The club Christmas morning run.

A friend brought me Northern supplies for Christmas morning: beef sausages, vegetable roll and potato bread.

Glenveagh.

Dorothy Molloy.

David Byrne. youtu.be/PNmcF6eRE7w?...

Fantastic music. youtu.be/g3XYl7hdGPQ?...

Went for run today up in Chorr An Mhadaidh. Mild and misty weather. Felt like a day in autumn.

Poets look away.

John Joe's Kilcar.

Bought myself a photocopier. Divorce imminent.

The Holy Trinity.

Badly needed win.

The Best of Neon 2025: The value of reading.

For the day that's in it.

Thom Gunn.

How, how, how youtu.be/SE1xO44FlME?...

The Termon Santa is a big lad.

Great pub in Letterkenny. No TV.

Yeats letter from the wonderful Capuchin Archive. www.facebook.com/share/p/19md...

Orphean sprig! Melting baby! Warm chihuahua! #EdwinMorgan reading “Trio”, published in The Second Life (1968) and recorded by Ewan McVicar in 1990 at Tower Studio, Glasgow 🎄❄️

Tonight's show is this classic.

Low winter sun in Teelin.

Edward Thomas

David Bowie's jacket on display at Bromley Central Library. He first wore it when performing with The Konrads in 1963/4, and he added the ink stripes when he joined The Riot Squad in 1967

Grey morning leaving Derry.

Bungalow bliss. 📷 Martin Parr.

A serial killer run by MI5 and they're still covering up the truth. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It's not often I cut out a poem to keep.

RIP Martin Parr. www.rte.ie/archives/202...

Sharagore Wedge Tomb overlooking Lough Swilly.

Photograph I took of Dermot Healy and a local farmer in Carrickmacross during the Patrick Kavanagh weekend of November 1985.

The dereliction of Lower North Street in Belfast city centre is terrible. This photo was taken on Tuesday afternoon.

When in Belfast always worth a visit.

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What is poetry? Ciaran Carson.

This is just class. Cheered me up no end. youtu.be/PNmcF6eRE7w?...

The inflated sense of their own significance that some in the poetry world have of themselves never fails to amuse me.

I remember one night in the Eglantine Inn (the Egg) telling Ciaran about a superb American poet C K Williams. A few weeks later I loaned him my copy of 'Tar'. The rest is history.

About to set off back to Derry in the train from the launch in the Seamus Heaney Centre of Ciaran Carson's selected essays. The book is a wonder.

Good read.

Summit of Bulbin, Inishowen

Don Paterson.

L'homme derrière le fil de fer.

Wendy Cope

Strabane railway map.

A lethal dilemma.

From David Runciman review in the LRB on three books about the impending population collapse. Sobering.