Deluge
In my 2016 essay A Renaissance I quote Leonard Cohen: I feel we’re in a very shabby moment, and neither the literary nor the musical…
Category: Art
DARK: The TV Series
When I studied in the nineties for my PhD, my dissertation concerned the experience of the end of the world. I did not approach the…
ROCK-SKIN: An Art Work
Many years ago I dreamed: Early morning in the city, few people around. Trams sidle into their station, ready to start the day. I drive…
The Cairn
I dream: I am building a cairn as an artwork. Someone else is building one as well and I notice he wraps a ‘skin of…
Dark City
This poem is inspired by a dream poem by Russ Lockhart and the movie Dark City (see below) DARK CITY dark beings in…
Furious Refusal
In the face of the growing horror gripping our world today, all meaning is in danger of being lost—a danger felt most keenly by the…