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“Bird at Dawn, February” appears in Sixty Odd (Shambhala, 1999)
4. Bird at Dawn, February In the deep ogive of the dawn freshness, to hold still and so be given this first voice so far, so early in the dark that will be spring, that will again and still be all tendril, freshet, frond unfolding, song again and still again and still.
February 10, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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Today would have been Ursula K. Le Guin’s 96th birthday. I celebrated by visiting The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin at AA Gallery in London. What a treat! A selection of her maps & drawings. And a beautiful book! Happy birthday @ursulakleguin.com

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Photo taken inside the exhibition The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin at AA Gallery in London, UK. The wall is painted a vivid blue and the title is on the wall in large shiny silver vinyl letters. On a shelf below there are stacks of the programme and map to the show, also printed in vivid blue and silver. There is also a pile of round stones large pebbles, some etched with Ursula’s drawings and some wrapped in blue cord.. The Word for World exhibition is free to visit in the AA Gallery from 10 October – 6 December 2025, Monday to Saturday, 11am–7pm. When Ursula K Le Guin was writing a new story, she would begin by drawing a map. The Word for World presents a selectionof these images by the celebrated author, many of which have never been exhibited before, to consider how her imaginary worlds enable us to re-envision our own. The Word for World exhibition is curated by Sarah Shin and designed by Standard Deviation, with thanks to Theo Downes-Le Guin and the Ursula K Le Guin Foundation. The exhibition is generously supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Photo of me holding a copy of Ursula K. Le Guin's BOOK OF CATS. My fingers hold the book open on a page that shows an adorable photo of young Ursula crouching down, smiling beside a black cat. Her hair is dark, but she has the same sharp bob haircut that she had later in life. Behind is a window looking out from the exhibition of UKLG's maps at the AA Gallery, looking onto Bedford Square and large trees in the park. The exhibition includes a long shelf table with copies of a selection of UKLG’s books for visitors to read. Photo of two tree drawings made by Ursula K. Le Guin. Ink on paper. Photo taken inside the exhibition The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin at AA Gallery in London. The wall is painted a vivid blue. Hanging on the wall is a framed drawing of Stonehenge that Ursula made during a trip to the UK in the 70's. Sitting on the shelf below the framed drawing are large rounded pebbles, some stacked in little piles and two large ones leaning against the wall. Some of the stones are engraved with Ursula's drawings. The shelf has a decorative frieze below that echoes the standing stones above.
October 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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“But you are making plans / without a future and my now / is twisted into your crying.” Read “Entanglements,” a poem by Ursula K. Le Guin about cats.
A Poem by Ursula K. Le Guin About Cats
“Entanglements” March 28 Black cat, amiable visitor, let’s give each other all the pleasure we can, quick, yes, sitting on each other in the sunlight and stroking each other with our hands and face…
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October 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Ca. 2014, uncollected (?) poem. Happy Valentine's Day!
A Valentine for Charles How many years and voyages ago it was we found that beautiful rose-quartz stone on the grey sand-beach of St Malo! Too big, too heavy for our luggage, so we left it, though it went against our hearts, having long years and voyages to go. We liked the old town, but its people had no liking for us: Yanks bombed the Breton ports, the German ships in dock at St Malo, destroyed the wharves in ’44. The streets still showed pits and blast-scars, and house-walls held the hurts and shocks of bombing-raids ten years ago. But we were happy lovers wandering slow, entwined, and bending down by fits and starts to take a pebble from the beach of St Malo. Here's a pretty one ... and here ... but oh! Look, look! The rose of stone beyond all arts! Oh, can we keep it, take it when we go? We did. We took the beauty with the woe, and left the heavy, rosy piece of quartz, many long years and voyages ago. It's ours, there on the beach of St Malo.
February 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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The best historical artefacts are the accidental ones that freeze a moment in time forever.

I thought I’d try to find all the times pets have ruined their owner's day and recorded that instant for all of history.
An illustration of a cat licking itself in the margins of a medieval manuscript. A cat pawprint left in the ink of a medieval manuscript.
January 3, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Two more new Italian editions coming from Oscar/Mondadori: The Farthest Shore (La Spiaggia Piu Lontana) and Tehanu.

Art director: Fernando Ambrosi
Graphic designer: Claudia Puglisi
Cover art: Illustrazione (c) Jeugov
The new Italian cover of Tehanu shows a stylized dragon with a figure in its belly under the title and the series title (Terramare, in Italian). A black dragon twines around the border. The new Italian cover of The Farthest Shore shows a stylized boat being tossed on heavy waves under the title and the series title (Terramare, in Italian). A black dragon twines around the border.
January 14, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Earthsea fan comic (5-6/6)

#earthsea #fantasy #dnd #comic
December 18, 2024 at 8:13 AM
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Launching this account with a bang! A book cover of A wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin I did for my portfolio a while ago and never posted anywhere. #art #earthsea
November 14, 2024 at 12:38 PM
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[ #earthsea #thetombsofatuan ]

an honor to coexist with you
digital fan art of tenar and ged from the second book of the earthsea series. they are hugging, tenar's face against ged's scarred chest. ged presses his cheek into her forehead, smiling gently, while tenar gazes out solemnly. above them is a glowing symbol mimicking a waxing gibbous.
December 31, 2024 at 8:12 AM
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My imagining of Ogion and Sparrowhawk, from Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea. #fanart #ursulakleguin #awizardofearthsea #ogion #sparrowhawk #fantasynovel
December 6, 2024 at 7:15 AM
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A couple of pages I put together while reading through A Wizard of Earthsea for the first time. #fanart #ursulakleguin #ged #earthsea #awizardofearthsea
November 11, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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"For Le Guin, writing was a 'willingness to relinquish control, an act of trust.' Her universes were born of the belief that her imaginative instincts would take her where she needed to go — out among her fellow aliens and the stars."
The Essential Ursula K. Le Guin
Her powerful imagination turned hypothetical elsewheres into vivid worlds governed by forces of nature, technology, gender, race and class a far cry from our own.
www.nytimes.com
August 17, 2023 at 9:34 PM
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Henk Pander’s portrait of Ursula hangs in the Paulson Reading Room at the University of Oregon’s Knight Library (which is also home to her archives).

(It’s quite high up on the wall - hence the angle!)
Henk Pander's portrait of Ursula K. Le Guin shows her wrapped in an orange and red shawl, wearing gray pants and black shoes, sitting in a comfortable chair with a piece of what looks like embroidery work in her hands. Next to her is a table covered in a red cloth, with an open book, a rock, and other miscellaneous items. More books are stacked on the floor.
December 16, 2024 at 8:53 PM