some LANDSCAPES

Today I found myself lying in bed with a cold, listening to an old album by Steven R. Smith, Autumn is the End (1998). The record label desc...

  It was good to be able to visit London's Small Publishers Fair again last month, where I have found various unusual landscape-related ...

M. K. Čiurlionis, My Road I-III , 1907 Dulwich Picture Gallery has frequently provided material for this blog - see my earlier posts on Adam...

MUBI was a godsend during Covid lockdowns and is still proving good value for money as far as we're concerned. This week I watched Tamin...

Last month Dezeen reported on a new landscape intervention by Snøhetta, a 'disappearing walkway' of 55 stepping stones on the Trael...

Philip Terry is an academic at Exeter specialising in the Oulipo and experimental writing - he recently edited The Penguin Book of Oulipo a...

Here's what you see when you enter the Royal Academy's new exhibition, a view of a bay with oddly sketchy waves, scattered black bui...

  I remembered how from the air the valleys, hills and rivers gained a certain distinction but wholly lost that quality which is perceived b...

I've discussed Red Pine's translations from Chinese poetry before (see ' No Trace of Cold Mountain ' and ' A terrace of ...

The 'Sea View' of Patrick Wright's recent book was actually the name of one of the two pubs Uwe Johnson frequented during his fi...

Natsume Sōseki's Kusamakura ('Grass Pillow'), published in 1906, was an attempt at a haiku-style novel, a reaction against the ...

I realise I've been a bit remiss in posting recently, partly due to pressure of work (my day job is on climate change) and partly due to...

Isamu Noguchi, Double Red Mountain , 1968   I instinctively liked this sculpted landscape in the Barbican's Isamu Noguchi exhibition be...

  Eugène Delacroix, Sunset , c. 1850 I have been reading the Journals of Eugène Delacroix in a lovely, pristine Folio edition I found in a ...

December's Wire magazine included an interesting 'Aeolian Harp Music 15' chart compiled by Irish experimental musician Natalia ...

Albrecht Dürer, Trintberg - Dosso di Trento , 1495   I recently visited the National Gallery's Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissanc...

 Thomas Gainsborough, A View in Suffolk , c.1746 In 2017 Lindsay Stainton discovered that an album of 25 drawings in the Royal Collection we...

Jean-Antoine Linck, The confluence of the river Valsereine with the river Rhône, c. 1800-20 The British Museum currently has a small tempor...

The NYRB Poets series has a volume devoted to Li Shangyin (c. 813–858) contaiing the work of three translators. All of them have a go at his...

This is The Book of Taliesin , which I have been reading in the new translation by Gwyneth Lewis and Rowan Williams. Authors and dates for t...