Rivers are living beings.

Pendlebury: "By Jove, Holland, it's a good job we're both honest men." Holland: "It is indeed, Pendlebury." The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)

#Roman cavalry helmet. Possibly this face of woman represents an #Amazon. The band on the forehead (torques) was supposed to symbolize Amazons' "barbaric" character. Bronze. 100-200 AD. From Nola. Now in the British Museum. #Ancient #Art #History #Archaeology

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. Ezra Pound

I don't know how to clip a segment (sorry), but the bit I really want you to watch starts at 29'10". It's about the deep roots of the attack on Iran and why it's just as well Starmer is "no Winston Churchill". I'm surprised this aspect isn't more widely discussed. 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

“I am unbody’d by thy books, and thee, and in thy papers finde my extasie.” Henry Cornelius Agrippa (1531) 🎨 Giuseppe Arcimboldo “The Librarian” (c 1570) #WorldBookDay #booksky

Zack Polanski has the best approval rating of any major party leader.

When my father died, I had to pick him up and carry him One day I hope to put him down By John Phillips

The future Splits the present with the echo of my voice. W. S. Merwin Odilon Redon

"One should not give a poisoner medicine, A conjurer fine apparatus, nor A rifle to a melancholic bore." WH Auden Not to mention the biggest arsenal in the world to a narcissistic attention-seeker.

"Of those who voted Labour [in 2024], just 37% would vote Labour again". Read that again to absorb the full, astonishing weight of what it means. Starmer, Reeves and co have burnt their house down. news.sky.com/story/greens...

The full moon visiting our road.

Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice, And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable! Bertrolt Brecht, The Exception and the Rule

I HAD THOUGHT THINGS WERE GOING ALONG WELL But I was mistaken. John Ashbery briefpoems.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/s...

I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas't

 Dawnlight freezes against the east-wire. The guards cough 'raus! 'raus! We flinch and grin, Our flesh oozing towards its last outrage. That which is taken from me is not mine.
 Geoffrey Hill

pauper’s graveyard only the long grasses have names Eileen Sheehan briefpoems.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/d...

'Crocus & Daffodils' by UK contemporary painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt #spring #March

Wishing us all a magical March. La Belle Jardiniere, March Eugène Grasset.

New literary agency near Belfast, now open for submissions: www.instagram.com/princelitera...

🖼️ Laura Makabresku

Topologies In the night, I hear thousand and thousand of unheard journeys ending not like most of our journeys end - but a sudden immediate end, if ends aren’t ever not immediate. I know the outside is there. @beneaththeraindrop.bsky.social

Eighth. 72 Which to erase first: shadow or body, the word written yesterday or the word written today, the cloudy day or the clear day? One has to find an order. Learning to erase the world will soon help us to erase ourselves. By Roberto Juarroz

By Elmedin Kadric

What's the betting that the next YouGov voting intention poll for the UK will show the Greens ahead of Labour?

Muddy Tracks. 9°C with sunshine and showers. Blackbirds. 🐦‍⬛

Earliest known #writing dates back over 40,000 years. #StoneAge artifacts in #Germany are editing writing's timeline. Link for more information and photo: www.popsci.com/science/earl...

keep testing the spiny leaves

Zack Polanski, "If you have a migrant worker who comes to this country" "They are more likely to pay more in tax, than they ever take out in benefits" "We very rarely hear this reality"

Labour MP Rachael Maskell, "This is the final warning for Prime Minister Keir Starmer" "Labour has lost it's roots" "Some of the negative social media campaigning from Labour was quite abhorrent'

Gorton and Denton by-election result: GRN: 40.7% (+27.5) REF: 28.7% (+14.7) LAB: 25.4% (-25.3) CON: 1.9% (-6.0) LDEM: 1.8% (-2.1) Green GAIN from Labour.

Last week in Vienna

Today I picked up somebody’s sigh on the street I took it home and rubbed it gently into this poem Goro Takano

Welcome to the 15th issue of The Starbeck Orion featuring a Susan Darlington Showcase Day One of Twenty-Five. the880.substack.com/p/the-starbe...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Many thanks to Billy Mills for his elliptical review of mine and David Annwn's vispo mash-up of Gerald of Wales' 12thC A Journey Through Wales. ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/t...

PastedGraphic-1.png Fab Howard Munson YouTube film featuring mine and David Annwn's Ätherstrophen, versions of Emmy Hennings, published recently by Zim Zalla, in his Photo-Video Art Zine #98. Sincerest thanks to him and everyone involved in this (re)realisation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J38a...

Last resort Mitchell P #art

Frank O’Hara

Don’t ever promise to adore me forever. Let’s keep the feeling that this love of ours is a love without tomorrow. ― Jean-Luc Godard

Prep mode – and so looking forward to April at Gothenburg City Library.

There are plastic particles in the brains of everyone on the planet yet every year the amount being produced and dumped into the environment goes up. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Gods' Man Lynd Ward, 1929. 'a silent narrative made up of prints of 139 engraved woodblocks' en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods%27...

No furniture but opulence.

An excavation of the different wall coverings in Beethoven’s apartment in Vienna. I was amazed that this tiny museum was deserted.

Power to the University of Bristol's local branch of UCU Solidarity ✊️ "University of Bristol asks Humanities and Languages academic staff to voluntarily quit" share.google/ZudICjxrcMdc...

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought. Oliver Sacks

Am moved by Mike Ferguson ‘s gem of a collection Drawing on Previous Learning. One to make you smile and cry. Published by Wrecking Ball Press. @mferguson-writer.bsky.social

Really pleased to have a poem published today by Ink Sweat and Tears. Many thanks to Helen Ivory.

Really pleased to have a poem published today by Ink Sweat and Tears. Many thanks to Helen Ivory. inksweatandtears.co.uk/tristan-moss...