@farsouthproject.bsky.social
Des Barry: author of Chivalry of Crime, A Bloody Good Friday, Cressida's Bed @JonathanCape; Far South @serpentstail, Nonfiction @3ammagazine, Granta. Butoh Performer. Some poem and film links: vimeo.com/farsouthproject https://overlapping.vercel.app/home
I didn't know what to expect when I saw Sirât. It's the story of an older Spanish man and his young son looking for his missing daughter among European rave crews in the Moroccan desert. Think of all the possible contradictions within the culture clash. Pretty harrowing and challenging. Excellent.
The early years of the regime were the warning signs so there the dreamers are conformist or resistant. As the book proceeds to when the total horror was unleashed, the nightmares are overwhelming. It's a slow and ultimately terrifying process to which to pay attention right now.
Fascinating study of people's dreams who were constantly bombarded with Nazi propaganda and physical intimidation in the 1930s. Interesting that only those who actively resisted in real life maintained their agency when in the dream state.
My Year of Reading Welshly with Alex Johnson @shedworking.bsky.social in conversation with @mikeparker.bsky.social.
Date: Saturday 13th June 2026
Venue: Montgomery Town Hall
Time: 3.30-4.15pm
Tickets: £9.00
montylitfest.com?page_id=9077
June 1, 1974: When Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico combined for a stunning live album faroutmagazine.co.uk/kevin-ayers-...
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Ҥ What does belonging have to do with sensory discomfort?
§ What does belonging have to do with exhaustion?
§ What does belonging have to do with time?
§ What does belonging have to do with pain?”
Listing — Sef
Competition for a scarce resource.
Jackdaws tentatively explore the potential of this nesting hole in an old hedgerow Oak.
I have known Tawny, Barn & Little Owls to nest or roost in this tree & such wonderful nesting holes are hard to find.
They are very cautious as to who they might encounter.
Fortunate and grateful to be part of this editorial collective which still pursues all the good things of academic endeavour, ie theoretical debates and rigorous analysis, which are discussed in-person in lively editorial committee meetings.
And not many good things like this are left in academia.
Pages from the Wild Twin Notebooks.
Last night a film about young Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan free on SBS if you're in Australia. Fascinating biopic set in early 20th century about the struggles of an intuitive genius having to struggle with the pomposity and racism of Cambridge University.
www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/mov...
Looking at the homepage of all of our news organisations, you'd be excused to think that war is happening on a different planet, and its effects are limited to costly/inconvenient supply chain disruptions. It's like we're not living through history. (See also: muted, cowardly coverage of Gaza.)
“At the end of the day, the best measure of the humanity of any society is the life and happiness of its children. We live in a rich society with poor children, and that should be intolerable.”
— Mike Davis, City of Quartz (2006 preface)
Supercool women’s music site @thefortyfive.bsky.social asked me to write about the women in punk who influenced me the most - and I did!
Enjoy, comment, share!
CC x
thefortyfive.com/opinion/the-...
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#foundpainting No.443
Draw The Vertical Line
A bowl of freshly plucked passion fruit and a plate of freshly plucked figs. It's like... Biblical...
Miners - Wales (1965)
📷 by Bruce Davidson
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![Paul Eluard. Répétitions. Dessins de Max Ernst. A Paris au sans pareil. [1922] (Red cover, black script, b/w collage of three hands two of which are threading an eye, within a black frame)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lcr27kqaz3vheqnwf3f6vnlb/bafkreidp6dwqmjn7y7gmdeijjjxgdizneps53hrwfjzcvsn2vlbf7eykue)
Reflections : Carnation / Répétitions
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... Afternoon stroll soundtrack: the third part of this remarkable adaptation @bbcsounds.bsky.social
For International Women's Day, an acknowledgement of the woman who was a big influence on me in the process of becoming a writer.
If you get a chance, go to see this compassionate and inspiring film about death and dying and grieving and being alive to the world.
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/mat...
R.I.P. Joseph “Country Joe” McDonald, frontman of counterculture folk-rock icons Country Joe And The Fish. He wrote the Berkeley band’s most enduring songs including the Vietnam War protest anthem “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” and “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine,” a Hot 100 hit. McDonald was 84.
Save the dates!!
RS Thomas & ME Eldridge Poetry & Arts Festival
June 18-21 in Aberdaron
Theme is "Abercuawg"
Rowan Williams, Jason Walford-Davies, Clare e. Potter, & more
Tickets on sale later in March
rsthomaspoetry.co.uk
An actor asked what he should primarily work toward. Grotowski answered, 'Sincérité in extemis, mais lés details en cristal,' which in English means what it sounds like: sincerity at its most extreme, but details in crystal.
- André Gregory
If you get a chance, go to see this compassionate and inspiring film about death and dying and grieving and being alive to the world.
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/mat...
Mexican Photojournalist, Surrealist photographer and teacher Kati Horna
Untitled, from An Ode to Necrophilia, 1962
(with Leonora Carrington)
#KatiHorna #Photography #Surrealism