A review of Philip Howse’s ‘Vicar Of the Amazon’, in the Aug. – Sept. issue of the London Magazine.
The Starry Parabola
On pages 50-1 of the July 2023 issue of The Marshwood Vale +, I’ve a piece about the efforts of actor Martin Clunes to evict his neighbours Theo Langton and Ruth McGill.
Reviewing Ho! Ho! Ho!
Bridport’s salmon poaching gangs from the 1970s and 1980s meet Millais’ ‘The Boyhood of Raleigh’. The result is published in the 50th anniversary issue of the PN Review.
Huge Dolls Get Mandolined
A review of ‘Poppy’ by Joseph Minden, for the PN Review. A provocative sequence of poems about the English and memory.
Digital Utopianism or Pixelated Madness?
In discussion with Jonathan Simons, founding editor of The Analog Sea Journal, at 8pm on April 14th 2023, at the Unitarian Chapel in Bridport. You can read about it here.
On Findingness
‘On Findingness’ is about my home town and Bertrand Russell and that’s not all. It’s in the Jan. – Feb. 2023 issue of the PN Review.
Just Look at the Street
Essay about Chernivtsi, Ukraine, and the Bukowinisch-Galizische Literaturstrasse (Bucovina-Galicia Literary Trail) in the February-March issue of the London Magazine.
Forbidden Topics, Long Shadows
My review of Georgiy Kasianov’s ‘Memory Crash’ (2022) can be read here. His book is an essential guide to Ukraine’s internal debates about the past and how these continue to shape its relations with neighbouring states, east and west.
Sand City In the Rain
An article in the Nov. – Dec. 2022 issue of the PN Review about Chernivtsi / Czernowitz, a city in southwestern Ukraine. It’s mainly concerned with the work being done to keep alive the memory of those extraordinary writers who emerged there in the early / mid-twentieth century. Paul Celan is only the most famous […]
From a Heatwave
I have a poem with this title in the current (Dec. 2022 – Jan. 2023) issue of The London Magazine.