James Young: "Brian and I got together for a couple of days in the winter of 2012 when Oxford was flooded. He came round to my place with some loose pages of his poetry and one of his published collections ‘Late Harping’.

catling-young.bandcamp.com/album/i-floo...

If you missed Hadzihalilovic's previous movie Earwig, based on the novel by B. Catling, I wouldn't blame you because it was barely released, but it is in my mind one of the great films of the last decade:
letterboxd.com/paulduane/fi...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

It's hard to look on the bright side of things when even the sunrise looks AI generated.

This isn't even the point, but I feel pissed off that my years of editorial experience and genuine, lifelong enthusiasm for the work is being channelled into a new role as a professional fluffer for a large-language model.

Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.

fascinating thread

The elegantly named Fruit-Sucking Moth, famed familiar to the garden variety Blog-Posting Scribe (could be it's the other way around); one’s not far from the other

A big happy birthday to Bill, the likes of which and so on and so forth. Also: always happy to share Radiant Blake by Chloe Cumming

Brian Catling's contribution to The William Blake Birthday Book (2007), on occasion of the visionary's 265th birthday

"'The Flea' is part of my recent retellings of Blake’s horrible vision (it is his dark imagination that spurs me on) those terrible visions that crawl...

If there was ever a case to be made about not playing to the market it's this: thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

I couldn't go on after the bit by Kim Hyesoon😭

For what it's worth I do relate to that fish going against the group, especially when it gets clicked