33,000 freshwater mussels saved cbc.ca/news/canada/mo…

I held this man's hand on Saturday night it was like meeting W.H. Auden hear him read the last installment of the Rime of the Ancient Mariner here art by Angela Cockayne ancientmarinerbigread.com/reading/40

Very much looking forward to listening to - and conversing with - the wondrous & brilliant Philip Hoare on Sept. 15th The Shaking Bog festival in Enniskerry. His books are small miracles.. International Literature Festival Dublin MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland Easkey Ph.D. Irish Literary Times

A little essay by me in today's Irish Times The Irish Times Autumn has a visceral effect on me. Turning seasons take us back to places that made us happy or unhappy irishtimes.com/life-style/peo…

"it is impossible to be sad in the sea. Everyone is beautiful in there, as the emcee from Cabaret says – for all that each swim is an intimation of mortality, a little death". Thanks Philip Hoare and The Irish Times for such a gorgeous breakfast-read

“I realised that it is impossible to be sad in the sea.” beautiful essay that made me realize how much I miss Philip’s nightswimdiary on this broken twitter where x doesn’t stand for treasure or kiss any more but we have Philip Hoare’s books

Did you catch this beautiful article by one of our artists Philip Hoare irishtimes.com/life-style/peo… Don't miss his talk on Sept 15 as part of The Shaking Bog Festival

it's actually one long extended Pet Shop Boys song

Donna Huddleston's amazingly cine-dramatic, dream-like paintings White Cube Mason's Yard anyone guess who the model for this one was?

Philip Hoare the extraordinary author of the award-winning Leviathan, makes a rare visit to these shores. If you’ve a love for the natural world, history or the sea, don’t miss him mermaidartscentre.ie/what.../events…

back in the Wicklow Mountains The Shaking Bog

Beckett walked these hills The Shaking Bog

Bray, pre-dawn dip The Shaking Bog

in the lee of Joyce's house overlooking the bay

back in the river The Shaking Bog

"It was all the more ironic, this phobia, since I was born within the sound and smell of the sea, in a port city on the English south coast. I think that’s why the water terrified me even more. Its depth, its unknownness, so close." Lovely morning read by Philip Hoare 🍃

What a wonderful weekend of #nature & #art The Shaking Bog Festival #wicklow Loved the intimate cosy experience of Alan Gilsenan short film on Dargle River in the Phone Kiosk. And such a moving talk by Philip Hoare on his, & our, connections to the ocean & glorious whales

Harry Clarke's luminously strange and baroque Enchantment of Bottom by Titania, 1922 such an eerie vision, like a portal into the future-past National Gallery of Ireland

Forty Foot sunrise