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Dissolution

March 31, 2023 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

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.
Visit the online Gallery: Dissolution for background and comments about the photographs.
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Filed Under: Chapbooks Tagged With: archaeology, booklink, bracket books ireland, fabhappy, hagia sophia, high crosses, ireland, mycorrhiza, networks, photography, photos, pollution, susan connolly, travel, valerie packenham, walkingcommentary, wood wide web

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

Generosity and Coincidence

April 21, 2020 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

The Burren arrived by post this morning. A beautiful graphical representation of a timeless place scoured, smoothed and littered by passing glaciers. Driving out to the Black Head Lighthouse for a late summer sunset has more than once rewarded me with memories as permanent as the photos I could have taken. Following the road to the south, the bare escarpment to the left might be rendered pink by the dying light. Grey limestone enlivened by photons and water droplets can shimmer rose-pink-rose-pink-rose-pink. Light that left the sun some eight minutes earlier persists in the mind decades later.

‘Lovely map – sadly its maker met Covid-19’ wrote my benefactor on a card that accompanied this most generous gift. ‘Hear you are planning an Atlantic Walk’.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir, ManRom2021 Tagged With: booklink, Covid-19, landscape, manchán magan, maps, ötsi, photography, poetry, susan connolly, tim robinson, tutankhamun, walking, wild atlantic way

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