farsouthproject
@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:
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TEMPLE LAMENT
Bereep-Bereep is the Indigenous name for Mount Cole. It translates as ‘wild’ in the language of the Beeripmo balug group of the Djab wurrung people.…
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Here's a link to my short film Temple Lament that was shown at the UNFIX NYC 2025 Film Festival and at Melbourne Documentary Film Festival.
Enjoy: vimeo.com/1037315566
Enjoy: vimeo.com/1037315566
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Plenty of tickets left for live M R James storytelling shows in the next fortnight in Sheffield, Bungay, Cambridge and Bristol.
Details and ticket links here www.nunkie.co.uk/schedule
Details and ticket links here www.nunkie.co.uk/schedule
February 2, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Plenty of tickets left for live M R James storytelling shows in the next fortnight in Sheffield, Bungay, Cambridge and Bristol.
Details and ticket links here www.nunkie.co.uk/schedule
Details and ticket links here www.nunkie.co.uk/schedule
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"Colonizers could only explain anti-patriarchal activism as devil worship and witchcraft, placing blame on the marginalized populations of the colony." - Adrian Deveau
niche-canada.org/2023/10/03/c...
#envhist #envhum #quebec #folklore
niche-canada.org/2023/10/03/c...
#envhist #envhum #quebec #folklore
Consultation with the Devil: Witchcraft and Stolen Land in the Quebecois Colonial Imaginary
Folklore is embedded in the heart of Quebecois culture.
niche-canada.org
February 2, 2026 at 4:16 PM
"Colonizers could only explain anti-patriarchal activism as devil worship and witchcraft, placing blame on the marginalized populations of the colony." - Adrian Deveau
niche-canada.org/2023/10/03/c...
#envhist #envhum #quebec #folklore
niche-canada.org/2023/10/03/c...
#envhist #envhum #quebec #folklore
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“Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself.”
— from a letter to Hawthorne, a few months before completing Moby-Dick
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
— from a letter to Hawthorne, a few months before completing Moby-Dick
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
February 2, 2026 at 4:40 PM
“Until I was twenty-five, I had no development at all. From my twenty-fifth year I date my life. Three weeks have scarcely passed, at any time between then and now, that I have not unfolded within myself.”
— from a letter to Hawthorne, a few months before completing Moby-Dick
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
— from a letter to Hawthorne, a few months before completing Moby-Dick
#MelvilleMonday 🐳
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"Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants, willing to be dethroned."
Ulysses by James Joyce was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach #OTD in 1922.
Ulysses at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300
#books #literature
Ulysses by James Joyce was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach #OTD in 1922.
Ulysses at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300
#books #literature
February 2, 2026 at 4:45 PM
"Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants, willing to be dethroned."
Ulysses by James Joyce was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach #OTD in 1922.
Ulysses at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300
#books #literature
Ulysses by James Joyce was published in Paris by Sylvia Beach #OTD in 1922.
Ulysses at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4300
#books #literature
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James Joyce, Writer, #BornOnThisDay in 1882, in Rathgar, Dublin
February 2, 2026 at 9:26 AM
James Joyce, Writer, #BornOnThisDay in 1882, in Rathgar, Dublin
I'm in the State Library of Victoria almost every day to write. I fuel up at Mr Tulk cafe, a part of the library for 8 years. Now the Executive Board wants to replace it with a Corporation that caters Grand Prix, Australian Open and Melbourne Cup. Pls sign the petition to stop that.
c.org/F52wdSzYmV
c.org/F52wdSzYmV
Sign the Petition
SAVE MR TULK!
c.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:34 AM
I'm in the State Library of Victoria almost every day to write. I fuel up at Mr Tulk cafe, a part of the library for 8 years. Now the Executive Board wants to replace it with a Corporation that caters Grand Prix, Australian Open and Melbourne Cup. Pls sign the petition to stop that.
c.org/F52wdSzYmV
c.org/F52wdSzYmV
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"the State Library’s LinkedIn profile would have to concede ‘a proven track record of abysmal relationships with commercial partners as well as staff, and a highly-developed capacity for trashing their brand name and alienating the public." Gideon Haigh on Mr Tulk www.cricketetal.com/p/whats-stil...
What's (Still) Happening at the State Library of Victoria?
GH catches up
www.cricketetal.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:04 AM
"the State Library’s LinkedIn profile would have to concede ‘a proven track record of abysmal relationships with commercial partners as well as staff, and a highly-developed capacity for trashing their brand name and alienating the public." Gideon Haigh on Mr Tulk www.cricketetal.com/p/whats-stil...
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Robert Crumb review – sexual deviancy elevated to an art form
Robert Crumb review – sexual deviancy elevated to an art form
Though they were created for comic books, the artist’s horny and hilarious drawings of his own neuroses, and of glamazons in thigh-high boots, are unnervingly powerful on gallery walls
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Robert Crumb review – sexual deviancy elevated to an art form
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Massive thanks to writer and film-maker @andrewhook.bsky.social for including Nameless Lake in his top three reads of 2025! @saltpublishing.com Lots of great film and music recommendations here too Andrew-hook.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-best-and-worst-of-2025.html
January 31, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Massive thanks to writer and film-maker @andrewhook.bsky.social for including Nameless Lake in his top three reads of 2025! @saltpublishing.com Lots of great film and music recommendations here too Andrew-hook.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-best-and-worst-of-2025.html
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Call for Papers: The Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2026 celebrates 100 years of The Women’s Library and a century of women’s history.
Details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHN2026 #CFP
Image LSE Flickr: Meeting of WSPU leaders, c.1906.
