Wrapped up the day with Silent Friend at ACMI, Melbourne, an extraordinary and contemplative film by Hungarian film director Ildeko Enyedi. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaRZ...

If you're in Melbourne don't miss this amazing exhibition. Spent a few hours there today. www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/w...

Mathias Énard's The Deserters: in the same literary territory as Compass and Zone. Intergenerational characters involved in military and ideological conflict in Europe, shadows of the Middle East, translated into beautiful English prose by @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social ts.bsky.social Énard at his best.

So happy this story is out: 'Wellness' in 3AM magazine: www.3ammagazine.com/3am/wellness/

Absolutely loved talking to Nat about pinholes, time, sounds in the woods, nice places, and ill-thought out purchases of theramins. His field notes and replay for the show are now up on experimentaltrash.com

Iranian artist Shadi Ghadirian, Untitled (from the Qajar series), 2002 #womensart

National Reading Month takes place every March to commemorate the birthday of Dr. Seuss. It’s a time when people of all ages—especially children—dive into books and celebrate the joy of reading with extra enthusiasm. #ReadingCommunity

‘We had no future. So we made a future for ourselves’: the untold history of Welsh reggae sound systems www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

Who'd have thought we'd hear that highly apposite phrase of Louise's ("Moscow on the Torrens") once more, but alas... www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The pleasures of the post / written in light @auuop.bsky.social

assembling

art, activism, motherhood,visibility and becoming yourself, @loulayorke.bsky.social on always interesting form here @thequietus.com in relation to circumstances, intentionality, belief and learning thequietus.com/interviews/l...

After moving house I spent a long time searching for this. It turned up yesterday. Missed it I believe because the spine is blank... blank...

Good evening...

'Moonlit Sea' - Koho, ca. 1930's. #FullMoon #JapaneseArt

I love this Arthur Lavine photo of 1954 Greenwich Village (my college campus beginning 36 years later). Hadn’t heard of him before tonight.

On in the car today. Spinning Away, has to be one of the greatest songs ever. youtu.be/-INeMspNSQ0?...

"Finch’s art comes from a personal need to create, but his mission extends beyond the self to those of us who may be inclined to follow his lead and make poetry our business." Thanks to Paul Mcdonald, The London Grip for this review of The Literary Business by Peter Finch

When I worked at the pool hall, this was one of the songs I loaded first on to the juke box as my shift began & I went to clear tables.

Moved by being of mixed Welsh and Irish ancestry, a greeting to you all... St David's Day - Wishing you well Dydd Dewi Sant - Pob hwyl

Very peaceful video for when you need to take a breather today. I know I did... youtu.be/ZGmePdcjoJY

The image of the UK Home Secretary (or is it Minister for Hardline Migration Policy) that Labour presents as its face after losing the Gorton and Denton by-election. Dressed in a long black coat among institutional cots, it's no wonder Labour were beaten into third place. Will Labour never learn?

Labour MP Clive Lewis doesn’t hold back on the Gorton and Denton result in this interview with ITV

Moved by being of mixed Welsh and Irish ancestry, a greeting to you all... St David's Day - Wishing you well Dydd Dewi Sant - Pob hwyl

“The Face of War” - Salvador Dalí, 1940

My Stiff Records event at Portsmouth Book Festival on Friday 6 March is proving popular and thanks to everyone who has booked tickets. I will be singing copies of Be Stiff: The Records Story - available for a special festival price of £12. wegottickets.com/event/683161/ #Portsmouth #books #punk

Someone asked for people to post great first lines and I went right to Sam Shepard and read a whole first paragraph and I mean, I can’t, I just … sigh.

Just watched "We are making a film about Mark Fisher" rented from www.closeandremote.vhx.tv  Collage/documentary about the author of "Capitalist Realism - Is there no alternative?" Here is a trailer vimeo.com/1108114607 Here is a link to the moviemakers to rent the movie.

This is the good stuff.

Even in these half-dark times: The World Is Made Up Every Day by Alok Dhanwa, translated by Saudamini Deo @saudaminideo.bsky.social roughghosts.com/2026/02/26/e...

Just watched "We are making a film about Mark Fisher" rented from www.closeandremote.vhx.tv  Collage/documentary about the author of "Capitalist Realism - Is there no alternative?" Here is a trailer vimeo.com/1108114607 Here is a link to the moviemakers to rent the movie.

The sun through the window falling on Trojan Rare Groove...

#MusicChallenge #Fave10 Fave 10 Reggae/Ska 8. Message to You, Rudy – Special www.youtube.com/watch?v=cntv...

ICYMI — last week @ minor lits ... — @kentkosack.bsky.social on reading and vision minorliteratures.com/2026/02/17/r... — an extract from KESHED by @stuhennigan.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/18/k... — new fiction from @farsouthproject.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/19/b...

My Ivy League school used to be staffed by a large population of professors and grad students, all of whom taught undergraduates. Now it seems to be a vast administrative entity with a decreasing number of professors and a whole lot of semi-starving adjunct serfs.

"Rhythm, it’s all in the rhythm. The rhyme and the rhythm, the grime and the schism. The schism that set us free." — @farsouthproject.bsky.social Billy Sticks — Des Barry minorliteratures.com/2026/02/19/b...

Rosmarie Waldrop: “In crossing the Atlantic my phonemes settled somewhere between German and English. I speak either language with an accent. This has saved me the illusion of being the master of language. I enter it at a skewed angle, through the fissures, the slight difference.”

It's pub day for my new novel, The Tavern at the End of History. When writing I imagined it like The Magic Mountain­, but shorter & with Jews. (& also angels, a dybbuk, & stolen art). Looking forward to sharing it with you all!

"My mother grabbed me and tried to smother me for Da was caught short with his fingers in the till ... She forced the pressure on me face to catch and cut off the breath of me life ..." Billy Sticks — @farsouthproject.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/19/b...

Year of the Horse.

Thanks to the good people @minorliteratures.bsky.social for publishing my short story Billy Sticks who travels the worlds from Kether to Malkuth

Billy Sticks — @farsouthproject.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/02/19/b...

one of the first things I did @minorliteratures.bsky.social 🥲 minorliteratures.com/2021/11/03/a...

Released 49 years ago "Neat Neat Neat", the second single by punk rock band the Damned, released February 18, 1977 on Stiff Records The Damned - Neat Neat Neat - Supersonic 1977 #punk #punks #punkrock #thedamned #neatneatneat #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Released 48 years ago Tell Us the Truth, the debut album by English punk rock band Sham 69, featuring a live version of Sham 69's biggest hit, "Borstal Breakout" Sham 69 - Borstal Breakout ( Live At The Roundhouse 1978) #punk #punkrock #history #punkrockhistory #otd

It's Friday. Wondering what to do with yourself? Why not read my latest review? ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/t... #poetry

🌸 Und es floooorte um mich herum und ich schüüüttelte einen Liebling. (Mayröcker) Been looping in my head 🌸

Losar Tashi Delegs - Year of the Fire Horse