Fionn Petch
@elusiveword.bsky.social
Ootlin. Scotland→Mexico City→Berlin.
Translator. Senior editor @charcopress
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Translator. Senior editor @charcopress
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💚 (Wee print I made a few years back in response to that first line)
October 31, 2025 at 10:24 PM
💚 (Wee print I made a few years back in response to that first line)
Happening now. Loving the insights from @alecfinlay.bsky.social, Patrick Eyres and Tim Richardson into the artist who has meant the most to me since I was a lad, Ian Hamilton Finlay, on his 100th birthday.
gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/talk-...
gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/talk-...
October 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Happening now. Loving the insights from @alecfinlay.bsky.social, Patrick Eyres and Tim Richardson into the artist who has meant the most to me since I was a lad, Ian Hamilton Finlay, on his 100th birthday.
gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/talk-...
gardenmuseum.org.uk/events/talk-...
Awfully tempted to leave this typo in… 😱♥️
#amediting
#amediting
October 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Awfully tempted to leave this typo in… 😱♥️
#amediting
#amediting
Look what was waiting for me in Scotland… @alinaetc.bsky.social
October 2, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Look what was waiting for me in Scotland… @alinaetc.bsky.social
mysterious note to self. nope, no idea.
May 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
mysterious note to self. nope, no idea.
My artworks, like my thoughts, have become overgrown
May 7, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My artworks, like my thoughts, have become overgrown
give me an example of contradiction, oh all-seeing AI
April 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
give me an example of contradiction, oh all-seeing AI
Utterly tickled that the Citámbulos project I worked on for so many years in the 2000s, exploring Mexico City through books and exhibitions, has now been immortalised in musical form...:
www.instagram.com/reel/DCYn5pI...
www.citambulos.net
www.instagram.com/reel/DCYn5pI...
www.citambulos.net
April 6, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Utterly tickled that the Citámbulos project I worked on for so many years in the 2000s, exploring Mexico City through books and exhibitions, has now been immortalised in musical form...:
www.instagram.com/reel/DCYn5pI...
www.citambulos.net
www.instagram.com/reel/DCYn5pI...
www.citambulos.net
Utterly chilling to be checking references for the book I'm currently translating only to find the text has been erased from the US university site where it was hosted because it was about women of colour. The link now redirects to a generic 'community' page.
April 3, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Utterly chilling to be checking references for the book I'm currently translating only to find the text has been erased from the US university site where it was hosted because it was about women of colour. The link now redirects to a generic 'community' page.
Today is the anniversary of IHF's death in 2006. I'm looking forward to his centenary show at Modern Two in Edinburgh. Was sent a preview of this piece–new to me–of particular resonance as ARC/ARK is the name I gave to the garden retreat I'm building: an elliptical cabin awaiting sea level rise...
March 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Today is the anniversary of IHF's death in 2006. I'm looking forward to his centenary show at Modern Two in Edinburgh. Was sent a preview of this piece–new to me–of particular resonance as ARC/ARK is the name I gave to the garden retreat I'm building: an elliptical cabin awaiting sea level rise...
that exact quote is one of the epigraphs, that's why I asked...
March 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
that exact quote is one of the epigraphs, that's why I asked...
The newly ordered books that were waiting for me in Scotland. Been trying to get hold of the Rebecca West for years.
March 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The newly ordered books that were waiting for me in Scotland. Been trying to get hold of the Rebecca West for years.
Some reading for the train (8 hours to Inverness - almost as long as the 10 hours from Berlin). @rrrahul.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Some reading for the train (8 hours to Inverness - almost as long as the 10 hours from Berlin). @rrrahul.bsky.social
Comment on the sad state of literary criticism today
March 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Comment on the sad state of literary criticism today
And pulling in to St Pancras just a few minutes late…. It can be done! 🚂
March 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
And pulling in to St Pancras just a few minutes late…. It can be done! 🚂
And not to be pedantic but Scottish students still don’t pay for uni
March 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
And not to be pedantic but Scottish students still don’t pay for uni
God forbid Americans should have to deal with UK spellings and be confronted with things they haven’t heard of… Weird aside in #NewYorkReviewofBooks review of O’Hagan’s Caledonian Road
March 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
God forbid Americans should have to deal with UK spellings and be confronted with things they haven’t heard of… Weird aside in #NewYorkReviewofBooks review of O’Hagan’s Caledonian Road
And not to be pedantic but Scottish students still don’t pay for uni
March 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
And not to be pedantic but Scottish students still don’t pay for uni
VNV Nation at Columbia Halle tonight. (Why are Germans such timid dancers? A lot of self-conscious shuffling going on...)
March 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
VNV Nation at Columbia Halle tonight. (Why are Germans such timid dancers? A lot of self-conscious shuffling going on...)
the only time – I think – that these names are to be found in close association
February 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
the only time – I think – that these names are to be found in close association
And as if by magic...
February 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
And as if by magic...
Excellent find at the otherwise uninteresting tourist trap that is Libreria Acqua Alta
February 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Excellent find at the otherwise uninteresting tourist trap that is Libreria Acqua Alta