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It occurred to me that the telephone wires looked like the lines on a musical score.

On the excellent Poetry International site https://www.poetryinternational.com/en I came across the writing of Feng Na: Chinese Fable When I was small my father’s coworker ran off coming back with one of those briefcases full of money close, smutty talk f…

There is a neuroscience novel, called Radiant Cool, by neuroscientist professor Dan Lloyd, on MIT Press (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262621939/radiant-cool/) with a punning sub title by MIT: a novel theory of consciousness.

Queries on Death, the Infinite and Irrational Numbers, by John Stammers, 2025.

I have long suspected that we are being visited by huge cosmic birds.

Belgian pie-throwing activist Noël Godin dies aged 80 https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/2285449/belgian-pie-throwing-activist-noel-godin-dies-aged-80 What’s this?

2013 Chris Sheldrake and friends set up What3Words Limited. https://what3words.com ‘Chris had asked ‘a mathematician friend for the idea of dividing the world into 3-metre (10 ft) squares, and the linguist Jack Waley-Cohen with using memorable words‘ http…

Hettie O’Brien, in the current Guardian newspaper (UK) has posted this First Edition taster: <info@editorial.theguardian.com> https://www.theguardian.com/uk ‘Apparently, gangs of “feral yobs” now rampage the streets in “lawless Britain,” where even your w…

Twenty Poets of Argentina ed D Samoilovich and A Graham-Yool, Redbeck Press 2004 This is best kind of book; the Introduction not only gives us a thorough background to modern Argentinean poetry, but also invaluable notes on the poetics used, so often miss…

The Robbed Nest Idly watching the swing of her breasts: it was the soft flutter of a sparrow, he protests he’d long suspected she protected there, tracking the pulse in her neck, to see the soft slow incline each way free.