In Borges' short story 'The Other', a 70+ Borges speaks to his younger self about the blindness that will later afflict him: 'You'll be able to see the colour yellow and light and shadow. But don't worry. Gradual blindness is not tragic. It's like the slowly growing darknesss of a summer evening.' 😭

Did you go to Culture Night? Let Belfast City Council know how it went by filling in this short survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/CNB25PART

‘Ghost trees (black-and-white version)’. Experimental photographic print.

SWANKY SHANKY! Sunday 31 Aug 1—4pm! A great, free, fun day for all ages - all invited. Workshops in: Gargoyles & Grotesques sculpture; Table-top mosaic; Family Crest Design and Modern Set-Dancing; all with a backdrop of eclectic live music. Just turn up! www.facebook.com/events/18281...

@neilorangepeel.com @name-janemorrow.bsky.social

Happy St Swithin's Day!

Happy St Swithin's Day!

👁️ A few versions of the anonymous 9th century blackbird poem, including one of my own, for your reading pleasure. Free as usual. open.substack.com/pub/letthede...

New work: experimental photographs comprising multiple shots taken at regular intervals on a walk. A journey condensed into a single image. A3 Giclée print. 1: ‘Greenway Red Night’ 2: ‘Greenway White Night’ 3: ‘Cyprus Avenue in Green’ 4: ‘Untitled (Wall of Trees)’

New work: experimental photographs comprising multiple shots taken at regular intervals on a walk. A journey condensed into a single image. A3 Giclée print. 1: ‘Sunset off Boyd Street’ 2: ‘Sugarhouse Entry (Night) 3: ‘Victoria Park’ 4: ‘Ghost Trees’ jonathanbrennanart.com/shop/

Yep… www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Thanks to everyone who visited our Art Car Boot Fair on Sunday! @vaultartiststudios.bsky.social

Never forget. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lgN...

I'll be participating in this -- do drop by!

The excellent 'RAW - Vault in Focus' continues today at Vault Artist Studios from 12-5pm. Part of Belfast Photo Festival, featuring work from Vault artists, and curated by Rob Hilken. Find out more: www.vaultartiststudios.com/raw-vault-in...

Delighted that ‘Amergin’ has been awarded the top ‘Director’s Choice’ award at the International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles 2025! See the film for yourself in Dublin as part of Bloomsday Film Festival - 13 June, 3pm: @bloomsdayfilmfest.bsky.social ! @dylanbrennan.bsky.social

Delighted that ‘Amergin’ has been selected for this year’s @bloomsdayfilmfest.bsky.social ! @dylanbrennan.bsky.social

Pepe Mujica, the anarchist guerilla who became president of Uruguay, has passed on. He leaves behind as good a legacy as it's possible to leave. So it goes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Short video of my piece at DAS Belfast - thanks to everyone who came. Exhibition continues: 7th – 22nd May , Tues – Fri, 12 – 4pm.

ALINE* in full swing today. A unique, informal public event for people to come and find out what goes on in the artist-led scene in Belfast and why artist-led initiatives are fundamental to the arts and creative industries. *Artist-Led Initiative Networking Event!

Work in progress for group show at DAS Belfast for Late Night Art 1 May 2025.

ALINE - A networking event for artists. Meet Belfast's artist-led galleries, collectives, studios and initiatives. Find out more about how you can get involved on our website: www.vaultartiststudios.com/aline

If u happen to find yourself in the Venice / Los Angeles area u can go watch a short poetry film I co-produced with artist/brother @jonathanbrennanart.bsky.social Saturday, 19 April at the International Poetry Film Festival Los Angeles. Tickets/more info here: www.beyondbaroque.org/poetryfilmfe...

today is my annual reminder not to wake up very small children and tell them it’s Christmas as an April fool’s joke and then have them burst into tears when they realise it’s not because they have no concept of time

Delighted to announce that ‘Amergin’ has been selected for the International Poetry Film Festival in L.A. this year. A film by @dylanbrennan.bsky.social and @jonathanbrennanart.bsky.social

Amazing news! Amergin was just selected by LA Poetry Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com!

German photographer and member of Magnum Photos Thomas Hoepker Cinema in Battipaglia, Italy 1956 #Photography

A visit to @arraycollective.bsky.social “The Goose and The Common” at @ruaredgallery.bsky.social yesterday.

Donuts / doughnuts now lit in morning light. #blender #dasresidency

Day ?? Lots of donuts with sprinkles

Commissioned by 9ft in common for Rainbow Alley - engraved by me and constructed beautifully by Chris Campbell-Palmer.

Wonderful. #thebrutalist

Dehydrated lacto-fermented plums, lacto-fermented plum juice, pulverised dehydrated lacto-fermented plum skins. #nomaguidetofermentation #lacto-fermentation #ferments

I know there’s so much more going on that is so much more important - and I’m trying to get off all Meta products anyway - but why oh why did Instagram go rectangular? I guess the stock answer is, as with most IG changes, that it is trying to be more like TikTok. #instagram #tiktok #taylorswwift

King Billy and his bridge. After I took this, I was escorted out of the carpark by a security guard who told me I couldn’t be there - I’ll drive next time! #belfast #boynebridge #demolition #kingbilly

"I hope by the time I die, my work will look like four really long poems. A very long love poem; a very long meditation on war and death; a very long nature poem and a playful poem on the art of poetry." Interview with Michael Longley, The Observer, 28 October 2006

This looks shite. #trinitycollegedublin #bookofkells

🎶 … the candy-coloured clown they call the Sandman …

My review of Red Sky at Night appears in this month’s Visual Artists’ News Sheet @visualart

Storm Eowyn…

Award-winning poet Michael Longley dies aged 85 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Jesus. Twister in Donegal right now.

I’ll be reading at this tonight. Poetry, prose, drama, criticism, show-and-tell, original work, or something revisited - responding to the theme of ‘Flow’ in 7 minutes or less. January 23, 2025 Seamus Heaney Centre 18:00 - 19:30 Free #literature #seamusheaney #belfast #rivers #travelogue

A while ago I wrote a piece about an ongoing series of Irish artworks where Ireland features as a backdrop to various apocalypses. There are a lot of lovely pictures and not that many words. You can check it out over here www.leoboyd.com/2023/04/the-... #belfast #dublin #ireland #art #collage

👀New post on David Lynch. Features an article I wrote for @gorsejournal.bsky.social years ago on Inland Empire and a video of one of his shortest, strangest films. Free to read. open.substack.com/pub/letthede...

You can hear @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social talk to Lynch about that very scene around 15' 18" here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIlm...

Me on David Lynch, a piece I'd rather never have had to write. An uncompromising American original. As a kid from before the VHS era, my earliest memory of his work is watching that single tear go down Hopkins's face in THE ELEPHANT MAN on release in 1980. www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

Day 3 - the donut now has icing and is sitting on a marble plane. #blender #donut #blenderguru

The start of a long, long journey… #blender