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Progression by Peter Bradford, Vol. 2 No. 5, January/February 1969 This poem exposes the tragic irony at the heart of 'progress': that in trying to possess, protect and dominate, humanity steadily impoverishes itself. In its final lines, the poem confronts us with the ultimate cost of this trajectory — a future in which nothing is left to remember. Read poem > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/47748/spread/10?rc=540b7844-752e-4809-8727-06e4e2d33e5c

Three poems by Thomas Land, Tony Curtis & P.W. Vol. 5 No. 2, May/June 1974 These three poems reflect on freedom as a natural state, and on the forces that constrain it. From lightness and movement to violence and waiting, they echo a central Resurgence concern: that when life is controlled rather than cared for, both Nature and the human spirit suffer. Read poems > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/48767/spread/18?rc=5ad58b2f-6c31-49a6-8455-2837380c781e

The Ground that Seeks Love by Paul Matthews, Issue 213, July/August 2002 This two-poem selection reflects on attention, presence, and the meaning held within everyday acts. Drawing on art, memory, and the mundane, the poems show how meaning arises when we truly attend to what is before us — a jug, a gesture, a moment of work — rather than standing apart as detached observers. Read poems > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/45432/spread/36?rc=1e0dc8c2-8b9e-4777-8b7e-f167cf7e4c22

The Uses of the Globe by David Broadbridge, Issue 284, May/June 2014 Seen from space, the Earth is both fragile and alive: the melting ice, rising seas and changing weather remind us that we are not owners, but guests. The poem invites us to attention, care and shared responsibility, showing that survival and joy come from tending the world as our true dwelling place. Read poem > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/38925/spread/50?rc=aaae271f-ab8a-4a95-936f-8cecb7bec67b

Six decades of poetry
From the earliest issues of the magazine, Resurgence has made space for poetry as a way of listening to the living world, to human experience, and to the quiet truths that sit beneath mainstream headlines > conta.cc/4a2LxfZ

#Poetry #Poem #Poet #Writing #Resurgence #Magazine

Season 5, Episode 18: Bendy’s Deep Dive: The Ambassadors by Holbein Podcast Episode · Waldy and Bendy’s Adventures in Art · 15/01/2026 · 49m

Shout out to the Waldy and Bendy deep-dive into Holbein’s The Ambassadors. This is not the first time the world has been turned upside down…

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Well hello letterpress!

Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.

Small Press Publishers are the *best* — but they need more support (and investment): www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
(Spotted in newsletter by the excellent @cacrampton.bsky.social )

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
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SONNET FOR THE SECOND- LANGUAGE SPEAKER What is a word? — Depends on who you ask. For instance, in the rigid Flemish taal, so many things that feel like words don't pass, and my sprung language doesn't work at all. My sentences are yet another place where stringent rule-embracers don't agree: to me, an error shows the second face of grammar. The mistakes are what I mean. The thing I value most in any line— drawn, made, wrote, thought, in fantasy or fact— is flexibility: that, like a spine, the art supports the mind by which it's maked. What use is language flattened, dried in books? Our language lives most when it is mistook.

on the drying grass in the park under falling leaves with Pattern-book by @eireannmor.bsky.social

Incredible article — thank you for writing it

Acrobat: ✨ This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary
Me: No thanks — I’ll find connections that you, ai assistant, will not

Relieved to say that after closing the oh-so-helpful banner in acrobat waaaaay too many times, I finally found a way to switch off ai in preferences

Image: Acheiropoieta by Clifton Meador (2020). A picture of a woman from photographs in the collection, reworked in colour.

The new call for entries for the Herzog August Bibliothek Artist’s Book Prize 2026 is now open. Create a new work in response to the collection. Prize: €6,000 plus a four-week residency at HAB in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Application deadline: 31st December 2025. Info at:
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Huh! That just triggered a memory for me. My mum used to put these (dried) in flower arrangements. I never knew what they were till now. Thanks!

But…. what if Peter Thiel _is_ the Antichrist? Isn’t this exactly the sort of thing he would say? #joke

With many thanks to @terriwindling.bsky.social whose quotes from writers and folklorists on the walls of the Widdershins 3 exhibition at Green Hill Arts in Moretonhampstead provided an epiphany moment

Mary Stella Edwards and “The Immortal Hour” - Ackland And Edwards Trust The importance of The Immortal Hour on Mary Stella Edwards poetry and connection to the natural world – and its relation to the faery realm

New blogpost alert: Mary Stella Edwards and “The Immortal Hour”… or my theory on how the Celtic revival gave (imaginative) people in the last century the imagery to rethink their connections to the natural world

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Haeckel eat yer heart out!

Small Publishers Fair
October 2022

The fair is coming up again soon 24-25 Oct 2025
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square London WC1R 4AL

#smallpublishers #artistsbooks #handprinted #smallpublishersfair2025 #screenprinting

Detail of a Letterpress print made with woodtype and metal type. Print favours shapes of letters and type overlaps over readability

I’ve been learning how to make #letterpress ink from #earthpigments and laked botanicals. It’s taken some time! Now working on a concertina artist book with #woodtype and #metaltype. The earth pigments come from my garden and local beaches, & (so far) #lakepigments from onion skins and blackberries

👀 I spy the best end of Westward Ho! beach… great shot!

The back of a beautiful keepsake produced by Rachel Marsh of Semple Press. Rachel’s special edition for participants - Mycelial Whispers, is letterpress printed in PaperWise (made from agricultural crop waste) dyed with oak gall modified with iron and soda ash.

