Poet-pyschogeographer, art-activist. Author of three poetry collections, b/w (2010), Porterloo (2013), Firing Slits Jerusalem Colportage (2016)
London
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In this hands-on poetopographical investigation I try and suggest the powerful influence living on the River Tyburn had on Blake's writing and imagination from late 1803.
Thanks for sharing, TLM.
'We can see Blake standing on Oxford Street, looking
Tyburn-wards, and thinking: βCalvaryβs footβ. This alters the cityscape.'
To read more about Blake, check out @NMcDevitt's essay 'William Blake at Calvaryβs Foot and Sinaiβs Cave' on our website now β‘οΈ bit.ly/39SJeRs
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Scientists now say they've discovered the origins of the deadly Black Death - more than 600 years after it entered the human population π³
Let's take a look at where it came from πtrib.al/wIDPdYX
Se Merry Doyle and I's film was commended at Portobello Film Festival and will be showing free at ICC on Bloomsday. It's a half hour walk along what I have dubbed The Golden Mile of Modernism.
πThu 16 June; β°6.30pm
Join us for a FREE FILM! πΌ#JamesJoyce β Reluctant Groom' - the extraordinary story of how Joyce married Nora Barnacle in London, 4 July 1931. Tracing history, Poet @NMcDevitt takes us on an intriguing #Bloomsday walk! @looplinefilm bit.ly/3lTE5en
Thanks @Reweirding_ People should check out the online schedule of forthcoming events A Summer of Magic and Rebellion.
This evening was brilliant, thank you @johnhiggs @KaliGeo @NMcDevitt @WordBookshop and @themillerpub
Later on, in the pub downstairs, I was completely distracted by a fox.
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This Tuesday. A trio of Blakeans muster in holy Southwark.
Open the Doors! 7 June 7pm 2022 @themillerpub
William Blake and Heaven and Hell (with Puppet William Blake)
w @johnhiggs @NMcDevitt @KaliGeo and Puppet William Blake.
reweirding.co.uk/2022/05/11/β¦
@wnbooks @WordBookshop @ForteanLondon
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π Thu 16 June πͺ6pm β¨FREEβ¨
Come see a fascinating, award-winning film "James Joyce β Reluctant Groomβ for #Bloomsday2022 - on how #JamesJoyce came to London to secretly marry #NoraBarnacle on 4 Jul 1931.
With @NMcDevitt @looplinefilm @ScanlonCultural
bit.ly/3lTE5en
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I just feel like there is a real grossness to the state driven Jubilee celebration fanfare. People are skint, getting so much more skint & full of worry & we are supposed to go out & celebrate 70 years of unadulterated, unaccountable wealth, privilege, power & exploitation? Nah.
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Tuesday 7 June @themillerpub
William Blake and Heaven and Hell (with Puppet William Blake) w @johnhiggs @KaliGeo and @NMcDevitt
reweirding.co.uk/2022/05/11/β¦
Books by @WordBookshop @wnbooks
I shall be performing with the countercultural chronicler John Higgs and the sybilline puppeteer Myra Stuart at The Miller in Southwark on Tues 7 June. reweirding.co.uk/2022/05/11/β¦
The Conservative and Unionist Party's response to the historic Sinn Fein victory in the NI elections is to gang up and ideologically sabotage it. When the lying collapses into bungling - as with Matt Vickers here - it reveals the emptiness of the case.
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Absolutely heartbreaking news. Veteran Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh has passed away after being in shot in the head by Israeli forces while reporting on an Israeli army raid on a refugee camp in Jenin, occupied West Bank. She was wearing a press vest at the time.
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Euston Stationβs outbuilding (now a craft beer joint). Shows how integrated the whole of Ireland was into the British state at one time.
Not now, and not ever again, obviously.
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In this seminal essay (1906), available in English for the 1st time, Segalen explores the doubleness of Rimbaud, a poet he was obsessed with and whose work (and subsequent silence) haunted him for years.
FORTHCOMING IN MAY
blackheraldpress.com/ledoublβ¦
transl. B. Longre & P. Stubbs
Great afternoon poetry reading. Thanks Cheerio and Tristran Hoare Gallery.
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Join us tomorrow lunchtime for this stellar @CHEERIOPublish line-up at Tristan Hoare Gallery:
Anthony Joseph @adjoseph
Sarah Fletcher @SarahFPoetry
Kandace Siobhan Walker @kandacesiobhan
A K Blakemore @akblakemore
Niall McDevitt @NMcDevitt
Greta Bellamacina @grbellamacina
ALT Advert for a poetry reading. There are three pictures of paintings by Francis Bacon along the lower half ('Triptych' inspired by T. S. Eliot's 'Sweeney Agonistes' 1967, copyright The Estate of Francis Bacon). Advert above the pictures reads: CHEERIO: 48 Hours with Francis Bacon. Tristan Hoare hosts a lunchtime poetry reading. 13.30 to 14.00 - Wednesday 27th April.
