Justin Marozzi - www.writingredux.com

Like fluid sculptures

A fine idea to describe a flotilla of sail boats, as liquid sculptures, and note too that passing flock of...

Describing the shower of arrows at Thermopylae falling so thick and fast that they blot out the sun's light. Leonidas,...

Yesterday a storm-front passed towards the lake (Léman) and France, and from our window, we saw its 'ink-stained sky'.

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Infrastructure likened to a curling serpent, whereas most serpentine similes I've seen have been speed-related. See Tarka the Otter,...

Norfolk is a small Netherlands of flat land and soaring firmament, cloud-churned. My grandmother lived there for about a decade...

What a glorious image, enhanced by the animals trotting past - aggrieved camels I can envisage, but never thought of...

A surprising dimension to flat lands in winter - that they appear all the more horizontal when swathed in mist....

We've had a few rain-dousing days of storminess, and yesterday evening I enjoyed a sky-show of shifting banks of chiaroscuro...

Something about this loose, large mixing of sky into sea that evokes a huge basin in which a celestial cake...