Theresa Kishkan
@fishgottaswim.bsky.social
a devotee of essays, novellas, hybrid writing, rivers, trees. 17 books. The Art of Looking Back: a painter, an obsession, and reclaiming the gaze, forthcoming (Thornapple Press, 2026). North American half of fishgottaswimeditions.com
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On a mild morning at Kew, the sound of water in the Temperate House...
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
On a mild morning at Kew, the sound of water in the Temperate House...
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Alt text: building faced with blue tiles
Alt text: building faced with blue tiles
postcard, sky changing
We were walking back from an amble to the river, joining the crowds in sunlight, passing the ones drinking Pina coladas (I think?) from hollowed pineapples (who knew this was a thing?), tiny paper …
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November 9, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Alt text: building faced with blue tiles
Alt text: building faced with blue tiles
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Just beyond the town of Vila Nova de Foz Coa, I looked back.
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Just beyond the town of Vila Nova de Foz Coa, I looked back.
Just beyond the town of Vila Nova de Foz Coa, I looked back.
November 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Just beyond the town of Vila Nova de Foz Coa, I looked back.
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Alt text: trees with yellow leaves overlooking hills and a deep valley
Alt text: trees with yellow leaves overlooking hills and a deep valley
postcard, beneath churchbells
We’d hoped to drive to Faia Brava to walk ( and hopefully encounter wild horses) but dear recipient of this postcard, the world has changed. No one navigates by maps any longer and we decline…
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November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Alt text: trees with yellow leaves overlooking hills and a deep valley
Alt text: trees with yellow leaves overlooking hills and a deep valley
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Alt text: trees with yellow leaves overlooking hills and a deep valley
Alt text: trees with yellow leaves overlooking hills and a deep valley
postcard, beneath churchbells
We’d hoped to drive to Faia Brava to walk ( and hopefully encounter wild horses) but dear recipient of this postcard, the world has changed. No one navigates by maps any longer and we decline…
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November 4, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Alt text: trees with yellow leaves overlooking hills and a deep valley
Alt text: trees with yellow leaves overlooking hills and a deep valley
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Alt text: a couch spread with kilim carpets
Alt text: a couch spread with kilim carpets
postcard, the Freud Museum
First we visited the Keats House, a place we’d gone to years ago, quiet in its leafy garden, and then we found the Freud Museum, a fascinating hoard of time and reflection — his, his da…
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November 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Alt text: a couch spread with kilim carpets
Alt text: a couch spread with kilim carpets
Astonishing to be here, at the Freud Museum in London. I read him fairly extensively for my forthcoming book...
October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Astonishing to be here, at the Freud Museum in London. I read him fairly extensively for my forthcoming book...
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Alt text: programme cover for Conor McPherson's The Weir, man's face against brown background.
Alt text: programme cover for Conor McPherson's The Weir, man's face against brown background.
postcard, with bruises
It would have been even better if the woman leaving the performance beside me hadn’t fallen against me and brought me down too, sprawled on the pavement outside the Harold Pinter Theatre, oth…
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October 30, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Alt text: programme cover for Conor McPherson's The Weir, man's face against brown background.
Alt text: programme cover for Conor McPherson's The Weir, man's face against brown background.
redux: morning (parenthesis)
Note: this was posted last September, when we were on the verge of going to France to visit the Dordorgne Valley and Vézère Valley (the Vézère River is a tributary of the Dordogne). _____________________ This morning, at the beginning of my swim, a little silver trout…
Note: this was posted last September, when we were on the verge of going to France to visit the Dordorgne Valley and Vézère Valley (the Vézère River is a tributary of the Dordogne). _____________________ This morning, at the beginning of my swim, a little silver trout…
redux: morning (parenthesis)
Note: this was posted last September, when we were on the verge of going to France to visit the Dordorgne Valley and Vézère Valley (the Vézère River is a tributary of the Dordogne). _____________________ This morning, at the beginning of my swim, a little silver trout jumped out of the water just beyond where I was heading, the curve of its body an opening parenthesis to my thinking.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
redux: morning (parenthesis)
Note: this was posted last September, when we were on the verge of going to France to visit the Dordorgne Valley and Vézère Valley (the Vézère River is a tributary of the Dordogne). _____________________ This morning, at the beginning of my swim, a little silver trout…
Note: this was posted last September, when we were on the verge of going to France to visit the Dordorgne Valley and Vézère Valley (the Vézère River is a tributary of the Dordogne). _____________________ This morning, at the beginning of my swim, a little silver trout…
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Options for ordering my forthcoming book!
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The Art of Looking Back
A former model, muse and object of obsession reclaims her image and voice, dismantling the male gaze that once framed her.
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October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Options for ordering my forthcoming book!
thornapplepress.ca/books/the-ar...
thornapplepress.ca/books/the-ar...
