along the border between fields of sunflowers guards with guns (haiku found in My Life by Lyn Heijinian)

First published in 2022, Peter Finch's two volume Collected Poems was a revelation. The occasion of this post is that both volumes are currently 60% off at Waterstones online, and a must.

A national discrace that. And it tore apart many families. Still not widely known

Norman MacCaig. There is something in the vowel sounds set against the showman rhythms, that feels like deadpan delivery by someone holding back a belly laugh: a sort of Les Dawson affect.

Iain Crichton Smith

Power Lines Drawing #14 (Hamtramck) Original drawing for sale at my store 8" x 10" black ink on paper $200 USD marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/powe...

I've written a harsh review of a critical book I intended to like, about Peter Finch, a poet I admire greatly. I'd already decided the critical book was badly written before I found it slags me off twice. open.substack.com/pub/iralight...

I've just seen about 40 kids sneak into watch 'The Odyssey' without paying by hiding in a giant wooden coat.

Then they came for the Customer Service team, And I did not speak out, Because I was on hold, owing to an exceptionally high volume of calls. But my call was important to them.

Lyn Hejinian. A torrent of philosophy, enquiry, sheer poetry. A poet full of spark, her voice, her eyes are alive, she's funny, takes words to special places. An antidote to the trashing of language that we now see in our world. She 'loves to be astonished' by the beauty of life. Check this out.

Just saying good morning….

I've developed a strong aversion to AI-generated slides in presentations. They look so ugly, and seem to discourage economy in how ideas are presented. Indeed, the problems are akin to those for AI text: the hard work of creation is bypassed, and it shows.

The Hustle Group universities

apogeewhiz #pwoermds

Sonya Tolstoy, on what it was like to be... Married to Tolstoy. I am... Not surprised. 😆

The local Sign Guy has been at it again.

They say British men don't look their best in the summer. But I've never been hotter than I have this week .. #ukheatwave

We are not thinking machines that feel, we are feeling machines that think. - António Damásio 🌫️ 🌑

This guy built a script that calls back spam callers and traps them in an endless loop, thus spamming the spammers. [📹 tehinteractive1] Original post

I'm not sure if you have seen this, but I chuckled and now want to find the first (or more; this might not be the second in a series) twelve 😉

"We have in Henri Coulette a new major minor poet to marvel at: his forms are exact, his humour dark & wry, & he wears his learning lightly." Austin Spendlowe on Henri Coulette's New and Selected Poems (@carcanet.bsky.social) review31.co.uk/article/view...

New draft. I like writing political poems with compressed syntax and sudden Horatian shifts. Unlike Horace, I am neither sinewy nor sure what I mean. But the poem captures my unconscious and possibly some general truth.

breaking news the most unpopular prime minister ever has been replaced by the most unpopular prime minister ever has been replaced by the most unpopular prime minister ever has been replaced by the most unpopular prime minister ever has been replaced by the most unpopular

This is how to do it. Define pride, as a word; explain the meaning of it and make us all look at with fresh open eyes.

'The jump' quilt by Spanish quilter and textile artist Cristina Arcenegui Bono, inspired by an illustration by Ukrainian artist Svetlana Dorosheva #WomensArt

Quilt by Jen Kingwell, techer quilt designer and author #WomensArt

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.