Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
Flordali 1, 1981. #Lithograph
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Singletary (@shearsmanbooks.bsky.social) The Vitalist Sees the Signs (@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social) Palomines (Blue Diode Press, 2026)
Apropos of someone reminding me, here's me in conversation with the mighty Sarah Howe earlier this year, for @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social, on cherry blossom and related matters: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-ri...
Such serendipity and synchronicity! ππ₯π
flightpath of the wren threading the gaps between leaves straight through the hawthorn
βPoetry has nothing to do with who we are.β (Iain Crichton Smith)
Episode 2 of this charmering series by #IvorCutler happens to contain several of the poems we selected from βA Wet Handleβ for his Selected Poems - forthcoming from #HoorgiHouse!
So if you want to sample the merchandise before you buy, as it were, hereβs your chance:
Saturday night review: a review by the critic Chris Edgoose of my three most recent pamphlets -- Singletary (@shearsmanbooks.bsky.social), The Vitalist Sees the Signs (brokensleepbooks.bsky.social), and, impressively, the just-released Palomines (Blue Diode Press) π²π
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Shades of autumn
Congratulations, Peter π
Thanks so much, Robert! ππΈπ·
RenΓ© Magritte. La Clef des songes (The Interpretation of Dreams). Brussels, 1935
FLAME is included in my new pamphlet #Palomines, alongside poems published previously by The London Magazine, Anthropocene, Ice Floe Press, & The Dark Horse; & available now from Blue Diode Press: bluediode.co.uk/product-page... πͺππ―πͺπ
Vividly colourful autumn leaves, berries and wildlife, including a red admiral butterfly and a red squirrel, photographed during my visit to St Andrews Botanic Garden last week. Have a great #Friday everyone!
'Beirut' is one of two poems by Yanita Georgieva from our latest issue.
Order the October / November issue for more poetry by Jane Hirshfield, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, William Cliff and others: thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...
Maria Stepanova on language and displacement: www.pushkinhouse.org/pages/in-bet...
π thank you for reading! ππͺ
"Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It's usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world." Anne Carson, from "Art of Poetry No. 88," Paris Review.
What a gorgeous setting!! π²π
I learnt this by heart as a teenager. I still feel so grateful to her for her vision and her courage. A prayer. And, as they say, an eye-opener.
Small piece up at The Los Angeles Review πͺπͺπͺ
losangelesreview.org/flame-by-geraldine-clarkson/
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