Where the Wild Roses Grow: Australian Impact on English Culture
Clive James, Barry Humphries, Germaine Greer; all came to England from Australia in the 60’s and immediately tore up the […]
Football in the Firing Lines: The Christmas Truce of 1914
The most beautiful moment of the beautiful game? Christmas Day, 1914. Suddenly, across the trenches, the guns fall silent. In […]
Walking with Dante and William Blake
I’ve done many real literary walks – a route through Mrs Dalloway’s London, a path taken in the poems of […]
White Lies: Official, Unofficial Video
As a teenager I used to dance and watch dance more often than I do now. I still remember seeing […]
British Artists and the Luminous work of Paul Klee
Today’s painting, seen by chance, stopped me in my tracks. It is by an English artist I had not come […]
Salman Rushdie’s: ‘Knife’
‘So my first thought when I saw this murderous shape rushing toward me was: So it’s you. Here you are.’ […]
In the Mountains of Poetry
I nearly titled this ‘Letter’ ‘An Englishman Abroad’ but instead I’ve taken the title from Peter Nasmyth’s wonderful account of […]
A Week of Kindness – Max Ernst
Switched on, in a corner of my room, sits a lamp printed with images from Max Ernst’s collage novel ‘A […]
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
I have catagorised this ‘Letter’ as ‘Other Cultures’ and yet it would be more accurate to say that the prehistoric […]
The Swan of Ivy House
As a student, I had this photo of the great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova on my wall. She is seen […]