some LANDSCAPES

  Earlier today I was looking at these images while listening on headphones to a recording the BBC reporter Wynford Vaughan Thomas made ...

I recently came across a piece in the Yorkshire Post about the poet, John Wedgwood Clarke, whose book Landfill is the fruit of his year as...

Unidentified artist in the style of Sheng Mou,  Fan painting illustrating Su Shi's 'Second Ode on the Red Cliff',  late 1...

Sita Ram, The Firoz Shah Minar at Gaur and a Palash tree , 1817 This watercolour is owned by the British Library and is one of several ...

Li Ch'eng, A Solitary Temple amid Clearing Peaks , Sung Dynasty In Michael Sullivan's history of Chinese landscape painting,...

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 ...

 Zhao Mengfu, Autumn Colours on the Qiao and Hua Mountains , 1296 Back to normal now, for blog post number 1,001, and at this time of y...

For this, the 1000th entry on this blog, I am pleased to announce... a book . If you have liked some of what I have written here over t...

Eight poems entitled, simply, 'Landscape': 1. 'Landscape' by Robert Gray A walk over sandhills by the sea, turning inl...

Anon (once attributed to Guo Xi), Mount Emei under Heavy Snow , 17th century Mount Omei, or Emei, in Sichuan province, is one of the Fo...

J. M. W. Turner, The Great Fall of the Reichenbach, in the Valley of Hasle, Switzerland , 1804 Source: Wikimedia Commons Turner pai...

The Listener magazine, founded by John Reith as a cultural supplement to the BBC's Radio Times , folded in 1991.  I think I rememb...

   Charles-Joseph Flipart, Landscape with an architectural view surrounded by trompe-l’oeil elements symbolising the Arts , c. 1779  Im...

'For anyone who has watched with anticipation as the writings of Robert Walser (1878-1956) have slowly appeared in English over the pa...