some LANDSCAPES

Monday, September 01, 2025

A glorious sunburst-streak

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The Wire magazine, which I referenced yesterday, has just put out its 500th issue. I started reading it in 1987 when I was a student, buyin...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Singing Toward The Wind Now

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I was going to write here about Raven Chacon after seeing him perform at Tate Modern's Preemptive Listening Symposium in 2024. I didn...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Balcony in the Forest

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I recently read this beautiful novel and will mention it here for the way it evokes the Ardennes forest landscape during the winter of 1939-...
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Saturday, August 09, 2025

Empty places

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In my last blog  post I talked about how disability can impose restrictions on how a landscape is seen and said I would say more about this...
Friday, August 08, 2025

Lochan Eck

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  Alec Finlay has two new books out - here I am holding one of them, ready for borrowing at the National Poetry Library in London. Not Seali...
Friday, July 25, 2025

A Tour to Aavasaksa

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It is possible that you are not a regular reader of Finnish gaming website Playlab! and so may have missed an article they ran by Sini Jaat...
Saturday, July 19, 2025

Sun-gilt lands of bright green pastures

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A 19th century painting showing John Scott looking through a telescope at the Ware valley In 2007 I wrote here about a prospect poem by Joh...
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This blog explores landscape through the arts: painting, installation, photography, literature, music, film... I've also on occasion covered the creation or alteration of landscapes by architects, artists and garden designers. For the first year I did several short entries each week; since then I have reduced the frequency and some posts are a bit longer. In naming this site 'Some Landscapes' initially I just saw it as a few modest notes and didn't know if I'd keep it up. Of course it will always only cover 'some' landscapes, even though I occasionally like to think of it as an expanding cultural gazetteer. There are some maps and a chronology of posts that I did a while back but the best way of exploring is through the search function, labels or just browsing old posts. I started writing this blog using the name 'Plinius' (a little tribute to the younger and older Plinys) and am now rather attached to it as a 'nom de blog'. Comments are very welcome but are moderated to prevent spam. I used to post landscape stuff on Twitter but now use Bluesky: @andrew-ray.bsky.social.
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