A remarkable poem, a #kenfig poem even, by the excellent @ZoeBrigley #poetry inkfishmag.com/knot/
'Knot' by Zoë Brigley
Concrete Poem
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Kristian Evans
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Welsh writer, poet, editor, ecological thinker & founder of Modron Magazine: @modronmagazine.bsky.social https://www.serenbooks.com/book/100-poems-to-save-the-earth/ https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/zo%C3%AB-brigley-kristian-evans-otherwor
A solitary sea bindweed flower in the foreshore dunes at Kenfig
RFK Jr.'s statement that autistic kids "will never pay taxes" makes a lot more sense when you realize the only autistic person he knows is Elon Musk.
1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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CATAPOETICS is out in the world! Happy Earth Day everyone! 🖤 You can read about "Catapoetry" in the @modronmagazine.bsky.social #catapoetics #catapoetry #catapoem #catastrocene #özgelena 👉 modronmagazine.com/earth-day-20...
A short film I wrote, filmed by Nathan Roach (Coal Poet Media), 'The Dunes', exploring the perspective of a runaway kid finding sanctuary in a desolate duneland on the Welsh coast. Huge thanks to Nathan for the beautiful images of #Kenfig #poetry #wales www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkB...
Earth Day 2025: The Dunes, A Film by Kristian Evans & Nathan Roach
YouTube video by Modron Magazine
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A picture of Venus in Aries last night, from the coast of south Wales
Today, a poem and interview with Dyfan Lewis, filmed alongside the river Taff, Cardiff, Wales 📽️ Dyma gerdd a chyfweliad gyda Dyfan Lewis, wedi’i ffilmio ar lan afon Taf, Caerdydd, Cymru 📽️ modronmagazine.com/2025/02/23/f...
Ffilm: Cerdd gan Dyfan Lewis, Film: A Poem by Dyfan Lewis
Here is a poem and interview with Dyfan Lewis, filmed alongside the river Taff, Cardiff, Wales, UK. Funded by the Books Council Wales, Modron is a literary magazine in response to the ecological cr…
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'There are limits to saying, In language, what the tree did.' from 'The Problem of Describing Trees' by Robert Haas
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe
Opposition to a proposed nuclear energy plant in Bridgend is mounting, with the local Green Party saying it is “unnecessary, unwanted and unsafe” wp.me/p8Mk4U-V1J
Opposition mounts to planned nuclear plant as Starmer confirms new policy of 'Build, baby, build'
Martin Shipton Opposition to a proposed nuclear energy plant in Bridgend is mounting, with the local Green Party saying it is “unnecessary, unwanted and unsafe”. But doubts about the proposal come as ...
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A beautiful Welsh lullaby Pais Dinogad/Dinogad's smock www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
The oldest Welsh Lullaby: Dinogad's Smock (Pais Dinogad)
YouTube video by Arseni Maximov
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"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority." Schopenhauer
"What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience." Hannah Arendt
"The loss of paradoxical thinking is the blindness of our civilization. It happened when we repressed the feminine side of our lives as the inferior side" - Richard Rohr
For those of you who haven't read the executive order about Alaska, it does a lot more than open ANWR to drilling and renaming Denali. They are going to revisit ANCSA, which gave lands back to Alaska Natives and was settled in 1971. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
'O Human Imagination O Divine Body' Plate 24, Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion - William Blake
Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all. It’s all about labour 🧵
"The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results." Rabindranath Tagore
You've been told over and over again that Gaza's official death toll is false. That's absolutely right. The death toll is in fact a drastic underestimate 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/new-study-...
New study: Gaza's death toll is much higher than the world has been told
Far from being exaggerated, a new study underlines how Gaza's official death toll is a severe underestimate
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Poems by / Cerddi gan Duriel E. Harris, Mari George, Siôn Tomos Owen, clare e potter, Sam Robinson. modronmagazine.com/issue-five-c...
Good news that the deadline for documenting unrecorded footpaths has been scrapped - now we need a real right to roam... Article by Simon Armitage www.newstatesman.com/culture/natu...
Walking is the soul’s preferred means of transport
Does doing something twice in two years count as a tradition? If so, we have a family tradition of going for a Boxing Day walk. It’s pre-meal, to work up
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This week’s #FridayPoem is ‘Birch’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams from her sequence ‘The Tree Calendar’ republished in ‘The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/01/frid...
