'Butter' oil on linen, 24 x 30cm, 2016 #butter #irishart #kerrygold #conorwalton

instructions for grieving a house on fire take the photo off the wall before it warps. leave the rest. the linens. the grocery list from april. the lamp that flickered even when off. do not cry. the house cannot hear you. it is too busy collapsing like a body that's just realized it's mortal. i…

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Piper Kerr (right)

It's the first of the month, which means OKD's free subs are back open until we reach our cap! Check out what we're into, then submit your best poetry or flash fiction: okaydonkeymag.com/submissions/

Wonderful description! 👁 Whoever penned this is a seer

Small Publishers Fair 2025, Friday 24 and Saturday 25 October, 11am to 7pm daily, Conway Hall, London WC1R 4RL Featuring @johndilnot.bsky.social

#TextileTuesday : #PolarBear on Ice Floe, c. 1930 Manufacturer: Grenfell Mission Industrial Department (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, active 1909-1984) Jute burlap ground; wool & rayon or silk jersey pile On display at Baltimore Museum of Art (1996.165)

"... like peacocks stepping out of cages into an empty kitchen of God." —Anne Carson

Albert has always been a big fan of art

I've just sent out several thousand emails with my October newsletter attached. Hundreds have bounced back as the file was too large. I sent a smaller file with the same results. So you can find a 'penny plain' version online here: davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-... Thinking cap on.

My gate.

Ouyang Jianghe, tr. Austin Woerner

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Living our Best Life in Leitrim, yet keeping an Eye on the American President

For #WorldCassowaryDay: #Cassowary Dance Costume Iatmul people, Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, 20th c. Rattan, raffia, shells, string, cassowary feathers, pigment 26.5 x 18.25 x 75.5 in (67.3 x 46.4 x 191.8 cm) Harn S85-SPNG-G233: harn.emuseum.com/objects/8186/c…#IndigenousArtr#BirdsInArtrt

‘It would make Chairs, Tables, Trunks & all moveables walk up and down the Rooms. And often come tumble down the stairs, some times like a bowl & other times as if it drew a Chain.’ John Mompesson, describing the poltergeist activity later known as 'The Drummer of Tedworth' in 1661 #PhantomsFriday

Hello Friday. 🖼️ Sveta Dorosheva

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Spiritually and emotionally, I am this flute

RIP Henry Jaglom! Indie filmmaker and actor but perhaps best known online as the other side of this conversation.

Cookie Monster sings Tom Waits - www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5X4... (Blessings upon the house of the person who made this!) #WyrdWednesday

True Portrait of a Prodigious Monster (1654)

These are strange days indeed so here's some random Warwickshire wig lore to make them even stranger 👇 Placing a parson’s old wig in the chimney should prevent hogs’ puddings (pig intestines stuffed with coarse oatmeal) from bursting during the cooking process.

Back in my home town, someone has lost their chub roll and custard. 6 shares so far.

Man down.

@katehorsleywriter.bsky.social “The manual described the Olivetti’s body parts – space bar, ribbon spool, paper table, platen knob, ribbon vibrator – and I read you out the last two, tangled naked with you in our hotel sheets, and you laughed at me,” gooseberry-pie.com/red-olivetti/

🦋🐝🦋"Peacock, red-admiral and small blue butterflies basked on the warm stone of the cottage walls, opening and closing the books of their wings, and bumblebees hummed their frustration at the windows, tapping the glass as if wanting to be let in." #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday

There used to be a TV show about a guy who got tomorrow's newspaper today and used that info to save lives or whatever. If it was made now, he'd be like "oh, brown bread sandwiches are woke now".

Prepping

Pictures that explain things ‘Gradient’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt (Maps 1967)

‘Her necklace broke, the bling slipping from the slit throat of the garrotted sky’ Graphic imagery from our writer of the month on the #SilverBranch project - @helenlaycock.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/helen-laycoc... #poetry #writingcommunity

Only Dublin could treat the provision of public toilets as if they were being asked to land people on Mars.

'Prepare the periodic table for the ancient keening/of the bone flute and the bucket' You had me right there, James 👌. Reading this in 🇪🇸 and love it, but equally valid in Stockport or Burnley or Brighton.

FINGERPRINT by Michael L Sevy @mlsevy.bsky.social New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH burninghousepress.com/2025/09/18/f...

Photos incoming from further afield now, from Leadgate, County Durham; Waterford and from the beaches of Tramore, Co Waterford & Liverpool. Wonderful. 🙏

Come along next month to celebrate the launch of What Remains, our latest title in translation. We are hitting the road with author Brais Lamela and translator Jacob Rogers, and we are Cork and Dublin bound!

“People always ask, ‘Who’s your ideal reader?’ Mine is somebody who reads a few pages and then falls asleep and has a fantastic dream.” From our Art of the Essay interview with Eliot Weinberger in our new Fall issue. buff.ly/PIJNDC7

Small Publishers Fair returns to London's Conway Hall next month, with 66 UK & international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks. More details soon. Fri 24 & Sat 25 October (11am-7pm) FREE, all welcome Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL smallpublishersfair.co.uk

Well, he's withdrawing himself from the Presidential Election Race in the same sense I'm withdrawing myself from winning the Booker Prize.

New @fallowmedia.bsky.social with a Marguerite Duras film script & companion essays by Daniel Fraser & myself, Lisa Robertson on Adnan, Maija Makela on Notley, Owen Hatherley, Stephen Sexton, Lalla Romano, JC Vaughan, Maria Sledmere, Devki Panchmatia & Russell Persson fallowmedia.com/shop/fallow-02

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"In an anecdote she loved, a young man decides to kill himself, jumps off a high bridge, changes his mind in the air, straightens his body out into a dive and survives." – Ann Snitow, The Feminism of Uncertainty

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An incorruptible corpse was a signifier of sainthood in medieval Europe. Bodily integrity, whether virginity or posthumous perfection, reinforced a candidate's case for canonisation. While the exhumed St Hubert is not looking particularly perky, he's been dead for 98 years #WyrdWednesday #medieval