Bio: Nicolas Sampson

“Going places: a phrase that implies success, progress, development, reach, potential. Traveling, in other words, is synonymous with life lived to its fullest.”

Nicolas D. Sampson is a writer-producer from Nicosia, Cyprus. His work has been published in American Writers Review, LIT Magazine, The Scofield, and The Hong Kong Review, among others. His poetry collection Όμορφη η Υφήλιος (The Globe Is Beautiful) was published in Greece by Armos Publications. His film projects include Behind the Mirror (writer/producer – winner Best Thriller in the Manhattan Film Festival 2015) and Hope Gap (executive producer). He loves Alfred Hitchcock films. And traveling. And the cloud. And is currently working on a novella that explores London’s psychogeography.

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Dawn: Dawn’s Blossom

Good day
Beautiful day

Simple
Mysterious

You flare up
So vital — a blossom

In abundant
Light

Dawn: Ever West: A Journey into the Sunset

Every journey starts with an opening of the eyes and a stretch of the muscles. We fidget our toes and activate our necks, preparing our body for the strain that awaits it. Our autonomic nervous system revs up as we get out of bed, our organs fed with water and glucose and decisions, the choice between this and that, between what we know and what we’re bound to discover or die trying.

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Dawn: Imaginary Peaks

Maps are instruments of knowledge, science, and faith. One trusts the ability of the mapmakers and their associates to measure the terrain accurately, and then to render on paper what exists in three dimensions. Also, one has to trust their motives for making a map; are they honest or expedient?

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Issue 8: Space

Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s SPACE issue. From the very small to the enormity of our imaginations, essays grow from the furtive earth-bed of mushroom forests to the stars. Granville Carroll’s afro-futuristic cover artwork “Becoming” places us in space. John Angerson provides the obligatory rocket-propelled photos. Matilde Gattoni reminds us that one’s freedom to explore space can suddenly be taken away. The connection with space doesn’t stop there. Melissa Tuckman’s aptly titled poem “Space Junk” connects space debris to modern living. A new section on New Nature Writing probes the world beyond our urban confines. In the second outing for Decolonising Travel, there are excruciating, painful stories, sexual imaginings in the steam room, and personal reflections on historical ties to oppression; all whilst giving writers who have come through VONA/Faith Adiele’s writing programme space to share their work. We finish the issue with a stroll through London — the most ethnically diverse world capital — through the lens of Books Editor Nicolas D. Sampson.

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Space: Too Early For Birdsong

We operate inside a structure much bigger than us, so very old and grand, we deem ourselves minuscule, irrelevant, crushed under the weight of history. The demands of the present, the burdens of our future. Our existence is stretched paper-thin on the vast infrastructure we assemble. We become ghosts in shells…

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Folio: Point Omega Renditions

Someone told me once that he’d read Point Omega by Don DeLillo with interest, but couldn’t connect with it. ‘Pointless,’ is how he described it. I loved that novella, so, as one does, I wrote up this review in response. Point Omega is a story that centres on Richard Elster, a retired scholar and war-studies/covert-warfare expert who has recently moved to the desert to explore space and time.

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Folio: So Will The Scribes

Critobulus, a Greek historian, scholar and politician was one of the scribes who documented the Fall of Constantinople and the Ottoman takeover of Byzantium, and his brief mention in Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice is no accident.

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Folio: A Little Fire Burning

Come the festive season, I ponder on the scripture. I may be a free thinker invested in the future, not the past, yet the story of Jesus Christ moves me. I love to engage with it every year, come Christmas and Easter, and would do so at church, but for the intransigence of the religious establishment.

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Issue 9: Borders

In this issue we have work from India, Nigeria, Philippines, Israel, Netherlands, UK, USA, Brazil, South Korea, Thailand, Germany, Italy, and more. In many ways it’s the most diverse publication to date for the breadth of contributions and the people involved.

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Borders: The Long Journey

I was accustomed to the intense heat, but that morning it seemed to me unbearable. Perhaps because I was looking forward to completing my goal. I get like that when I’m excited, which fortunately seems to be happening more sparsely as time goes by. It was early in the morning and I was walking barefoot in the scorching sand, but that hardly bothered me. From the day I’d left my village at the northwest of Abydos, I’d been walking tirelessly, day and night, through the desert, my mind focused solely on my journey, my driving purpose.

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