Since I live in a place without colorful leaves or colder weather to make it feel like fall, our fall issues are my favorite harbingers of the season. This Fall 2025 issue is full of earnest language and surprising humor, and these pieces are packed with autumn. www.whaleroadreview.com/issue-40

Love the way this guy subverts the interviewer's expectations and tells it how it is. Thank you, sir 👏

“The die-offs we are witnessing in our forests this year may be nature’s final alarm bell – a desperate call for action, cooperation and adaptation in how we live and operate, at the local, regional and global levels." www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/127...

I cannot understand why I should be fine with environmental destruction, chatbot-induced psychosis, tanking literacy, theft of artists’ creative output, everyone around me getting stupider, wrong answers becoming just as prevalent/acceptable as right ones, and job losses, but somehow care about…this

Flashback to our Mediterranean crossing: in darkness, 120 miles west of Sardinia, Wrack disturbs a sleeping whale. It slaps the sea, close by the hull, and rolls away, churning the low swell to a white froth while blowing a saline mist and noxious rotting fish smell.

Nearly midnight and dolphins lurk in the darkness, alongside our boat. We hear them breathe but glimpse them only briefly in swirls of black water.

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The Farthest Shore, the third Earthsea novel, was first published by Atheneum Books in 1972.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

“I’m holding a piece of paper for goodness sakes, that’s not a terrorist act. A terrorist act is intentionally starving 2 million” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

My publisher released four of my novels with new gorgeous covers by the great Yuko Shimizu. They’re calling it the LaValle Quartet though each book stands alone. Just look at these things! They’re in bookstores now. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/LVQ/t...

I wrote about the Prespa lakes region in northern Greece for @theguardian.com today. At the crossroads of three countries and my home for the past quarter of a century, it's a place that continues to surprise me with its wild beauty and rich human cultures. www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Steve Ely's symphonic poem 'Eely' has been shortlisted for the ASLE-UKI award for a poetry book with an ecological theme. The winner will be announced next week at the ASLE-UKI conference in Galway. Full shortlist here: asle.org.uk/2025-asle-uk... Further info: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

After a five-day halt due to a lack of supplies, our team at WCK’s Deir al-Balah Field Kitchen has resumed limited hot meal service in Gaza. #ChefsForGaza (1/3)

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The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide. It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International. No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.

I HANDMADE ANOTHER 70 BOOKS THIS WEEKEND. PLEASE GIVE THEM ATTENTION. I'm giving up being subtle. They're great books. I'm very tired.

So grateful for this clear-eyed and insistently cheerful (in the pragmatic, Jamesian sense) talk. Will return to it and share it online and off:

This this this this this www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

IDF soldiers have now themselves admitted they have been ordered to murder aid-seekers in Gaza. Truly an atrocity built on atrocity. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

A beautifully written piece by Niall Campbell 💎

Join Sheaf Poetry Festival and Poets Yield Power for a #poetry social in #Sheffield next Thursday (3 July) at The Wig and Pen / The Beaten Track, 44-46 Campo Lane, S1 2EG, from 6.30pm - all welcome, informal, free, and no need to book. There'll be a bookstall, too.

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Can we take a rest?

‘In 2023, the global AI Girlfriend market was valued at $2.8 billion, and it is projected to soar to $9.5 billion by 2028.’

'Hello and welcome to the latest addition to Adam Curtis’s growing compendium of documentaries I have unofficially entitled How Did Things Get So Shit? Let Me Explain in a Weirdly Uplifting Manner.' www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Good lord, this poem --

I’ve always liked a poem with a ghost. Currently reading Helen Mort’s ‘A pint for the ghost’ which is full of spirits (and beer). This is one of mine ‘A Dangling’ from Street Sailing pub @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social “emerging without context,/in the middle of the local woods…”

Grateful to @pleiadesmag.bsky.social for publishing this love poem and its deranged title — dream journal to have work in.

why would I ever spend any of my academic life taking "ai" seriously (as subject). why should I. why should it be the focus of my work, my thinking, my artistic production? what are we doing here? turning from the entire world to a narrowest slice of simulacrum? are we serious?

Very grateful to everyone at @psalteryandlyre.bsky.social for publishing one of my new Ruskin poems. Always knocked out to have something up at this fantastic journal! 🙌🏻 https://psalteryandlyre.org/2025/06/09/ruskin-and-the-puddle-of-water/

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Gas cover, Rue Dautancourt, 17th arrondissement, Paris, 31 May 2025.

NEW ISSUE! Issue 14 of Dust contains 28 new poems full of water and waves, summer and storms, shorelines and shifting family relationships, memory, myth, peaches and wildflowers, with cover art by Janet Brooke. Read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...

Well this looks great! 📚🤩 #BookSky

I still think this is one of the most gutting notes I’ve ever read.

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You have to put in the work just to have a chance.

Hinterland chapter 23 rumbles like an avalanche of dirt, certainty echoing within. Soon, it will be our turn to provide for the earth. Nick Bantock 🖼️ Howard Young @laurahemmington.bsky.social @marcellenewbold.bsky.social Read Hinterland here: www.wingedmoon.com/hinterland/n...

This is such a beautiful and inspiring project to build peace and protect nature

Delighted that an extract from my new book, Lifelines, has been published at the wonderful @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social this week. In this short section from the intro I write about the seasonal return of pelicans to the mountain lakes of Prespa in Greece. www.caughtbytheriver.net/2025/05/juli...

NEW POEM #233: "Last Night of the Fair" by Zachary Daniel (@zdaniel.bsky.social) "The Ferris wheel, groaning, lurches from its stanchions and rolls into the darkness, taking from each of its cabins one long draught of bourbon." stonecirclereview.com/last-night/ #Poem #PoetryCommunity #Poetry

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98,280 signatures to end the Badger cull. 100k for a debate - let’s do this! Just days to go! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...