Thalassa, thalassa
Osip Mandelstam is a favourite poet whose prose I only recently discovered.  His Journey to Armenia is a marvelous, textured complement to...
Spring-time clothes
A thrilling image of glittering northern waters in a moment of calm and gentleness.
'Crossing from Scalpay in...
Moon as feather
A lyrical description of the sun, the moon, and the dreams of an otter - that he might swim, unhunted...
As quiet as…
Christopher Logue’s vivid, muscular version of some episodes in the Iliad abounds with striking metaphors – I noted about 60...
The sea wants to be visited
A memorable Gaelic proverb, 'dh'iarr am muir a thadhal', given that the sea is sometimes welcoming and at...
Tide-rippled sea
Nicolson's book is as much about the sea as the land, and the tidal pull it exerted for centuries on...
Fish-haunted seas
Loved this sense of ichthyo-abundance in seas now widely depleted of fish stocks. And the idea of a gift for...
It would have felt good
A persistent question when I read or think about the past, is 'how did they feel?'Â Â What was the tint...
The tide running with you and the sun out
How many times I've read about exploration, about getting in a boat or a ship and chancing it, and yet...
Weed-slithered rocks
This evokes a few childhood seaside holidays in England, hopping over seaweed-slippery rocks, to play and paddle in rock pools....
Easy-limbed stirring
I liked this description of a boat responding like a limber-limbed youth to the movement of the sea. 'Easy-limbed stirring'...
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