Brushstrokes

A collection of poems inspired by nineteenth-century paintings. mostly in watercolour. There are six sequences, focusing on works by Turner, Constable, Towne, Palmer, Cozens and Cotman.

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From Honister Crag

From my sequence about Constable in Borrowdale...

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Sty Head Tarn

From my sequence of poems about Constable in Borrowdale

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Grange at the head of Derwent Water

The first in my series. 'Towne's Light', about Francis Towne's paintings of the Lake District

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Ambleside

The second poem in my sequence about Francis Towne's paintings of the Lake District

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Lodore

The third of my poems about Francis Towne's paintings of the Lake District

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Derwentwater, looking south

From 'Towne's Light', a sequence of poems about Francis Towne's paintings of the Lake District

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The source of the Arveiron

From the sequence 'Towne's Light'.

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The bow

From a sequence of ekphrastic poems responding to Turner's paintings of rainbows

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A shower on Buttermere

From my sequence of poems responding to Turner's paintings of rainbows.

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Loch Awe

From a sequence inspired by Turner's paintings of rainbows.

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The thing itself

From a sequence inspired by Turner's many paintings of rainbows

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Horizon

Part of my sequence about Turner's many rainbows

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Arundel Castle

A poem in my sequence about Turner's paintings of rainbows

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A rainbow, with cattle

A poem in a sequence inspired by Turner's paintings of rainbows

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The wreck buoy

A poem in my sequence about Turner's paintings of rainbows

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Upper Falls of the Reichenbach

A response to Turner's painting 'Upper Falls of the Reichenbach'

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At the Forum in Rome

I response to Turner's painting. 'At the Forum in Rome'