This is how traditions begin

'One day, Annie Hooper went for a walk on the beach and noticed “driftwood stacked and leaning in a peculiar way”. This image inspired her to spend the next forty years constructing approximately twenty-five hundred biblical figures made of driftwood and concrete' artandtheology.org/2022/08/26/t...

Extraordinary film about Calvin Black’s Possum Trot doll theatre, one of the most amazing lost visionary environments. Anyway, I would urge you to watch this & see for yourself the strange & wonderful world he created with the help of his wife Ruby m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqcX...

Behind Montrose Ave. John Kasyn 1979

I realise that this is, undoubtedly, the worst time of the year to hold a launch. Everybody I know is away on holidays, for example. Hoping to hold an in person launch when @poetryireland.bsky.social reopens its doors later in the year.

Yesterday btw I gave Stig of the Dump to an eight-year old boy, saying "You are eight, it's time you read this" To which he said "I've been meaning to read this"

last call for submissions to @MinorLits ... fiction, essays & experimental info and deadlines here: oleada.io/publication/...

Here's @vjs411.bsky.social on a bench with a copy of her Colossive Cartography, Rest in Peace (which, non-coincidentally, features photos of benches). All royalties from Victoria's #zine go to Maggie's Cambridge - and we've just made our latest donation of £18. Find out more: bit.ly/welovemaggies

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Love the Community Note

themadridreview.com/submissions Happy New Year! Feliz Año Nuevo! #Happynewyear #poetry #submit #submissions

Beautiful

late night BSky. when the curator of Entomology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History has a sense of humor.

Utagawa Hiroshige, New Year’s Eve Foxfires, 1857

Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov.

Wow.... This was a real book, despite it looking like something Viz would produce. Published Hamlyn UK, 1985. There's a whole other level of disturbing about a paedophile authoring a book on keeping children safe...

Sometimes we all need a unicorn to believe in. Sometimes we need a unicorn to believe in us. ~Claudia Bakker

Gardienne des phoenix (1954) by Leonor Fini. Oil on canvas.

You’re free when you stop writing to be liked. #SpineEdicts #PostCloutPoetry #ChooseTuesdays

Reformer Josephine Butler (1828-1906, b. Northumberland), died on this day 1906. Arguably most effective campaigner for women’s rights of her time. She ended coverture (whereby woman’s legal rights were subsumed by her husband’s), criminalised child prostitution and human trafficking.

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who up thinking about the darkness that lurks in their fellow man’s heart

Tom Lovell - Common Ground

Troy Ruffels from the Bramble series, solvent based print on composite aluminium sheet

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Aux bords du Noircan les vieux saules, Paul Emile Pissarro. (1884 - 1972)

Edgar Ende, Winter 1938

From our archive ~ Abraham Werner's wonderful 19C book Nomenclature of Colours gives swatches of all colour tones, & where to find them in nature. So, for example, Bluish Green is the colour of thrush’s egg, underside of rose leaves, & the mineral beryl mymodernmet.com/werner-nomen...

Good morning to the sky flush, and the heart flush and the thrill of your nerve-endings fluttering only.

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Crows on Wing Saida Eiho late 19th century, Japan William Sturgis Bigelow Collection, MFA

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11. Germolene

Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

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Wonderful!

start away John Clare, ‘Winter Walk’

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If you missed out on the Newgrange solstice livestream this morning you can find it here. Really worth it for the authoritative, evocative commentary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRgu...

Mitsuru Watanabe, Japanese (1953-), Naoko is Setting Christmas, 2007, oil on canvas, 144 x 96 cm, private collection

Once again thinking about the time Sinéad O'Connor attended an anti-Sinéad O'Connor demonstration in disguise 💛

It turns out the abyss was actually staring at someone it knows behind me. Embarrassing.

Truly tremendous

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Clear Winter Night by Carol Collette.

More epic-scale snow drawing created by artist Sonja Hinrichsen #womensart #ArtAdvent

Moment of Zen.

Jarosław Jaśnikowski, Polish (1976- ), Ślimakowóz jednokołowy (Single-Wheeled Snail Vehicle), 2024, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 cm, private collection