For #weirdpoemwednesday convened by @tomsnarsky.bsky.social By Tor Ulven Translated by John and Kate Aoife Goodby

Genuine question: what exactly are we all doing.

Michael Palmer

Goniatite fossil in a sea polished stormbeach stone. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Some more crochet work from my daughter. I love it!

No, Richard Dawkins. AI is not conscious | Arwa Mahdawi

My daughter crocheted this strawberry yesterday. It’s fantastic!

a tutor said something about the speed with which we & all our work gets forgotten - in 100years time just 1 poet's work willl be remembered. I still think it's absolutely worth it- the words we choose and the effect they can have, if only briefly and for 1 person can be astonishing.

Eucalyptus leaf not olive; and the proximity of the sea . . .

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSLV... thanks to @herbert-pfostl.bsky.social

Here’s a Prynne poem I really like.

William Shenstone said this in the 1700s. Fits our times rather well.

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

Archaeologists next to one of the many massive Olmec heads. The Olmec civilization is considered the "mother culture" of Mesoamerica, and these sculptures are their most iconic artifacts

One of the best bookshops I've ever visited at the gradel I listed former Wool Exchange, Bradford - Built in the spirit of the great Flemish cloth halls — architecture not merely as utility, but as something capable of raising the human spirit.

I love these poem-stories by Kateřina Bolechová, translated from Czech by Natalie Nera just out in the latest The Irreal Reader cafeirreal.alicewhittenburg.com/bolechova.htm

Staithes, Yorkshire, painting by Clare Caulfield.

The artwork shown is titled Nature Morte Puriste à la Guitare, also known as Composition Puriste, and was made by French artist Amédée Ozenfant around 1923–1924.

Owl carving from the medieval chancel stalls of St. Mary's Church at Higham Ferrers in Northamptonshire. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #HighamFerrers

This web of time- the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces every possibility. We do not exist in most of them. In some you exist and not I, while in others I do, and you do not. Jorge Luis Borges

Here are a couple of very short poems I am please to have published in the May edition of Snakeskin (www.snakeskin.co.uk)

resurfacing scratch the green of old Dublin pillar-boxes and they bleed

A friend of mine has just finished writing a memoir and wants to know what people think of this title. ‘Coulda, Woulda Buddha: The Healing Journey of a Neurodivergent Anarcho-Buddhist’ What do you think?

A rewilded corner of our garden with our beautiful peony.

Crown shyness is one of many adaptations that allow trees to coexist in communities. Certain species leave gaps when growing next to each other; a behavior scientists believe may be a way to ensure they both have access to sunlight and resources. Original post

THE TYRANNY The canary’s out-of- cage shadow with a latch-locked shadow cage of its own – Well I’ve also escaped with my cage. By Joseph Salvatore Aversano

Haiku day at the seaside she buys a thicker sweater in a summer sale open.substack.com/pub/matthewp...

haiku young beech leaves translucent in the sun

‘Sculpter les nuages’ (Sculpting the clouds). #Streetart by Ender in #Amiens #art

A Jan Zwicky poem after Bach's Concierto in D Minor History You are running your fingers through your hair This is what you do sometimes Because you cannot put your hands around your heart

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For you I'd do the whole thing through below, above for now, for love. - J. H. Prynne, “57”

Liz McGowan, Fern Ammonite,1992, land art, Hebden Bridge, UK #womensart

Diane Abbott, "It's one thing to say as he insists on saying: nobody told me, nobody told me anything" "The question is, why didn't the Prime Minister ask"

Ronald Johnson, feat. Lévi-Strauss

The Old Man of Storr, Skye Pic: Steven Murphy

Concrete Art at The University of York, Derwent College.

Nishapur: Persian ultra-modern ultra-minimalism from the tenth century CE @islamicartsmuseummalaysia

The Negative Dialectic.

My thanks to Rupert M Loydell for publishing Daybreak, Switzerland’ in the Travel edition of Stride magazine. stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

window the cat and i agree oyoguhito #haiku haikueye.blogspot.com

“While spacewalking I realized something, I used to think I was scared of heights but now I know I was just scared of gravity.” ― Artemis II Astronaut Reid Wiseman 2014 @LensScientific

A 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment, discovered in the archives of the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology in Cairo, reveals 30 previously unpublished verses by Empedocles, a pre-Socratic philosopher of the 5th century BC.

I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel; For words, like Nature, half reveal And half conceal the Soul within. Tennyson, In Memoriam

Donald Trump says ‘a whole civilisation will die’ if Iran ignores demands

'The number of English language and literature academics fell by 8 per cent to 4,680 – among the largest decrease of all disciplines. And the number employed in modern languages dropped 7 per cent to 4,890. This is 17 per cent below peak levels in 2015-16.' 1/3

"Morning Light" by Grace Gillespie, UK-based artist specialising in reduction linocuts, hand-crafted in her home-studio in Bristol #WomensArt