Heddington Downs — also known as Roundway Down (and in some cases Oliver’s Castle), is a flat topped hill formation near Devizes in Wiltshire, surrounded by a collar of landscape like rolls of flesh. As with Malvern Hills, the visual effect is incongruous, surrounded by mostly flat landscape, but unlike…

A green NFT illustrated poem collaboration : Wily Guys x Anna Malina. Our combined thoughts on the project, starting with yours truly: The past is half-dream, half-memory. The earlier I go back the more dream it is — the primary school, the old homes, dead relatives, masked by layers and…

Wily Guys has been my artist AKA for a while now (wilyguys.com, @wilyguys on Insta & Twitter, plus Medium, of course), and by way of an explainer, here is the small poem in which the name first appeared. I wrote it during Barcelona midsummer - so being English, I was…

“It is the year of Our Lord 1474, King Edward IV has been on the throne now for 14 years. Life for us all is spent in keeping the lands and tenements in good order, that I and the villagers may live comfortably…” In 1474, the widow Maud Heath, of…

Stourhead Gardens in Wiltshire, England, is perhaps one of the finest embodiments of the notion of artifact beating happenstance: that of the aesthetic superiority of human intervention into nature. Left to its own devices, the natural world is a wondrous thing, to be preserved and respected and admired, but for…

I wrote this poem in tribute to a friend who lives in LA, a makeup artist for TV and such. I stayed there a while a long time ago, so I collected some half-remembered thoughts of LA for her. The title is Nancy D, the name of her mother. Nancy…

I’d like to share a poem based on the evocative landscapes around the old spa town of Malvern in Worcestershire, England. I was first drawn to this place as the burial site of Charles Darwin’s daughter Annie. …