some LANDSCAPES

Phoenix rising by the sun in the Aberdeen Bestiary Source: University of Notre Dame It has been intensely hot again this week and I was list...

This is a photograph I took on Boxing Day of Mounts Pond on Blackheath. The small mound with trees behind it is now called Whitfield Mount a...

A few weeks ago I saw this at the National Gallery's excellent exhibition themed around Saint Francis of Assisi . It reminded me that I ...

Gerald Bullett (1893-1958) is perhaps not very well known today, but he was a fairly prolific writer and according to Wikipedia (quoting ...

Guo Xi, Early Spring , 1072 In 1072 the Chinese artist Guo Xi completed one of the most celebrated landscape paintings, Early Spring ....

Wild Geese Returning: Chinese Reversible Poems (2011) is an introduction to a form of poetry that can be read in different directions.  ...

  The Natureingang , 'nature opening', is found in many forms of Medieval poetry: the Latin verse of the clerici vagantes and Gol...

The cycle of the seasons is celebrated in The Angler’s Calendar (1651), forty songs by the Korean sijo poet Yun Sondo (1587-1671). The sp...

Spring seems at last to be with us. Here are twenty landscape-related season words ( kigo ) that are traditionally used in Japanese poetry...