The brimming basin of the sea
When I read this description of the sea I thought immediately of the photo you see featured here, which I...
Dancing leaves
They do spin and pirouette in a gusty autumn breeze, and I liked this reference to a rag blown in...
An event, a happening
Mandelstam lived in a brutal place and time, costing him years of freedom and ultimately, his life. Â All the...
Something marvellous
This wonderfully apposite quotation by Joan Miró turned up in The Economist's Espresso newsletter, apparently anticipating by decades this moment...
A poet’s sister or a sister poet?
In Dorothy Wordsworth's journals, you sense the extent to which she supported her brother's writing. Some things she records become...
Hare-bell sea
A lyrical description of the Greek island of Thera, bursting with flowers and trees, and all sloping down to a...
Fresh-ploughed field
Another line of poetry-in-prose in Dorothy's journal. I was struck by the sea described as a basin full to the...
The moon shone upon the water below
I liked this expansive moon-scape and the detail of Wordworth keeping his curtains open to see it.
'The...
Beware the sunset (especially if it’s beautiful)
A striking example of the tendency of totalitarian ideologies to corrupt the mind: no-one means what they say, nothing is...
The piling up of beauty
Clive James' spent decades working on his splendid translation of Dante, sometimes in 'back burner' mode, other times full on. ...
Champagne-bottle shoulders
What a charming if old-fashioned sounding description of sloping beauty, in this case referring to voluptuous Europa. Â And 'callipygous' describes...
Spring-time welcome
My heart also expands at the spring-time welcome of where I live and where I visit. Here, the detail of...
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