#five dials

[kundst]

Paul Davis (UK)

Drawing and cover for Five Dials magazine

Other People

[lifeinpoetry]

Today he’s making me list everything my parents ever gave me, like 1) A rabbit; 2) Medicine; 3) An interior feeling of shipwreckedness.

— Emily Berry, from “What Are Good Manners,” published in Five Dials

[williampate]

Crumbs: Cities, Creativity and Chaos

Crumbs: Cities, Creativity and Chaos

 A few years ago, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs pointed out . . . that the penal facilities dotting the landscape of rural Louisiana can be exurbs of New Orleans, since so many of their inmates are from the city.

. . .

Cities have always been cruel. They’ve nearly always served and been run by elites: corruption is the mortar that held many of them together. But until recently, there was room for more…

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[merulae]

Only his handwriting seemed to locate him exactly, to ground his body in the act of writing and thinking and breathing; each stroke of the pen a black ink tether that tied me to him and him to me.

Aislinn Hunter, On Handwriting from Five Dials

[merulae]

Reading seemed much the same thing as travelling, journeying down the sentences, new landscapes unfolding, two hundred miles or two hundred pages at a time.

Roger Deakin, Flight South from Five Dials

[writtenstones]

Rocks in the sky

Rock falling from the sky

No, not the usual meteorites or asteroids. Not even raining diamonds. The Guardian posted it and I had to follow it to the original photo gallery. Enjoy as I did.

The Guardian link here: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/jun/03/rocks-in-the-sky-a-geological-mystery-in-pictures

The original David Quentin gallery in Five Dials here: http://fivedials.com/portfolio/rocks-in-the-sky/

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