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Harry Eyres established the FT’s Slow Lane column, which celebrates the creative use of down-time, in January 2004. Before that in a varied journalistic career he was a theatre critic and arts writer for The Times (1987-1993), wine editor of Harpers & Queen (1989-1996), wine columnist for The Spectator (1984-1989) and the first and so far the only Poetry Editor of The Daily Express (1996-2001). He has written on wine and food, travel, theatre, literature and music for most of the UK’s leading newspapers.
In addition to his journalistic work Harry Eyres is a published poet, editor of LSE Environment, the newsletter of LSE’s Centre for Environmental Policy and Governance, and teaches London theatre for a consortium of American universities. He wrote the Beginner’s Guide to Plato’s The Republic for Hodder & Stoughton’s Beginner’s Guides to Great Works series. He was born in London in 1958, read English at Cambridge University and holds the Diploma de Estudios Hispanicos from Barcelona University and an MSc in Environmental Assessment and Evaluation from LSE. - -
The heaven in our midst
The extraordinary marriage of craft and theology imbues cathedrals with both physical and spiritual uplift, writes Harry Eyres
Touching moments
Tactile awkwardness was a trait Harry Eyres grew up with, but he now enjoys the benefits of a massage on the body and mind
Lessons of an Andean ordeal
A trip to Peru in 1976 was traumatic for a young Harry Eyres but his experience made him appreciate aspects of British society that he had taken for granted
Poetry on prescription
Poems, when given in their right dosage, can be one of the world’s greatest and most potent medicines, writes Harry Eyres
The real meaning of lunch
We share not just bread and wine but our feelings, put into words and expressed in conversation, writes Harry Eyres
Sound discovery
The symphony orchestra, unlike factory noise and disco music, is not trying to deafen us but to open our ears, says Harry Eyres
Real England
The argument that the richest bits of English culture can be found in the margins rather than the mainstream is both selective and thought-provoking, writes Harry Eyres
Old haunts, new memories
With the Barcelona of his youth no longer the same, Harry Eyres revives his great affair with the city by finding new places to love and hoping they become as haunted as the old
Broken heartstrings
Itzhak Perlman’s DVD touches Harry Eyres as it tackles how the musician rose against an extraordinary obstacle to become one of the world’s finest classical violinists
Where everything flows
Taiwan’s profoundly spiritual society impresses Harry Eyres who finds that religion seems to be a natural part of life there
