FROM A LATE NIGHT TRAIN - AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BLUE NILE

by Elliot J. Huntley

Buchanan’s haunting vignettes embodied the sublime uncertainties of being in love, the hope and the despair, the melancholy always tempered by an underlying optimism.

“the neons and the cigarettes, the rented rooms, the rented cars, the crowded streets, the empty bars, the chimney-tops, the trumpets, the golden lights, the loving prayers, the coloured shoes, the empty trains I’m tired of crying on the stairs.