…that last territory of the light seems to draw into itself every longing for travel that I have ever felt and every longing for home. - from The Last of the Light by Peter Davidson…
A splendid evening @vocebooks with Iain Sinclair… talking, amongst many things, of John Deakin, Francis Bacon, Henrietta Moraes, a last supper, drinking too much, too much drinking Wheelers restaurant and Dylan Thomas in a graveyard… #pariahgenius
A splendid afternoon listening to @paul_catherall talk about his art, inspirations, architecture, book covers, rollers and lino in Coventry @CovCathedral Get yourself to the exhibition! https://t.co/fnplPpPd0H
I read Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell… if you’ve got your wits about you, you will too… if your wits are off somewhere doing other stuff then reading it will bring them closer to your infinite... or something. #superinfinite
Excellent work yesterday at Frankly Beeches by @HWFireBGrove… they had a proton pack and a PKE meter and put out the fire! Plus they looked pretty much EXACTLY like this! Don’t set fire to trees, it's a sh!t idea and wastes #Ghostbusters time when they could be catching ghosts!
I've said this before but I love Almond Blossom by Fiona Benson... so on this, the winter solstice, remember -
and though we can’t yet feel it
earth’s already begun
her slow incline, inch by ruined inch,
easing you back from the brink.
Went to @vocebooks today and picked up a new addition to the ever growing and frankly dangerous 'to be read' pile... it's in the centre of the fair city of Birmingham, the bookshop I mean, not the pile of books... you should visit and a buy a book... #Tsundoku
Tonight, in Stirchley, it’s the opening of Walkspace ‘23… I wrote a poem, well I wrote a poem after Kipling wrote one first… I think it’s on the wall… if you’ve got nothing better to do come along… #starcilly
At @mac_birmingham listening to, amongst other stuff, the world famous in Birmingham @theindiecountry don’t let the concrete dance floor put you off it’s like a fire cracker on the 4th of July in here.
The thing with parakeets is they are very green, or the ones on Birmingham’s River Rea are, and that makes them very hard to see against the very green foliage of a very spring morning… #very
Thoroughly splendid evening listening to @JohnGarthWriter talk about Tolkien's recovery from, or his way of dealing with his, and others, harrowing experiences in WW1... plus I met @InDeepGeek by 'accident'... which was also splendid...
Saw @NikkEffingham give his inaugural lecture on the dangers of time travel... I am now seriously considering scrapping my time machine... it seems just sitting near it could cause a heart attack if I even THINK of travelling back in time to visit the Gobi Desert #youhadtobethere