some LANDSCAPES

Back in 2022 Tate Liverpool held an exhibition of 'Radical Landscapes'. I didn't make the effort to go because it sounded like I...

Talking this weekend with my teenage son about holiday ideas, we agreed that the place we would both most like to visit is St. Petersburg. I...

Derangements of My Contemporaries is Chloe Garcia Roberts's 2014 translation of Li Shangyin's Za Zuan ('Miscellaneous Notes'...

Conway Castle - Panoramic View of Conway on the L.& N.W. Railway I've been reading Bryony Dixon's book The Story of Victorian Fi...

Back in October I was fortunate to be able to attend a book launch for Michael Wood's new book In the Footsteps of Du Fu . He gave an ex...

 Mónica de Miranda, Salt Island , 2022 (detail) I recently went to look around RE/SISTERS A Lens on Gender and Ecology , at the Barbican. ...

Awrangzib Hunts Nilgais c. 1660 I've just read Julian Bell's new book on Adam Elsheimer, Natural Light . He talks about the paintin...

Sugimoto Seascapes at the Hayward Gallery I wrote about Hiroshi Sugimoto's seascape photographs here in 2007, referring to some online ...

I recently watched The Eight Mountains which I'd been looking forward to since reading Peter Bradshaw's review in The Guardian : T...

The cover of Simon Cutts' The Small Press Model is a photograph of his 'forgotten one-word poem' which can be found outside Skel...

  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...