Black page black with words inked from red and gold, the black falling, black rising embossing, growing ripe like a tumour, growling like...

Sidney Poitier defined and defied the temper of his times with grace, dignity and unwavering intensity. Those eyes. They burned with a...

Cafe Stripped The trees that can't be seen dot the road pre-loved before visions of excision routed them room for new movement across...

It's only been two years since Neil Young's last outing with Crazy Horse, so it's reasonable to be a bit surprised that he's reunited...

There's a place called the Abrolhos Islands. The weather there can be terrible. The howling winds, the wild seas. But when the wind...

One of the finest actors this country has produced has left us. Ever since I was a boy, he has trod lightly but indelibly through my...

They're back. Midnight Oil have returned to the air-web with their new song, Rising Seas. Unsurprisingly, it's very good; all the...

It is deeply beholden to the unnatural vale in which its slick murk slowly congeals, Drawn by time from its disposable purpose into a...

When people chuck about words like 'legend' or 'icon', they often do so with far too little care. But when it comes to Charlie Watts,...

I was heartbroken when I found out that Sean Lock had died. Absolutely heartbroken. Not since the passing of David Bowie have I felt so...

The Morning Bells I'm now at work, And the old bell bass-chimes the call to House Mass. I sit at the window the river view...

River, Morning. Glass out over the water, glass washed to fuzz by a patient sea has crept up river to blanket the browned expanse,...

The complexities surrounding #wokeness, #cancelculture and the myriad other hashtags that are currently knotted through society right now...

Wisdom pools at the feet of those who've fallen to tears and dust, only to slip in the mud when attempting to stand. They know. When the...

Leonard Cohen spent the majority of the 1980s in the musical wilderness. He'd released quality albums and written many outstanding songs,...

Most of the reviews of Rough and Rowdy Ways I've read have offered a great deal of affirmation and a good deal of insight. One, however,...

I've resisted writing about Murder Most Foul since its release despite feeling a strong desire to do so, because it felt too daunting a...

Bob Dylan’s epic song “Dignity” is easily enjoyed – if you’re a fan of Bob Dylan – but not so easily understood. It is a long, complex...

Nothing about QAnon or Anti-Vaxxing or Climate Denialism is new. Society's just 'evolved' itself into new variants self-reinforcing,...

BOB DYLAN’S ‘CROSS THE GREEN MOUNTAIN In a lifetime of writing and performing music, Bob Dylan has constructed a considerable body of...