travel – my writing

Leaving Shaftesbury for Greece, 1999 : Pages from ‘Odysseos’ Island’,

p1. There is a moment. After my preparations, the note-taking, the buying and borrowing, the itinerary-writing, the spreading out and piling up of things to take – so that the flat was no longer a place to live but a resource at the service of going away, my first trip to Greece alone since 1971…

Apr 25, 2026

Leaving Naxos, 1970. Pages from ‘Dionysos’ Island’.

p379I plunged inside the vibrating drum of music, the thudding rhythmic bass shaking the floor, screaming guitar notes bending the walls, the drum kit smashing the air into glittering fragments. Sensory overload in which my bones, emptied by leaping, now filled with pulsing, coloured mercury, my body, hollowed out by activity and strung with resonant…

Apr 11, 2026

Entering Greece for the first time, 1970 : pages from ‘Dionysos’ Island’.

p 38On the overnight train down the length of Italy we take down the luggage and Simon and I use the netting racks as hammocks, leaving more sleeping space for the others. I look down at Jacks sleeping, sprawled and open-mouthed, then I’m rocked to sleep. I wake to a red dawn, the air already…

Mar 27, 2026

Introduction. &, Meeting Penny : Pages from ‘Dionysos’ Island’.

INTRODUCTION The details of Richard’s disappearance filtered through to me slowly. Or perhaps I filtered them slowly. I had lost touch, ceased to keep in touch with him several years before, having run out of patience with his lack of focus, his failure to get on. When getting on, one needs the company of those…

Mar 14, 2026

Category: travel

Leaving Shaftesbury for Greece, 1999 : Pages from ‘Odysseos’ Island’,

Leaving Naxos, 1970. Pages from ‘Dionysos’ Island’.

Entering Greece for the first time, 1970 : pages from ‘Dionysos’ Island’.

Introduction. &, Meeting Penny : Pages from ‘Dionysos’ Island’.