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Reposting this for the weekend crowd: I wrote about Basil Bunting's poem Briggflatts and what it has to teach us about the value of deep listening.

Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, David Farrier

Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, David Farrier

Rec from @markdway.bsky.social, deep time told in reverse, how our civilization might be recorded by the planet. Each chapter covers a geologic archive, paired w a reflection through literature (like ice cores/Borges Library of Babel).

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Echoing @kellyhereid.bsky.social's recommendation here, @david-farrier.bsky.social Footprints is an excellent read! Also on the subject of long timescales amidst our daily chaos, I tremendously enjoyed Marcia Bjornerud's Timefulness: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... @princetonupress.bsky.social

On the 1966 Poem That Warns of Bio-Acoustic Die-Off and the Destruction of Our Soundscapes The poet Basil Bunting was as old as the century when he died in 1985. His life was bookended by the relief of Ladysmith and Thatcher’s defeat of striking miners. He was imprisoned in Wormwoo…

@david-farrier.bsky.social revisits “Briggflatts,” Basil Bunting’s presicent poem warning us all of the loss of the world’s precious soundscapes.

To mark the paperback launch of NATURE'S GENIUS I wrote about how poetry can help us pay attention to an increasingly silent world.
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NATURE'S GENIUS is out in paperback TODAY!
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Come to the paperback launch of NATURE'S GENIUS on World Earth Day! @portybooks.bsky.social
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Come to the paperback launch of NATURE'S GENIUS on World Earth Day! @portybooks.bsky.social
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Lovely to see the wonderful Nature’s Genius by @david-farrier.bsky.social is out in paperback!

We can’t wait for this event! Tickets available below 💚

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So good! That was my pal Katherine talking about sharing the bags of crisps.

One week until the paperback of NATURE'S GENIUS is out! What an amazing year it's been!
Help me celebrate @portybooks.bsky.social on World Earth Day!
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What an amazing day! Half a million people turned out to say No to the far right.

I'm soon looking forward to this! Come along and celebrate World Earth Day with stories of extraordinary animal genius and human possibility.

I'm a big boy, I can wait.

Badly want to read this!

I sent my wife a similar message over the weekend, except they were grape hyacinths...I'm a nature writer, don't you know

Well, not just now: recently finished watching...

Just finished watching Alien: Earth and feel a bit cheated that the eye-squid-thing didn't infect the repellant tech-bro character.

David Farrier

Earth Spotlight 12-1pm 24 Feb! Please join us with the brilliant David Farrier, author of Nature’s Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet. Can we remake the world to be fit for all life to thrive once more?
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I have some hot compost news

David Farrier

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We have some exciting events for you and they’re free! First up, please join us with brilliant colleagues @davidfarrier.bsky.social @servanemouazan.bsky.social
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It's amazing but the separate recto and verso narratives did my head in after a while.

Nature's Genius is out today in Spanish!

Giving this a boost, if you need a little light in the darkest month

Reading about Kash Patel prioritising workouts over security meetings and the whole MAGA-bro obsession with strength and body-sculpting

"The men are weeping in the gym
... they don't hear
the thousands of tiny fracturings
needed to build something stronger"

Bravo @ben-cooke.bsky.social. Brilliant scoop, and hard to imagine a more important one.

“This government is hiding the true danger of climate change from the people”. Spooks don’t mess about when they leak.

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