Barry Lopez says that “At the heart of the lifework of many artists I have known is a simple but profound statement: ‘I object’”, and I’d say this is living proof of it.
I am delighted to post my cover by Mattias/Baconstrap for my debut novel Quill & Still Book One, releasing in (holy shit) 1 week (https://quill-still.sofaer.net/mast).
Sophie Nadash is a late-thirties scientist who runs into Artemis in the Greek woods and is sent on to a kinder world. Civics, divinity, queerness, alchemy, and more civics ensues.
If you have written a haiku this year that you are extremely pleased with and/or have read one or two by somebody else, please consider nominating them for the Touchstone Awards of The Haiku Foundation. It's free! Max. two poems in total, max one of your own. All information and submission form: 👇🏽
Our MA Programme in English Studies has taken a group of thesis writers out to #TieteidenTalo for a writing retreat; starting with free association writing and getting everyone's fingers warmed up... 20 sets of digits tap-tapping away!
I have a deep love for the "Quentin Tarantino carves a turkey sketch" from Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (which, incidentally, is never shown on screen).
It's an advanced class in writing comedy, writing violence, and the role of the audience's imagination in storytelling.
On the packaging.Hidden in the terms and conditions. Who knew it’d be so foretelling, so prescient? “Some assembly required.” Like a chant. Like a mantra. Like the Rosary. A testament to how you’d spend your time and your days. A lifetime with tiny pieces. Trying to fit them in. Trying to figure out where they go...
I've just been informed that some of my haikus are included in this French (language) anthology, that has just come out. I thank Mr Georges Chapouthier for his work. For more information: 👇🏽
This is a stuning piece that resonates with me in ways I can't put into words. Thomas Merton says that “those who cannot be alone cannot find their true being and they are always something less than themselves.” But over time with overuse the kind of withdrawal that makes it possible can become its own kind of lessening.