some LANDSCAPES

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...

Conway Castle - Panoramic View of Conway on the L.& N.W. Railway I've been reading Bryony Dixon's book The Story of Victorian Fi...

Philip Terry is an academic at Exeter specialising in the Oulipo and experimental writing - he recently edited The Penguin Book of Oulipo a...

I am looking forward to reading Experiments on Reality , a new collection of essays by Tim Robinson.  Googling him this weekend and look...

I have started the audiobook of Underland .  I listen to it underground, during my tube journeys to work, where claustrophobia comes fro...

Illustration from L e Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1498 Source: John Rylands Library I have wri...

I was pleased that Caught by the River made Frozen Air their Book of the Month , although they have now sneaked in a second one - The Lost ...

'In America they call it the green flash . When the sun sets, in a very clear horizon, with no land mass for many hundreds of miles, an...

I've been reading A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain by Daniel Defoe (3 vols, 1724-6), written whilst he was living at...

I have written here before about composers who have sought to impress the environment into their music by burying instruments in the earth ...

'Narrated in fruity tones by future Poet Laureate Cecil Day Lewis, Figures in a Landscape offers a poetic portrait of sculptor Barbara ...

You might feel you have read enough about Landmarks over the last few days - an essay by Robert Macfarlane in The Guardian introducin...

The latest New York Review of Books carries a  piece by Daniel Mendelsohn on Patrick Leigh Fermor and the posthumous publication of Th...

'Autumn Landscape' A sample page from Spring Essence: The Poetry of Hồ Xuân Hương   made available on translator John Bala...

Last week I visited the Architectural Association Gallery in London, where there is an exhibition devoted to the British Exploratory Lan...