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Thoughts and cycling from Manchester to Rome in 2023

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Underwater

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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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The outer covers for Underwater. It is the 33rd chapbook in the series.
All Images © Simon Robinson 2023
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.
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Chapbook About Poem

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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.

The outer covers for Chapbook About Poem. It is the 31st chapbook in the series.
Images © Simon Robinson
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.
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Acid Yellow

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This chapbook started with oat milk sweetened coffee. Truth and consequences took over.

The outer covers for Acid Yellow, the 28th chapbook in the series.
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.
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Dissolution

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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.

The outer covers for Dissolution, the 27th in the chapbook series.
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.
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Lady Birds

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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.

The outer covers for Lady Birds
Available now from Bracket Books Ireland at outlets like FabHappy or WalkingCommentary.
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