Apollo and Daphne (1744/5) by Giovanni Batista Tiepolo (Louvre, Paris) I have had three new Fibonacci poems published today in the splendid online publication The Fib Review, the world’s leading Fibonacci specialist publisher. These three make a total of 82…
I know, it’s been too long, but I’m back. I noticed in amazement and a touch of horror, that I last posted a blog on this site last December. Forgive me. I’ve been busy with various writing projects – a…
Some time ago, I could’ve sung these lovely songs written by the American composer, Tim Risher, but these days I restrict my vocalising to the shower or anywhere else where I can be sure that I’m alone. When I was…
In the art world today, all the noise is about money. Yes, can you believe it? Wow! $450 million or £342 million! Just for an old painting too. Wow! It’s definitely a lot of money and I know I…
It has been an interesting month for my Fibonacci poetry – first, I’ve had three new poems published in the Fib Review, see yesterday’s post, and now I have seen the splendid animated film that Joseph Nussbaum has made…
Diana and Actaeon (1556 – 1559) by Titian Titian’s great painting of Diana and Actaeon has been one of my favourite paintings ever since I went to the great Titian exhibition at London’s National Gallery. It tells the story of…
At the weekly on-line poetry event that I host every Thursday, I thought, after seeing those amazing photographs from Egypt, that I had to read the great and resounding sonnet Ozymandias by the English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley…
I’ve just watched the final episode of Mad Men that wonderful American drama series about a Madison Avenue advertising company during the 1960s. It is the latest in a series of brilliantly inventive and original American dramas that have ended…
I went to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London on Friday and it was enough just to have tea and a glass of wine in the Victorian Gothic tearoom listening to a solitary-looking man playing Cole Porter on a…
I spent a week in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, recently. It was my first time in this interesting country, the only Western European state that I hadn’t visited before. I wasn’t really there on holiday, enjoyable though it was, I…