Albert Camus and the Pang of Subjectivity
Between the idea And the reality Between the notion And the act Falls the shadow T. S. Eliot, The…
Hellenistic Journey
A Monastery of Light, Sebastian Barker, The Bow-Wow shop, 62pp, £14.99 (hardback) Sebastian Barker is the son of the English…
The Trouble with Poetry
Collected Poems, Ian Hamilton, edited by Alan Jenkins, Faber and Faber, 160pp, £14.99 (paperback) The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry,…
Coetzee in his Castle
The Childhood of Jesus, J. M. Coetzee, Harvill Secker, 288pp, £12.99 (hardback) In the months leading up to the release…
The Centenary of The Rite of Spring
Stravinsky: Discoveries and Memories, Robert Craft, Naxos Books, £19.99 (hardback), including a CD of The Rite of Spring recorded…
Man of Sorrows: Abraham Lincoln’s Civil War
Off Manchester’s Albert Square stands a copy of George Grey Barnard’s bronze portrait statue of Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865). A…
I’m Going Digital – Goodbye, Herr Gutenberg
Edward Lucie-Smith goes Digital with his new iBook ‘100 London Artists’
Ghostly Encounters
One of the most respected explorers of the day shares with us, his ghostly encounters…
A Makeshift Homeland
A Place in the Country by W.G. Sebald, trans. by Jo Catling, Hamish Hamilton, 224pp, £20 (hardback) It may…
A Lament For Many Things
The Italian Visitor, Grey Gowrie, Carcanet, 112pp, £9.95 (paperback) The title sequence of this collection is a clever and…
Night Ride Home
I don’t know where the fox was going when it started to trot beside my bike, but we shared…
Cleft in Ullswater
Lacustrine love is A merging – two feelings: Sweet catching of a hundred waters Plash of the blue and…
At Middle Life
(after Friedrich Hölderlin) In the lake the land hangs thick with yellow pears and wild roses. Blessed swans, you…
Translated
‘The more languages you speak, the more people you are.’ – Eastern European proverb It’s true. You start as…
Corn Dolly
He cut her out of the last corn standing and our dry throats called across the stubble, called her…
The Rhyme of the Reddleman’s Daughter
Part I Wine berry, ta diddle, wagtail, den, he counted as he walked; to the spring of St Catherine…
Hunting the Jaguar
‘Where are you going?’ Inez asks ‘Nowhere,’ says Raoul. ‘Just out.’ The door slams and the house is empty.…
The Balm of Oranges
Harry Woodruff is sitting across from me at my table in the Sydney Free Legal Centre. His eyes are…