Rachel Deering

Detail from Landseer’s Man Proposes, God Disposes, 1864. A dark scene of one of two polar bears in the remains of the Franklin expedition. Arctic scene of fallen mast with ice and polar bear with a rib in his mouth. Painting. 

‘He once told me about polar bears - what solitary animals they are.’…
'Then what do polar bears exist for?’
‘Then what do we exist for?’ ~ Haruki Murakami.

Tomorrow for #BookWormSat we celebrate Landseer’s birthday with literature’s horses, dogs, deer, falcons and lions. Oh, and Polar Bears.

🖤

Happy World Book Day! 📚

I’m proud to have two little pamphlets out in the world and I still have signed author copies available! 🌊 ☕️

Walrussey is for fans of ecopoetry and Circulaire is for those who love love!

Just drop me a comment, £10 via PayPal, and I’ll cover p&p! 💛

And look what Leicester Libraries have shared on Instagram. ☺️. Me as Dennis the Menace on #WorldBookDay supporting National Year of Reading.

@renardpress.com @beardedbadgerbooks.bsky.social

On fly tipping, sharing good news, some good news and a book festival. Someone has dumped a fridge outside my flat.

New substack is up.

On fly tipping, sharing good news, some good news, and a book festival.

#IndiePublishing
#Books

substack.com/@drewgummers...

Photo of snow plough in snow.

Another mercurial, interesting and keenly written missive from his homeland.

Turlough’s monthly diary entry ‘The Aromatherapist of Kozloduy’ is today’s Pick of the Day.

Do read both parts!

www.abctales.com/story/turlou...

Painting of small plane in clouds and blue sky.

You think you know something about your family history. And then you don’t.

Spiral Descent by Mark Say is our Pick of the Day.

Please give it a read.

www.abctales.com/story/mark-s...

Painting of a deer in the forest at night.

In a Flemish folktale, a woman who was said to have been a thief during life haunted a town in the shape of a deer. The ghost deer would knock on doors and wait. Between her horns she carried an illegible text. She stopped appearing when someone deciphered the text.

🎨Eugen Krüger
#WyrdWednesday

“The writer has felt and experienced the wonder of things—the beauty of the sun and the hieroglyphic mystery of the figures that the birds make in the air—and he feels, quite rightly, that to describe wonders one must suggest wonder by words.”

(A. Machen “Hieroglyphics”)

🎨 Oorchach

#wyrdwednesday

Painting title: Discovering Daisies. A woman with red hair admiring daisies in a grassy field.

'Bright flower! whose home is everywhere
Bold in maternal nature's care
And all the long year through the heir
Of joy or sorrow,
Methinks that there abides in thee
Some concord with humanity,
Given to no other flower I see
The forest through.'
-Wordsworth

🎨Henry John Stock

Over the moon that my poem "Wing Transplant" is published in Issue 109 of the wonderful @mslexia.bsky.social #poetry #poetrysky

🪽 Grab a copy from this link: www.mslexia.co.uk/magazine

Today is St Piran's Day, feast day of the patron of tin miners and of Cornwall herself.

So, we go out west and hear a story of Jan Tregeagle, Cornwall’s own Faust, who rose from doing penance for his sins in Dozmary Pool, with hellhounds on his trail.

Read our 5th #darkspringtide below

🎨 Minns

Photo of wren, description from ebird: ‘A small, warbler-like wren of Andean cloud forest. Plumage is gray and white with a barred tail and vent, brownish crown, and faint streaking on the head. When seen from below in poor lighting conditions, the barred tail is usually the best feature to look for. Stays high in the canopy and is almost always encountered with mixed-species flocks. Vocalizations are very high-pitched and include gravelly trills and siren-like whistles.’

Wren of the Day:
Grey-mantled Wren
📷 Mario Córdoba H.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The best thing I’ve watched in a while.

Fox with full moon and trees in background, painting.

Goodnight.
The Midnight Fox, Catherine Hyde.

Ahhh you’re welcome! Thank you!

Morning! Happy 🐫 day! 🩵🫖🦉

I see that!

Morning!

Mouse with bow and arrows. Illustration.

Hello Wednesday.
🖼️ Lily Seika Jones

Deer grazing on melting snow on hillside, cloudy sky and tree in background, painting.

🖼️ Eugen Ludwig Hoess

Collage of red geranium on black background.

🖼️ Mary Delany

Photo of wren. Description from ebird: ‘A very small, dark grayish-brown bird with a short tail, a reddish-brown throat, and a black-and-white scalloped pattern on the belly. Inconspicuously feeds in low, thick vegetation, where it is very hard to see. Similar to Rufous-throated Wren-Babbler, but Mishmi Wren-Babbler is darker overall, with a distinctive white chin and a white edge to the throat. The song is a strong, melodic burst of notes repeated 2-4 times and often followed by a short trill.’

Wren of the Day:
Mishmi Wren-Babbler
Near Threatened
📷 Sam Woods

It sounds like a good book!

The Rambling Botanist by Shirley Hibberd, Green cover with gold lettering, black borders, gold decoration of foliage.

Book Cover of the Day:

Hares boxing Linocut, trees and birds in flight in background.

March Hares, Celia Hart.

Two starlings perched on stone in front ruins and bridge and water in distance. Painting.

🖼️ Cornelis van Hardenbergh, c.1800.

Rook, head and upper body, portrait.

Morning.
Rook, Watching, Catherine Hyde.

Yes!

Ahhh, you’re welcome 🤗