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‘Breakout’ On The Way

November 27, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

MOMENTS

Reading Caspar Henderson’s 21st Century Bestiary, reminded me that the Czech poet and immunologist Miroslav Holub defined the ‘dimension of the present moment’ as a little less than three seconds.

The outer covers for Breakout
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.
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Filed Under: Photozines Tagged With: booklink, bracket books ireland, caspar henderson, chapbook, david friend, fabhappy, infrared, ireland, issued, marcel proust, miroslav holub, photography, photos, photozines, the uplift kit, wild atlantic way

Random Erasure and Discovery

May 6, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Random

‘Societies becoming software civilisation’ is the string of words that I got from a spreadsheet I made this morning. I took ten sentences from a book and typed them into a spreadsheet. I devised a formula to randomly select one word from each sentence. With the resulting ten words, I used a random number generator to select the number of sequential words that I should grab from the arbitrary, nonsensical list. Four was the magic number, four contiguous words from ten. I purposely biased the experiment by choosing the sequential four that made some sense to me. ‘Societies becoming software civilisation’ was my reward for creating the word list in the first place.

Mountain walk erasure.
Post discovery.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, brian turner, emily temple, photo, poetry, solmaz sharif, walkingcommentary

Poetic Ageing

April 28, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘I want a poem
I can grow old in.’ ¹

Poet and Professor Eavan Boland died a year ago yesterday.

Shooting tulips.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: booklink, eavan boland, photos, plants, poetry

Ogham, Cartouche or Glyph

April 8, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘Follow the cartouche!’ is not what you’d expect native American trackers to say but it’s one trick that The Shadow Wolves can use to find people who have crossed into Arizona from Mexico. It seems that our shoe brands in soft soils or sands are as useful as a wall for immigration control.

Black Powder Pier Ogham?
Nion over luis, ash over rowan?
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, emoji, gps, martin pirongs, mayan, photos, susan connolly, writing

Naturist Caving Fear

April 6, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘It was in a cave near there that De Selby encountered St Augustine and surrealistic visions of eternity.’ or so I wrote last October of a cave in a cove where naturists liked to hang out. I’m not contending that De Selby or St Augustine were advocates let alone dedicated to meeting au naturel but far stranger things happened in The Dalkey Archive. By the way, the naturists I often encountered while walking the dog have recently moved around the head to the Vico Bathing place. In case you were curious.

193 seconds from January 2013 – De Selby could have seen this from White Rock.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: alan garner, booklink, flann o'brien, photo, robert macfarlane

Suez Carrier

April 4, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

We turned on the TV this morning to hear that the Suez Canal backlog was cleared. After paying the normal $500,000 transit fee per ship, the 400 or so delayed vessels are all plying their trade again. And there, to illustrate the news story, was an aircraft carrier. The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower had also passed through the canal. And typing 400 reminds me that this is journal 400.

WKD backlight on Easter Sunday on Dun Laoghaire Pier
I might have put this in a chapbook on The Muglins.
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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, Photozines Tagged With: booklink, clive ponting, dag hammarskjöld, dwight d eisenhower, peter frankopan, photo, stephen graubeard, suez

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