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| Marlene Dumas Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie) 2016 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Federico Herrero Crab 2014 acrylic paint, oil paint, spray paint and felt-tip pen on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Callum Innes Untitled No. 51 2011 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
Suburban Burma
Don't try this at home. On second thought, come in,
your tumbling face ungladden. And see what happens.
The boy said, I have the look of two
through the other side of the shower. And how do we
get that, except by adding it up
in one long, fateful column.
The others are with you. Space occurs. Naturally. Not every
impulse makes it through to. You have you.
Are you a big person in the morning?
Angels of the New Year winnow followers.
We go through the motions
again. And breezes come in.
Those who remember the past are doomed to repeat it.
Plus, it's part of history.
We, however, have no such druthers.
We'll build a higher vandalism, "with the look of ending."
We were both trying to hide.
A hotel is not a big clay window
stepfathered in,
resists any effort to change the subject.
Be calm and get your stuff.
– John Ashbery, from Quick Question (Ecco, 2012)
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| Callum Innes Untitled No. 39 2010 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Simon Ling Untitled 2010 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Eberhard Havekost Infinity 1 and 2 2008 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Cy Twombly Untitled (Bacchus) 2008 acrylic paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Merlin James Frontage 2008 acrylic paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Thomas Scheibitz 90 Elements 2007 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Basil Beattie The Difference Between II 2005 oil paint and wax on canvas Tate Gallery |
To The Soul
Is anyone there
if so
are you real
either way are you
one or several
if the latter
are you all at once
or do you
take turns not answering
is your answer
the question itself
surviving the asking
without end
whose question is it
how does it begin
where does it come from
how did it ever
find out about you
over the sound
of itself
with nothing but its own
ignorance to go by
– W.S. Merwin, from New Poems (2004), published in Migration: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
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| R.B. Kitaj Death's Door 2005 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Luigi Schiavonetti after William Blake Death's Door before 1810 etching Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut |
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| Frank Nitsche BOT 18 2004 2004 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Wilhelm Sasnal Untitled (a) 2004 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery |
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| Lucian Freud David and Eli 2003-2004 oil paint on canvas Tate Gallery (on long-term loan from a private collection) |