Options for ordering my forthcoming book!
thornapplepress.ca/books/the-ar...
thornapplepress.ca/books/the-ar...
The Art of Looking Back
A former model, muse and object of obsession reclaims her image and voice, dismantling the male gaze that once framed her.
thornapplepress.ca
October 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Options for ordering my forthcoming book!
thornapplepress.ca/books/the-ar...
thornapplepress.ca/books/the-ar...
An anniversary post
redux: “So let the battered old willow/thrash against the windowpanes” (Stanley Kunitz)
Note: it's our wedding anniversay today. 46 years. Last year we walked from our Marais apartment to a celebratory dinner at a pretty little bistro on Île Saint-Louis in Paris. Another year we spent the night at…
Note: it's our wedding anniversay today. 46 years. Last year we walked from our Marais apartment to a celebratory dinner at a pretty little bistro on Île Saint-Louis in Paris. Another year we spent the night at…
redux: “So let the battered old willow/thrash against the windowpanes” (Stanley Kunitz)
Note: it's our wedding anniversay today. 46 years. Last year we walked from our Marais apartment to a celebratory dinner at a pretty little bistro on Île Saint-Louis in Paris. Another year we spent the night at the Quilchena Hotel with its views of Nicola Lake and the grassy hills. Maybe the oddest anniversary? The one in this post, 5 years ago.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
An anniversary post
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redux: “So let the battered old willow/thrash against the windowpanes” (Stanley Kunitz)
Note: it's our wedding anniversay today. 46 years. Last year we walked from our Marais apartment to a celebratory dinner at a pretty little bistro on Île Saint-Louis in Paris. Another year we spent the night at…
Note: it's our wedding anniversay today. 46 years. Last year we walked from our Marais apartment to a celebratory dinner at a pretty little bistro on Île Saint-Louis in Paris. Another year we spent the night at…
redux: “So let the battered old willow/thrash against the windowpanes” (Stanley Kunitz)
Note: it's our wedding anniversay today. 46 years. Last year we walked from our Marais apartment to a celebratory dinner at a pretty little bistro on Île Saint-Louis in Paris. Another year we spent the night at the Quilchena Hotel with its views of Nicola Lake and the grassy hills. Maybe the oddest anniversary? The one in this post, 5 years ago.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
redux: “So let the battered old willow/thrash against the windowpanes” (Stanley Kunitz)
Note: it's our wedding anniversay today. 46 years. Last year we walked from our Marais apartment to a celebratory dinner at a pretty little bistro on Île Saint-Louis in Paris. Another year we spent the night at…
Note: it's our wedding anniversay today. 46 years. Last year we walked from our Marais apartment to a celebratory dinner at a pretty little bistro on Île Saint-Louis in Paris. Another year we spent the night at…
redux: “So let the battered old willow/thrash against the windowpanes” (Stanley Kunitz)
Note: it's our wedding anniversay today. 46 years. Last year we walked from our Marais apartment to a celebratory dinner at a pretty little bistro on Île Saint-Louis in Paris. Another year we spent the night at…
Note: it's our wedding anniversay today. 46 years. Last year we walked from our Marais apartment to a celebratory dinner at a pretty little bistro on Île Saint-Louis in Paris. Another year we spent the night at…
redux: “So let the battered old willow/thrash against the windowpanes” (Stanley Kunitz)
Note: it's our wedding anniversay today. 46 years. Last year we walked from our Marais apartment to a celebratory dinner at a pretty little bistro on Île Saint-Louis in Paris. Another year we spent the night at the Quilchena Hotel with its views of Nicola Lake and the grassy hills. Maybe the oddest anniversary? The one in this post, 5 years ago.
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October 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
redux: “So let the battered old willow/thrash against the windowpanes” (Stanley Kunitz)
Note: it's our wedding anniversay today. 46 years. Last year we walked from our Marais apartment to a celebratory dinner at a pretty little bistro on Île Saint-Louis in Paris. Another year we spent the night at…
Note: it's our wedding anniversay today. 46 years. Last year we walked from our Marais apartment to a celebratory dinner at a pretty little bistro on Île Saint-Louis in Paris. Another year we spent the night at…
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“If a safe and inviting public realm filled with arts and culture is essential for Victoria – as city councillors claim that it is – I find it curious that there’s no appetite to compel a negligent landlord to take action and breathe life back into Bastion Square.”
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Demolition by Neglect
“Demolition by neglect” occurs when the owner of a historic property allows it to decay beyond repair. The phrase is a warning call to built heritage...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:35 PM
“If a safe and inviting public realm filled with arts and culture is essential for Victoria – as city councillors claim that it is – I find it curious that there’s no appetite to compel a negligent landlord to take action and breathe life back into Bastion Square.”
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