Save the date! Next Reading Group: 25th March GMT, online. We're reading *The Last Day at Bowen's Court* by the late, lovely #eibhearwalshe, in which he explored Bowen's rich and complex life, & the love rectangle she formed with her lover Charles Ritchie, his wife Sylvia, & EB's husband Alan.

Jorge Luis Borges tr. by Stephen Kessler

Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) Wellfleet, Cape Cod (1904)

Guy de Maupassant (excerpt from: Nightmare / Paris Tales) tr. by Helen Constantine

Gustave Dore's drawing (1882) was made for Edgar Allan Poe's narrative poem, 'The Raven.' It depicts the narrator opening his chamber door to a mysterious tapping, as described in the poem: 'I opened wide the door; Darkness there and nothing more.'

I interviewed Karl Ove Knausgård for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

Mist giant. 📷 #WeekQforQuiet #AlphabetChallenge

Rainer Maria Rilke

Artists in Exile New York, 1942 photography by Hermann Landshoff

C. P. Cavafy tr. by Stratis Haviaras

Ady Fidelin, Max Ernst, Leonora Carrington, Man Ray (1939) photo by Lee Miller

Milton Acorn

“A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.” Samuel Beckett

“...On that best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.” William Wordsworth

Rip Pierre Joris. Probably the translator who influenced my own practice/thinking about translation the most.

Paul Celan, Breathturn; tr. Pierre Joris RIP Pierre

"Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us? " Lawrence Durrell,

Hervé Guibert Chambre de Mathieu c.1989 © Christine Guibert Courtesy Les Douches la Galerie, Paris

Robert Hass

Sappho Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments transl. by Aaron Poochigian

Samuel Beckett

Santa Claus feeding pigeons on Boston Common, 1928 Photo by Leslie Ronald Jones (1886-1967)

Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) Gathering Water Lilies, 1886

“Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me.” Samuel Beckett, From an Abandoned Work Died on this day in 1989.

Goodnight. Sarah Vivian , Gate to The Moonlit Valley, West Penwith www.sarahvivian.com/product/29b-...

“The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then...” Jack Kerouac, On the Road © Alain Willaume (Tendance Floue)

"...the blue seems eternal" Virginia Woolf { Diaries } Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928) - Interior with a Big Blue Pot - Under the Big Ash Tree - Grey Weather

Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) Silhouetted Trees c.1910 Cyanotype print on paper

Oscar Wilde, The Disciple

“It was in Trouville that I stared at the sea until nothing was left. Trouville was the solitude of my entire life.” Marguerite Duras photography via: PORT Magazine

Arthur Rimbaud “Sensitivity Was my fall.”

〜 Jorge Luis Borges

“In the sky, through the window, white clouds were coming undone, running loose from the calm blue.” Clarice Lispector

photography © Jon Nicholson

‘Pan is not dead ... in every wood, if you go with a spirit properly prepared, you shall hear the note of his pipe.’ Robert Louis Stevenson was born #OTD in 1850. 🎨John Singer Sargent

Take a break from the Sally Rooney discourse to read… my interview with Sally Rooney! Cover story in the Sunday Times’ Culture supplement t.co/686vygThRn

My feeling sinks, as if it stood on fishes. Last half of Progress The Book of Images Rilke tr Snow #poetrysunday -3

Helen Sear Pond, 2011 photograph

still waiting for a rebirth of wonder

“I'm traveling light It's au revoir My once so bright My fallen star I'm running late They'll close the bar I used to play One mean guitar” Leonard Cohen

Robert Musil, Diaries

Marguerite Duras, Writing

"The first sorrow of autumn Is the slow goodbye Of the garden who stands so long in the evening - A brown poppy head, The stalk of a lily, And still cannot go." from, "The Seven Sorrows" - Ted Hughes