9.99 (paperback) Farm by…
A Permanent Home
Garsington Opera at Wormsley, Summer 2017 George Frideric Handel, Semele Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le nozze di Figaro Gioachino Rossini, Il…
Anxious Essayists
Essayism, Brian Dillon, Fitzcaraldo Editions, June 2017, pp. 228, £10.99 (paperback) I begin by making a list: Style – Hybrid…
The Jerusalem Envelope (2)
encircled by, not the star called the snake-tamer, but by silwanic pools, by Reuven Rivlin and Jeremiah, trapped in Anathoth…
Angels of Death
Edvard Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed, Ed. Gary Garrels and others, with a preface [by the popular…
Meandering Through London
The Language of Cities, Deyan Sudjic, Allen Lane, July 2017, pp. 240, £9.99 (Paperback) One of several running jokes…
Remembering Derek Walcott
When I realised that I was going to teach English for a year in Fort-de-France, Martinique, I brought with…
An Ode to Spectacles (Three Inches Thick)
She arrived right on time, smoking a cigarette round the corner, checking her watch between drags before popping in…
The Ideal Husband Exhibition
The thing is, we’ve been friends since our first day at primary and you sat down at my elbow…
The Diaries of a Tragic Tory Leader
Sir Stafford Northcote, 8th Bt. FRS (1818-87) of Upton Pyne, near Exeter (a modest estate by Victorian standards of…
Shame, Error and Guilt
Proxies: A Memoir in Twenty-four Attempts, Brian Blanchfield, Picador, August 2017, pp. 256, £9.99 (Paperback) There are changing tides…
Castillo Olite
Some English show a pride in family who volunteered to join Spain´s Civil War, seeing it as an anti-fascist…
Quick as a Moth
Quick as a moth, rises the bird in the air, all rush of wings and glancing of sun from…
Train to Penrith
There’s a lot of England left Whatever glum people say – Acres and acres of it – but dull…
Building With Light
Designing the V&A: The Museum as a Work of Art (1857-1909), Julius Bryant, published by Lund Humphries in association…
On Reading a Translation of Sappho’s poem on Jealousy
‘He seems to me equal to gods that man whoever he is who opposite you sits and listens close…
The Deep Heart’s Core
Philip Guston and the The Poets, Gallerie Dell’Accademia di Venezia, Venice, 10 May 2017 – 3 September 2017 Among…
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