For the caregivers. 🤍 This poem isn’t about me, though I was one. It came from watching someone in the role for a very long time. I wrote it a month ago, and the imminent event happened the next day. As for me, I am at peace. Ready to be transformed, put to another use. #PromptCombo #AChangeOfUse

Tomorrow (Thursday 19th) at 7pm GMT: the online launch of Oscar Mardell's 'Delirious New Lynn' Published in New Zealand, there are just 12 copies available to buy in the UK, of which 4 are now reserved. My 2025 Book of the Year: review31.co.uk/essay/view/1... Join us tomorrow and pick up a copy.

What's that? You want to pre-order THE debut collection of the year? You want to read heart wrenching and beautiful stories about decaying relationships, sinister forests, with plenty of dogs (and one polar bear) from one of Ireland's best writers? Guess what - you can!

Ding, ding, ding: my collection, launching 19th March, is available for pre-order www.lilliputpress.ie/products/fou...

Huge thanks to @exactingclam.bsky.social for publishing my essay 'Behind the Scenes with Gerald Murnane: A First Reading of Inland' www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-20... @andotherstories.bsky.social

Quiet little winter spring poem.

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Mark Molchan - The Aurai

Artist: Maurizio Quarello

“Monsters are something exceptional, an inverted miracle that comes out of nowhere with no real explanation” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

An apple intricately carved into a series of red-rimmed waves by Takehiro Kishimoto, Japan.

In honour of the great Jonathan Main ❤️

Most of his corpse is in Dublin. He has a finger in Coventry apparently. Saint Valentine in Dublin: A visit to his relics share.google/LnOaomFKuXTI...

Fox Has No Fucking Idea What He's Doing In Town https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2016/03/11/fox-has-no-fucking-idea-what-hes-doing-in-town/

“The view from the Milky Way back down to the bleak and blackened ruins of the earth spinning in space could not appear more strange, and yet the childhood we spent on it […] seems scarcely more distant than the day before last.” — W. G. Sebald, A Place in the Country

Imitation of Rilke By the Brazilian poetinha Vinicius de Moraes Tr. John Nist

“I believe, if you were made of rocks, I would love you with such faith that I could make you run to me.” Michelangelo casting himself as Pygmalion.

It's way below freezing outside. Spending the morning coffee time drawing.

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Thank you, David ♦️

‘Sprong in het duister,’ ‘Geitenkop’ & ‘AF!’ #Painting by Pieter Pander #art

‘There is an appetite for daring, experimental writing, and community and collaboration are what matter most in the world of independent publishing.’ - Jess Chandler, @prototypepubs.bsky.social

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. 'Where is the heat? Go to the heat.'

Blackfriars.

A little science for #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

"I am not a spontaneous person, and aside from the context of marriage have exposed my adult body parts only to medics, & then reluctantly. But the river flickered light in the early autumn sun, the trees promised sanctuary, & [...] I felt momentarily like a participant in an impressionist painting"

Honoured to have my weird wee flash appear in this great publication. Thx to Tobias and all the Minor Lits team. If you need a story containing shape-shifting couriers and paramedic cats, scroll no further, my friends. 🛋🚪🩺

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Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

Zsa Zsa and Uno, being teens

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"I hope that simple love and truth will be strong in the end. I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world" Charles Dickens 'David Copperfield' (1850) 🎨 Edward Burne-Jones 'Love' 1880s #BookwormSat

CORRECTION! The next online gathering will be on Thursday 19th February and feature authors Oscar Mardell and Kevin Boniface. Invitations go out to all subscribers next week. If you're not already on the list and would like to join us email me via my website: davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site

ICYMI Fictive Dream is open for submissions of contemporary #shortstories #flashfiction #microfiction and #translations #callforsubmissions. Please click on the link below for our guidelines... fictivedream.com/submission-g...

”It was the best of times; it was the worst of times...” Charles Dickens, Victorian novelist born #OTD 1812; George Orwell noted “no English writer has written better about childhood...” Portrait by Daniel Maclise, 1839, National Portrait Gallery, London | Cartoon Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social

No shortage of practical guide books in the 18th century... #history #food #medicine #disease #anatomy

We're open to submissions next Friday (13th February) for gorse 15: Eureka!/EYPHKA! Full details on the website: gorse.ie/gorse-15-eur...

One week until submissions open. HOWL New Irish Writing 26 opens on Feb 13th. Poetry and prose in English and Irish. We’re looking forward to reading what you’ve been working on. 📅 7 days

Thicket A3, 16.5X11.7” Colored Pencil on Paper

Patiently explaining to the greengrocer that one cannot 'own' fruit as his two enormous sons sit on my back while we wait for the police

Votive relief #sculpture, Hellenistic Period (305–30 B.C.), #Egypt #art

"Uncanny the place is: Thence upward ascendeth the surging of waters, Wan to the welkin, when the wind is stirring The weathers unpleasing, till the air groweth gloomy, And the heavens lower." --- Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem (Boston, USA, 1892), trans. John Lesslie Hall

Ghosts. The Worcestershire folklorist Jabez Allies (1787-1856) once asked a local whether he had ever seen a ghost, and received the reply, "No, but my horse has."

Magnolia Grandiflora From Bloom to Pods, (2016) ~ Ilya Zomb (Ukrainian)

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