Ashbery

Phoebe loves the snow!

In @stonecirclereview.bsky.social, a poem I wrote as I was finishing the manuscript for An Absence of Sea—a poem of flesh and hours, about the porousness of the human and time experienced as sensation rather than sequence. stonecirclereview.com/vessel/

“I do not know how to rid the world of evil, or whether one is simply supposed to endure it. But you are there and are having an effect, and the poems have an effect of their own and help to protect you—that is the answer and a counterbalance in this world.” — Ingeborg Bachmann to Paul Celan, 1958

Currently reading. @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social @toughpoets.bsky.social

First review of the year on my blog - Palaver by Bryan Washington: Home is where the heart is alifeinbooks.co.uk/2026/01/pala... #BookSky

Phoebe with her Canadian sisters, Willow and Juno.

“miracles of darkness”

A wonderful study on imagery by Thom Gunn Consider the snail I cannot tell what power is at work, drenched there with purpose, knowing nothing. What is a snail's fury?

'Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring a library' — Walter Savage Landor

You are neither silence nor language: The Answer to Lord Chandos by Pascal Quinard @wakefieldpress.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/01/16/y...

'…Really that young man, I’ve no patience at all with him; he behaves like a very unconvincing character in a book, not like a human being at all.’ #BookSky 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/c...

Very excited to announce our Fall 2026 books via our newsletter today. And now here! BLUE SUNSET by Denise Rose Hansen and WHAT REMAINS by Brais Lamela (trans by Jacob Rogers) will be out Oct 6, 2026! Read more about these two wonderful new novels at our website: dorothyproject.com/books-gallery/

Managed to find a used copy & looking forward to timetravel allenginsberg.org/2018/11/m-n-5/

Ashbery

Re-upping for the holiday weekend crowd: New issue on boredom quotes Barbara Pym, Henry James, The Kills, Elisa Gabbert, Penelope Fitzgerald, Nicola Griffith, Mary McCarthy, Lars Iyer, Ilka Chase, Orson Wells, and many other folks. Napoleon among them.

Julian Barnes's departure: his cancer, his deaf dog, Martin Amis's last email to him, and why he's stopping writing novels so that he doesn't die in the middle of one and have some other bastard finish it for him. Me on Barnes's final book: