The Real Map of Ireland depicts Ireland’s marine territory of some 900,000 km2. Ten times the size of the island of Ireland, it’s barely known yet already overfished. The largest industrial scale Kelp Extraction Licence ever issued in Irish or British waters may soon yield animal-care products and nutraceuticals. Is Kelp deforestation of Bantry Bay akin to rainforest destruction elsewhere?
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Shyness
Shyness: me interviewing ChatGPT 3.5 on August 24th, 2023 (unexpurgated).
All Images © Simon Robinson 2023
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.
Chapbook About Poem
Victoria Amelina wrote that ‘as long as a writer is still read, they remain alive’. I found myself looking out to sea in the west of Ireland the day after she was buried. I wept into the rain on hearing the breeze whispering fragments of swimmers’ words.
Images © Simon Robinson
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.
Acid Yellow
This chapbook started with oat milk sweetened coffee. Truth and consequences took over.
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Dissolution
The fundamentals of graph theory, the mathematical structures that model relations between paired objects, may only have been formalised recently but lattices have been recognised since humans started to trap, build and weave.
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Lady Birds
A question like “Why have there been no great women artists?” implies inadequacy in the 50% of the human population that births everyone. One wonders if perceptions have improved since Linda Nochlin posed the question in 1971.
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.