The Growlery

Iannis Xenakis, "Keren" on Phlegra et al , 2007.

I have, at intervals, several times made mention here of my admiration for the work of Dublin artist Sue Bamford and have, since her ex...

We blog writers all, at some time (or times) hit fallow spells when we write little for a greater or shorter length of time. I'm in ...

The conjunction came from a song lyric and a book fragment, within not very minutes of each other. The song lyric came first; it was pla...

Tanita Tikaram, Ancient heart .

In a delightful way, from a writing perspective, my last few data analysis topics have first synergised with one another and then led na...

It's that time of year again, when my discussions with those (including myself) who ask why I wear a white poppy are enriched by commen...

In my teens, I spent a fair amount of time hiking a sparsely populated semi-arid island landscape. Agriculture, here, was a peasant econo...

“It frequently happens ... — and this is one of the charms of photography — that the operator himself discovers on examination, perhaps lon...

Woody Guthrie, This land is your land .