I started publishing a series of chapbooks in January 2021. Twelve have been produced, themed by my ever changing interests in photography. One month found me studying just one local lighthouse, another month I was shooting a quarry and another, I shot entirely in infrared.
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‘Breakout’ On The Way
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.
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Fantastic Leaves Sent
You might credit the idea for this chapbook theme to Irish sculptor John Behan. I have seen one of his“Bronze Birds in Flight”whipped and wrapped by a trained wisteria. It was reconfigured as an inversion of power, an unintended green tableau, in which the entwining organic leaves appeared to restrain, if not smother, the metal-frozen doves.
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Coastal Birds Mailed
This chapbook series started during a time when our movement was restricted to 5 km from home. Here, on the suburban coast of south County Dublin, two thirds of that area is offshore.
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Textured Chapbook Posted
Texture is a part of every sense in your sensorium.
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Minimism Chapbook Posted
Sometimes an adverb is enough, as illustrated by poet Diarmuid Fitzgerald:
in the marshes
without my map –
joyously lost
Thames Way: haiku and tanka (Alba, 2015, page 27)
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