Lots to marvel at here, but marvel most at the fact that this went out in the schools programme education slot on a weekday. "The past is a foreign country". Not if you spoke the language. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7xi...

Carl Andre. Untitled, 1963

"...addresses the stereotypical view of Surrey in his introduction and regrets that it is 'pretty much at the bottom of the heap in terms of poetic credibility, authenticity of voice, rootedness.'"

Dressed flint.

New post on 'A Surrey Naturalist by John Bevis, published by @uniformbooks.bsky.social some-landscapes.blogspot.com/2026/02/over...

98/99. Found in a copy of 'For A New Novel : essays on fiction' by Robbe-Grillet.

I wrote about Patience Strong, almost certainly the best-selling English poet of the twentieth century, who wrote six poems a week for the Daily Mirror (all on a Monday morning) as well as a hit song, greeting cards and calendars, and whose print runs were in the 100,000s

741. Je me souviens des tables de multiplication imprimées au dos des cahiers d’écolier.

The black and red ribbon.

spine label / spare spine label

by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022) monoskop.org/images/2/2b/...

spine label / spare spine label

The black and red ribbon.

ingredients one teaspoon parmesan cheese three bow tie pasta and five bow tie pasta one and a half and a two and a one two three cups of tomato sauce

Photograph of Mên-an-Tol, formation of standing stones, in Cornwall by John Piper

1777: Snow-drops blow.

Ghosts of sculptures past An inconsequential evening post about shadows left by sculptures on the floor of the south Duveen gallery at Tate Britain. Truly. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/ghosts-of-sc...

Custard Gertrude Stein, from ‘Tender Buttons’

“We are always the same age inside.”― Gertrude Stein #botd

The Case of the Green Covers is a risograph-printed zine that documents the history of the “Green Penguins”, “a series of hundreds of crime novels published with green covers by the UK publisher Penguin in the 1960s”. [justseeds.org]

“We are always the same age inside.”― Gertrude Stein #botd

Ulysseses, 2009.

Ulysseses, 2009.

Knackered interpretation panel.

2026: Wet, wet, rain with wind.

…still falling.

The Slant Book (1910) by Peter Newell — shaped like a rhomboid it tells the story of a runaway baby carriage's chaotic downhill ride: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-slant-book

Neil Innes wrote gorgeous tunes…

Recently back on the bench: [West/East] Printed paper* and board construction, (unfinished, 2008– ). * two copies of the Geological Survey of England and Wales, 'Isle of Wight', 1926, reprinted 1947.

Neil Innes wrote gorgeous tunes…

Recently back on the bench: [West/East] Printed paper* and board construction, (unfinished, 2008– ). * two copies of the Geological Survey of England and Wales, 'Isle of Wight', 1926, reprinted 1947.

THE SIGNAL ENGINEERS (1962)

the book version of The Gathering Cloud, @uniformbooks.bsky.social 2017, contains 32 photos of the sea from the train passing through Dawlish, and a note about the time the sea broke through the line in 1859, as it will almost certainly do again. and again. www.uniformbooks.co.uk/thegathering...

Vexations... Punch time clock when entering and leaving. Refunds will be figured for elapsed time thus registered at the rate of 5¢ for each twenty minutes.....

early anthology of experimental visual and sound poetry. Poesie de mots inconnus, 1949 monoskop.org/log/?p=18522

In the new art, a book may be always an intention for the whole process.

Stockwell concrete.

Certainly still delighted to have designed and produced this edition of the book for the excellent Laurence Sterne Trust.

On two archive books robinkinross.substack.com/p/two-archiv...

The Blue and Brown Book.

'The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s Studio Re-Created by Wes Anderson', via The World of Interiors. worldofinteriors.com/story/joseph-cornell-studio-recreated-by-wes-anderson

Remembering Les Coleman... who left our world, 17 January 2013.

Dead Sea Scroll.

Lovely to receive Carnation today, thank you @wordkunst.bsky.social There is something unexpectedly satisfying about its proportions - it is a joy to hold and to read

George Brecht. from Water Yam, 1962

This quad poster proof by the great Peter Strausfeld for the Academy Cinema in London is a trial print made before lettering was added. Can anyone identify the film on the basis of these three figures?

No.

My favourite door is getting a makeover and I must say I'm feeling a bit down about it : (

"RT this with your home river" colinsackett.co.uk/riveraxecrossings.php Two slideshows colinsackett.co.uk/riveraxedownstream.php colinsackett.co.uk/riveraxeupstream.php “A river is a line of water not a narrative.”—Anon.