Nigeness

 Having had to do some rather heavy-duty intensive reading lately – those bird books and The Maias , among other things – I found myself in ...

 Yesterday I was on an uncharacteristically urban walk, down in 'that Lunnun', as we provincial hicks call it. The walk began at Str...

Here's a round-up of recent bird books, my latest contribution to  Literary Review (where it appears on slightly different form). As ev...

And here's something to raise the tone...   I heard this piece on Radio 3 the other morning and it brought me up short, the more so when...

Here's something to lower the tone.   The phrase 'As the actress said to the bishop' is still just about extant (on this side of...

Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of prints on loan from the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam  – 58 ...

 There are reports of a poetry revival in France, with book sales even of new poetry surging. This is being interpreted as a response to tro...