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Lucy Furlong
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writing ~ mapping ~ walking ~ snapping
clew~ (Hesterglock Press) Villiers Path, Sward, Amniotic City 2nd ed. (Sampson Low)
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Morning all, lovely day yesterday for a return to one of the first labyrinths I walked, a good few years ago now. The obsession continues. #walking
December 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Been REALLY bogged down with stuff to do with fighting for my son’s school place next year (EHCP reviews etc - if you know you know) but now am looking through half-finished poems, many from Wexford when I was there during the pandemic. Wexford Town in all its sunshiney glory from October 2020. #sen
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
My life in storage...
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Feeling this today, from @brianbilston.bsky.social , as I bag up clothes for charity shops (no time for Vinted which seems to be all the rage these days) and re-sort out and box up stuff to go back into storage. #poetrysky
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Wonderful labyrinth walk on Sat afternoon. I spent the afternoon in a beautiful chapel in Hampstead, with stained glass by Burne Jones & William Morris. A quick snap, taken at the end of the afternoon. Needed this -I’m now entering more legal processes to keep my son in his school next year.
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Afternoon all, scrambling through admin towards another trip down to Sussex tomorrow to immerse myself in art-making for the next 5 days! Here's the Mark Wallinger labyrinth at Embankment (it's been slightly augmented- not by me) #labyrinths
October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I revisited this beauty yesterday while I was in Sussex with my niece #labyrinth #walking
October 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I'm reading The Old Weird Albion, finally by Justin Hopper @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social - been on my list for a long time!
October 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Walking has been great today
October 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Wonderful couple of days in Sussex, reading, writing, attending the brilliant Counterpoints conference at West Dean College, bumping into old friends & making new friends! V tired so sadly am missing Small Pubs Fair. Teazles in the wind earlier today at Weald & Downland Living Museum #walkingart
October 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
No, make that black hair dye...
October 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Morning all,
I've been writing what may turn into a long poem - exciting to be back at it. I had some time walking in London on Monday, and I will never tire of it... here's the Mark Wallinger labyrinth at Waterloo #amwriting #poetrysky #labyrinth
October 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Sadly no labyrinth walking this weekend as am lurgyd up but here's one I walked back in August on a sweltering day in Brighton #labyrinth #walking
September 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
On Saturday I visited Misan Harriman’s incredible show, The Purpose of Light, currently on at Hope 93 gallery in the West End. I would highly recommend going. It captures this time we are in with great strength, humanity, warmth and feeling (link in next skeet) 1/2
September 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Yay about to see Modern Nature do an acoustic set at Rough Trade, tin pan alley #musicsky
August 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
#sealeychallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Last weekend I returned to Neil Sparkes's 2015 pamphlet, Xerox Sonnets & X-ray Blues- a great mix of words and collages, words that make up two of the songs on the Alex Hutton Trio's wonderful Magna Carta Suite. see alt text 4 more #poetrysky #musicsky
August 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
In A&E - you have to check in like this now...
August 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Days 20/21/22 of @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Patrick McGuinness's The Canals of Mars, Wendell Berry's The Peace of Wild Things: "To know the dark, go dark..."
Seamus Heaney's New Selected Poems 1966-1987 again all wonderful - all re-reads. #poetrysky #amreading #sealeychallenge
August 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
#sealeychallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Day 19. Revolutionary Letters by Diane di Prima - pub. in 1971. I'm never too far from this book. I had a chance to meet her when I got married in San Fran in 2018 but time was tight & I'm wary of meeting my heroes after a couple of rough experiences.
August 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
#SealeyChallenge- Days 17 & 18 These seemed to speak to each other or make a connection somehow with their layers of voices, ideas and narratives. Day 17 Rupert Loydell's 2011 Shearsman Books collection, Wildlife. Day 18 is Nikki Dudley 's Hem Press collection Exorcism Becomes Habit from 2023
August 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Catching up - days 14/15/16 of the #SealeyChallenge : all re-reads of permanent fixtures on my bookshelf - but still something new to discover or remember each time I read them @sealeychallenge.bsky.social really enjoying the opportunity to get stuck into poems old and new #poetrysky
August 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Day 13 of #sealeychallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Delighted to re-read Sarah Crewe's collection Floss from 2018. Back cover: "flick a woman thing & a phantom dog named floss" Again, highly recommended if you love walking, stories about family & evocation of place: "pyschogeographical shotput".
August 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Day 12 of #sealeychallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social Briony Hughes's Milk, from @hempressbooks.bsky.social Press in 2023 is an intense account of her health journey during the pandemic. Recommend reading. #poetrysky
August 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Day 11 of #sealeychallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social I love the slim volume of Ten Poems About London - especially WS Graham's The Night City: "Between the big buildings/ I sat like a flea crouched/ In the stopped works of a watch." Candlestick Press worth a look! #poetrysky
August 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Catching up-Day 10 #sealeychallenge -not been here for a while! Charles Simic's The Monster Loves His Labyrinth: " Like a ship at sea we were with stars and clouds up above. We were sailing full speed ahead. "That's where the infinite begins," I remember my father pointing with his long, dark hand."
August 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM