some LANDSCAPES

Théodore Rousseau, Swamp in the Landes , after 1844 I have been so impressed by Kelly Presutti's Land into Landscape that I can't r...

"Not very festive" was the complaint I received when I attempted to read a few winter poems by Saigyō aloud to the family over Chr...

Sesonji Koreyuki, Wakan rōeishū Anthology , 1160 Ashide , reed writing, developed in the Heian dynasty as a form of calligraphy writ...

 James Norrie and Jan Griffier II, Panorama of Taymouth Castle and Loch Tay , c. 1733-9 I recently wrote here about Daniel Defoe's...

Is Is byþ oferceald, ungemetum slidor, glisnaþ glæshluttur gimmum gelicust, flor forste geworuht, fæger ansyne. These lines come from o...

Paul Nash, The Rye Marshes (1932) as a Shell Poster Source: Wikimedia Commons A pretty miserable rainy day so we went this afternoon...

In October 1899 a new journal appeared in Germany called Die Insel , 'The Island' and carried four poems by an interesting new wr...

Frederick Law Olmsted, Plan for the Back Bay Fens, 1887 Source: Wikimedia Commons Within the essays and conversation that make up Lan...

I finally made it to the Royal Academy's Van Gogh exhibition last weekend - I think it is the first exhibition devoted just to Van Gogh...

The latest New York Review has arrived and it includes a critical article on Jane Campion's film Bright Star by Christopher Ricks.  Th...

Looking at some of Cildo Meireles' Arte Física (Physical Art) from 1969-70 at Tate Modern on Saturday I was reminded of the early manif...

Einojuhani Rautavaara 's Cantus Arcticus: Concerto for birds and orchestra (1972) opens with a movement entitled Suo (The Marsh) , in w...

Lorine Niedecker’s poetry might be thought too spare, too minimal to give a true sense of landscape. And yet, as Charles Tomlinson has w...