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Root path, stony path

December 20, 2023

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Sun into Sagittarius

December 08, 2023

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Edges, Sea, John Muir Trail

November 27, 2023

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Catalogue of Trees

November 02, 2023

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Lettersgait, river & sea

October 09, 2023

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Publication of Beyond the Lion Gate

September 27, 2023

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Fires of Passion & Conviction

September 10, 2023

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Ways & Tides

August 08, 2023

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"The travel writer has no choice but to fabricate reality. If the writer is good, the fabrications generally overlap with reality. We should add, that reality itself isn't so stable. It too, travels."
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"On croit qu'on va faire un voyage mais bientot c'est le voyage qui vous fait ou vous defait"
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TIRANA PAPERS - Discovering Albania

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A Common Reader

EVERY SHADE OF BLUE

From the pale blue skies over San Francisco to the deep blue of the Mediterranean Sea, Every Shade of Blue describes travels with the musician John Renbourn. One of the original members of the innovative folk group Pentangle, John continued touring, composing, recording and teaching right up until March 2015, when he was on tour with the legendary Wizz Jones. His music, both his own compositions and his arrangements of medieval, classical and traditional folk music, has been an influence and inspiration to many.

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The Robert Moss BLOG

Book of Shadows - Between you and the world falls a screen that holds the fingerprints of possibility. Study them like a detective and you find clues to the future you ca...
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Asymptote Blog

Weekly Dispatches From the Frontlines of World Literature - This week, our editors-at-large take us around the world for updates on award-winning literature from Nicaragua and Guatemala; the blend of art and letters...
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QUAND on n'a que L'ÂME-OUR - Violette Valorcy - Editions Le Lys Bleu Ce qu'il faut avant tout savoir : Ancienne cadre de banque pendant près de quarante années qui se soldent par deux "burn-out", Violett...
1 day ago
Vita Brevis

Shoot to kill - in memory of Jean-Charles de Menezes. - On the way to Willesden This piece was written in memory of Jean-Charles de Menezes. When my alarm goes off, I am so startled for a moment I don’t remember...
5 days ago
New Contemporary Literary Horizon

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Sonofabook

Disclosure: Waiting for Kristof - ‘You stop at your local bookshop. You want to kill some time in a place where you’re admired.’ This is voice-over in episode 4 of *Disclosure*, an Apple ...
2 weeks ago
Prose insane

- Jealousy wears a wrist watch by Adam Parry *One* Jealousy wears a wrist-watch Always sheltering from the rain Watching all the trains roll b...
2 weeks ago
Sheena Blackhall's Screivins

The Poems: A Matter of Lunacy - Acknowledgements: Title: A Matter of Lunacy (Pamphlet no 205)Front Cover: Image by Frauke Riether from Pixabay Back Cover: taken at St Andrew’s , at the R...
2 weeks ago
the swiss lounge

stick technique - along with dance, if i had a degree of repeat in life, i'd include more drums. so tricky, so absorbing!
3 weeks ago
Caroline Gill: Poetry and Other Writing

Little Black Book: Exhibition Cards for Imaginary Paintings - Mini anthology: 'Exhibition Cards for Imaginary Paintings' - see here These stylish Little Black Books arrived in the post today as my contributor c...
5 months ago
Talking 37th Dream (rumors of peace)

Prospective Retrospective (Update) - In order to continue posting my artwork, I've created a Substack page: https://ellamuir.substack.com *No need to subscribe. I'm not looking for paid su...
5 months ago
Lizok's Bookshelf

PLEASE UPDATE THE RSS FEED - The RSS feed URL you're currently using https://follow.it/lizoksbooks will stop working shortly. Please add /rss at the and of the URL, so that the URL w...
6 months ago
Wolfe Murray

Introduction to 12 Jobs in 12 Months - *I’ve been whinging and moaning about not being able to start my 12 Jobs in 12 Months book and some people might think I’m pathetic in sharing these doub...
6 months ago
Recollections of a Vagabonde

The Super Bowl in Las Vegas and an easy dish ... - My husband and I visited Las Vegas in the late 1960s or early 1970s. Then, it was not the popular city it is now. I remember that it was a city in the cen...
9 months ago
Grandy's Landing

