“Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with and old books to read.” All we need in life, according to one 17th century writer.

Wyndham Lewis enters the All-Europe Man-Spreading Championships 1913z

A temporary installation in my garden titled ‘17th July 1789’

‘On Going to Read Don Paterson’s Famous Zen Poem in the Digital Edition of his Book and Not Finding It’ #poetry #missingpoetry #digitalEditionsNotDoingTheirJob #thisIsMyThesisInANutshell

Following @jntod.bsky.social’s impossible Christmas poetry quiz, here is another question I have no answer to. Unless it’s Malc Bradbry.

Cover design by Vanessa Bell for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. Love the emphasis on the price on the spine, which almost outweighs the title and author’s name.

“Has anyone written anything about the contemporary reception of Un Coup de dés?” I asked innocently.

Yes indeed.

They have written 1060 PAGES about it. En français, bien sûr.

More printing delights - this is a #monotype machine in its process of turning holes on a strip of paper into freshly-moulded letters and, most excitingly for me, spaces. Seen at Norwich Print Museum.

This is a flong. From Norwich Print Museum.

A poem carved in stone at Kettle’s Yard Cambridge, by Ian Hamilton Finlay who was not entirely convinced by the whole pebble vibe there. #nationalpoetryday