PEN & BULB

The first poem and photos we ever took as a Pen & Bulb team. And what better city to launch a creative partnership than Seville? “Oranges fall from trees / bloated with juice and orange daylight.”

How to Eryri in Spring The sun will be abrupt like the flaring underbelly of a peregrine due south. Keep driving.  It may feel like time has stopped moving in a linear manner. Clock your progress: count rows of gorse and umbrous rooftops and branches snaking through fog.  Landscape seems to repeat itself. Do not…

We explore a colourful, Italian folly “balancing on the slate shoulders of Snowdonia”. Vibrant pops of yellow, pink and blue work hard to shine beneath the mizzly skies of North Wales.