The Farther Away

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.