Great work KEITH! Hope all is grand with you!

Was not familiar with Joan Eardly’s art before but it is spectacular www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...

"joy, caught unawares" 🍃

Avril 14th by Aphex Twin. Cheers. Love u.

“Message Clear”, by Edwin Morgan. A concrete poem where the lines are created by taking the phrase “i am the resurrection and the life” and, by selectively deleting letters from each line, building up the following text: am i if i am he hero hurt there and here and here and there i am rife in sion and i die a mere sect a mere section of the life of men sure the die is set and i am the surd at rest o life i am here i act i run i meet i tie i stand i am thoth i am ra i am the sun i am the son i am the erect one if i am rent i am safe i am sent i heed i test i read a thread a stone a tread a throne i resurrect a life i am in life i am resurrection i am the resurrection and i am i am the resurrection and the life

“This poem was written when my father was very ill, dying of cancer, & I was coming home from the hospital. Suddenly this line ‘I am the resurrection & the life’ came into my head & then the poem began to emerge from the line.”

—Edwin Morgan on “Message Clear”
#Easter #poetry #concretepoetry
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Whenever you feel you're not tech-literate enough remember that Frederic Jameson used a mouse with two hands.

miki - ça pik un peu quand même YouTube video by Miki

Love this dreamy French indie rap + video - feels like spring arriving after a long winter www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1At...

The Docteur Is In | David Beal In January 1960 Brussels hosted a “Round Table” conference of Congolese and European leaders to negotiate the future of the Belgian Congo. Anticolonial

The best music writing I have read this year www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

Pure easy listening, settle down

Submissions: Why we reject Writers Like a klatch of backslapping gerbils

“… She has outlasted tyrants’ speeches, felt the bejesus they squeeze out from the organs of appetite that keep us running like a business.”

Loved the metaphysical warp, woof & weft of this little review poem by Timothy Donnelly (scroll down a fair bit) open.substack.com/pub/thelittl...

This neatly bobbed, elegantly coutured lady in her 60s, steps forward in the manner of someone who might just as easily address an international conference held to improve the efficacy of PPE rollouts... Get more from Pete Paphides on Patreon

Here she is in 2026! This neatly bobbed, elegantly coutured lady in her 60s, steps forward in the manner of someone who might just as easily address an international conference held to improve the efficacy of PPE rollouts in future pandemics. And then she sings: “It’s a fine day/People open windows”

I have also just had my grant cut. We, as a community, are in shock, picking up the pieces and trying to work out what to do next. These callous, devastating and nonsensical cuts cannot and must not be allowed to continue.

10 things we learned from Morrissey's London O2 Arena show 10 things we learned from attending Morrissey's show at London's The O2 Arena on Saturday, February 28, 2026

Morrissey: live in London.

He appears crooning the opening lines of Foreigner’s “I Want to Know What Love Is” in a pink shirt, unbuttoned to the waist, like a Quorn beefcake Tom Jones, his collar extravagantly popped à la Eric Cantona, with perhaps a hint of Ming the Merciless and Dick Emery.

Metrics: Machine-Tooling a New Human Poetry NSP Guest Post! Joey Connolly on perplexity, burstiness and the strange new light AI is turning on our all-too-human art form

Loved this superb essay on the tango of perplexity and burstiness in post-LLM poetry open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

Access to Work cuts - Statement from Jenny Sealey - Graeae

Graeae has been informed that our artistic director, faces swingeing cuts to Access to Work support on the same day we close our survey asking for feedback on the scheme.

Read the full story on our website with a statement from Jenny Sealey: graeae.org/resource/acc...

On Politics: Mandelson and the Private Life of Power Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 02/11/2026 · 1h 7m

Outstanding @piercepenniless.bsky.social LRBpod with @petergeoghegan.bsky.social and @ethanshone.bsky.social on scale of political capture - with a passing mention of Oborne's MacIntyre namedrop on last week's @secondcaptains.bsky.social #ultimatecrossoverevent podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

The 20 best David Bowie books Comic books, illuminating analyses, worthy biographies… Bowie continues to contain multitudes for authors to draw on

It's a crash course for the readers: the 20 best books about David Bowie

Comic books, illuminating analyses, worthy biographies… Bowie continues to contain multitudes for authors to draw on

www.uncut.co.uk/features/lis...

Marty Supreme reviewed: Timothée Chalomet's street-smart hustler leads screwball caper Marty Supreme reviewed: Timothée Chalomet brings it all back home again as a street-smart hustler in Josh Safdie's screwball caper

My Uncut review of Marty Supreme - an irresistible epic of screwball chutzpah www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/mart...

Orphean sprig! Melting baby! Warm chihuahua!

#EdwinMorgan reading “Trio”, published in The Second Life (1968) and recorded by Ewan McVicar in 1990 at Tower Studio, Glasgow 🎄❄️

"Jesus Christ the Apple Tree" by Stevo legend Elizabeth Poston played on @bbcradio3bot.bsky.social and my own version of Whamageddon comes to an end.

Thanks Ian, much appreciated!

Soft Cell: “I suppose you could say it was a strange career path. But there were some amusing moments…” Soft Cell's Marc Almond and Dave Ball confess all: “It was sex, drugs and electronic rock’n’roll!”

www.uncut.co.uk/features/sof... Pleased to see that @uncutmagazine.bsky.social have shared my 2018 interview with Dave & Marc. One of the very greatest British pop groups. 🙌

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere – a sentimental take on Bruce’s own private Nebraska Jeremy Allen White brings wildness and wonder to this solid Boss biopic

I reviewed the new Bruce biopic www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/film...

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere – a sentimental take on Bruce’s own private Nebraska Jeremy Allen White brings wildness and wonder to this solid Boss biopic

I reviewed the new Bruce biopic www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/film...

Ivor and RB united at last youtu.be/Oxl2sWuKjJ0

I wrote about One Battle After Another - the breakneck blockbuster that 2025 deserves

One Battle After Another reviewed: sensational and hysterical take on Pynchon’s counterculture yarn With his new film, One Battle After Another, director Paul Thomas Anderson rises to the challenge of his times

One Battle After Another reviewed: Paul Thomas Anderson's sensational and hysterical take on Thomas Pynchon’s counterculture yarn.

Every beat of my heart This is the bass-drum head from the kit I used as a member of an R&B band in 1964-65. Last week, two days after I’d taken it to the recycling centre as part of a general clearout of super…

A very moving column by one of the most elegant of our music and sports writers, Richard Williams. thebluemoment.com/2025/09/09/e...

Suede's Antidepressants reviewed: Britpop outliers on exhilarating, grandiose form Brett and the boys set the controls for the heart of darkness on resurgent 10th album

Greatly enjoyed raving about the very gothic new @suedehq.bsky.social album in @uncutmagazine.bsky.social www.uncut.co.uk/reviews/sued...