some LANDSCAPES

We spent last weekend at a remarkable wedding in the Cairngorms National Park. I'm not sure if I was technically 'in the Cairngor...

From the film Possession (2002): poets Christabel LaMotte and Randolph Henry Ash These two fictional nineteenth century poets in A. S....

I have just finished reading Nicolas Bouvier's Japanese Chronicles (1989, translated by Anne Dickerson) a compilation of travel sket...

Last Sunday we were at the Sir John Soane church at Bethnal Green for the third and final performance of 'Landscape', three set...

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

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

From a 1996 interview for the Paris Review on the Art of Poetry: ' Interviewer: Since we are talking about Chinese poetry I wanted...

 The river at Pyrford Place, where John Donne lived at the start of the 17th century John Donne's sixth Elegy contains a remark...

There are still a couple of weeks to see From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia , an exhibition I have already referred ...

We were at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge last weekend to see Beauty and Revolution: The Poetry and Art of Ian Hamilton Finlay .  You ca...

A few days before Bruce Chatwin's death in January 1989 he asked Werner Herzog to visit him.  They shared a belief in the restorative po...

When I first started coming regularly to Sheffield in the late nineties it was to work in a building described in Owen Hatherley 's The ...

Emily Carr, Kitwancool , 1928 Wikimedia Commons 'Emily Who? Outside Canada, no one’s ever heard of Emily Carr, the iconic la...

The amphitheatre, Caerleon, August 2014 In Wales last summer we visited the remains of Caerleon, the City of the Legions.  Charlotte ...

J. M. W. Turner , The Deer in Petworth Park , 1827   In The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) Thorstein Veblen argued that different ...

  Peder Balke, The North Cape, c.1840 There are still four months to see the fascinating Peder Balke exhibition currently on at the ...

In the clip I've embedded above, David Hinton introduces his book Hunger Mountain (2012) .  The eponymous peak is in Vermont, where ...

I was given a handsome new book for Christmas, Nick Drake: Remembered for a While.  It is made up of miscellaneous writings, interviews...