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06.03.2026 12:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Great word

06.03.2026 11:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's interesting. I may be wrong (and should prob look it up before replying but where's the fun in that?) but I think I remember reading that L Carroll coined the word galumphing in Jabberwocky.

06.03.2026 11:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

How I feel when someone blocks me

05.03.2026 18:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Really sorry to hear this very sad news. Met him a couple of times "in the old days". Gentleman. Great musician.

04.03.2026 20:27 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ah no, that's awful news. A real gentleman

04.03.2026 20:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've never read anything by him but bought Twist yesterday so hoping it's great.

04.03.2026 11:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Recording some poems for a thing and trying not to fall into the "poet voice" trap. The "Sunday Misc voice", my wife calls it.

04.03.2026 11:51 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's lovely to see someone think about an answer before speaking.

04.03.2026 10:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Bluesky really coming to the defense of cats today. As if they needed it.

03.03.2026 20:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's the nepo baby of prestige tv

03.03.2026 16:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i suppose the important thing to do is keep hand drawing, soon enough there will only be a few left that know how

03.03.2026 12:08 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It's so disheartening. I can't believe we've arrived at a place where we can look back with longing for stock images and clip art.

03.03.2026 12:01 👍 26 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I met a creative writing teacher that uses it for his website. He said it was too hard to come up with new ways of advertising what he offers...

03.03.2026 12:00 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Axel Scheffler illustration of a fish ice fishing.

Axel Scheffler illustration of a fish ice fishing.

I love how this fish is tortured by his own guilt but that doesn't stop him hacking a hole in the ice with his axe, baiting the line and fishing. It's all so horribly premeditated.

02.03.2026 13:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Also reading Tim MacGabhann at the moment. Great images in it. The grass/wolves in the first or second poem was a spine tingling moment

28.02.2026 22:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

George Sunders Vigil. Bit disappointed he's gone back to afterlife stuff but his observations are spot on as always

28.02.2026 20:09 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Really enjoying writing at the moment. I've been working on the same novel for years but something clicked recently and the whole world of it has come to life for me. I'm slow, it can take me months before I'm happy with a poem so I hope I can sustain this feeling of excitement for a while longer.

27.02.2026 22:32 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

my wife's review of "Wuthering Heights":

"it was all sex rain and misery"

27.02.2026 22:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's so cool, congratulations!

27.02.2026 18:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This and Harry Hill's podscarf are my go-to at the moment, usually while doing the dishes of an evening.

27.02.2026 15:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

well of course, I'm not a savage

26.02.2026 21:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pink snack only.

26.02.2026 20:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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SCHOOLS — COLM BRENNAN | POET & WRITER I am now registered with BLAST (Bringing Live Arts to Students and Teachers) and available for poetry residencies and workshops.

#speirgorm If you're a primary school teacher, or know one, I'm now listed on the BLAST register and available for workshops.
More info here:

www.colmgbrennan.com/schools

26.02.2026 12:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Next time someone whinges about the m50 I'll politely let them know.

26.02.2026 00:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two books on a bed. Vigil by George Saunders and Found in a Context of Destruction by Tim MacGabhann

Two books on a bed. Vigil by George Saunders and Found in a Context of Destruction by Tim MacGabhann

Fresh from this morning's hunt

25.02.2026 10:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Soupy Norman ruined soup for me. I can't have it without hearing the words to that scene in my head.

24.02.2026 18:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Diane, 11:30 AM, February 24th.
Entering the town of Twin Peaks.

#speirgorm

24.02.2026 18:46 👍 21 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1

Yamada Zenjidou

24.02.2026 16:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
cartoon in japanese style with the caption 

I stop to fix my hair in a window reflection

Then I realize

Someone is watching from the other side.

cartoon in japanese style with the caption I stop to fix my hair in a window reflection Then I realize Someone is watching from the other side.

reminded me of this

24.02.2026 16:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0