For the inaugural post in my column at the Liberties, I wrote about my hometown of Tehran & its unrepeatable, glorious intellectual & cultural life - or at least that of the bubble I came of age in, where I first became a flaneur, my enlightened Tehran

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It’s paperback publication day for A FLAT PLACE! first we are sorting small objects from a box marked ‘random’ at my mother’s house

I’m new to Airwars work but it’s incredibly important and obviously fantastically complicated, tracking information on civilian casualties in conflict such as Gaza and Ukraine. After hearing them this morning I’m donating. Maybe you will too.
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'Every age gets the Stonehenge it deserves' Jacquetta Hawkes

After 4 years, the cat is finally out of the bag. Congrats to those who guessed. Imperial Valley/CF Moore is a Richard Skelton alter ego. The new album is out now. Catch up on the entire project over at Folded Time:

foldedtime.bandcamp.com

Soon I'll shut down sales of The Old Weird Albion for a few weeks; a walking memoir of landscape, memory & myth in the South Downs. Buy one? Now? Maybe? (UK-only, 'fraid.)
jackdawshivers.bandcamp.com/merch/the-old-…
#sussex #psychogeography #hauntology #southdowns #ooohsoartsy #landscapewriting

'Smooring The Fire' out today on Rural Situationism. Clare Archibald , TheeManualLabour and I invite you to the scottish petrochemical underground. Come be a ghost rig in the dark with us. Thanks to Andrew Weathers & Cody Yantis for making this happen! ruralsituationism.bandcamp.com/album/smooring…

Two from my new book ‘Woodwork’. It’s in the final stages of proofing now and the finished version should arrive in late May. This is the companion to ‘Fieldwork’ and is all about 12 years of getting happily lost in the woods of the #SouthDowns . Pre-orders open next month.

Real Ale as folk horror boakandbailey.com/2024/03/real-a…

Very pleased to be sent Zerox Machine by Matthew Worley - no punk revisionist cliches but a proper and scholarly examination of a fascinating phenomenon

I'll be interviewing the man/myth/legend/properexcellentdude Richard Norris at this - it's going to be a brilliant day, don't miss it!

Again, a moment to pause & appreciate the cool professionalism of those in & around the Key Bridge at 1:24 am Tuesday.

Ship’s pilot radios in that ship has lost steerage & will hit bridge.

Someone (maritime control?) transmits urgent alert to Maryland/Balt police dispatch…

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Sobering….🙁 Equity BBC Arts

With Silent Spring going mad, it's my duty to point out hundreds of times that Rachel Carson is from Pittsburgh.

'Everything flows, everything is the eel.'

'Eelysium': a new post for the Longbarrow Blog by Steve Ely, on the fenlands of eastern England—the catastrophe of their destruction, and imagined restoration—with four poems from his forthcoming collection.

longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2024/03/26/eel…

I'm a latecomer to this album of instrumental cello-centred music from last year, inspired by the natural history of Sheffield - it's really beautiful and very much worth checking out.

New landscape writing from new/old landscapes. Thanks Justin Hopper for the opportunity to write, and to mention the upcoming collab with Clare Archibald TheeManualLabour : 'Smooring the Fire' CD on Rural Situationism, 29 March Andrew Weathers

Newsletter out now from Uncanny Landscapes. Writing by Ears In Space / Mike Bullock on listening across oceans, creeks and centuries. Check the biographical for linkage!

Austin Clarke a half-century since his death.

My favourite pastime is 'not being able to attend gigs I bought tickets for months ago'.