Tag: London

  • Feast on the Bridge

    Really nice day up on the South Bank at the Feast on the Bridge. Southwark Bridge was closed to traffic, and tables were set up along its length for people to bring and share food. People with hats full of salad and herbs wandered around adding to meals, and fantastic stalls sold everything from oysters…

  • Pestival

    Some photos of the ‘Pestival’ that was going on on London’s South Bank last night. Don’t ask too many questions… Just lots of insect-related madness to highlight our dependence on, relationship with and myth-making about what are essentially going to be the heirs when us higher mammals screw this world up. Get the flash player…

  • One and Other | 4th Plinth | The State of the Nation

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    I happened across the Anthony Gormley ‘piece’ in London’s Trafalgar Square today: ‘One and Other.’ The idea is presented on a plaque: There is a live stream of what is going on at any one time here. Here (19:15 on 15th July) we see a woman dressed up as a lollipop lady waving at people:…

  • New Poem: Beaten Tracks

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    Beaten Tracks On the sleepers between Forest Hill and Brockley broken rails are lain down, flanked by the tidy parallels of clean-humming steel tracks. They are tensile failures, pieces and fractures, all angles and rough edges, serving brittle punishment for going out of line and giving in when the wheels rolled their backs. © KB…