Artist and filmmaker Len Lye and writer Robert Graves were both maverick visionaries. Despite their…
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Artist and filmmaker Len Lye and writer Robert Graves were both maverick visionaries. Despite their…
Robert Graves touched the lives of many of us and his influence as a poet…
Legendary British singer-songwriter Kevin Ayers lived in Deia off and on from the 1960s…
Like you perhaps I have many intensely romantic Deia memories. But is the village inherently…
American author Luke Rhinehart was inspired to finish his great cult novel ‘The Dice Man’…
In which The Dice Man author Luke Rhinehart talks about Naked Before the World, his…
This is the time of year when writers everywhere look back on what they’ve written…
I close my eyes behind my sunglasses and hear their voices drifting across the years. Luke…
By the time he arrived in Deià in September 1968* the writer Colin Wilson…
Speaking to Ramón about the making of the El Olivo album I realised I had…
Listening to El Olivo, music by Ramón Farrán for poems by Robert Graves, is one of…
It began in the treasure trove front room of Deià artist and musician David Templeton.…
In Tuning up at Dawn, Tomás Graves’s splendid book about his life in music in…
In late April almost twenty years ago I took my first ever swim down…
A few weeks ago when I was talking to Tille del Negro about her…
If only Robert Graves’s The White Goddess had appeared in July. It would have fit…
In July 1926, ninety years ago this month, Robert Graves and Laura Riding consummated…
July is the month in which life in Deià begins both to slow down and…
The story and mythology of Deià has always been shaped by larger than life characters.…
They had no money for a tomb but the Deia Ayuntamiento let his friends…
There was once a faded, peeling sticker on the bathroom window of the men’s bathroom…
Lorna awoke knowing that someone was standing behind her. She had no idea how many…
In the past few days posts about the amount of plastic in our oceans have…
I first became intrigued by Alston Anderson and his connection to Robert Graves when I…
It was Christmas Eve and the beams of the pub were lined with twinkling fairy…
Monday 7 December was the 30th anniversary of the death of the poet Robert Graves…
The Dia de Muertos, or the Day of the Dead, happens on October 31st. If…
One hot night in July 2010 Patti Smith and her band gave a concert at…
When I discovered that the writer Mason Hoffenberg lived in Deia for a time I…