#Spinosaurus at Museum of Natural Science Barcelona
On a recent trip to Barcelona I did not have time, unfortunately, to explore what everyone who has been there describes as a truly great city. The only non-conference thing…
Bird feeding notes, mid November
A while since the last bird feeding note – and now, with cold beginning its bite, the feeds are highly popular. Once again, apples halves rapidly disappear – it seems like…
Empty Room, A S J Tessimond
Found at the ever wonderful First Known When Lost Empty Room The clock disserts on punctuation, syntax. The clock’s voice, thin and dry, asserts, repeats. The clock insists: a…
Computer games on paper: MiG-25, Colosseum, Mental Mills
Around 1986 my family bought an Amstrad PCW 8256 in Derry. I suppose at this distance it is OK to recall it was hidden under a blanket in the back seat…
“Sun Dancing: A Medieval Vision – Seven Centuries on Skellig Michael” by Geoffrey Moorhouse
I have yet to actually set foot on either Skellig. Geoffrey Moorhouse, in the preface to his Sun Dancing, describes being captivated by its appearance while on a family holiday in…
“the primacy of the material world over the digital”
From Janan Ganesh’s “Notebook” column in the FT, 29/10/16 (firewalled): As the internet stirred at the turn of the 1990s, its distance-closing properties were talked up. Speculative accounts of the near-future…
“Lackendarra” published in Alt Hist 9
My story Lackendarra has heen published in issue 9 of Alt Hist, the bestselling magazine of historical fiction http://althistfiction.com/2016/10/23/alt-hist-issue-9-published/ Heres the cover. Here are some Comeragh photos to mark the…
From “The Nature of Autumn” by Jim Crumley
From an extract published here Leaves must produce food out of thin air, or else there is no tree. Luckily for nature and all of us, they are extraordinarily good…
Séamus Sweeney 