swimming in the dark, the sea is warmer than the air, think I might just stay in there

3 am swim in the equinoctial sea the darkness takes over from hereon

my mother's engagement portrait, c.1940 her red hair, the green garden, in my imagining

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Clouds Hill, Dorset

apotheosis of the sea

the very beautiful first edition (1863) of the first biography of Blake, by Alexander and Anne Gilchrist, with Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti @blakesociety.bsky.social @johnnyriordan.bsky.social

As it’s dawned on me just how long it's going to take to draw my ludicrously ambitious graphic novel about William Blake, I've decided to serialise it on Substack (and try to at least part-finance its creation) You can read the first 12 pages and subscribe for more open.substack.com/pub/loshighway

Thanks to @philiphoare.bsky.social for such a fascinating conversation last night on his book, William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love. If you missed the event you can submerge yourself in a video here blakesociety.org/product/phil...

Such a feast. The essence of Blake alive in so many great connected figures. Such detail. Even down to finding out Freya Stark, another heroine, was with NancyC on the Windrush. What a great mind @philiphoare.bsky.social to encompass and synthesise so much, so many insights, so much to explore.

thank you for a delightful talk tonight on your Blake book @philiphoare.bsky.social for @blakesociety.bsky.social (& @johnnyriordan.bsky.social for hosting) many thoughts brewing 🌊

it's a god awful small affair... www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

shiny new Leviathan with added waves

I’m 3/4 of the way through this brilliant, sprawling behemoth of a book, all about Blake and the artists, writers and weirdos who followed in his wake. I’ll be talking to @philiphoare.bsky.social next Wednesday 10 Sept on zoom with @blakesociety.bsky.social Join us! blakesociety.org/product/phil...

¿Buscas una lectura que combine historia, biología y literatura con un estilo cautivador? "Leviatán o la ballena" de @philipwhale es el resultado de una vida dedicada a estudiar a esos titanes de las profundidades

reaching up to William Blake in the moon Queen's Park Book Festival yesterday afternoon

and another beaked whale stranded...this does seem, collectively, like an event... northern bottlenose, terribly emaciated www.spiegel.de/panorama/syl...

Tiaki, guardian of the sea

Queen's Park Book Festival, this Sunday at 4 pm... queensparkbookfestival.co.uk/products/phi...

Holiday reading at the Cornish seaside. Looking forward to talking to @philiphoare.bsky.social about his remarkable book on 10 September

We're delighted to announce that on Wednesday 10 September at 19:00 (UK time) we'll be talking to @philiphoare.bsky.social on zoom about his extraordinary new book, William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love. Join us by registering (for free) at blakesociety.org/product/phil...

the state of cetaceans 'we must tread softly on their dreams www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We'll be talking to Philip about his remarkable book in September. Watch this space for more details!

proud to have curated this with Angela Cockayne mymodernmet.com/moby-dick-bi...

After seven decades bearing witness to innocence and experience, William Blake left the planet on this day, 1827 @blakesociety.bsky.social www.dailyartmagazine.com/william-blak...

and now, very distressingly, a mother and calf Sowerby's beaked whales, used only to deep waters, on the rocks of coastal Sweden www.facebook.com/share/v/16oy...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... increasingly hard to believe these incidents are not linked...

thinking of those 200 brave people today, as I watched the vans come to take them away...like something covert, happening in another country, another time...

a further four beaked whales - one in Norfolk, one in northern France and two in Ireland - have stranded, indicating the strong possibility of human-induced sonic disturbance...

The Ancient Mariner at Edinburgh next week - looks brilliant themashhouse.co.uk/event/philip...

This is great, Moose. It's along the lines of indigenous/aboriginal harpoon heads found embedded in healed wounds of whales, hinting not only of great distances travelled but also the great age they can achieve. Thanks @philiphoare.bsky.social for my knowledge of that.

an imaginary 17th century shore, strewn with fantastic shells, like a masque of marine anarchy Allegory on the Abdication of Emperor Charles V in Brussels Franz Francken II c.1630-1640 Riksmuseum

how music is the embodiment of memory... www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

crocodiles, armadillos, corals and pearls, like a dream from Prospero's isle Allegory on the Abdication of Emperor Charles V in Brussels Franz Francken II c.1630-1640 Riksmuseum

Duane Slick 'A Pious Rabbit' @albertmerolaart.bsky.social

something good to hear among the gloom: during rainy weather, Peruvian farmers play happy music to their potatoes to cheer them up last item on 'From Our Own Correspondent' www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

one of my favourite artists: Duane Slick's New Arias for a Coyote Opera www.albertmerolagallery.com/duane-slick-...

that's two humpbacks, obvs...

lovely Italian edition of Leviathan or, The Whale just breached over the Mediterranean Sea www.tiktok.com/@ilsaggiator...