A table full of envelopes and postage stamps being assembled.

A table full of postage stamps and envelopes being assembled.

The front of a beautiful keepsake produced by Rachel Marsh of Semple Press. Rachel’s special edition for participants - Mycelial Whispers, is letterpress printed in PaperWise (made from agricultural crop waste) dyed with oak gall modified with iron and soda ash.

Our World Book Night 2025 Talk to the Trees | Listen to the Trees artworks have been packed, addressed and stamped for 200+ recipients. Two boxes of post are leaving tomorrow. Next year will be mountains, details of the call will be in the September-October Book Arts Newsletter. Will you join us?

Collections in Dialogue: An Artist Co-Commission Call Out The British Library and Leeds Art Gallery seek to commission an artist or artist collective based in the Yorkshire and Humber area. This commission will culminate in the creation of new work by the ar...

Artist commission opp UK: exploring artists’ books held at @britishlibrary.bsky.social alongside works in @leedsmuseums.bsky.social sculpture collection that employ the medium of the book as a sculptural object. Info on link, deadline to apply 29 Aug:
museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/collections-...

Flying Too High: AI and Air France Flight 447 Podcast Episode · Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford · 19/07/2024 · 41m

ChatGPT is actually *not* good for brainstorming. Great ‘Cautionary Tales’ podcast about the pitfalls in ai here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
Includes a small segment on how useless it is for brainstorming!

Huh. You only get a kitkat and a glass of squash for donating blood in the uk. Plus the sweet glow of virtue of course… though that might have been light-headedness

The submission window for the autumn issue closes on Friday! Last chance to send in your short, minimal & concrete poems for publication in aswirl 🌀🍂

Detail of the 2016 Siruela (Spanish) edition of Lolly Willowes, showing a cat with the title written on its white chest.

Announcing a conference in London in May 2026, to mark the centenary of Lolly Willowes, Sylvia's first and best-known novel.
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Not just me then. I did listen and wished I hadn’t. Also usually love @bunkerpod.bsky.social

The Dispossessed by Ursula K Le Guin

A studio _and_ letterpress? You’re doomed. I predict a studio stuffed with letterpress equipment within 6 months

Poster text reads: HYDROPOETRY IN PRACTICE 30TH JULY 2025 HYBRID / ROYAL HOLLOWAY KEYNOTE PERFORMERS: ROYAL HOLLOWAY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON UNIVERSITY of York Poetics Research Centre Royal Holloway HUMANITIES & ARTS RESEARCH — NSTITUTE / MARAMA SALSANO: 'KO WAI AU? WHOSE WATERS DO I DESCEND FROM?' / KATIE HART POTAPOFF: 'A RETURN TO THE CROOK IN MY ELBOW' / KARAN CHAMBERS: 'WHAT THE WATER GAVE US: FEMINIST HYDROPOETICS AND THE REIMAGINING OF FOLKLORE' / CONEFFLUENTS: 'LEAKY INSTRUMENTS: HOSTING, TOOLS, AND POROSITY AT CHANNELSEA RIVER' / AYESHA HAMEED & DESIRE MULLA: 'A GLOSSARY OF AFTERLIVES OF TRANS-ATLANTIC SLAVERY' / ANITA SLATER: 'A POETICS OF GUIDANCE: THINKING THROUGH WATER AND GUIDEBOOKS' / JENNIFER HOWITT: 'ENTER FEN' / SUPRIYA KAUR DHALIWAL: 'AGAINST LISTENING: AN ANTI-RIVER MANIFESTO' / RACHEL MARSH: LETTING THE COLLOIDAL SUSPENSION SETTLE' / KATIE MCGETTIGAN: 'WATER/PAPER/WATER' / MONTENEGRO FISHER: 'FLUID GEOMETRIES' / HELENA HUNTER: 'ALGAE POETICS: PRACTICE RESEARCH WITH POETRY AND MARINE SCIENCE' / TUSSHARA NALAHUMAR SRILATHA: 'WAYS TO SUMMON WATER' / LIZ KENDALL: 'THE BRIDGE OF POETRY: MEMORY AS MOTIVATION FOR CLIMATE ACTION' / CHARLIE MILLS: 'UNDERFLOWAN' / IRIZAIDA NAVAR: 'RITUAL PARA QUE LLUEVA' / BECCA DRAKE & GAIA BLANDINA: 'RESURFACING THE KING'S POOL, A COLLABORATIVE SOUND PERFORMANCE' / TAMSYN CHALLENGER: 'WATER WORKS' / VERITY ROWSELL: 'OCEANIC BODIES' / 9.30AM - 6.00PM: CHESTNUTS LECTURE THEATRE ROVAL HOLLOWAY ECHAM CAMPUS Register via Eventbrite / Contact briony.hughes@rhul.ac.uk with any questions

INCREDIBLY excited to share the line up for the Hydropoetry in Practice conference! Join us at Royal Holloway or online on 30th July 🌊🌊🌊 www.eventbrite.com/e/hydropoetr...

Poster for an exhibition of artists books from Brazil at Bower Ashton Library in Bristol, UK.

Art Crossing Borders with Artists' Books: Bristol Welcoming Brazil. An exhibition of works by São Paulo-based study group “Artists' books, book-objects: among traces and effacement.”. Curated and produced by Fabíola Notari. Bower Ashton Library, for info visit:
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/livrosdearti...