via @NYTimes 💕⁦Philip Hoare⁩ “In Dürer’s time, whales “presented a great challenge and allure” to artists, because “they were so difficult to comprehend. Like God, no one could agree what they really looked like, or what they might be capable of.” nytimes.com/2021/05/05/boo…

I do exactly the same

I can’t express how happy I am to be part of the new SIRENEjournal issue. It’s filled with so much treasure, including my beloved Horse island and four books I would take there with me.

got my hands on paradise regained

Picador Books John Hansard Gallery

this morning I am in awe of sparrows

I love it when poets write non-fiction; it blows all those restrictions out of the water

and no one does it like Kathleen Jamie

Kathleen Jamie Sort of Books

heaven is a place where everything happens

fabulous pictures from their amazing collection, newly on display Southampton City Art

Sutherland, Ofili, Shaw

southamptoncityartgallery.com/whats-on/from-…

Philip Hoare 😂

Happy Easter from Albert & I

Tiaki, off Kaikoura, South Island

Good Friday

Dartmoor

George Shaw

'Stories of the Nuu-chah-nulth people describe a killer whale coming on to land and transforming into a wolf, which itself transforms into a human.'

theguardian.com/environment/20…

SCOOP: the Māori King and other Indigenous leaders will gather tomorrow to sign a treaty recognizing whales as legal persons.

the movement is rooted in the Māori worldview, which sees whales as ancestors, one Māori conservationist writes for Atmos: atmos.earth/a-descendants-…

they shut a road off near me for repairs; within a day children had drawn bees and flowers on it; this morning they were riding their bikes there without fear; imagine if we reclaimed our roads for human beings...

raiders of the lost compost at my back door

or an alien in the sky

for International Poetry Day, this film of a marvellous poet of the wild and the beautiful

hey groovy New Yorkers, check out Oliver Soden and his fabulous Noël Coward event The English-Speaking Union of The United States 26 March; ultimate style