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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This is for when you turn to see clementines in a bowl you bought in Portugal a few days ago and it doesn't matter that it's raining hard. The fire is warm. The cat is purring by your feet.
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This is for when you turn to see clementines in a bowl you bought in Portugal a few days ago and it doesn't matter that it's raining hard. The fire is warm. The cat is purring by your feet.
This is for when you turn to see clementines in a bowl you bought in Portugal a few days ago and it doesn't matter that it's raining hard. The fire is warm. The cat is purring by your feet.
November 14, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This is for when you turn to see clementines in a bowl you bought in Portugal a few days ago and it doesn't matter that it's raining hard. The fire is warm. The cat is purring by your feet.
For my forthcoming book, The Art of Looking Back: A painter, an obsession, and reclaiming the gaze, I read a fascinating essay by Sigmund Freud, “A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis”, written in the form of a letter to his friend Romain Rolland as a gift for the latter’s 70th birthday in 1936.
November 14, 2025 at 12:52 AM
For my forthcoming book, The Art of Looking Back: A painter, an obsession, and reclaiming the gaze, I read a fascinating essay by Sigmund Freud, “A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis”, written in the form of a letter to his friend Romain Rolland as a gift for the latter’s 70th birthday in 1936.
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.
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...
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...