Lotte
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Obsessed with thinking and thoughts, and also pondering both in and out of the pond. Can’t stop me from having a bit of a rumination, a contemplation if you will.
Lotte
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Other than Bloodaxe, some other UK publishers include: Carcanet, Chatto & Windus, Faber & Faber, Jonathan Cape, Nine Arches Press, Offord Road Books (co-founded by former Foyle Young Poet Martha Sprackland), Peepal Tree Press, Penned in the Margins, Picador, Seren, Sidekick Books, Test Centre, V Press and Valley Press.
But there are lots and... See more
But there are lots and... See more
Phoebe Stuckes • Article
While competitions can be a good route to publication, there are lots of small presses that publish pamphlets, such as: Happenstance, The Emma Press, Sad Press, Flipped Eye Publishing and Bad Betty Press f
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Be careful with the terms you use; whereas environmentalism and sustainability have currency on campus, conservation has a much wider usage, connoting greater degrees of community, commonality and cooperation.
Ben Bobowski and Mark Fiege, Elegant Conservation
Cont.: ‘Use the highest, most flexible and expansive term. Use a wand, not a club.’
Spirituality and scientific theory are best assessed not as dichotomous positions, but as along a continuum in which one or the other might be more important to a person depending on the issue, with a full range of beliefs and value systems in between.
Ben Bobowski and Mark Fiege, Elegant Conservation paper
This time we’re exploring the chalky undulations of the Seven Sisters. The name is said to have originated from an old Sussex legend about seven daughters of a wealthy farmer from Alfriston, the legend tells that the daughters tragically drowned and each turned into one of the cliffs that make up the Seven Sisters we know today.
From Magick and Moss
... See moreThe boundaries of time and glance and I love you are only aftershocks of the main, inevitable boundary that creates Eros- the boundary of flesh ad self between you and me. And it is only, suddenly, at the moment when I would dissolve that boundary, I realise I never can.
Anne Carson, Eros the BitterSweet
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
-Tolkien
Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.
When I desire you a part of me is gone: my want of you partakes of me. The presence of want awakens in him [the lover] a nostalgia for wholeness. His thoughts turn towards questions of personal identity: he must recover and reincorporate what is gone if he is to be a complete person.
Anne Carson, Eros the Bittersweet
An incredible expression of a counter argument to the ‘my other half’ idea in romantic relationships. What is it to feel incomplete without the one you love, if you were whole before you met them? Carson summarises it stunningly