Steven Forth
@stevenforth.bsky.social
Resident of Vancouver, writer, translator, explorer and connector of ideas.
Canada has abandoned any pretence of climate responsibility.
A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won't Admit by Andrew Nikiforuk via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#Canada #BC #Alberta #pipeline #bitumen
A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won't Admit by Andrew Nikiforuk via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#Canada #BC #Alberta #pipeline #bitumen
A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won’t Admit | The Tyee
An energy expert lays out the risks and fallacies as Canada and the world fail to face the climate crisis.
thetyee.ca
December 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Canada has abandoned any pretence of climate responsibility.
A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won't Admit by Andrew Nikiforuk via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#Canada #BC #Alberta #pipeline #bitumen
A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won't Admit by Andrew Nikiforuk via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
#Canada #BC #Alberta #pipeline #bitumen
My Translations - Tomisawa Kakio - 富澤赤黄男
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A murderer's hands rubbing a green apple
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
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A murderer's hands rubbing a green apple
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
December 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
My Translations - Tomisawa Kakio - 富澤赤黄男
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A murderer's hands rubbing a green apple
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
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A murderer's hands rubbing a green apple
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
1st lines
A drop ceiling full of old fluorescents burning through the night
in a decommissioned Sears; a flower wall of live outlets;
the aural equivalent of acrylic or Elizabeth Arden M
bu Mariah Carey - diagnosing the origin of my symptom
From Wellwater by Karen Solie 2025
#1stlines #poetry
A drop ceiling full of old fluorescents burning through the night
in a decommissioned Sears; a flower wall of live outlets;
the aural equivalent of acrylic or Elizabeth Arden M
bu Mariah Carey - diagnosing the origin of my symptom
From Wellwater by Karen Solie 2025
#1stlines #poetry
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
What can we know?
#Booksky #2books #Cantor #philosophy #infinity #decideability
What can we know?
#Booksky #2books #Cantor #philosophy #infinity #decideability
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
What can we know?
#Booksky #2books #Cantor #philosophy #infinity #decideability
What can we know?
#Booksky #2books #Cantor #philosophy #infinity #decideability
Reposted by Steven Forth
Tried out some new ideas inspired by Steven Forth's comments.
November 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Tried out some new ideas inspired by Steven Forth's comments.
Reposted by Steven Forth
I left my notebook behind at my house in the suburbs, and went without for a couple of weeks. I typed my journal on my pc. So when I got my journal back, I pasted the printouts of what I had typed recently into the physical journal. Then did my usual calligraphy.
December 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I left my notebook behind at my house in the suburbs, and went without for a couple of weeks. I typed my journal on my pc. So when I got my journal back, I pasted the printouts of what I had typed recently into the physical journal. Then did my usual calligraphy.
The Koln Concert. 50 years. I have been listening to this all my adult life.
Thank you Keith Jarrett
ecmrecords.com/product/the-...
#music #Jazz #piano #improvisation
Thank you Keith Jarrett
ecmrecords.com/product/the-...
#music #Jazz #piano #improvisation
The Köln Concert - ECM Records
The Köln Concert – the groundbreaking recording of Keith Jarrett’s improvised solo concert at the Cologne opera house – has attained legendary status since its release in 1975. An iconic album and an ...
ecmrecords.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The Koln Concert. 50 years. I have been listening to this all my adult life.
Thank you Keith Jarrett
ecmrecords.com/product/the-...
#music #Jazz #piano #improvisation
Thank you Keith Jarrett
ecmrecords.com/product/the-...
#music #Jazz #piano #improvisation
Reposted by Steven Forth
Graciela Iturbide / Sin título, Japón, 2014
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Graciela Iturbide / Sin título, Japón, 2014
Reposted by Steven Forth
My review of A Passage to India is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
afterblockhead.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-pa...
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A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
I have concluded my year of reading E.M. Forster with the work that many consider his magnum opus, A Passage to India . It was good in the...
afterblockhead.blogspot.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
My review of A Passage to India is up at Conspicuous Consumption.
afterblockhead.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-pa...
afterblockhead.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-pa...
A viscous continuum - L.E.J. Brouwer - Part 1
Numbers stick to each other
Like glue and choices are made
To separate them
Clouds separate and blur
Hanging in the trees caught
On the valley slopes
A knife divides
A form and fibres are loosened
One from the other
#poetry #haiku #math
Numbers stick to each other
Like glue and choices are made
To separate them
Clouds separate and blur
Hanging in the trees caught
On the valley slopes
A knife divides
A form and fibres are loosened
One from the other
#poetry #haiku #math
November 30, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Steven Forth
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
My Translations - Tomisawa Kakio - 富澤赤黄男
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Black melancholia the car wrecked at the horizon
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
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Black melancholia the car wrecked at the horizon
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My Translations - Tomisawa Kakio - 富澤赤黄男
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Black melancholia the car wrecked at the horizon
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
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Black melancholia the car wrecked at the horizon
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
1st lines
We queue to manage the balance of what we are owed
to what we owe, orderly as the souls in private panic before the Judgement,
shuffling our documents as thought judgement weren't already written
in the Cloud. ...
From Wellwater by Karen Solie 2025
#1stlines #poetry #Canada
We queue to manage the balance of what we are owed
to what we owe, orderly as the souls in private panic before the Judgement,
shuffling our documents as thought judgement weren't already written
in the Cloud. ...
