Hi Data Centre Lobby, nobody wants AI. Good luck and thanks

Heading to Australia for the first time next week. In anticipation, I've spent the summer with Alexis Wright, Richard Flanagan, Gerald Murnane. What hard-to-get-overseas books should I look out for there? Especially poetry. Any favourite bookshops in Sydney? 🐨

What in the absolute fuck is going on in England

he eludes both hunters and philosophers

for your Saturday delectation orionmagazine.org/article/maki...

this situation of mine was the precise situation of every mortal that breathes

Anselm Hollo

Swerve me? ye cannot swerve me, else ye swerve yourselves! man has ye there. Swerve me?

Hi I need our leaders in arts, culture, and higher ed to have better ideas than "adopting an entrepreneurial mindset" thanks.

It should come as no surprise that our waterways remain in a dreadful state, and are not improving, since no meaningful effort is being made to clean them up www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

Are you beach body ready. Is your meat-wrapped skeleton prepared. Are your flesh-covered bones visually correct for coastal deployment.

Anyone else reading the new Lisa Robertson novel, Riverwork? I just got it. And somebody with good taste at my favourite Toronto bookstore, Type Books, has just copied out a couple of sentences from it on the store's chalk board (sentences about slowness that could be a summer credo).

Sister Corita Kent's "10 Rules for Students and Teachers (for John Cage)" was a massive inspiration for my new book DO IT WRONG: HOW TO BE A POET IN THE 21ST CENTURY. Rethink how you teach and how you learn: assemblypress.ca/shop/do-it-w... @pressassembly.bsky.social

Now that women no longer wear hats, we have no idea what the future holds.

The antidote to cheating is not more rules, it's more relationship (more honest, transparent, vulnerable even, attention to who you're with and why that's good)

does everyone know that “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” has become an elementary school singalong song?

lo! a broad white shadow rose from the sea; by its quick, fanning motion, temporarily taking the breath out of the bodies of the oarsmen

Fair play to @melissabreen.bsky.social and company on Vol. 5 of Scrimshaw Journal. Had occasion to go to Bantry yesterday, and picked it up gratis at Bantry Bookshop while traipsing around the town. Devoured it on the bus home. #spéirghorm #ireland #booksky

ER This is Dr Romano looking up at the helicopter that's about to fall from the sky and kill him. The same one that severed his arm the previous season? Who can say

put up against a narrower, more concentrated focus, might pertain, too, to the making of a poem.

all deep, earnest thinking is but the intrepid effort of the soul to keep the open independence of her sea

I'm so proud of this one, and happy to see it in the world. Available now from Broken Sleep. There will be a launch event with @leeannequinn.bsky.social 's wonderful Landscape with Question at Waterstone's Cork on July 28th 🎣

This is such an unbelievably good exploration of writing, translation, and so much else. Deep and wide as a lake, one of my books of the year tbh.

Update: this week I found out this weather-fish is a pike, as is the fish at the heart of the book in question. Things know things. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Reactivated my account just so I could find this again 💜🙏

RIP Rilke, who died on this day 99 years ago aged 51. His "Sonnets to Orpheus" shaped my pretentious teen-hood and my first book "Sonnets to Malkmus." In my next book, out in Spring with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, the fish in this photo quotes a line from "Go to the Limits of your Longing."

“Is féidir freagrú sa diúltach a thaibhairt do cheannlíne ar bith a chríochnaíonn le comhartha ceiste.” — Dlí Betteridge

Decommissioning the Ardnacrusha dam would be a fitting way to mark its centenary of service, and open the next century of rewilding www.limerickleader.ie/news/environ...

if it's bad for you, it is possible to say, no, I'm not doing that might not be consequence-free but we are allowed to laughingly refuse things our expertise or moral centers flag as a waste of human life and mind

The price of own-brand butter in Supervalu and Centra has gone down today. The reductions, worth up to 15%, were anounced by Irish food retailer Musgrave this morning. jrnl.ie/6913729

for the millionth time we say amen with Solomon—Verily there is nothing new under the sun

I have always felt like an empiricist, or a pluralist. What does this empiricism-pluralism equivalency mean? It derives from the two traits Whitehead used to define empiricism: 1) abstraction does not explain but must be explained,

All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks.

Drat the file, and drat the bone!

delighted that Spam Deep Cuts is back for 2025, and that it features Mau Baiocco's beautiful words on this year's SoundEye. 'We will need more of this' www.spamzine.co.uk/post/spam-de...

Hi all: reupping my perennial call for indexing and editing clients for Spring / Summer 2026. It might be my last year doing this work, so get it while it's hot! Email at [email protected] for rate and availability. Feel free to share!

Teuta Hoxha, 29, has been in prison without trial for 13 months. news.sky.com/story/fears-... #BritishJustice #NeverNotAtIt

and the thing we call "knowledge" often IS in its difference to the straight path

It's not ok to scalp EU delegates, but the rest of us are fair game? Ireland Inc can get in the bin

Daragh Hoey

Invasive quagga mussels are killing off lake ecosystems in the US and Europe, and are now in Northern Ireland. Yet every time invasives are mentioned, someone says "But it's all just nature." They're *wrong*: invasive species are one of the worst HUMAN impacts. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Astonished that Publishers Weekly has put out this great review of DISPATCHES FROM THE AVANT-GARAGE. (What is happening I never get mainstream attention, my world is the weird world (good)) But what I hope is that more people will find out about the Alternative Press, and you know?, now they might!

But how easy and how hopeless to teach these fine things!

Warmth

Anyway being unable to accept that organisations are capable of both good and bad is a sign of deep emotional immaturity and it's annoying that those people dominate discourse across, well, everything really

the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child’s play

Imagine, if you will, a Government that actually did stuff

Delighted to end the year with some poems of birds and slugs up on Still Point www.stillpointldn.com/articles/ell...

Will Alexander @ndbooks.bsky.social