Details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHN2026 #CFP
Image LSE Flickr: Meeting of WSPU leaders, c.1906.
January 31, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Call for Papers: The Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2026 celebrates 100 years of The Women’s Library and a century of women’s history.
Details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHN2026 #CFP
Image LSE Flickr: Meeting of WSPU leaders, c.1906.
Details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
#GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHN2026 #CFP
Image LSE Flickr: Meeting of WSPU leaders, c.1906.
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Leonor Fini
1951 • André Ostier
1951 • André Ostier
January 30, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Leonor Fini
1951 • André Ostier
1951 • André Ostier
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My short story ‘How It Works’ @grantamag.bsky.social granta.com/how-it-works/
January 30, 2026 at 10:47 PM
My short story ‘How It Works’ @grantamag.bsky.social granta.com/how-it-works/
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The Birth Year of Punk Rock: The movement that caused a rupture in the musical genre was born 50 years ago, and even then it had a tendency to become bloated
The birth year of punk rock
The movement that caused a rupture in the musical genre was born 50 years ago, and even then it had a tendency to become bloated
english.elpais.com
January 30, 2026 at 6:05 PM
The Birth Year of Punk Rock: The movement that caused a rupture in the musical genre was born 50 years ago, and even then it had a tendency to become bloated
Another vertiginous live dive with The Necks last night at Melbourne Recital Centre...
January 29, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Another vertiginous live dive with The Necks last night at Melbourne Recital Centre...
Words and music by @Colston.Phillips.Check out his YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/shorts/N386n...
The Brackish Talisman
YouTube video by Colston Phillips
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January 29, 2026 at 12:58 PM
Words and music by @Colston.Phillips.Check out his YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/shorts/N386n...
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My final post for #JanuaryInJapan looks at Thomas Gaubatz's 'The Textual Townsman' (courtesy of Columbia University Press), a book that takes us back to the Tokugawa period and examines it through the eyes of two writers:
tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/t...
tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/t...
‘The Textual Townsman’ by Thomas Gaubatz (Review)
After the last couple of #JanuaryInJapan posts saw us spending time in the Heian Era, we’re skipping forward a good few centuries today for the final review post of the month, with our focus …
tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:46 AM
My final post for #JanuaryInJapan looks at Thomas Gaubatz's 'The Textual Townsman' (courtesy of Columbia University Press), a book that takes us back to the Tokugawa period and examines it through the eyes of two writers:
tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/t...
tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/t...
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Hadn't played this in a while...
January 28, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Hadn't played this in a while...
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....in which I spend some time with the works of #hplovecraft and find them incredibly compelling! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/a...
“….a contagious nightmare hallucination…” #hplovecraft
For once, I’m delighted that I can recall exactly what prompted me to buy a book!! At the start of last year, I treated myself to a few of the new Penguin Archive 90 volumes, one of which was…
kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:46 AM
....in which I spend some time with the works of #hplovecraft and find them incredibly compelling! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/01/28/a...
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"The night is so dark I can barely make out your face in the bushes ..."
For Elisa — @gpayares.bsky.social (tr. Paul Filev)
@spurleditions.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2026/01/27/f...
For Elisa — @gpayares.bsky.social (tr. Paul Filev)
@spurleditions.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2026/01/27/f...
For Elisa — Gabriel Payares (tr. Paul Filev)
For José Roberto Duque The law is born of innocents breathing their last in the rising dawn.Michel Foucault Stranger: The night is so dark I can barely make out your face in the bushes. No doubt yo…
minorliteratures.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:59 PM
"The night is so dark I can barely make out your face in the bushes ..."
For Elisa — @gpayares.bsky.social (tr. Paul Filev)
@spurleditions.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2026/01/27/f...
For Elisa — @gpayares.bsky.social (tr. Paul Filev)
@spurleditions.bsky.social
minorliteratures.com/2026/01/27/f...
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"Her name was Elisa. It was her grandmother’s name and her mother’s middle name as well. She was always so silent, like a piece of jewelry in a shop window or a painting on a museum wall"
For Elisa — Gabriel Payares (tr. Paul Filev) minorliteratures.com/2026/01/27/f...
For Elisa — Gabriel Payares (tr. Paul Filev) minorliteratures.com/2026/01/27/f...
For Elisa — Gabriel Payares (tr. Paul Filev)
For José Roberto Duque The law is born of innocents breathing their last in the rising dawn.Michel Foucault Stranger: The night is so dark I can barely make out your face in the bushes. No doubt yo…
minorliteratures.com
January 27, 2026 at 8:00 PM
"Her name was Elisa. It was her grandmother’s name and her mother’s middle name as well. She was always so silent, like a piece of jewelry in a shop window or a painting on a museum wall"
For Elisa — Gabriel Payares (tr. Paul Filev) minorliteratures.com/2026/01/27/f...
For Elisa — Gabriel Payares (tr. Paul Filev) minorliteratures.com/2026/01/27/f...
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"…the owl represented death and power…"
The owls are exactly what they seem. Waiting for Mark Frost to issue an apology.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
The owls are exactly what they seem. Waiting for Mark Frost to issue an apology.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb discovered in Mexico features enormous owl sculpture symbolizing death
The president of Mexico called the discovery of a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in Oaxaca the "most significant archaeological discovery in a decade."
www.livescience.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:07 PM
"…the owl represented death and power…"
The owls are exactly what they seem. Waiting for Mark Frost to issue an apology.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
The owls are exactly what they seem. Waiting for Mark Frost to issue an apology.
www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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