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Lucy Furlong
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writing ~ mapping ~ walking ~ snapping
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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
me, in jeans, trainers, jumper and bomber jacket, walking to the centre of a paved cretan labyrinth, with hedge and church in the background and blue sky.
December 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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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
foreground is Wexford harbour very still with blue sky and clouds reflected. Midground is wexford town with its two steeples silhouetted in the harsh october light.
December 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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My life in storage...
Selfie of me, a middle aged bint with black hair and bomber jacket in the midst of a long corridor full of yellow doors.
November 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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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
text -poem Early Morning Love Poem Duvet you are so groovet, I'd like to stay under you all of Tuesdet. Brian Bilston
November 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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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.
In the foreground stretching away is a large Chartres style labyrinth in purple, painted on canvas (about 20 ft across approx). In the background is the back wall of the chapel I was in, in Hampstead, with the organ and choir in view...all darkened as it was a candlelit walk.
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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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
Black and white labyrinth at Embankment tube with a tiny face drawn in the middle so it looks like a worm.
October 31, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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I revisited this beauty yesterday while I was in Sussex with my niece #labyrinth #walking
Black tiled labyrinth laid in to the white marble tiled floor of Boxgrove Priory in Sussex, with impressive vaulted roof, pillars and pews in the background.
October 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I'm reading The Old Weird Albion, finally by Justin Hopper @oldweirdalbion.bsky.social - been on my list for a long time!
Book open face down on table with white cloth, silver fork and spoon and candle, plus water jug, glass and wine glass. Book cover is a black and white landscape, windy road and trees - The Old Weird Albion by Justin Hopper
October 27, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Walking has been great today
Walking up to Halnaker windmill - brown leafy ancient path trees meeting overhead- surprisingly green for October
October 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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
Teazles in the foreground, fuzzy and spiky, silhouetted against bright sunshine. Blue sky and traditional whitewashed house in the background at the museum.
October 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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No, make that black hair dye...
Me, with newly black hair (for about the 200th time at least) I will always always be dyeing my hair...
October 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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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
black and white complex labyrinth, in a black frame on beige tiles
October 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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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
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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
When you walk into the Hope 93 Gallery you immediately see a large landscape oriented black and white photo of a woman, with a keffiah around her face, and a head covering, under an umbrella, also with the keffiah design. The gallery is all white, walls, floors, ceiling and in this picture on the RHS along the walls are framed balck and white photos of people protesting at various events and for various causes.
September 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Yay about to see Modern Nature do an acoustic set at Rough Trade, tin pan alley #musicsky
Vinyl LP of modern Nature new album the Hear Warps, with photo of the 4 band members sitting behind a table with white cloth and candlesticks.
August 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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#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
Top centre, black and colour cd cover of Legentis by Alex Hutton Trio. Bottom LHS white cd cover with black illustration - both cd artwork done by Alban Low, my friend and publisher at Sampson Low Ltd. In the middle, orange flier and on RHS grey cover with black illustration Xerox Sonnets and Xray Blues by Neil Sparkes, published by Hesterglock Press in 2015. All laid out on parquet floor background. And funnily enough I was playing Legentis when I caught up with Alban the other day, who did the art work for both! My dad loved the Alex Hutton Trio and had heard and seen both Alban and Neil Sparkes in action on his many trips out to see jazz in London. It's wonderful when the world feels this close and harmonious. I miss my dad but he's in the music and the synchronicity. Happy Friday x
August 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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In A&E - you have to check in like this now...
Emergency department signs at local hospital above two screens where you have to go through an extensive questionnaire plus lots of writing to 'check in' to A&E
August 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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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
3 books on my pink, green and yellow floral patterned duvet cover. LHS is Patrick McGuinness's Canals of Mars, centre is Wendell Berry's The Peace of Wild Things, RHS is Seamus Heaney's Selected Poems.
August 25, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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#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.
book open on flowery pink, yellow and green duvet cover. The book cover is black and white with a photo of the young Diane di Prima on the front cover and the title in large red letters.
August 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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#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
Two books on my desk, LHS is the green and red striped striking cover of Nikki Dudley's Exorcism Becomes Habit and RHS is Rupert Loydell's Wildlife, cover shows colour illustrations of animals - tiger, rhino, giraffe, crocodile etc.
August 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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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
3 books on my green and white duvet cover: top RHS: grey cover of 10 poems about mothers with a colourful illustration of mother and baby in a square in the centre, top LHS classic dover edition of William Blake's songs of innocence, with a lavender cover and Blake print in the centre, bottom centre is a copy of faber's selected poems from ts eliot with a striking black and white illustrated cover of London architecture.
August 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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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".
Holding Sarah Crewe's collection Floss - this is a sort of maroon coloured cover with an amazing surreal painting of a woman who looks made of folded paper, wearing a big hat, next to a large skeletal bird, against a beach backdrop in full colour.
August 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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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
holding Briony Hughes's collection Milk, from Hem Press, the cover is a light grey background with abstract pink blobs, black crosses, blobs and dots - very striking.
August 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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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
Me holding the book, Ten poems about London published by Candlestcik Press, cover is grey with a small square print showing st paul's cathedral in the centre.
August 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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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."
Holding Charles Simic's book, The Monster Loves his Labyrinth in my hand - it's a collage of what looks like some kid of circular target in beige with a little silouhette of a man (scaramouche! not really) running along the top, sky and spire in the background.
August 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM