some LANDSCAPES

A while back on Caught by the River Rob St John reviewed Allan Burns' anthology Where the River Goes: The Nature Tradition in Englis...

So it seems I have now been writing this blog for exactly ten years.  If I had considered this when I started and realised it was going t...

I said in an earlier post that I might return at some point to In the Field , the book of interviews with field recordists put together...

Thomas Joshua Cooper, Ritual Object  (Message to Donald Judd and Richard Serra), Derbyshire, 1975 ©Thomas Joshua Cooper, Courtesy Hau...

When Basho and Sora set off in 1689 on the Narrow Road to the Deep North , they were traveling into the past, to re-visit landscapes with lo...

In Japanese literature certain place names, utamakura, have specific poetic associations. 'To mention Miyagino was to imply hagi , bush...

Basho by Sugiyama Sanpû (Source: Wikimedia Commons ) The keiki (landscape) style of Haikai was dominant in the period Basho was writing, ...

Yesterday I came upon a blog which reproduced the Hamish Fulton work we have hanging above our computer: The Life of Scattered Stones: Seven...

For landscapes in haiku, an obvious writer to consult is the poet-painter Buson (1706-83), famous for his objective style and visual imagi...