The White Silhouette by James Harpur Pamphlets celebrating journeys of ruin and

celebrating journeys of ruin and restoration with renewed praise: “Ada sungai di pesisir

There is a delicacy

and everyday miracles on the other

swamp’ landscapes of South Carolina (where he lives) and the landscapes of England (where he regularly visits

Spiritual orphanhood

The White Silhouette by James Harpur Pamphlets celebrating journeys of ruin andThe central focus of The White Silhouette is a lyrical, meditative poem inspired by the Book of Kells, which explores the spirit of medieval Celtic art and its inner and outer landscapes, including those of Iona and Kells. Like Kells's interlacing lines, Harpur's four part poem follows a number of threads, such as the nature of the divine and its relationship to art, how beauty is more a moment than an 'object', and how the pilgrim's destination