The Farther Away: Poems and Images - Paperback

by Roger Wagner (Author)

Twenty years ago Roger Wagner and a group of fellow artists--The Metaphysical Painters--set out on the first of a series of annual pilgrimages to places associated with poets, painters, and writers who transfigured the landscapes in which they lived. Beginning in a bamboo forest in Japan and ending on a boat to Bardsey--"the isle of twenty thousand saints"--the book weaves together poetry, prose, and paintings that describe these journeys and responds to artists like Samuel Palmer, George Herbert, Thomas Traherne, and William Blake.

Author Biography

Roger Wagner read English at Oxford before studying at the Royal Academy of Art. A leading contemporary artist, he is widely exhibited. He is the co-author of The Penultimate Curiosity and the author of The Nearer You Stand and The Book of Praises.