Julian Summerhayes
@juliansummerhayes.bsky.social
Spiritual and cultural activist, lover of poetry, inveterate walker https://juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/
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“Homo homini lupus”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
November 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
“Homo homini lupus”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
Today's poetry reading -- T.S. Eliot's "East Coker" -- the 2nd of the Four Quartets open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
T.S. Eliot
East Coker
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November 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Today's poetry reading -- T.S. Eliot's "East Coker" -- the 2nd of the Four Quartets open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
Today's poetry reading is from Charles Bukowski's book "Mockingbird Wish Me Luck". It's called "Slim Killers." www.tumblr.com/juliansummer...
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · by Charles Bukowski - Slim Killers
Today's poem is from Charles Bukowski's book "Mockingbird Wish Me Luck". It's called "Slim Killers". I have deliberately included a picture of a…
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November 27, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Today's poetry reading is from Charles Bukowski's book "Mockingbird Wish Me Luck". It's called "Slim Killers." www.tumblr.com/juliansummer...
My Tumblr page is coming along nicely juliansummerhayes.tumblr.com/post/8012870...
Julian Summerhayes
T. S. Eliot, September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965.
Mark Gerson, The Faber Poets, 1960: Louis MacNeice, Ted Hughes, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, and Stephen Spender.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Today's poetry reading: "Strawberry Moon" by Mary Oliver. www.tumblr.com/juliansummer...
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Mary Oliver - Strawberry Moon
Today's poem is "Strawberry Moon" by Mary Oliver.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Today's poetry reading: "Strawberry Moon" by Mary Oliver. www.tumblr.com/juliansummer...
Today's bloggage (it will be last one for a while to incorporate an Unsplash photograph and a poem) juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/t...
The ebb and flow
Today’s poem is from a new poet, James Berry. This poem is called “Time Removed.” “I wanted the whole world or nothing.”― Charles Bukowski, Post Office So much of my wri…
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November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Today's bloggage (it will be last one for a while to incorporate an Unsplash photograph and a poem) juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/t...
One of the great Jamaican poets: James Berry who I have only recently discovered www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...
A Story I Am In | Bloodaxe Books
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November 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
One of the great Jamaican poets: James Berry who I have only recently discovered www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...
If AI is coming for my job, I wish it would bloody well hurry up.
[Photo by Neeqolah Creative Works on Unsplash]
[Photo by Neeqolah Creative Works on Unsplash]
November 24, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If AI is coming for my job, I wish it would bloody well hurry up.
[Photo by Neeqolah Creative Works on Unsplash]
[Photo by Neeqolah Creative Works on Unsplash]
Today's little post on Substack open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
The only game in town
The Schoolboy
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November 24, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Today's little post on Substack open.substack.com/pub/juliansu...
Today's bloggage: Old age juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/o...
Old age
Today’s poem is called “if we take –” by Charles Bukowski. It is the last poem in his book “Mockingbird Wish Be Luck,” but it won’t be the last time that I…
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November 24, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Today's bloggage: Old age juliansummerhayes.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/o...
Does anyone ever read poetry anymore?
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Does anyone ever read poetry anymore?
More Bukowski. www.tumblr.com/juliansummer...
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · by Charles Bukowski - the smoking car
From his classic book of poems, Mockingbird Wish Me Luck. I have the Black Sparrow Press version which now retails at c.£25.00.
Photo by Jac…
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November 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Hundreds of chicks clubbed to death every year for "tradition" - sign the petition to end it: protectthewild.org.uk/gannet-petit...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Hundreds of chicks clubbed to death every year for "tradition" - sign the petition to end it: protectthewild.org.uk/gannet-petit...
The greatest comedy duo of all time youtu.be/Nsc0s0kUXjQ?...
Laurel & Hardy - Funniest Clip
YouTube video by Vernon Kennedy
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November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The greatest comedy duo of all time youtu.be/Nsc0s0kUXjQ?...
“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 AM
“All it comes down to is this: I feel like shit but look great.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Why don't we have Christmas 12 months a year? It would save all the bullshit shopping.
November 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Why don't we have Christmas 12 months a year? It would save all the bullshit shopping.
Today's poetry reading on @tumblr.com www.tumblr.com/juliansummer...
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · by Louis MacNeice - from Autumn Journal
From the book Contraflow, An Anthology: Lines of Englishness 1922–2022.
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November 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Today's poetry reading on @tumblr.com www.tumblr.com/juliansummer...
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Life’s aims
Today’s reading, longer than normal, is not a poem. I’ve taken it from another seminal book, or at least an important one to me. Namely, “Warrior’s Way: A 20th Century Odyss…
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November 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Why do so few people remember Charles Laughton's body of work?
November 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Why do so few people remember Charles Laughton's body of work?
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My new WhatsApp channel to celebrate the work of Bukowski.
My new WhatsApp channel to celebrate the work of Bukowski.
Charles Bukowski | WhatsApp Channel
Charles Bukowski WhatsApp Channel. This channel explores the life and work of Charles Bukowski, the great American poet. 0 followers
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November 22, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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My new WhatsApp channel to celebrate the work of Bukowski.
My new WhatsApp channel to celebrate the work of Bukowski.
Today's poetry reading is a classic from Charles Bukowski, "The Genius of the Crowd." www.tumblr.com/juliansummer...
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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Charles Bukowski - The Genius of the Crowd
Today's poetry reading is a classic. It is "The Genius of the Crowd" by Charles Bukowski.
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November 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Today's poetry reading is a classic from Charles Bukowski, "The Genius of the Crowd." www.tumblr.com/juliansummer...
Here tonight.
November 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Here tonight.
My new fav podcast youtu.be/s6n8zd1tixo?...
Don't Forget To Disco
YouTube video by ill-advised by Bill Nighy
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November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
My new fav podcast youtu.be/s6n8zd1tixo?...
It's just me and the pooches for the weekend. Mrs S is off on her travels with her sisters. That's code for Christmas shopping, which I loathe and/or despise.
November 21, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It's just me and the pooches for the weekend. Mrs S is off on her travels with her sisters. That's code for Christmas shopping, which I loathe and/or despise.