A remarkable poem, a #kenfig poem even, by the excellent @ZoeBrigley #poetry inkfishmag.com/knot/

G, by Zaffar Kunial

A solitary sea bindweed flower in the foreshore dunes at Kenfig

RFK Jr.'s statement that autistic kids "will never pay taxes" makes a lot more sense when you realize the only autistic person he knows is Elon Musk.

1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

CATAPOETICS is out in the world! Happy Earth Day everyone! 🖤 You can read about "Catapoetry" in the @modronmagazine.bsky.social #catapoetics #catapoetry #catapoem #catastrocene #özgelena 👉 modronmagazine.com/earth-day-20...

A short film I wrote, filmed by Nathan Roach (Coal Poet Media), 'The Dunes', exploring the perspective of a runaway kid finding sanctuary in a desolate duneland on the Welsh coast. Huge thanks to Nathan for the beautiful images of #Kenfig #poetry #wales www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkB...

A picture of Venus in Aries last night, from the coast of south Wales

Today, a poem and interview with Dyfan Lewis, filmed alongside the river Taff, Cardiff, Wales 📽️ Dyma gerdd a chyfweliad gyda Dyfan Lewis, wedi’i ffilmio ar lan afon Taf, Caerdydd, Cymru 📽️ modronmagazine.com/2025/02/23/f...

'There are limits to saying, In language, what the tree did.' from 'The Problem of Describing Trees' by Robert Haas

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe

Opposition to a proposed nuclear energy plant in Bridgend is mounting, with the local Green Party saying it is “unnecessary, unwanted and unsafe” wp.me/p8Mk4U-V1J

A beautiful Welsh lullaby Pais Dinogad/Dinogad's smock www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority." Schopenhauer

"What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience." Hannah Arendt

"The loss of paradoxical thinking is the blindness of our civilization. It happened when we repressed the feminine side of our lives as the inferior side" - Richard Rohr

For those of you who haven't read the executive order about Alaska, it does a lot more than open ANWR to drilling and renaming Denali. They are going to revisit ANCSA, which gave lands back to Alaska Natives and was settled in 1971. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

If you’re a U.K. based #author #artist #filmmaker #screenwriter #poet #writer or #creative and want to prevent the proposed weakening of UK copyright law to the benefit of generative #AI firms, check this out from the SoA. 👀⬇️⬇️⬇️

Winter sun beginning to set over the dunes

'O Human Imagination O Divine Body' Plate 24, Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion - William Blake

Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...

Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all. It’s all about labour 🧵

"The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results." Rabindranath Tagore

You've been told over and over again that Gaza's official death toll is false. That's absolutely right. The death toll is in fact a drastic underestimate 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/new-study-...

Poems by / Cerddi gan Duriel E. Harris, Mari George, Siôn Tomos Owen, clare e potter, Sam Robinson. modronmagazine.com/issue-five-c...

Annie Dillard, writing in The Atlantic

Good news that the deadline for documenting unrecorded footpaths has been scrapped - now we need a real right to roam... Article by Simon Armitage www.newstatesman.com/culture/natu...

This week’s #FridayPoem is ‘Birch’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams from her sequence ‘The Tree Calendar’ republished in ‘The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/01/frid...

Midwinter is behind us now of course, but I thought I'd share a recent piece by me about ice and salt, the tenacity of rock pipits, and the working class mystic Jacob Boehme... (and thanks to Sustainable Wales for publishing it) www.sustainablewales.org.uk/a-kenfig-jou...

Land of the cwtch, of fire, of magic, and of mystery - Wales has been creating magnificent, impassioned, and heartfelt lovers for millennia ✍️ Gwern Gwynfil wp.me/p8Mk4U-TAH

Thought I'd curate a Starter Park of writers living & working in Wales 🖋️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 drop me a line if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/7L23QS7 #WelshWriters #WtitingCommunity #Wales

Not only the first but ONLY Hollywood union that has ever said anything about Gaza. They also don't make a lot of money. I know people feel hesitant to give to Hollywood folks (I understand) but animators deserve your support

Larkin hated us working-class, and that's why he's still so revered, because he exemplifies the canon in which only the white, male, middle-classes are included. 'I want to see them starving, The so-called working class. Their wages weekly halving, Their women stewing grass.' - Philip Larkin

“It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church, we should all be wearing crash helmets.” Annie Dillard

For those who've not found it yet.. I've made lists of UK Poets here so you can find them. Search it or click follow all for each one and you'd have more than 600 poets (& adding more to List 5 as I find them).

“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”

Disgraceful. Nature Reserves and SSSIs need far stronger protections or we''ll continue to lose them to land speculators and developers.

Still the best two sentences on climate action.

Yes, also surprised to see no mention of the huge decline of working class voices in both publishing and the arts in general

This is a really interesting one. Interview by @glynedwards.bsky.social

Modron Issue 5 / Rhif 5 Modron Read Kexin Huang / Darllenwch Kexin Huang: "a gondola is a bowstring of water away from a crescent wing" "mae gondola rhyw linyn bwa o ddŵr o siâp cilgaint adain" Translation by Siân Melangell Dafydd modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...

MODRON ISSUE 5 RHIF 5 MODRON Read ‘Cusp of the Last Cold Moon’ Darllenwch ‘Pen Pella’r Lleuad Oer Olaf’ by/gan James McConachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social Trans. by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...

MODRON ISSUE 5 RHIF 5 MODRON Read ‘What the Deep Ocean Said to the Billionaire’ Darllenwch ‘Yr Hyn A Ddywedodd y Cefnfor Dwfn Wrth Y Biliwnydd’ by/gan Jonathan Kinsman Trans. by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...

MODRON ISSUE 5 RHIF 5 MODRON Read 'Of Luring' Darllenwch ‘Deny’ by/gan Hildred Crill Translated by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...

“Out of a clear sky you send broken heart emojis” Zaffar Kunial’s brilliant, confronting poem is scored into the scarred, scoured, “jagged blooded” heart of this ongoing moment. First written in May, but—as Israeli strikes kill 12 more in Gaza today, mostly women & children—it bears re-sharing.

So grateful to have been a part of this wonderful new issue of Modron Magazine (and to have had a lovely afternoon in a very rainy Oxwich filming with my good friend Taz Rahman then warming up with coffee) ☕ 🌊 modronmagazine.com/feature-vide... #writing #poetry #ecopoetry #wales