The Wager - A gorgeous gibbous moon hangs pearly white, the golden sunset fading over the estuary now. Such is the view from my high window, here on Halkyn Mountain. ...
10 months ago
Donald Adamson Poetry Blog

- Now available: 'A Beatin Hert' - poems and photos from Rheged by myself (poet and editor), Derek Ross (poet and photographer), Douglas Lipton (poet)...
10 months ago
Autumn Voices

Where The Love Is, by David Thompson - David Thompson, 90, has released his second volume of poetry, Where The Love Is. “In his first volume of poetry, Days of Dark and Light: Recent poems (Ho...
10 months ago
photographs from a white space

rescued from the middenheap - How beautiful, After the autumn storm, The red pepper. Buson
1 year ago
Sabotage

Say by Sarala Estruch - -Reviewed by Emma Lee- Through the poems in Say, Sarala Estruch explores subjects such as losing a father as a
1 year ago
in search of white space

An Important Anthology - It's a dangerous time when clock's roll back on women's rights. Let's help give voice back (to all marginalized people!) in as many ways as possible. (If ...
1 year ago
LE CHEMIN DES GRANDS JARDINS

- Les obsèques de ROGER DAUTAIS auront lieu le mardi 27 juin 2023 au crématorium de Ploescop (dans le Morbihan près de Vannes) à 11h30. Une cérémonie homma...
1 year ago
TRANSEÚNTE EN POS DEL NORTE

Marcel Duchamp y la literatura - Hay perspectivas sobre algunas realidades que se ciñen a la evidencia más superficial, por lo que el enfoque de la personalidad y la obra del franco-cana...
1 year ago
travels with persephone

Ithaka - *As you set out for Ithaka* *hope your road is a long one,* *full of adventure, full of discovery.* *Laistrygonians, Cyclops,* *angry Poseidon—don’t...
1 year ago
Three Sea Horses

2023.Imbolc. - I thought I would start blogging again. I've been looking at web building sites, thinking about getting one. I Remembered I have this blog So I'm checki...
1 year ago
A Common Reader

Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
1 year ago
Sue Reid Sexton

Affirmative Action: the AA for life's travels - A healthy bank account, lots of woollies, a resurgence of my youth’s social anxiety, and not much writing: the end result of my lockdown. I knitted a l...
2 years ago
In My Own Accent

Poetry Book Boot Camp with Katerina Stoykova - Poetry Book Boot Camp with Katerina Stoykova The goal of this five-month class is to take your project from a pile of poems to an edited manuscript that yo...
3 years ago
Landscaping the Sacred

Staying Present - Staying present after losing someone beloved 1. When I was little—, I collected maps and hung them all over my bedroom walls. Mostly, they were geodetic ma...
3 years ago
ein klage-himmel

love alone is credible - Love alone is credible; nothing else can be believed, and nothing else ought to be believed. *--Lars Urs van Balthasar* I’ve abandoned all hope tha...
3 years ago
George Szirtes

The Death of Poets - *in memoriam* *Mangalesh Dabral* *1948-2020* The death of poets is no worse than of others. All the same I grieve for those who, like me, labou...
3 years ago
The Shape of Light

Charles Bukowski: The Laughing Heart - *Charles Bukowski* *American-German Poet* *(August 16, 1920 — March 9, 1994)* In honor of the poet Charles Bukowski, who was born one hundred years ago to...
4 years ago
The Solitary Walker

The Flowers of Evil: a New Translation - *Already as a child, I had two contradictory feelings in my heart: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life* *CHARLES BAUDELAIRE* After three years' wor...
4 years ago
CONTEMPORARY LITERARY HORIZON

CONTEMPORARY HORIZON 2020 - *From creative localism to interculturalism.* *A retrospective look (1)* by *Daniel Dragomirescu* The “Contemporary Literary Horizon” magazine was founde...
4 years ago
chez Nicolas Bokov

les liens sur les piblications sont disparues... - On ne peut plus consulter les articles dans les archives... coucou, kagébé...
5 years ago
Forest Dream Weaver

Abandoned Castle - Redhouse Castle - East Lothian - 16th century towerhouse more information ... HERE It is now owned by a local landowner and a garden centre occupie...
5 years ago
Nouvelles Und News

Lucien Suel lit "Le Rire après Minuit" - https://youtu.be/lvVQBAkCVpw
5 years ago
Starry Universe

