Paul Robichaud 🐐🪨
@pjrobichaud.bsky.social
Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany (Reaktion, 2026) • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Poems in NewPoetry.ca, The South Shore Review, and The Ekphrastic Review • Professor of English
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If you live in the UK, you can now pre-order 'Stories of the Stones' directly from Reaktion Books or your favourite bookseller. Publication date is 1 February, 2026!
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Ah, just saw Cure guitarist Perry Bamonte has passed away after a short illness. RIP 🖤
December 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Ah, just saw Cure guitarist Perry Bamonte has passed away after a short illness. RIP 🖤
Stepson and uncle making some cat art on the frozen river this morning.
December 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Stepson and uncle making some cat art on the frozen river this morning.
First time since Tuesday that I haven’t had a fever, so definitely feeling better.
December 26, 2025 at 1:05 PM
First time since Tuesday that I haven’t had a fever, so definitely feeling better.
A chilly Boxing Day morning on the outskirts of Ottawa!
December 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A chilly Boxing Day morning on the outskirts of Ottawa!
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This is the 4.5m tall isolated menhir which stands on the W edge of the tertre tumulaire (a low but long type of tumulus) in the NW corner of the alignments at Kerlescan in Carnac (Morbihan). Card by Laurent in Port-Louis c. 1905.
December 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This is the 4.5m tall isolated menhir which stands on the W edge of the tertre tumulaire (a low but long type of tumulus) in the NW corner of the alignments at Kerlescan in Carnac (Morbihan). Card by Laurent in Port-Louis c. 1905.
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Three ghosts visited me last night, but I don’t really remember what all they said or showed me. Must not have been that important
December 25, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Three ghosts visited me last night, but I don’t really remember what all they said or showed me. Must not have been that important
Cheers, everyone!
December 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Cheers, everyone!
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Stalldon Row: This magnificent stone row (possibly the best in the land) stretches for over 500 metres in a north to south direction, mostly up the southern slopes of Stalldon Barrow hill, but with its northerly end just over the top of hill, and starting to wander back down the northern hillside.
December 25, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Stalldon Row: This magnificent stone row (possibly the best in the land) stretches for over 500 metres in a north to south direction, mostly up the southern slopes of Stalldon Barrow hill, but with its northerly end just over the top of hill, and starting to wander back down the northern hillside.
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Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.
December 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.
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From the diary of Reverend Kilvert, a Victorian clergyman in Wiltshire, Christmas Eve, 1874
December 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
From the diary of Reverend Kilvert, a Victorian clergyman in Wiltshire, Christmas Eve, 1874
Good to be back in Canada for the holidays. 🇨🇦
December 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Good to be back in Canada for the holidays. 🇨🇦
Spent the night tossing and turning with fever and chills in a hotel room in East Syracuse, New York, though the fever broke. Slept most of the morning and am feeling a bit better. Fortunately, my wife will be finishing the drive to Ottawa for Christmas. 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Spent the night tossing and turning with fever and chills in a hotel room in East Syracuse, New York, though the fever broke. Slept most of the morning and am feeling a bit better. Fortunately, my wife will be finishing the drive to Ottawa for Christmas. 🎄
In his ‘Hymn to Pan,’ notorious English magician Aleister Crowley urges the god to ‘Do as thou wilt, as a great god can / O Pan! Io Pan!’ #WyrdWednesday
December 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
In his ‘Hymn to Pan,’ notorious English magician Aleister Crowley urges the god to ‘Do as thou wilt, as a great god can / O Pan! Io Pan!’ #WyrdWednesday
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Across the River from the Capital (A Northern Nativity)
William Kurelek
1975
William Kurelek
1975
December 23, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Across the River from the Capital (A Northern Nativity)
William Kurelek
1975
William Kurelek
1975
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The oldest living thing in Wales: the yew in the churchyard of Llangernyw, #Conwy, which is believed to be somewhere in the region of 3,000 years old.
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Wales
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Wales
December 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The oldest living thing in Wales: the yew in the churchyard of Llangernyw, #Conwy, which is believed to be somewhere in the region of 3,000 years old.
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Wales
#ThickTrunkTuesday #Wales
December 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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22/12/25 - nocturn
December 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
22/12/25 - nocturn
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Found this on a bookstall about 20 years ago: Pan No. 1, 50p!
December 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Found this on a bookstall about 20 years ago: Pan No. 1, 50p!
This fascinating book by @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social altered my sense of European history; the story of the last European pagans in the Baltic and Fennoscandia is a revelation, but it also raises important questions about the nature of paganism, its relationship to Christianity, and religion itself.
December 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This fascinating book by @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social altered my sense of European history; the story of the last European pagans in the Baltic and Fennoscandia is a revelation, but it also raises important questions about the nature of paganism, its relationship to Christianity, and religion itself.
Pan appears to be performing a song-and-dance number in this mosaic from a Roman villa on Cyprus (3rd century AD), but he's really about to launch his lagobolon, a throwing stick used for hunting hares and other small animals. Pan was god of the hunt as well as a pastoral god. #MosaicMonday
December 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Pan appears to be performing a song-and-dance number in this mosaic from a Roman villa on Cyprus (3rd century AD), but he's really about to launch his lagobolon, a throwing stick used for hunting hares and other small animals. Pan was god of the hunt as well as a pastoral god. #MosaicMonday
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Winter Lights
Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian
2024
Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian
2024
December 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Winter Lights
Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian
2024
Roy Henry Vickers ~ Haida, Heiltsuk, Tsimshian
2024
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Happy Winter Solstice everyone.
One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work.
Lighter days ahead.
One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work.
Lighter days ahead.
December 21, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Happy Winter Solstice everyone.
One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work.
Lighter days ahead.
One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work.
Lighter days ahead.
For me, the weak light of solstice morning is reminder that hope always finds its way back into the world, but needs to be nourished.
December 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
For me, the weak light of solstice morning is reminder that hope always finds its way back into the world, but needs to be nourished.
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On the loom of winter, shadows
gather in a web; then the
shuttle of St. Lucy makes a
pause; a dark weave
fills the room…
—George Mackay Brown, “Maeshowe: Midwinter”
in FOLLOWING A LARK (John Murray, 1996)
#poem #poetry #Orkney #archaeology #prehistory
5/5
gather in a web; then the
shuttle of St. Lucy makes a
pause; a dark weave
fills the room…
—George Mackay Brown, “Maeshowe: Midwinter”
in FOLLOWING A LARK (John Murray, 1996)
#poem #poetry #Orkney #archaeology #prehistory
5/5
December 21, 2025 at 1:02 PM
On the loom of winter, shadows
gather in a web; then the
shuttle of St. Lucy makes a
pause; a dark weave
fills the room…
—George Mackay Brown, “Maeshowe: Midwinter”
in FOLLOWING A LARK (John Murray, 1996)
#poem #poetry #Orkney #archaeology #prehistory
5/5
gather in a web; then the
shuttle of St. Lucy makes a
pause; a dark weave
fills the room…
—George Mackay Brown, “Maeshowe: Midwinter”
in FOLLOWING A LARK (John Murray, 1996)
#poem #poetry #Orkney #archaeology #prehistory
5/5