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LANDSCAPES OF THE MIND
June 2009

Bleakness and Joy
The unjustly neglected Scottish painter Joan Eardley

Poet of Absence and Presence
The foremost nature poet at work in Scotland today, John Burnside

Inner Landscapes
Talented Buddhist painter Vidyalila

Golden Sunflowers
Vishvapani discovers how Buddhist ideas have influenced Western culture over the last  200 years

This issue explores the theme of landscapes inner and outer. We present the work of three visionary artists deeply inspired by notions of landscape and mindscape. Also featured: substantial previews of complete chapters from two recently published novels, philosophy in the movies, interview with translators of the great Sanskrit poet Ashvaghosha.  Now published annually every Spring, Urthona has expanded! This new issue has 64 pages, with many more in full colour. A feast for the senses and for the mind, which will provide inspiration throughout the coming year. The cover price is now UK: £4.95 (Aus $ 13.95)

Featured in previous issues of Urthona:

• Keith Grant, Peter Redgrove, William Blake [issue 3]
• Redon, Cecil Collins, Angels, Duende [issue 4]
  
• Sangharakshita, Shakespeare [issue 5]
  
• William Blake, Milton, Chintamani, Ananda [issue 7]
  Nietzsche, Apollo, Dionysus, Ginsberg, Shakespeare [issue 8]
• Kathleen Raine, William Stafford, Dante, Shamanism, Keith Grant,
  Karunachitta [issue 9]
  
• Robert Bly, Keats, Mary Oliver, Caspar David Friedrich [issue 11]
  Natalie Goldberg, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Sahaja, Jane Hirshfield,
  Dhammarati [issue 12]
  
• Basho, Japanese cinema, Zen landscapes, Jan Garbarek [issue 13]
  Seamus Heaney, Robert Bly, Urgyen Sangharakshita, Brancusi, Tate Modern,
  Jazz, Conceptual art, Blake & the Buddha, JS Bach [issue 14]
• Rodin, Allen Ginsberg, Emily Dickinson, Verdi, Kathleen Raine, Twenty
  Great Dramas [issue 15]
• Gary Snyder, Robert Bly, Aboriginal Architecture, The Green Man, Walt
  Whitman [issue 16]
• Camille Paglia, Piet Mondrian, Piero della Francesca,
  Sangharakshita and Kathleen Raine, Keith Grant, A new Renaissance? [issue 17]
• Rumi, Path of Love, Pablo Neruda, Handel [Issue 18]
• Anish Kapoor, Ursula Le Guin, Iris Murdoch, Jane Hirshfield, William Stafford, Kathleen Raine,
  Northern Lights trilogy, Robert Gray, Twenty great writers, Beverly Farmer [Issue 19]
• Gary Snyder on the sacred mountains of the Ear East, Aboriginal art of the Kutjungka people, Andy Goldsworthy, Resurrecting Dragons, Coleridge and the Goddess, Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring', Harold Mockford, Whenua - The Maori and the Ecology of Placental Connection, The Myth of the Light and the Bodhi Tree, Winds of Wyoming [Issue 20]
• American Dreams:- Awake: William S. Kowinski on a western U.S consortium,
  Mind Mirror: Buddhism at the Movies, We're Wise Apples: Interview with Michael McClure, Chögyam Trungpa: discovering elegance, Leslie McCormick on Dance/Movement Therapy at Boulder's Naropa University, Susan Murphy on dream and koan [Issue 21]
  
• Art, Awareness and Social Change:- Artist Aaron Matheson on Palestine - images from the wall; Gary Snyder - Danger on Peaks: Snyder's new collection - an in depth review; Schiller, Neruda, and the poetics of revolution - two very different figures who thought that art can change society profoundly; Engaged Haiku - Ken Jones on an interesting development in this ancient far Eastern form; Aquasculpture in Australia - Ephemeral sculptures in Australia .[Issue 22]
  
• Dharma of the moving image:- Ethics and Aesthetics: Documentary maker Padmadhara; Robert Bresson - visionary film maker: Ed Piercy; A view from the screen: Danavira recalls experiences in the old Picture Palaces.; A Festival of Mind: The International Buddhist Film Festival; Drunk on Mountains and Poetry: Ratnagarbha on Korean Cinema; Not giving it a name: Gary Gach reflects on just what makes a movie 'Buddhist'.[Issue 23]
  
• Indian Odyssey
  Between the Pipes - Insightful photographs of a Mumbai shanty town by Robert Clark; Satyajit Ray - Ed Piercy on the great master of modern Indian cinema; Trust Your Guru and Sing - Vandanajyoti explores the ancient Indian singing tradition of Dhrupad; Chameleon - Julia Dale on the ‘myriad minded’ poet and thinker Rabindranath Tagore; Ways of Seeing - Padmadhara on a project in which children photographed their own lives; Ajanta Caves - Richard Lannoy discusses the Buddhist caves of Ajanta; Anjolie Menon - Painter Anjolie Menon profiled by Sue Bonnett; Sanskrit Poetry - Dhivan interviews the distinguished translator Andrew Schelling. [Issue 24]