PROSPERO'S DEAD
At the end of Shakespeares’s swan song ‘The Tempest’, moon-calf and monster Caliban is left on the beach unclad, unhinged and alone. Five years later in Milan, his old master – magician, magus and manipulator Prospero – reaches the end of his days. His passing triggers a new storm, a fresh cosmic disturbance that brings…
WOOD
If you go down to the woods today – you’re sure of … nothing
THE GINGERBREAD SUN
I’m quarter gone … I’m half gone … I’m three-quarters gone … I’m all gone! 1523 – Nicolaus Copernicus proposes one of the first heliocentric models of the solar system, having realised that we go round the light rather than the light going round us 1723 – A small confectionary-based being leaps from a confined…