Dylan Brennan
@dylanbrennan.bsky.social
Poet, teacher | Ireland/Mexico | Let the Dead available from Banshee Press.
Ian Wright saying we shouldn’t forget the way the Iranian team and the Somali referee were treated. Correct.
Daniel Mendelsohn (@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social) on Christopher Nolan’s artfully woven Odyssey
Artful Weaving | Daniel Mendelsohn
Aristotle, for one, wasn’t all that impressed by Odysseus’s adventures. In the seventeenth chapter of his Poetics he observes, apropos of the relationship
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I’ve been telling people Seth Rogen is playing the Cyclops in The Odyssey.
Ana Mendieta review – were she still alive she’d be at the forefront of art in this century
Ana Mendieta review – were she still alive she’d be at the forefront of art in this century
This exhibition makes nothing of the Cuban-American artist’s controversial death – instead it focuses on the astounding way she left an imprint of herself on the earth using blood, feathers and gunpowder
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open.substack.com/pub/letthede... Free to read. Poetry from Cape Verde, Corsino Fortes.
Poetry from Cape Verde
Corsino Fortes
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Remembering Nellie Campobello 40 years after mysterious death open.substack.com/pub/letthede...
Nellie Campobello
a brilliant writer, a cruel death
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👁️ Free to read. On the 40th anniversary of Nellie Campobello’s mysterious death. open.substack.com/pub/letthede...
‘That Longley repeatedly sought confirmation suggests something fruitfully unassured in his conception of himself and of his art, as though a perpetual risk of failure were somehow an integral part of it.’ Seamus Perry on Michael Longley’s poetry. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Seamus Perry · The poet slams his door: Likeable Michael Longley
Michael Longley, who was all too familiar with protracted writer’s block, often spoke of precariousness in the sense...
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Sick of hearing/reading about how difficult it will be for the England team to deal with the heat and altitude at the Azteca Stadium. Altitude will be an unavoidable problem but heat? It’s gonna be 12-20 degrees on Sunday. Cloudy and rainy. I think they can handle that.
Good few Vaulters in that crowd. This is the real Belfast. Keep thinking about David Hockney RIP saying that bad news sells. No Sky News helicopter filming this anti-racism rally and when one person was arrested a group of camera operators rushed to film it. #belfast #antiracism #rally
I wrote a few unworthy words on Marjane Satrapi. Who was a great artist, but, also, an incredible *character*. Blazed up the room. www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...
Marjane Satrapi: Iranian film-maker and graphic novelist ‘dies of sadness’ at 56
Satrapi was known for Persepolis, a graphic novel series later turned into award-winning film
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Painted at the very beginning of the 20thC, this work is among Klimt’s most abstract of paintings. Depicting the waters of the Attersee (Atter Lake) in Austria, it marks a key moment in his career, as he pioneered a new and distinctive approach to landscape painting.
Views of Siena. I was there last week for Policromia poetry and translation festival.
