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Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany (2026) • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return (2021) • Poems in The South Shore Review & The Ekphrastic Review • Professor of English
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Today’s blooms.

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NewPoetry today from @garybarwin.bsky.social. newpoetry.ca/2025/06/02/t...

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Wayland’s Smithy, July 2023. #TombTuesday

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Just finished copy-editing a chapter I wrote on the poet W.S. Graham back in 2021. Academic publishing moves very, very slowly.

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Maiden Castle (Dorset): New research from Bournemouth Uni: Mortimer Wheeler's 'war cemetery' victims were not from a Roman attack on the hillfort but died over the early and middle decades of the first century AD when Maiden Castle was long abandoned.

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Today’s blooms.

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Wishing a happy Pride month to all who celebrate! 🎨Heliodorus of Rhodes, Pan teaching Daphnis to play the pipes (detail), 2nd century BCE.

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Time-transformed the stones may be, diminished in power as story engines they're not. Once portal tomb and now lichen-dressed lithic huddle, the shadow of the Long Neolithic is still cast. They still provide spine for folklore's living current to bloom upon. – Dr. K. Brophy 1982 #StandingStoneSunday

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Just finished reading — Colquhoun’s poems leave me a bit cold, but the short pieces gathered here as ‘imaginative prose’ feel fresh, alive, and contemporary; her essays on art and esoteric traditions are lucid and fascinating.

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Stanton Drew, Somerset, July 2023. #StandingStoneSunday

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Men-an-Tol #StandingStoneSunday

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Even more blooms

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New blooms today.

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Owl Carl Ray ~ Anishinaabe 1978

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Bill Brandt, Robert Graves, 1941.

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Couldn’t resist the new Severin release of Peter Cushing’s two Doctor Who films on Blu-Ray.

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Working through my copyedited manuscript basically consists of me repeatedly asking, 'Uh-oh, what have I done here?' and then trying to answer that question.

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‘“The worship of Pan never has died out,’ said Mortimer. ‘Other newer gods have drawn aside his votaries from time to time, but he is the Nature-God to whom all must come back at last.”’ — Saki, ‘The Music on the Hill’ (1911)

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Photograph of ‘The Whispering Knights’ Rollright stones in Oxfordshire by John Piper

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My MO online and irl:

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More new blooms today.

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Part of witchcraft and witchgraft is a charting of spirits. Tutelary deities, genii locorum – the witch walks to make a map of where they can be found. The witch walks to make a connection with them. For all magic is rooted in relationships. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky

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Natalie (my wife) has a new prose poem out in ‘The Prose Poem’! #poetry

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Crazy how literally no major films have warned us about this

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Received the copy-edited manuscript of ‘Stories of the Stones’ today. Lots of small edits and queries to answer in the next few weeks!

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‘The True North is indeed strong and free.’

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The broken castles of England haunt with an unpleasant sense of control. Stone that hold an echoing message of know your place, do as you are told. They offer sorrow phantoms, the psychic cicatrix of repression., Lords of the land scared of their own people. – #CJosiffe #Castles

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Peeking out from West Kennett Long Barrow, July 2023. #TombTuesday

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In the trees by the Cotswold village of Enstone stands the Hoar Stone, the remains of a Neolithic chambered tomb. Local legend says that the stones will return to their places if anyone tries to move them and that one of them sometimes travels to the brook at nearby Woodford to drink. #TombTuesday

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More blooms.

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This card of the alignments at Menec in Carnac (Morbihan) was published by the widow Ecomard in Quiberon c. 1905. It looks NW and is animated by a family of 7 in the foreground with 3 other figures further back.

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New blog post. First of a series examining the British Satanic Panic, beginning with a look at the background to the North American Panic. enfolding.org/the-satanic-...

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Pan was a member of the ‘thiasus,’ the retinue of Dionysus, when the god of wine and ecstasy invaded India. Known for inducing panic in the military camps of his enemies, Pan acquitted himself honourably in the campaign, according to the poet Nonnus.

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Hanging out with a pond serpent earlier today.

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Enjoyed seeing William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s ‘Nymphs and Satyr’ today at The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

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Avebury, June 2023. #StandingStoneSunday

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The Hurlers #StandingStoneSunday

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W.C. Poetry

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The view from here.

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Just one of many courses Harvard is currently offering online for free.

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An online talk that I've giving next Tuesday on the modern Pagan Revival..... thelasttuesdaysociety.org/event/pagani...

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A movie that takes place where you’re from.

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‘Oh Great God Pan, I know Thee! — I thank Thee — I bless Thee ... for indeed beneath the mantle of the God whose name is Love, is there not room for all in His world to shelter?’ — Margery Lawrence, ‘How Pan Came to Little Ingleton’ (1926) 🎨 Nicoletto da Modena, c. 1500-1510

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Henry and Rosie have called it a day.

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Sunset Sky Tom Thomson 1915

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"Druid's Altar". Latest addition to my legends in British landscapes postcard collection.

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