The edges of desire: on black walnuts and plantains. A short reflection on a path in Marble Hill Park, Twickenham, from this summer. Please check it out at fromatincup.com

I have recently learned that, not content with their other and better-known acts of violence, the Mongols also appear to have invented the protein shake. #marcopolo #history #mediaevalgymbros

I suspect that in typical Nietzsche style this is simultaneously absolutely true and also total garbage, but either way I think about it quite often

Peter Matthiessen on solitude. I grow into these mountains like a moss...

... and Wilfred Thesiger on the same theme. Stark suggests the disregard for solitude is a kind of disease of modernity. I wonder if actually the craving for it is just a symptom of something more fundamental

Freya Stark on solitude, travelling in Arabia...

Peter Porter wrote in a different context about the "pointlessness of poetry". Anyone writing poetry in the context of what's happening in Gaza must be acutely aware of that pointlessness now. On many levels, it doesn't matter what we say.

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