This guardian of the potato field, fully clothed amid the criss-crossed history of harvest. Stray spuds scattered in ridges, impressed with heavy tyre tracks, a second picking. A gift of abundance in a world of plenty where millions go without. #Belfast #BéalFeirste

Whenever people challenge me about maintaining this GoFundMe for so many years, I remind them The Irish saying is "Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine," which translates to "Under the shelter of each other, people survive"

I’ve set up a blog for the Practises Make Places project. This will form part of my creative practice and will be regularly updated from October 🙂 www.practisesmakeplaces.wordpress.com

I don’t think there has ever been, or will ever be, a better book written about the Troubles than Milkman. It is everything.

On one of our first long passages aboard Wrack, back in 2023. Photo by Given Rozell.

On the road from #Achill to #Belfast The cafe that's always closed Pit stop #Manorhamilton

This coastline has looked the same for thousands of years. The tower is restored recently but it was built a 1000 years ago by humanns. The rocks are the same . I walk in the same rocks as them and others before me. That fascinates me. What did we learn from history?

Dieppe again the last ebb the dead shingle the turning then the steps towards the lights of old -Samuel Beckett

Whenever people challenge me about maintaining this GoFundMe for so many years, I remind them The Irish saying is "Ar scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine," which translates to "Under the shelter of each other, people survive"

Blackwell’s have been kind enough to host a book launch at 5.30pm on Thursday 5 March for Late Heaney. I’ll be having a conversation with my friend Fiona Stafford and tickets are below, with an option to include the book. I’d be glad to see you. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nicholas-a...

Now open for submissions of unpublished fiction and non-fiction, poetry, graphic narratives, photo-essays, and short films focussed on the actuality or idea (no matter how abstract) of a journey(or journeys): email to [email protected].

Another of my diaristic pieces about the sea and sea-dwelling has just been posted to the Azores-based Sea-Water Amplification project's substack.

Submissions are still open for writing and art on the subject of BEASTS for the next Dark Mountain publication. Deadline is November 14. (1) dark-mountain.net/bestiary-a-c...

"We are not sure what happens next..." Another update to @liznangel3.bsky.social's appeal for us. Please read and help, if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/a-voyage-i...

It looks like I have to go back to hospital: chest pains, severe breathlessness. It's either the post-angioplasty medications or something has been missed. I was hoping to be re-admitted to the San Carlo di Nancy in Rome but we can't afford the flight — "And you can't travel like this," (my wife).

…Most urgent is new batteries for Pinoseed and I need my medicine and healthy food . I also need to see a Nutritionist to do tests to now how to correctly build up my health balance. So if anyone can spare anything this time it would mean a lot to me. Link to my GoFundMe page gofund.me/cc9de2bf

Balls on the Falls #oichemhaith codladh sámh Goodnight, sleep safe 💙💚💙💚

This guardian of the potato field, fully clothed amid the criss-crossed history of harvest. Stray spuds scattered in ridges, impressed with heavy tyre tracks, a second picking. A gift of abundance in a world of plenty where millions go without. #Belfast #BéalFeirste

I'd appreciate it if anyone notes any glaring typos in this to nudge me. Otherwise, this will do for now.

Two giclée prints for my upcoming exhibition with Harry Moore in #Cork. Beautifully framed by Karen & Claire at redearthdesigns.shop Belfast

Is there anything more loyal than the sun? Mary Oliver #Autumn #Sun

💙 a long-ago, much admired piece

The new master of Wrack: our friend, @pinoseed-connect.bsky.social, resting aboard our boat today after his discharge from hospital in Cagliari. He is recovering from a heart attack and emergency surgery two weeks ago.

Our already high monthly costs for prescriptions have increased 40 per cent (or more than €100) and we are constrained by a need to stay close to a hospital for at least a month (necessitating a costly marina berth rather than a free anchorage). Please read our latest update.

@ccohanlon.bsky.social and his wife Given are in need of support as he recovers from his recent surgery. They need somewhere to stay outside of EU. A sanctuary. If you can help we'd be very grateful. gofund.me/4bc17d10c

We’re looking for a temporary (two months) refuge/cheap rental outside the EU from early October. I’m undergoing further medical stuff this week and unlikely to be fit enough to return to sea. Open to anything/anywhere, on this side of the Atlantic.

Wonderful signage indicating the gender neutral bathrooms at the university of Helsinki - no-one being excluded, policed, antagonised or upset!

It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle, a rivulet, or flood. Alice Oswald #Achill #Solas #Light and #Rain

“The Ghanaian poet Awoonor once wrote, ‘What has been broken shall be woven, / the house shall stand, the feast shall be eaten.’…It is written for Ghanaians as if the words themselves a promise.” - Peter Bach @lyst.bsky.social [via @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social]

It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed.

Much to the relief of everyone, I am sure, I’ve been refraining of late from posting my articles here. This one, however, I will. It is something for the cineaste. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/01/a...

@ccohanlon.bsky.social is not well. He and his wife Given need to fly to Rome to see a specialist urgently rather than risk his condition worsening on a 220 nautical mile sea passage. We need to raise €550 as soon as possible. We'd be very grateful for any help you can give. 🙏🏼 gofund.me/374f8c58

The Right: "Let's see what we can get him to say he does next."

Thunder over the harbour, dark clouds along the steep, rocky hills on the western edge of the Gulf.

“Water lies at the limit of words. It overflows all our containers. It spills out from around the word ‘water’ and it has no name.”

Andy Goldsworthy Fifty Years retrospective at National Galleries Scotland. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #Edinburgh

This is the voice of our President, using the limited but powerfully symbolic position of the Presidency to speak truth to power - we wil miss him when he retires. As far as I can see only Catherine Connolly would be a true replacement #speirgorm #aras25 president.ie/en/media-lib...

Beeches upright on the climbing slope, elephantine feet gripping the mossy drumlin at Minnowburn. Holding firm. The small stream, a burn in Scots mouths, once plentiful with darting minnows, carries on burbling her song, in the absence of fish. #Belfast #TreesAreMyBestFriends yours too

Meanwhile.

Watercolour to paint water, uisce, the endless rhythms and repetitions. Gach lá difrúil, every day different. Blues, greens and greys singing their colours to the sky. #Achill #Acaill #MaighEo #Mayo

This beautiful book is now out! It's freely available as an open-access ebook from @bloomsburyrs.bsky.social (thanks to funding from @templetonrelig.bsky.social). You can download it here: bit.ly/AMSP2025 @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social

Print drawer 9 Garamond 516 italic in the gospel of punched out letters on shiny red tape, stuck beside the rusted handle. Forever tape. Repurposed with treasure from #Achill island, collected over stretched out COVID winters. The colours of the rocks, the Atlantic written into the skin. #Art

‘We slipped out of the taut / and Tudor suburbs, Solihull, if I must’ 🌳 🏠 🏡 🌳 James McConachie from ‘Consolamentum’ @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu... #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

Local hero, intrepid traveller in a spherical landscape. #fridayvibes

If you’re up for an adventure, my friend, artist, surfer and activist Peter Stridh, is looking for crew aboard his well-sorted 10-metre Laurin Koster sailboat for an extended passage from the south coast of Spain towards Portugal, then to Madeira. If you’re interested, email him: [email protected].