Patrick McCormack

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement The complete works, including previously unpublished poems and expert notes, are brought together in one volume for the first time

The Poems of Seamus Heaney review – collected works reveal his colossal achievement

Including "his 'n hers" skulls for Sir Phillip 💀 & Lady Anne Harcourt 💀
"But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave." Sir Thomas Browne, Urne Buriall.

Morning all.

Photograph by Martin Parr, Isle of Rhum in the background, Isle of Eigg, Scotland, 1998.

Cadair Idris lost in the mist from the flanks of Rhobell Fawr #442mountains

I try to entice a cat(s) onto the duvet in anticipation of 2am / 4am worried wakefulness. Feline felicitude helps displace existential agonising.
More on this matter:

A bingo card for the ghost stories of M.R. James. Boxes read: "Spiders Terrible hotel stay Narrator makes fun of golf Latin passages Eerie disembodied voices Confirmed bachelor main character Vengeful spirit Evil magician Working-class character as comic relief Bleak East Anglian coast Visit to an archive Narrator in guidebook mode FREE SPACE Unholy doings in a church Frogs or toads Queen Anne style house Cursed artifact Don't buy that rare book! Something hairy and horrible Someone gets too curious Tentacles Story told via old manuscript Research trip gone horribly wrong Beds are scary Tactile horror

I couldn't resist. #pleasingterror

A puddle on tarmac on which manifold leaves float

Pattern made by high winds and suburban parks

This one?
#johnpiper #Wiltshire

Last visited the Wilts Museyroom to see the Ravilious exhibition, so here's another reason to go. Moore, Nash, Piper and Ravilious again!
Here's the Piper stained glass,which will no doubt be part of the show.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via Al video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people."

This. Is. Why. I. Paint.

Paul Nash's "Landscape of the Moon's Last Phase" depicts a surreal and dreamlike landscape with a haunting moon cast behind abstract hills in a palette of earthy twilight hues. Nash, known for his evocative war landscapes, skillfully blends natural forms with a sense of mysticism, reflecting his fascination with the esoteric nature of the English countryside.

Landscape of the Moon's Last Phase https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-nash/landscape-of-the-moons-last-phase-1944

#fingerpostfriday

I'd say this was a devilishly well "defaced" volume, all thanks to @slipperyjack.bsky.social

Aha! 😁 Wonderful! The goat aflame with gold is superb, and the imp is delicately detailed, and very .. umm .. impish! 😈

I wonder what Mel the Postie has brought for me today? What can it be? 🤔😉 @slipperyjack.bsky.social

Eric Ravilious' famous 1939 watercolour, Train Landscape (featuring the white horse at Westbury), reimagined and repainted by my dad, Mick, featuring my mum and dad's cat Bridget.

Eric Ravilious' famous 1939 watercolour, Train Landscape (featuring the white horse at Westbury), reimagined and repainted by my dad, Mick, featuring my mum and dad's cat Bridget.
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The view from Glastonbury Tor this morning at sunrise.

This is a c.20 yr old quince tree in Somerset. V bountiful, the other pic only shows about 1/3 of thus year's fruit! Soon I must start jelly production and fill the house with fragrant quinciness 😊

Wonderful! 🌅
Wonderful to live so close - and there was I thinking from your u'name you were just down the road from me here in Somerset! 😁

Your bonus pics 😀

Thanks! I liked the razor edge of the stone, similar to a worked flint blade.

Blocking stone at West Kennet Long Barrow for #standingstonesunday
A fine day out: Overton Hill > Herepath > #Avebury (henge, stones, museum, garden, tea, church) > #SilburyHill > W Kennet l/b > Sanctuary.
All with sun, cloudscapes, waxing moon and the start of autumn ☀️🍂🌛

The flanks of Aran Fawddwy, July 2025. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #442Mountains

"Ariadne, the thread! The thread!"

Rhaeadr Du / Black Waterfalls in spate 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #442Mountains
(There's some exquisite details in this one - worth loading in full res and exploring!)

The edge of Cardigan Bay from the Cambrian Mountains 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿#442Mountains

Most certainly! I'm v tempted to return later in the month. Certain images of Cardigan Bay, Cambrian Mountains, etc. are calling me back.

Photo of indigo blue sea with a thin dark blue strip of an undulating peninsula on the horizon, punctuated with an island full stop. Above, a swathe of dark blue grey mammatus clouds hangs in a sky of white.

Ynys Enlli (Bardsey Island)

Ah, you missed a fine thing. Places of pilgrimage, poets and artists. I missed the event with Roger Wagner and Philip Lambert - it was a difficult choice between that and the views from above Cwm Maethlon / Happy Valley 😊

Visions of Ynys Enlli by Roger Wagner, MoMA Machynlleth, August '25. Did you see the exhibition?