Waldegrave’s Weather
A Different Kind of Weather: A Memoir, William Waldegrave, Constable & Robinson, 2015, 320pp, £20 (hardback) The political memoir…
Classical Innovator
Joshua Reynolds: Experiments in Paint The Wallace Collection 12 March 2015 – 7 June 2015 The most important image in…
On the Scales
The Disappeared, Roger Scruton, Bloomsbury, 2015, 292pp, £11.99 (paperback) Roger Scruton is employing ever more subtle means in his…
Poetry and Terror
The publication of Seamus Heaney’s Selected Poems in two volumes by Faber lends support to the convenient idea that his is…
Diffuse and Disconnected
A Woman Without a Country, Eavan Boland, Carcanet, 2014, £9.95 (paperback) Faithful and Virtuous Night, Louise Gluck, Carcanet, 2014,…
Transactions
Transactions Gillian Ayres: New Paintings and Prints, The Alan Cristea Gallery 13 April 2015 – 30th May 2015 Giacometti…
In The Tarkine
‘It is too far south for spices and too close to the rim of the earth to be inhabited…
Creating the Past: Archaeological Interpretation and Poetic Imagination
On a rushy hillside in Lubitavish, Co. Antrim, a group of stones overlooks Glencorp and Glenaan onto Scotland. An…
‘Not Without Violence’: The Disappearing World of Weldon Kees
A warm night in San Francisco, October 1954. Weldon Kees is enjoying an evening’s jazz. In nine months’ time,…
Under the Golden Arches
Dictes moy ou, n’en quel pays, Est Flora la belle Rommaine? Archipiades ne Thais Qui fut sa cousine germaine?…
Tiger Head Sonnets
I An offering of grain; an offering of drink. Blind tiger forgive us for making you a stuffed head.…
This Great Beech
This great beech merges with my life. Each day its canopy of wind-carved branches filters nuances of sun as…
The White Stag
Come October my father would get the urge for musty woodland. On Sun- days he would shake us gently…
Summer Night Garden
Outside, night has shaken its sleeve. Moths mob the street lamp, dozens of tiny mandibles tear and munch. The…
Italian Air
A breathless train ride in the heat of things, I squeeze my red knees to the rough skin of…
Forster’s ‘Cow’: The Longest Journey
Among novels by Forster, The Longest Journey seems to have been the least written about independently – not as…
First Encounters
We’d been sleeping in separate rooms for two months. Denise said she needed to get her head straight. I’d…
Eighth Letter Akhmatova
Like a first love, the man you made from words instead of from snow, fitting him together like a…
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