some LANDSCAPES

Gaṅgā, the personification of the sacred river Ganges, early 19th century watercolour in The British Museum Eric Newby's Slowly Down the...

Sophia de Mello Breyner has been one of my favourite poets since I first read her work in Richard Zenith's translations from the Portugu...

Killed by a landscape! This nearly happens in Bong Joon-ho's multiple prize-winning film Parasite . Chekhov famously said that "one...

In 1908 Pathé created their own version of Le Film d’Art, the new initiative to make more highbrow films whose first production, starring...

Thomas Bewick, Industry on the Riverside , 1804 'The unframed scene casts landscape into a new kind of subject.  The view is not gi...

Eusebius: 'Now that the whole countryside is fresh and smiling, I marvel at people who take pleasure in smoky cities.' Timothy:...

"I wanted so to see the Arno..."     Disappointed Lucy Honeychurch gets her wish when Mr Emerson and his son George kindly o...

A couple of days ago I read in The Guardian that 'police have warned young people not to attend illegal raves this weekend, promisi...

Literature and Nature in the English Renaissance: An Ecocritical Anthology edited by Todd Andrew Borlik was published last year and so ...

The passing of Christo has prompted various articles and obituaries - I have included some links below.  The Guardian published one about W...

Autojektor, Basilisk , 2019 Well, the weeks drag on and I am starting to forget what hills, rivers and shorelines actually look like....

I was intrigued by a story in the Guardian the other day: 'almost a century after it was shot, a brief but beautifully made doc...

Master of the Darmstadt Passion, Saint Onuphrius , 1460 You could write a whole book about landscapes in depictions of the Desert Fa...

Thomas Kerrich, Diagram of Three Landscapes Drawn towards and away from the Sun , 1796 I just came upon a photograph I took of two rema...

I recently read Jeremy Noel-Tod's excellent anthology The Penguin Book of Prose Poetry and it prompted me to get down a few books from...

I was thinking the other day about the old cliché that alien planets in Dr Who were always filmed in quarries.  Apparently David Tennant ...

One use now made of writing on landscape that didn't exist when I started this blog is the Instagram Caption.  Many websites now offer I...