An amazing perambulation of the East Side of Highgate Cemetery today. The first of a kind of pilgrimage of the Magnificent Seven to be done this summer.

"The wound of kingship is exile" - Anthony Powell in 'The Fisher King'

Just found these two random photos of flints on the South Downs on my phone.

The book covers designed by Vanessa Bell on display at "Charleston at Lewes". I have been to all the exhibitions there since it opened and they haven't yet been less than excellent.

A door from the Bloomsbury Group's rural sanctuary in Sussex at Charleston, decorated by Vanessa Bell.

St Hubert's Church, Idsworth. One of my favourite places in the world, this shallow valley full of scattering swallows and the mewing of buzzards. Sultry this morning in a building heat under a lid of low clouds.

I am going to be running a poetry workshop called "Exreme Restraint" in July. Please share it around a bit if you are one of my poetry tweeps.

Sky like a painted ceiling this evening as the last rays of the solstice sun brushed the clouds.

I would probably have bought this book on 'Brazillian Voodoo and Spiritism' anyway, but opening it up to discover the posthumous Jake Stratton-Kent bookplate basically turns it into a relic!

Boxgrove Priory today under sultry skies.

Was delighted to pick up this early impression of Kathleen Raine's first poetry collection today. Imagine having your first book illustrated by Barabara Hepworth!

Come on people! Visited the stunning Rempstone Stone Circle below Nine Barrow Down in Dorset today and found is nearly shrouded in nylon and plastic. Removed the worst of it. The shells, stones, feathers, fine, whatevs but this other stuff would have stayed in the locale forever.

Rempstone Stone Circle in Dorset. Despite being quite close to the road it is a small sanctuary, a sacred space of quiet and depth. Bronze age. Made, uniquely, of local sandstone not sarsens. Half destroyed in the 18th century.

The net houses at Hastings in broiling heat today.

A definite theme in the bookshop in Hastings today!

Part two of my pilgrimage around the Magnificent Seven Cemeteries in London, Highgate West. Near tropical today, but cooler than than being out in the sun.

A huge stand of Rosebay Willowherb behind and over some of the graves in Highgate Cemetery.

The tentacles of Highgate!

"Invocation" by Kathleen Raine

Would love to see you at this poetry workshop I am running in a couple of weeks time. Contact the bookshop to book a place. Please share widely.