some LANDSCAPES

I have not yet read any obituaries in the national media for David Blackburn, whose passing was reported last month in the Huddersfield E...

George Frederic Watts, Portrait of William Morris , 1870 When, in the summer of 1996, the V&A held an exhibition to mark the centen...

I spent Friday and Saturday at In The Field , a symposium on the art and craft of field recording. During the two days we heard about a ...

This J. G. Ballard poster can be seen outside the British Library, advertising the exhibition Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands ...

On Monday last week I went to see Philip Gross reading from The Water Table and interviewed by Simon Armitage, one of the judges who awa...

This time last year I wrote about the BBC's poetry season, contrasting a documentary on Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage w...

The BBC has recently been running a Poetry Season . I didn't get to see all of it, but made a point of watching Simon Armitage on Ga...

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c1380), the poet describes the landscape through which the hero rides with sufficient detail that R...