Smoke Signals - I always like to burn incense in my studio when I start a new painting, it helps me focus - at this point the table is looking better than the painti...
6 years ago
schadenfrieda

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6 years ago
Transit Notes

MY NEW BLOG: "THE SHAPE OF LIGHT" - *After a long absence * *from blogging, I am returning * *with a new blog that will be devoted* *primarily to my explorations in photography.* *My new b...
6 years ago
Wordarts

The Posy Ring: Coming Soon. - The Posy Ring, the first novel in a planned series called The Annals of Flowerfield, is due for publication by Saraband on 12th April. Here's what it's a...
6 years ago
Wordpill Blog

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6 years ago
le ciel au-dessus de la rue

deux jeunes filles marchent dans la campagne - Sarah Bernat et Armelle Furet dans Rose d’Oradour La matinée claire d’un samedi de juin. Deux jeunes filles marchent dans la campagne. Elles ont dix-sept, ...
7 years ago
TRANSEÜNT QUE ALBIRA EL NORD

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Paula Roïd PhotoBlog

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8 years ago
washed stones

Class conflict & reading Henry James and Malcolm X - After 5 1/2 months of no posts, this sudden appearance of a long piece might seem odd. I simply want to post it, and I have no other place that seems appro...
9 years ago
walking in words

The Visionary - He is not like us. He reads strange books Of mystic poetry, mythology. He walks the beach alone, pausing to look Beyond the black horizon of the sea For hid...
9 years ago
istrosbooks

Promoting writing from around the Union and beyond…. - EUROPEAN UNION PRIZE FOR LITERATURE – promoting writing from around the Union and beyond…. The EU Prize for Literature, founded in 2009 and financed by the...
9 years ago
Dom's photography blog | Thoughts and ideas about photography

new blog address (in case you missed it) - After I started this blog a few months ago I started considering having a self hosted WordPress blog and website. So after some work I published the first ...
10 years ago
Raspberry Read

All the Rage by Kevin Ridgeway - Kevin Ridgeway's new chapbook of poems, All the Rage, is now available from Electric Windmill Press: http://www.storenvy.com/products/2089358-all-the-ra...
11 years ago
Poetry Scotland Reviews

Subject and syntax to fear and enjoy - *Helen Ivory, Waiting for Bluebeard, Bloodaxe* *Ira Lightman, I, Love, Poetry. Knives, Forks and Spoons Press* “I would like to extend my thanks to everyon...
11 years ago
words and silence

A Difference Of Reading - Weighing machine, Luxembourg Gardens, Paris Image: Wikimedia Commons A strange thing happened to me this week. I'd gone for my annual medical check-up at...
11 years ago
Cruising with S/V 'Jolie Brise'

Page Two - Darwin to Kupang – first leg of the Sail Indonesia Rally 2012 As an introduction it’s already early March 2013, Jolie Brise is anchored in Ao Chalon Bay n...
11 years ago
a pint of plain

The Feast of the Immaculate Conception - So, in keeping with the reason why God put me here on Earth, I had to drive a carful of teenage girls to some event. Normally I tune out their conversation...
11 years ago
Walking and Writing

How to write on a camel - Walking with animals Part 2 Camels are a bit different to ponies (see last post). Getting on and off them is more interesting for a start. But they have qu...
11 years ago
cagibi

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12 years ago
sparks and mirrors

To deliver oneself up to silence - Photo, *Untitled,* by Thomas Merton "To deliver oneself up, hand oneself over, entrust oneself completely to the silence of a wide landscape of woods and...
12 years ago
A Year with Rilke

With our thanks - *Rainer Maria Rilke * It seems appropriate that we, Ruth and Lorenzo, feel both sadness and joy as we close out this year of Rilke readings, translated by...
12 years ago
The Poetry Society

The Poetry Society Members’ Site - This is an independent Poetry Society site set up by and for Members. Non-members are welcome and encouraged to join. See the About page for a link to the ...
13 years ago
Involutions and Revolutions

The Arrival of Summer - This is my first blog entry in nearly two months. The recent inactivity is mostly due to a new hobby of mine called blipping, which has consumed almost all...
13 years ago
El Hombre de Rivera Oveja

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Catapult to Mars

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Sailing Jolie Brise

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