Thrilled that BRAVE THE WILD RIVER made the shortlist of the Reading the West awards - a warm commendation from independent booksellers. If you read my book and liked it, please go vote for me, and check out the other amazing titles on the list. W. W. Norton & Company readingthewest.com/34th-annual-sh…

Great opportunity! WUDAN YAN | wudan.bsky.social is hiring an editorial assistant! open.substack.com/pub/wudan/p/im… #Editing #Editorial #Writing #Research #Journalism

RIP Paul Auster. Zoë Comyns and I once went to his Brooklyn home for an interview, where he talked coincidences, his Joyce pilgrimage to Dublin, craft, abandoned novels, his love of film, Gerhard Richter, and living with another writer. Starts 5.40. soundcloud.com/thebookshow/th…

Bookplate printed at the Cuala Press, from the National Library of Ireland

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May Day, as celebration, as assertion of solidarity, as distress call seems to summarize this moment.

He's not 'courting' far-right extremists.
He's one of them.

I’ve signed the petition. Will you? Hold #BigOil accountable. Tell every government rep we need a new path for all our futures. #ClimateAction

Big Oil is Canada’s largest and fastest-growing source of emissions. Tell government to cap its emissions now act.newmode.social/853627345t

just peeking in to say #TransRightsAreHumanRights and have a lovely Sunday... xo

I snuck out for a minute and a Black Skimmer flew by, a first for me, you’ll enjoy this serendipity Papay Ranger Martin Gray

What a week!! I was so excited when I found out I was going to be included in this year’s #time100 list & then was so humbled to read the kind words of Julian Brave NoiseCat when it was published. It made me feel even more emotional about the other big news this week - the end of Stolen...

Book folks: I'm giving away 2 copies of Gordon Parks' AMERICAN GOTHIC on @flakphoto next week. Watch my newsletter for details. Stay tuned! Steidl

I forgot to share but I reviewed Sinead Gleeson’s Hagstone for The Irish Times. I think all of you have read it by now, and if not then why not. It’s a beautiful meditation on creativity, art, women’s lives, companionship and solitude. Link is here: irishtimes.com/culture/books/……

'Alito’s questioning treated these catastrophic injuries to pregnant women as if they were mere distractions from the true subject at hand: the embryo or fetus ...invested with all the humanity that the pregnant woman lacks' --Mary Anne Franks msmagazine.com/2024/04/19/ida…

The Aaguyaq Madonna | 🎨 Linda Infante Lyons (Alutiiq)

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The South Bank Show made a film about Seamus Heaney in 1991, directed beautifully by Tony Knox. Here is a short clip of Heaney talking about Toome, ‘under bogwater and tributaries’ where ‘elvers tail my hair’

I was part of a Climate Week event last night and promised to repost this free download and here it is: my endeavor to help everyone and anyone find a way to be a climate activist in ways that work for their resources, limits, and proclivities.

After writing about the Egyptian vultures nesting on the extraordinary cliffs and stone pillars of Meteora in 'Irreplaceable' it's been increasingly heartbreaking to witness just a lone remaining bird returning each spring. But this year, there is hope for a new generation here.

It's UK pub day for DISPERSALS! It's my first at my new home with Simon Prosser and I'm so thrilled with it. Many thanks to all who made this book possible - and to Josie Staveley Taylor for the utterly gorgeous cyanotype cover. Order your copy here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/disper…

In the middle of Birmingham, close to where I live, there's a surprisingly big reserve where birdsong drowns out the city (just listen...). This clip is from a tree there: ideal to perch in with book & coffee, & watch the life of the oak unfold - black cap, woodpecker, owl, etc.

In remembering Helen Vendler a good day to think of the impact she and her students had on the study of Yeats too, changing how we read ‘Easter, 1916’ for one.

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