Beware the squinting lump
Of all the dead-end sounding places, I can’t think of a description that’s more likely to deter you from visiting.
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Language as refreshing as fresh-brewed tea
Such a fresh image to describe how a foreign language makes you feel. Here, a refreshing, fragrant black tea chucked...
Flea-bitten hermits
'On the island of Sevan, which is conspicuous for two most dignified architectural monuments that date back to the seventh...
Time and poets
This summary of where Mandelstam places the poet versus the ‘man of letters’ on the time spectrum intrigues me. Yes,...
White-toothed commissars
Perhaps alluding to a world in which commissars, having some status in the pecking order, probably had a better chance...
From pantheon to palate
A piled up commentary of poets on poets: Heaney on Mandelstam on Dante. Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938), who died in uncertain...
Thoughts on the physiology of reading
As conveyors of ideas and knowledge, books have a wondrous physicality to them, more individual the longer they are 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...
Pink of old roses
Musty pink makes me think of an old breed of faded rose, or a soft-worn damask, or one of the...
To be forever on the road
A marvelous metaphor to describe poetry and its relationship to speaking; I like this notion of realising that speaking is...
Swift as a telegram
This simile for swiftness drawing on an age in which telegram were one of the fastest forms of communication. Also...
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