some LANDSCAPES

  Kuncan, Origin of Immortals , 1661 I've been looking into the art of Kuncan (or Kun Can, 1623-73), a Buddhist monk who lived in and ar...

  West Lake, Hangzhou Source: Wikimedia I've just read Love & Time: The Poems of Ou-Yang Hsiu , a slim volume of J. P. Seaton trans...

I have been reading Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge , a fascinating account of late Ming courtesan culture, translated and edited by Wai-yee L...

Robert Macfarlane on Twitter, three days ago: Ah…Cormac McCarthy has died today. A giant of a writer, who wrote with a pen of iron, torqued ...

Photograph of the Rheinterrasse on the third floor of the Berlin Vaterland building, with its view overlooking the river between Sankt Goar ...

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 ...

“Jena before us in the lovely valley” This is the beginning of Gottfried Benn's poem 'Jena' (1926), translated by Michael Hoffma...

Last year I bought the latest New Arcadian Journal , Atlantic Flowers: The Naval Memorials of Little Sparta . 'The upland garden of Lit...

I have been reading Rob St John's Örö (available via Bandcamp ), a book based on fieldwork and experiments undertaken during two periods...

I had been looking forward to ' Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water ' at Pallant House but was sadly too ill to go down and see ...

The St. Elizabeth's Day Flood , c. 1490-95   During the night of 19 November 1421 a heavy storm caused rivers to surge, dikes to overflo...

  Dora Carrington, Tidmarsh Mill, c. 1918   I recently read the new Frances Spalding book The Real and the Romantic: English Art Between Tw...

Paul Cézanne, Montagne Sainte-Victoire , c. 1890 This is a photo I took on my phone of a painting in the Tate's superb Cézanne exhibitio...

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...