From the Frontier of Writing by Seamus Heaney
The tightness and the nilness round that space when the car stops in the road, the troops inspect its make and number and, as one bends his face towards your … Continue reading
Digital terrain: Flight Paths by Kate Pullinger and Chris Joseph
In Writing Home: Poetry and Place in Northern Ireland, 1968-2008, Elmer Kennedy-Andrews notes that: “Place is increasingly viewed as the product of global, interconnecting flows of peoples, cultures, and … Continue reading
Cinematic geographies: Wong Kar Wai’s Happy Together
I’m a big fan of Wong Kar Wai and the lustrous, sensuous and absolutely lyrical quality of his films. Place and yearning seem to be two concepts that are inextricably linked, … Continue reading
The City by Constantine P. Cavafy
You said: “I’ll go to another country, go to another shore, find another city better than this one. Whatever I try to do is fated to turn out wrong and … Continue reading
To Go to Lvov by Adam Zagajewski
To go to Lvov. Which station for Lvov, if not in a dream, at dawn, when dew gleams on a suitcase, when express trains and bullet trains are being born. … Continue reading
Star by Adam Zagajewski
I returned to you years later, gray and lovely city, unchanging city buried in the waters of the past. I’m no longer the student of philosophy, poetry, and curiosity. I’m … Continue reading
Bypassing Rue Descartes by Czeslaw Milosz
I descended toward the Seine, shy, a traveler, A young barbarian just come to the capital of the world. We were many, from Jassy and koloshvar, Wilno and Bucharest, Saigon … Continue reading
Miwon Kwon on being Out-of-Place
“Our very sense of self-worth seems predicated more and more on our suffering through the inconveniences and psychic destabilizations of ungrounded transience, of not being at home (or not having … Continue reading
Psychogeography
Psychogeography: a beginner’s guide. Unfold a street map of London, place a glass, rim down, anywhere on the map, and draw around its edge. Pick up the map, go … Continue reading
Imagining the City 