Philip Hoare
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Cape Cod moon
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the bus to Providence, providentially named..
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ceremonial route to the ocean
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blue shadows on oceanside snow, Barrington, RI
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an important morning's work...
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a sea full of ice full of sea
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I think I will be hibernating for the next few days...
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I think they may be the alien spawn of an icy invasion, strewn from a passing comet
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in advance of the coming storm, the falling tide left hundreds of ice pebbles behind, like icy amoebas or frozen grapes
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the eye of God
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excited for this, which I co-authored, to appear in April...
www.petshopboys.co.uk/news/2025-11...
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Pet Shop Boys Volume — Pet Shop Boys
Pet Shop Boys today announce the forthcoming publication of Volume, a 592-page hardback book published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the release of their 1986 debut album, “Please”. The boo...
https://www.petshopboys.co.uk/news/2025-11-12/pet-shop-boys-volume
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Edward Hicks, another of his sixty-two versions of a Peaceable Kingdom. He was a determined man.
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I'm curating this exhibition, opening 20 February
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John Hansard Gallery | What's on | So This Is Real Life; punk-post-punk imagining 1975-1985
Far from being a metropolitan sensation, restricted to the messed-up streets of London, punk spread throughout the UK, reaching beyond nationalism, and beyond commercial control. It manifested itself ...
https://jhg.art/events/so-this-is-real-life-punk-post-punk-imagining-1975-1985/
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snowy Provincetown, where Thoreau put all America behind him
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nice day for a dip
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Edward Hicks Peaceable Kingdom c. 1834
20 days ago
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I'm living on the ceiling of this town any port in a storm
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reposted by
Philip Hoare
David Hinchliffe Bradford
22 days ago
This Private Passions with
@philiphoare.bsky.social
is wonderful 🐳
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Private Passions - Philip Hoare - BBC Sounds
Michael Berkeley's guest is the writer and biographer Philip Hoare.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002c2pk?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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stars in the water, stars in the sea
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Cape Cod Bay you might be born under such a sky
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this coming Saturday...
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William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love with Philip Hoare — RUSKIN ART CLUB
In 1878, in the hours before he lost his hold on sanity in his villa on Coniston Water, John Ruskin looked at the Blakes on his walls and quoted from the poet artist's "Auguries of Innocence": "'And w...
https://ruskinartclub.org/calendar/bwea3uq580fh9-n8z4z-e73gz-46hgg-gz2yl-t2227-jlfsw-rppts-erw6z-67934-xwblk-22ckn-wafal-sjxj8-kzs3a-x5722-lr52k-68nfd-lpdl7-warl3-6fcc7-2sr32-7d489-ylblk-hk4p3-g2n3y-c4gp5-n6y94
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ten years ago I was on this same beach when the starman departed; this morning, as I got out of the water, a meteor streaked across the sky
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Cape Cod: rising seas are changing these beaches, sculpting and eroding; this channel opened up to reveal a 19th century wreck, its mast just visible, like a distant sea monster
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warning: wild turkeys in the lane
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Cape Cod sunrise
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pleased to say I've written an essay for this leviathan of a volume
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happy new year all! delighted to have written this about Jeroen Hoekendijk's beautiful images of the sea hounds of the Frisian Islands
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Often brutal, always beautiful: the sea hounds of the Frisian Islands – in pictures
For 10 years, the scientist and photographer Jeroen Hoekendijk has been observing pinnipeds such as seals and walruses on the fragile North Sea archipelago. Highly susceptible to warming and rising se...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2026/jan/01/pinnipeds-seals-sea-lions-walrus-sea-hounds-of-the-frisian-islands-in-pictures
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my hero John Waters, by Peter Hujar
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Wm Blake's strange Nativity, with humanoid animals, a diving arc angel and a snowy nature spirit bearing witness as if washed up on the shore... thanks to
@blakesociety.bsky.social
lakesociety.bsky.social
from Blake’s Illustrations to Milton’s On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, 1809.
about 1 month ago
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happy solstice the sun will rise a little bit higher tomorrow...
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reposted by
Philip Hoare
Prospect Magazine
about 2 months ago
⚡ Lives winners ⚡ INDIGNITY by
@leaypi.bsky.social
WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE SEA MONSTERS OF LOVE by
@philiphoare.bsky.social
THE GODS OF NEW YORK by
@jonathanmahler.bsky.social
THE SECRET PAINTER by Joe Tucker JOHN & PAUL by
@ianleslie.bsky.social
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I didn't bring my amp
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about 2 months ago
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Philip Hoare & Olivia Laing: William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love
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Philip Hoare & Olivia Laing: William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love | London Review Bookshop
In William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love – ‘an impassioned magnum opus celebrating Blake’s star-shaken genius by discovering his lineage everywhere in…
https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-video/podcasts/philip-hoare-olivia-laing-william-blake-and-the-sea-monsters-of-love
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the foghorns outside my window this morning like forlorn whales lost in the mist
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throwing darts in lovers' eyes
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16th century trainers
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but I felt very sad when they went away
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I didn't know what to say photo: Andrew Sutton
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the day I met a blue whale photo: Andrew Sutton
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reposted by
Philip Hoare
Pegasus Books
2 months ago
WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE SEA MONSTERS OF LOVE by
@philiphoare.bsky.social
has been named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2025 by
@newyorker.com
! Take a look at the amazing list below:
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What We’re Reading
The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.
https://www.newyorker.com/best-books-2025
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for an artist who died in absolute penury...
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O clouds unfold!
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they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
www.christies.com/en/stories/t...
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Happy Birthday to William Blake, who knows where the wild things are...
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ever moor nowhere
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fragment of a foreign planet fallen to earth
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