The Loneliness of the Long Distance Writer

If you're in London, you can catch this tribute to the writer's art on Hampstead Heath.

The scultor, Giancarlo Neri calls the design a "monument to the loneliness of writing". It stands 30 feet high.

Hampstead Heath was chosen because of its literary traditions. Writers such as DH Lawrence lived nearby and poets Shelley and Keats strolled together there.

Neri says that the work has been well received by writers:

They all identify with the condition of being prisoners of their desks, of the confinement that it requires to actually write about the outside world. ... The idea was to reverse that sense of captivity and put the writer on public display.

Nice of someone to think about the writer's lonely toil!