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Image of Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral-Crypt flat, walkable roof showing a lattice of grey roof tiles extending into the distance.

Each tile or flag makes up a vast lattice of suffering, a patchwork of trauma unbeknownst to the volunteer ecclesiasts that welcome tourists from around the world to this concrete crypt.

Adept seagulls intelligently intercepting the field of flow:

A stitched 2D SketchUp map of Brownlow Hill Workhouse based the 1864 Parish of Liverpool Block General Plan. The site of the workhouse is currently occupied by Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral

A stitched 2D SketchUp map-model of Brownlow Hill Workhouse based on the 1864 Parish of Liverpool Block General Plan. The site of the workhouse is currently occupied by Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. #workhouse #liverpool

Four matchbox-size brick samples in a paper towel. The brick samples have been cut from bricks belonging to Liverpool’s, demolished ‘citadel’ Workhouse located where the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King now stands.

For poetic-theoretical-philosophical consumption only.

Four matchbox-size brick samples in a paper towel. The brick samples have been cut from bricks belonging (?) to Liverpool’s ‘citadel’ Workhouse, once located where the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King now stands.

A graphic promoting the Pavilion Poetry 2025 launch event on May 1, 2025, from 5–7 PM at the School of Arts Library, Liverpool. The banner detailing this information is light blue. Features three book covers: Archivum by Theresa Muñoz, The Ishtar Gate by Sarah Corbett, and The Lives of Z by Olivia McCannon. Free entry. The Archivum book cover is pink, The Ishtar Gate book cover is white and The Lives of Z is coral. The background is a blue sky with clouds. The white Pavilion Poetry logo is in the centre next to a link for tickets to the event.

Just one month to go until our Pavilion Poetry launch event! ☁️📖

Join us for an unforgettable evening with the brilliant Theresa Muñoz, Sarah Corbett, and Olivia McCannon.

Tickets are FREE - grab yours now via the link below: bit.ly/PavilionLaun... 📚

#PavilionPoetry #PoetryCommunity #BookLaunch

Blackacre
Monica Youn

Graywolf Press
ISBN: 978-1-55597-750-4

“This is an allegory / for what has been discarded”
Epiphyte, p.32

Walls: A History of Civilization in Blood and Brick
David Frye
Faber & Faber, 2018
ISBN: 978-0-571-34841-1 (hardback)

Time and Narrative
Paul Ricoeur

Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin and David Pellauer
The University of Chicago Press, 1990
ISBN: 0-226-71332-6 (v. 1, paper)

“With mimesis opens the kingdom of the as if.”

Brick Index
Edited and designed by Patrick Fry
ISBN: 978-1-9164121-1-8
CentreCentre, 2019

“What isn’t in doubt for anyone prepared to spend time with this revelatory catalogue is that even the humble brick can be singled out and admired as an object of rough-hewn beauty.”

New Science
Giambattista Vico
Penguin Books, 2013
ISBN: 978-0-140-43569-6

“People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a clear mind.”

(p.94)

Blue Mythologies
Carol Mavor

Reaktion Books Ltd, 2013
ISBN: 978 1 78023 083 2

“Venice is a small and magical wet city. Venice is a blue Fortuny dress of 117 folded islands. The shimmering folds of Fortuny’s Delphos gown reflect the city of water (Venice) from which the dresses surfaced.”
(p.147)

Tide is in early at Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral on this New Year’s Day morning.

3D model of Brownlow Hill Workhouse using the 1864 Parish of Liverpool Block General Plan.

Here we go… 1 of 4 beginnings of a 3D model of Brownlow Hill Workhouse using the 1864 Parish of Liverpool Block General Plan. This section would match up with the front steps up to Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King.

A picture of a bench with wet clothes strewn across it: a shoe, underpants, a jumper, socks.

A post-Christmas assemblage of clothing scattered across a bench on the grounds of the University of Liverpool: a shoe, underpants, socks, jumper, etc.

Mount Pleasant from Brownlow Hill, 1962 and 2024

Brownlow Hill, 1960s and 2024

Front cover of A Check List of the Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire: Part 1. No illustrations.

A Check List of the Fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire: Part 1

“[Rhinolophus hipposiderus (Bech.). Lesser Horseshoe Bat. L. Reported by Forbes. C. Reported by Byerley. Neither report confirmed. Grindon's statement that R. FERRUM-EQUINUM (Schreb.) occurs near Manchester has no foundation. VI., 76.]”

Wow. The Supreme Court is defining what a woman is?

*Unlocks "all the best!" Christmas salutation for immediate use in every social encounter*

Yes, it is that time of year.

All the best.

Although influencers are still prisoners, they are masters of deception and have elevated themselves to the status of prison guards.

Next time the bailiffs knock on 👊

Exquisite Cadavers
Meena Kandasamy
Atlantic Books, 2019
ISBN: 978 1 78649 965 3 (hardback)

“She has a penchant for collecting grief, the skirts of pencil shavings, Fortnum & Mason tea tins, retro cushion covers and aeroplane boarding cards from their overseas holidays.”

(Parallel Lines, p.68)

Went to see @laurenelkin.bsky.social speak about her new novel Scaffolding at #LivLitFest at the weekend. Lots of writerly nutrition from Lauren. Currently listening to 90s rave as 6 blokes, unbeknown to me, throw up a load of scaffolding outside my living room window. 🤔🏗️📚

Employees should, at the very least, be paid their in-work hourly rate from the time they get up to get ready for work to the point when they return home from work. 👊🏼💪

Been pointing at stuff recently. This is me and my brother on a trip to Egypt:

The Dark Tower
Louis MacNeice
Faber and Faber Ltd, 1967
ISBN: pre-1970

“ROLAND (with quiet conviction).
The world is mad."

(p.35)

A response to events in Liverpool:

Also here: littlerobinson.wordpress.com/2024/08/04/a...

Poetic Fields Archiving perturbations in poetic fields

[POETIC FIELDS]

NEW (old), new-new & future-new content (and context) uploaded weekly (and often daily) to my [POETIC FIELDS] blog. Perturbations, murmurations and insights into my archival, acoustic and architectonic research on Liverpool’s ‘citadel’ workhouse:

littlerobinson.wordpress.com

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely:
An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine
Graywolf Press, 2004
Penguin Books, 2017

“Maybe hope is the same as breath—part of / what it means to be human and alive.”

We've just received our copy of ARCHIVES from the British Records Association via @livunipress.bsky.social Think I may be 2nd in the queue on this read. 🐈📖