On the north-west coast of Nova Scotia, on one of the islands just off the peninsula of Digby Neck on

It is Sunday morning in Aldeburgh on the Suffolk coast. A clear sunny morning, cold, mid-Autumn. People are out on

Iceland is a land of no trees. But along the northern coast of the extreme north-west of the island, the

In the Reykjavik Art Museum at Hafnarhús there was, when I first visited with my brother in 2018, a room

The organ in the Hallgrímskirkya in Reykjavik is a giant’s causeway of clustered steel pipes, five thousand two hundred

Get the nets. The whole sea’s boiling. Peter Grimes (Montagu Slater) The herring will set you free. After a

The northernmost point of the British Isles is mostly gannets. Your last footstep, heading north, before you splash off the

On a fjord in the far north west of Iceland, on the Hornstrandir peninsula, there is a long-disused Norwegian whale-processing

Landscapes are repetitions... . Only landscapes that don't exist and books I'll never read aren't