Kieron Connolly

Earth at night viewed from space.

Comedy = tragedy + time

Scarborough Fair = parsley, sage, rosemary + thyme

Morning all.

Crown St, Gorbals, Glasgow 1970. Credit TSPL

The view out of a stationary train window, nothing but green fern like leaves very close up to the window.

South London.

German reunification celebrations in front of the Reichstag on 3 October 1990

35 years ago, Germany was reunified.

Poetry The award-winning Northern Irish poet Sinéad Morrissey reveals why the inimitable Sylvia Plath is not always a good influence on young poets and why sublimation of the self is sometimes better than…

“I tell my students, ‘Don’t put any abstract nouns into your poems. Just write about things you can count or put in a wheelbarrow’.”
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Good morning: here’s Bahnhof Zoo in 1983 🙌 #berlin

Cartoon of a man asking a receptionist for directions to Mr Escher's office. The receptionist replies ""Up the stairs. Keep turning right."

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DePalma about to sing ‘You Can Call Me Al’ whilst promoting Carlito’s Way with Al Pacino

Tony Harrison RIP
I taught Long Distance, his beautiful & honest poem about bereavement to my students for decades.
Eventually, it provided consolation to me as well.

Robert Redford | My Music: 'I went to concerts of Bach, Vivaldi and Wagner ... I responded to the depth and the feeling of it' Robert Redford, The Sundance Kid, on the impact of classical music – particularly Pachelbel – on his film directing

Robert Redford helped popularise Pachelbel's 'Canon' in his 1980 movie Ordinary People. But he'd first heard the music more than 15 years earlier while stuck in a fogbound hotel in Big Sur. 'It was absolutely haunting,' he said. www.gramophone.co.uk/features/art...

What we can learn from the eerie and mysterious worlds we leave behind Abandoned Places explores the worlds that we’ve left behind – eerie ghost towns, trains half-buried in the sand, forlorn movie palaces.

And here's a piece I wrote for @bigissue.com in 2025 about the book: www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

Abandoned places: the worlds we've left behind – in pictures Kieron Connolly’s new book of photographs of more than 100 once-busy and often elegant buildings gives an eerie idea of how the world might look if humankind disappeared.

Here's an extract the @theguardian.com ran when the book was first published: www.theguardian.com/travel/galle...

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Blackpool, 1981, photo by Chris Steele-Perkins.

Kids on an incredibly huge winding chute which sits on a stone embankment on a housing estate. A block of flats sits at the top left.

When kids ruled the streets.
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Killingworth, 1978.
Photo Chris Steele-Perkins

Students at the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre
Moscow, Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Chris Steele-Perkins
1988

Photo of six children in various positions on a brick, terraced background. The oldest one, in the center, is resting on a road bicycle.

Group of kids in Divis flats, West Belfast, 1978

📷Chris Steele Perkins

Morning all.

Photograph by Chris Steele Perkins, Middlesbrough, Back alley 1976.

West Belfast, Irlande du Nord, Royaume-Uni, 1978 - Chris Steele-Perkins, photographe britannique, membre de l'agence Magnum Photos.
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Chris Steele-Perkins, 1947-2025

RIP, Chris Steele Perkins, the great Magnum photographer. This image is from ‘The Troubles‘.
He was a contemporary of mine at Newcastle University, always had a camera with him

RIP Chris Steele-Perkins, the man who shot the ultimate "What, me worry?" photo.

© Chris Steele-Perkins (28 juil. 1947 - 8 sept. 2025) RIP

RIP Chris Steele-Perkins, a great photographer

RIP Chris Steele-Perkins

1947-2025 🩶

Remembering Chris Steele-Perkins (1947–2025) | Magnum Photos Magnum Photos

Remembering Chris Steele-Perkins. Great photographer. RIP.
https://www.magnumphotos.com/newsroom/remembering-chris-steele-perkins-1947-2025/

ALCS Tom-Gallon Trust Award - The Society of Authors For a short story of up to 5,000 words

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Commonwealth Short Story Prize - Commonwealth Foundation The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words). The competition is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country wh...

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