1. Articles

Carry That Weight

Reviews
  Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, James Booth, Bloomsbury, 2014, 544pp, £25 (hardback) Major modern poets are often saddled…

The Impossible Exile

Reviews
  The Impossible Exile – Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, George Prochnik, Other Press, New York, 2014,…

The Journey

Poetry
  i.m. Charlotte Annie Bodsworth Grantham: 1944 The long road from the farm was longer then, the chickens fed, breakfast…

Whirligig

Fiction
  Our closest neighbour was Elrod. He lived up the road about a half-mile. His house was on the hill,…

The Girl of the Atomic Bomb

Reviews
  Opera Holland Park, May-August 2014 Giacomo Puccini, La Fanciulla del West Gioachino Rossini, Il Barbiere di Siviglia Francesco Cilea,…

In the Shadow of War The Balkan Century

Essays

Sarajevo, on the 28th of June in the year ‘14, was en fête. A unique foreign delegation was coming, and the hotels were booked up; the pavements along the river were filling, the crowd’s diversity appropriate to this historically so cosmopolitan city. Could any have said exactly why they were there, or what they were looking at? Put face-to-face with History, it’s difficult to know quite where we stand.

A Basic Mistake

Reviews
  William S. Burroughs: A Life, Barry Miles, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014, 740pp, £30 (hardback) Considering the profligate varieties and…

Unequivocal Gent?

Reviews
  The Setting Sun: A Memoir of Empire and Family Secrets, Bart Moore-Gilbert, Verso Books, 2014, 288pp, £14.99 (hardback) Bart…

The Sage of Chelsea

Essays
  The only known surviving diaries of a Victorian regional newspaper editor were penned by my great great uncle Anthony…

Piazza di Spagna, 1860

Poetry
  On the Spanish Steps there sprawls in original sun Il Padre Eterno with his rusty coat, His bright paternal…

Rose

Poetry
  Let me drink rose coloured wine From your white hands. Let me look into your eyes And swoon into…

Elterwater Rain

Poetry
  When I came to write of it there was no rain, just the last of its ectoplasm shivering in…

Street-Combing

Poetry
  for O Sun’s setting behind us at 5 pm; a turquoise stripe below a rain front strokes in sudden…

Green Go

Poetry
  Nature’s austerities are apparent in autumn: No dense desires (leaves) define the trees Not a grain of green thoughts…

Enlightenment

Fiction
  The knock on the door was rapid, peremptory. Before I could answer, it opened and a tanned, silver-haired man…

Digestible Opera

Reviews
  The success of the Glyndebourne model, eighty years old this season, says something revealing about opera and the British…

Two Poems

Poetry
  Unexpected I drove north that December without expectations; behind me the old year narrowed into dark lanes of disappointment.…

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