Steven Forth
@stevenforth.bsky.social
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Resident of Vancouver, writer, translator, explorer and connector of ideas.
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Drawn and Quarterly is a wonderful publisher that has changed how I think about graphic novels.

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#Canada #publishing
I always enjoy Leanne's tellings, how she thinks and the connections she makes.

North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens
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#Japan
North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens
And Susan Choi's latest novel "Flashlight"
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from Continuities ~1990s

how to say more than this,
what is the case is inconsistent
all that is the case
is inconsistent with
the known facts.

drowning.

burnt.

healed.

the world is all
that is the case.

the world is where
we remain silent.

inside a pool of light
rain in circles.

#poetry
1st lines

bridge acting in entire forgetfulness
of the prophecy. Birds in the holes in the bush. I was greatly
astonished at the size of the bricks, at the immense numbers of
them, both baked and sun-dried.

From Spinoza in Her Youth by Norma Cole 2002

#poetry #1stlines #France #translations
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

#Booksky #2books #SciFi #change #DEI
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Design books

Laws of UX by Jon Yablonski

www.oreilly.com/library/view...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #UX #patterns
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Design books

The Life of Forms in Art by Henri Focillon

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #art #change #evolution
from Continuities ~1990s

sewing with white thread
on white cloth, the hem
sewn up, ravelled

#poetry #place
1st lines

flowing back dead from this moment

the hole in your hip is bleeding, all the creatures
tumbling out onto the tabletop of definition

we can't investigate because it is us, equipment
encumbrance ...

From Spinoza in Her Youth by Norma Cole 2002

#poetry #1stlines #France #translations
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

#Booksky #2books #SciFi #change #DEI
from Continuities ~1990s

in the expansion of π every time 4 occurs substitute π
or every time 4 occurs substitute the
expansion of π.

thermodynamic work.

balancing its weight.

#poetry #place #math
1st lines

I had to recover the space
and give it symmetrical order.

I was walking.

A woman with no hair.
didn't seem bothered to wait
in front of a red
brick wall
for a man to approach her.

From A Lesson in Music by Jean Daive tr by Julie Kalendek

#poetry #1stlines #France #translations
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

#Booksky #2books #SciFi #change
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Design books

Tim Ingold Lines: A Brief History

www.routledge.com/Lines-A-Brie...

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #connection
from Continuities ~1990s

lapse, a known moment
loose, to hang down

the world is its limit

white and any other colour
blue in the dusk,
shared continence

the air shared dust

#poetry #place
1st lines

A woman measures.

A woman opens her arms
to determine lengths or
proportions.

She value
the sleep of this man who
will never sleep again.

From A Lesson in Music by Jean Daive tr by Julie Kalendek

#poetry #1stlines #France #translations
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

#Booksky #2books #SciFi