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This article is more than 1 month old From the birds in the trees to the fresh flowers laid on headstones, graveyards sustain life in surprising and touching ways Touchingly alive ... St Mary’s graveyard, Whitby. Photograph: daverhead/Getty Images/iStockphoto Touchingly alive ... St Mary’s graveyard, Whitby. Photograph: daverhead/Getty Images/iStockphoto Mon 1 Mar 2021 09.43 EST Last modified on Tue 2 Mar 2021 05.12 EST Walking fatigue is everywhere. It is the idea of it, rather than the actual one-foot-in-front-of-another business. Much as I have enjoyed watching my usual route behind ...

William Blake’s childhood vision on Peckham Rye is well known. Sauntering along, he looks up and, according to an early biographer, ‘sees a tree filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars’. On another occasion, he ran indoors declaring he had seen the prophet Ezekiel under a tree. His wife, Catherine, later reported that Blake first saw God at the age of four. I love that ‘first’. The Bible’s vivid prophetic and visceral apocalyptic imagery stirred him as well. It ‘overawed his imagination’ so that ‘he saw it materialising around him,’ Pete...