Coffee and a half eaten pastry . . .

Sunshine and a half eaten apple . . .

War memorial. Pigeons. People and the market. And always, everywhere the cathedral spire.

Gus Wylie 1935 - 2026, best known for his work in the Hebrides, was from Lowestoft. At Royal College of Art 1959, he made photo essay of the demise of the Lowestoft fish market. He later made a sketchbook of East Anglian photos. His photos described as "thoughtful, caring, compassionate images".

Hawthorn likes to do it the other way round - leaves first, blossom second.

This blossom on this small blackthorn bush burst into life last week - intense white against stark black twigs and thorns, the leaves yet to appear - now it’s beginning to fade.

Artemis II You might marvel at the ingenuity, the technical wizardry and prowess. But it is tainted. All the technological advances and possible benefits that come with it, all that could be used for the good of humankind, lead to the revolting bombing of school children.

Summoned by bells.

Good morning, from Suffolk.

A previous generation’s reaching for the moon.

This way . . .

The Sea, The Sea a new anthology of writing about the coast of Norfolk and Suffolk from www.waterlandbooks.co.uk , includes work by Henry Skipper, seen here in a rare photograph

Enigmatic structure on a Suffolk beach.

Front gardens - small domestic squares of land, stamped with someone’s individuality, on display to passers by.

Front gardens - a variety of self expression

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Just received my contributor's copy. It's really rather gorgeous.

Front gardens - the variety that is to be found in front gardens, often given over to car parking space.

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Roadside blackthorn.

Hell in Suffolk.

What we saw on the beach

To celebrate #nationalpencilday here is another of my small pencil drawings, which was used, incidentally, in the Lake district poetry anthology Trailing Clouds of Glory, edited by @camself.bsky.social & @kg520.bsky.social from www.waterlandbooks.co.uk

Thanks Simon!

. . . and sirens still sing.

Az irodalom hazatalál – Portréfilm George Szirtesről/ Literaure Comes Home: A Film on George Szirtes YouTube video by literaTV

A 25 minute film based on interviews with me in England and in Hungary on the occasion of being awarded the King's Gold Medal for Poetry. The film is in English with Hungarian subtitles

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbNz...

Eels - my drawing to be found in Under the Weight of the Sky with poetry by @camself.bsky.social and introduction by @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social available from www.waterlandbooks.co.uk #nationalpencilday #undertheweightofthesky

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Exactly. Incomparable.

Daisy (the cat) came to live on the Suffolk coast seven years ago. Before that she had been living on the streets of Downham Market. She never talks about her past life, but one gets the impression it was a hard life, and that she’s happy now to be living in Suffolk.