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Back to the mystic
15 February 1999 • 1,057 words • City of Words
I’m drunk and you’re insane / Who’s going to lead us home? It’s good to know, if you’ve been drinking, that a mystical poet is there… more»
From Ladbroke Grove to Mars
19 July 1996 • 967 words • City of Words
Last Sunday in London environmental activists occupied the motorway spur between Shepherd’s Bush Green and the Westway, punching holes in the hardtop and planting trees… more»
A fire in Bhutan
27 April 1998 • 1,474 words • City of Words
The view from the fortress tower in the Paro Valley in Bhutan, is as good as a landscape gets. “The valley floor is like a… more»
Postcards from the ice age
April 1996 • 1,012 words • City of Words
Last weekend I went to see the Jean-Michel Basquiat exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. I need hardly have bothered. Basquiat’s careless paintings draw their inspiration… more»
A Uranian among Edwardians
25 January 1985 • 3,900 words • Reportage & Criticism
“Carpenter came one evening. I remember him vividly. His head and features were of extraordinary beauty, his face a chiselled statue, clear-cut and of perfect outline, his eye bright and kindly, there was refinement in his … more»
