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PN Review Piece on R. F. Langley

Very emocionado to see an article I wrote quite a while back now on one of my favourite poets, the late & missed Roger Langley, finally end up in PN Review. It’s about birds, the strange British obsession with watching them, how they’re represented and arranged in field books, the history of ornithological art and… Continue reading PN Review Piece on R. F. Langley

Las Olas del Mar traducción / The Waves of the Sea translation

This is a translation of a Son Jarocho tune by the contemporary Mexican Son band Son de Madera. Son Jarocho is a traditional style from the state of Veracruz. It’s a pretty loose translation semantically in places, as I wanted to try to render it in the phrasal idioms of English folk music while also… Continue reading Las Olas del Mar traducción / The Waves of the Sea translation

Sketches Andaluz

18.03.12. Perfect sunset coming down over Andalucía, descending in time with the plane.  Large lakes with jagged, jig-sawed edges, and a fading pink which stretches beyond the coast. Talked with Anas and Luisa, a Spanish/English couple. Romantic mountains gathering mist. A minute later the pink is orange and reduced, though broader bands of pink cirrus… Continue reading Sketches Andaluz

John Lanchester in conversation with Vicky Pryce, Dulwich Books Festival, Dulwich College 08.03.12

‘I’m very interested in obliviousness’, John Lanchester remarked early in yesterday evening’s conversation with Vicky Pryce about his latest novel, Capital. Obliviousness of various sorts, but primarily of the bankers and other wealthy Londoners who, circa 2005-6, seemed to evince a strangely a-historical blindness about what was to come. Lanchester claimed that he knew a collapse… Continue reading John Lanchester in conversation with Vicky Pryce, Dulwich Books Festival, Dulwich College 08.03.12

Poetry and Geology: a Celebration (Geology Society, Piccadilly, 10.10.11)

Several Mondays ago I attended a conference at the Geological Society on Poetry and Geology: another example of the innovative cross-department work being done that bridges poetics and the earth/natural sciences. As someone with a pretty short attention span and a pathologically dilettantish interest in things I haven’t been remotely trained to do or write… Continue reading Poetry and Geology: a Celebration (Geology Society, Piccadilly, 10.10.11)