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The Andrians

A lament for a friend: the Greek painter and shipowner, Leonidas Goulandris.

Northern Territory

  We were at the lake’s edge, nothing for fifty miles. September and the first freeze glinting between wet stones,…

Safari

  Over the plains, the quiet Hung down Like a water sac. It draped the baobabs – Cool skin, Caught…

Oracle

  I had a question for her so I went through convoluted alleys to the place: no sacred groves of…

Gare

  I love you to the echoes of this green station and always will, as we wait for our children…

Passage through Icebergs

  (Painted as Voyage to Labrador by Alfred Wallis, 1935-6) Pinnacles accompany steady Course, the odd dry-docked Whiteness with its…

The Selkie

  Her face like a river-beaten stone on the day she rolled from the city of white walls, and pebbly…

Dawn

  On steel earth and dog heat The dogs wept. Not silence. Not even the silence of the cage After…

Matisse and the Dancer

  Eternal female, colour constructed in yellow armchair, fully relaxed, contours voluptuous, pattern Islamic, gazing at silhouette leaves on a…

Passchendaele

  Hard to imagine, as the coaches roll Along small unimportant roads through fens Blotted by bungalows and ugly sheds…

Ithaka

  In Memory of Janice Fixter A transformation after Constantine Cavafy As you set out for Ithaka pray that your…

Taking a Long View

  Encounters with Islam: On Religion, Politics and Modernity, Malise Ruthven, IB Tauris, 267pp, £57.50 (hardback) The challenge which Islam,…

A Paraphrase for Survival

  Bee Journal, Sean Borodale, Jonathan Cape, 112pp, £10 (paperback) Bees have been a symbol and source of eloquence for…

The Unknown Russian

An introduction to one of the most important artists yet to be discovered.

On your Marks

  Ecstatics: A Language of Birds, Laura Drever and Lesley Harrison, Brae Editions, 36pp; The Long Woman, Charlotte Gann, Pighog…

Midterm Reports

  Selected Poems, Don Paterson, Faber and Faber, 192pp, £14.99 (hardback) Yellow Tulips: Poems 1968-2011, James Fenton, Faber and Faber,…

Signing the Vivid Air

  Stephen Spender: New Selected Journals 1939-1995, edited by Lara Feigel and John Sutherland with Natasha Spender, Faber & Faber,…

Between Presence and Absence

  Black Cat Bone, John Burnside, Cape Poetry, 66pp, £10 (paperback) Black Cat Bone presents us with a liminal world…

Making Love Collectively

  The parliamentary committee that charged NewsCorp with wilful blindness over phone-hacking should cast its gaze afield. Wilful blindness is…

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