
Et Francine Hamelin c’est ici on va ivre toujours vers une autre naissance dont l’origine et le sens portent les gants blancs du soleil on veut étreindre le corps d’une beauté sans appui qui est un hymne et une totalité et on se dresse tremblant comme le premier arbre le premier épi devant la brûlure […]
Portraits de la vie sauvageonne ( XVII ) et ( XVIII ) / Photos de Francine Hamelin & Textes de Barbara Auzou
Meditations in a Green Shade

Something a little different from me today – another post in an occasional series of pieces about the art books I’ve accumulated over the past few years, mostly from shows I’ve visited in London and the South East. One of my current reading aims is to actually sit down and read some of these books, […]
Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour

Viktoria Yankovskaya (1909-1996) was born in Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East, to the family of famed Machurian tiger hunter and, later, Korean resort owner, Yuri Yankovsky (1879-1956). Like his father, the Polish naturalist Michał Jankowski (1841-1912), Yuri had an ambivalent attitude towards Russia, speaking the language but never fully identifying with the culture. The […]
“I Stroll Quietly Among the Graves”: Viktoria Yankovskaya’s “Will and Testament”

It’s not every month that a poet—let alone a simple versifier like yours truly—gets to see his work in print in not one, but two major journals of thought. Yet this is the precisely the catbird seat on which I have alighted. The May 29 issue of The New York Review of Books carries “The […]
“The Dybbuk” and “The Whole Shebang”