From Wellwater by Karen Solie 2025
#1stlines #poetry #Canada
November 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
Wquality as a one to one correspondence
#Booksky #2books #Cantor #philosophy #infinity
Wquality as a one to one correspondence
#Booksky #2books #Cantor #philosophy #infinity
November 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
Wquality as a one to one correspondence
#Booksky #2books #Cantor #philosophy #infinity
Wquality as a one to one correspondence
#Booksky #2books #Cantor #philosophy #infinity
For a variety of reasons I found myself thinking about Donald Philippi today. He was one of the most interesting people I have worked with. I plan to reread his Ainu translations in the near future.
web.archive.org/web/20190901...
#translation #SanFrancisco #Japanese #Ainu
web.archive.org/web/20190901...
#translation #SanFrancisco #Japanese #Ainu
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
For a variety of reasons I found myself thinking about Donald Philippi today. He was one of the most interesting people I have worked with. I plan to reread his Ainu translations in the near future.
web.archive.org/web/20190901...
#translation #SanFrancisco #Japanese #Ainu
web.archive.org/web/20190901...
#translation #SanFrancisco #Japanese #Ainu
Essential reading.
7IDANsuu James Hart's Monumental Art by Dorothy Woodend via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
#Canada #BC #art #Haida #sculpture
7IDANsuu James Hart's Monumental Art by Dorothy Woodend via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
#Canada #BC #art #Haida #sculpture
James Hart’s Monumental Art | The Tyee
The Haida artist’s exceptional work, family life and resonant voice shine brightly in a new book.
thetyee.ca
November 29, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Essential reading.
7IDANsuu James Hart's Monumental Art by Dorothy Woodend via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
#Canada #BC #art #Haida #sculpture
7IDANsuu James Hart's Monumental Art by Dorothy Woodend via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
#Canada #BC #art #Haida #sculpture
My Translations - Tomisawa Kakio - 富澤赤黄男
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Wind the realist painting skin peeled from a cow's back
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
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Wind the realist painting skin peeled from a cow's back
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
My Translations - Tomisawa Kakio - 富澤赤黄男
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Wind the realist painting skin peeled from a cow's back
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
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Wind the realist painting skin peeled from a cow's back
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
1st lines
Left to our use are the fixtures and appliances
repented of by the homeowners
who don't realize this is a way to know them.
In the basement one is closer to god because
closer to consequence, to creatures no one loves
...
From Wellwater by Karen Solie 2025
#1stlines #poetry #Canada
Left to our use are the fixtures and appliances
repented of by the homeowners
who don't realize this is a way to know them.
In the basement one is closer to god because
closer to consequence, to creatures no one loves
...
From Wellwater by Karen Solie 2025
#1stlines #poetry #Canada
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
Can we agree on how we count?
And what we count?
#Booksky #2books #Wittgenstein #philosophy
Can we agree on how we count?
And what we count?
#Booksky #2books #Wittgenstein #philosophy
November 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
Can we agree on how we count?
And what we count?
#Booksky #2books #Wittgenstein #philosophy
Can we agree on how we count?
And what we count?
#Booksky #2books #Wittgenstein #philosophy
My Translations - Tomisawa Kakio - 富澤赤黄男
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Lightning fragmented withered things jostle together
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
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Lightning fragmented withered things jostle together
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
November 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
My Translations - Tomisawa Kakio - 富澤赤黄男
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Lightning fragmented withered things jostle together
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
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Lightning fragmented withered things jostle together
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In Moving Letters 13 1989
#poetry #translation #haiku
1st lines
Rain separates inside from outside. I want to talk inside the rainstorm's effects. The black water in the teacup is silent. It's a beautiful teacup. But I'm an easily breakable pot. ...
From Human Time by Kim Haengsook tr by Jake Levine 2014
#1stlines #poetry #Korea #translation
Rain separates inside from outside. I want to talk inside the rainstorm's effects. The black water in the teacup is silent. It's a beautiful teacup. But I'm an easily breakable pot. ...
From Human Time by Kim Haengsook tr by Jake Levine 2014
#1stlines #poetry #Korea #translation
November 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
1st lines
Rain separates inside from outside. I want to talk inside the rainstorm's effects. The black water in the teacup is silent. It's a beautiful teacup. But I'm an easily breakable pot. ...
From Human Time by Kim Haengsook tr by Jake Levine 2014
#1stlines #poetry #Korea #translation
Rain separates inside from outside. I want to talk inside the rainstorm's effects. The black water in the teacup is silent. It's a beautiful teacup. But I'm an easily breakable pot. ...
From Human Time by Kim Haengsook tr by Jake Levine 2014
#1stlines #poetry #Korea #translation
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
Can we agree on how we count?
#Booksky #2books #Wittgenstein #philosophy
Can we agree on how we count?
#Booksky #2books #Wittgenstein #philosophy
November 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
Can we agree on how we count?
#Booksky #2books #Wittgenstein #philosophy
Can we agree on how we count?
#Booksky #2books #Wittgenstein #philosophy
Reposted by Steven Forth
In my cozy corners, I often ponder: do we each taste joy in the same way? Books invite us to explore the spectrum of emotions, revealing the beauty in our shared humanity. #Booksky #2books #philosophy
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.
When I see blue do I see the same blue as you do?
#Booksky #2books #Wittgenstein #philosophy
When I see blue do I see the same blue as you do?
#Booksky #2books #Wittgenstein #philosophy
November 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In my cozy corners, I often ponder: do we each taste joy in the same way? Books invite us to explore the spectrum of emotions, revealing the beauty in our shared humanity. #Booksky #2books #philosophy