A Postcard from Ireland ‘Picture-poem’, 1966 oil and collage on board 8’ x 4’ ‘Picture-poem’, 1966 oil and collage on board 8’ x…
Chromotherapy in Cokaigne Perhaps the most ideal complement to the forest and the former royal residence at Saint-Germain-en-Laye is the nearby Maurice…
Hammerhead Revisited The Little Magazines: A Study of Six Editors, Ian Hamilton, Faber and Faber, 152pp, £13 (paperback) Gazza Agonistes, Ian…
Thinkers Alike When I Was a Child I Read Books, Marilynne Robinson, Virago, 224pp, £16.99 (hardback) Diaries 1963-1981: As Consciousness is…
Different Voices The Salt Harvest, Eoghan Walls, Seren, 64pp, £8.99 (paperback) Wondering About Many Women, Derwent May, Greenwich Exchange, 46pp, £7.99…
What Happened Next? The Atheist’s Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions, Alex Rosenberg, W. W. Norton & Co., 352pp, £17.99 (hardback)…
All in the Mind The Science Delusion, Rupert Sheldrake, Coronet, 400pp, £19.99 (hardback) The ultimate achievement of reason … is to recognise that…
Boswell’s Grand Tour Come summer, Europe buckles under the annual migration of students now roosting at their universities. According to the Institute…
Happiness Paints White You can paint the spaces around it, that is to say, but not it. For centuries happiness has been…
The Fall and Rise of a Familiar Curtain One February evening in 1982, leaving London’s Adelphi Theatre by the stage door, I am keenly aware of huddled,…
England’s Crimea There are references to the Crimean War all over London: Sebastopol Road, Inkerman Terrace, The Alma public house, and…
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…
MoonlitI open the back door, to peek out on the wild dark. I see a mouse’s mossy pelt, quivering through…
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…
Hordes A dozen raised cherry-pickers in a lit yard at dusk, in a circle: you might say, a concentration, a…
Hold So much about Dartmoor was a mist-illusion – its retreating skylines, shiftless names: Ducks Pool meant neither pool nor…
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