November 2020 - an inattentive reader

how working-class academics are set up to fail

November 26, 2020

working as a (very) minor academic in art schools and FE colleges in the 1980s was for me an often enjoyable but relentlessly insecure existence. this culminated in my giving … more…

derek walcott, the art of poetry no. 37

November 23, 2020November 23, 2020

from the paris review Interviewed by Edward Hirsch I went to visit Derek Walcott on his home island of St. Lucia in mid-June, 1985. St. Lucia is one of the … more…

my photography: k e n e d w a r d s | p h o t o g r a p h y

in a japanese garden

time flies … it doesn’t feel so long ago, but these were taken in 2015.

plenty of gentlemen, not just two

… on the 19^th and 20^th of december the city was enveloped in a cold freezing fog. the skies were leaden and there were only a very few hours of daylight.

take the winds of march with beauty

“daffodils come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of march with beauty”

shakespeare; the winter’s tale

blue in burano

feeling a little blue by a canal in burano

montmartre <p>in the later days of september 2021 i went to stay in paris. it was only the second time i’d left the uk since the pandemic began. (like many others my perceptions of passing months and years have been strangely altered. i still, even now, tend to think of ‘last year’ as 2019.) the […]

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