Steven Forth
stevenforth.bsky.social
Steven Forth
@stevenforth.bsky.social
Resident of Vancouver, writer, translator, explorer and connector of ideas.
In BC we need new voices and new visions of the future.

From Inside the NDP, I'm Working to Change Politics by Ji Wong Jung via @thetyee.ca

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

#Canada #BC #NDP #politics
From Inside the NDP, I’m Working to Change Politics | The Tyee
A 22-year-old party member hopes a grassroots movement will take hold to challenge top-down control.
thetyee.ca
January 16, 2026 at 5:53 PM
1st lines

Our tracks stopped at a makeshift hut
we cut ourselves off from the world
no one comes to see us
we keep the gate closed
in a driving year-end wind
and daylong falling snow

From Choosing Not to be Simple by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming tr by Red Pine 403

#1stlines #poetry #translation #China #陶淵明
January 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Erin Moure's translations of Chus Pato help to redefine language.

#Booksky #2books #poetry #Japan #左川ちか #sagawa
January 16, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Reposted by Steven Forth
Design books

The Architecture of Open Source Applications Vol. 2

aosabook.org/en/

#Booksky #books #design #designbools #software #opensource
January 16, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Saya Gray - "SHELL (OF A MAN)" (Live at WFUV)
YouTube video by WFUV Public Radio
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Wittgenstein TLP 6.41 Searle Translation

The meaning of the world must lie
Outside of the world inside the world
Everything is how it is

If there is a value
That has value it must lie
...

#poetry #haiku #Wittgenstein #TLP
January 15, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Should Sunrise Market Become a City-Owned Grocery Store? by Katie Hyslop via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/01...

#Canada #Vancouver #DTES #alternatives
Should Sunrise Market Become a City-Owned Grocery Store? | The Tyee
With London Drugs closing and Sunrise Market’s future unsure, the Downtown Eastside faces a retail desert.
thetyee.ca
January 15, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Reposted by Steven Forth
Design books

The Architecture of Open Source Applications Vol. 1

aosabook.org/en/

#Booksky #books #design #designbools #software #opensource
January 15, 2026 at 1:05 PM
1st lines

Pressing ahead retracing our route
I was counting the days to behold my old home
first I'll be happy to wait on my mother
then I'll be glad to see my brothers

From Choosing Not to be Simple by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming tr by Red Pine 400

#1stlines #poetry #translation #China #陶淵明
January 15, 2026 at 12:58 PM
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Sawako Nakayasu is pushing the practice of translation in new directions.

#Booksky #2books #poetry #Japan #Hiraide #平出隆 #左川ちか #sagawa
January 15, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Iran. Are we closer to US intervention? Is Starlink helping? Why are so many in the West questioning Pahlavi? Can we save Efran Soltani? A roundup and a bit of analysis on the newsletter:
pieterdorsman.substack.com/p/irans-revo...
Iran's Revolution (2)
From Starlink to Pahlavi to Soltani - a short update
open.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Reposted by Steven Forth
Language, speech, brought to pitch, to fulness, not only reveals man to man at depth, but opens him that much more to what is given and maybe shared.

-Cid Corman,
from his translator's note
to René Char's Leaves of Hypnos
January 14, 2026 at 1:25 PM
A bowl out
To catch the rain
Two fingers deep

#poetry #haiku
January 14, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Not not this
Is not this or its mirror
Reflecting back



Is the mirror reflecting
Back in the mirror a
Real mirror

#haiku #poetry #Wittgenstein
January 14, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Reposted by Steven Forth
Design books

Why Public Space Matters by Setha Low

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #commons #publicspace #sustainability
January 14, 2026 at 2:19 PM
1st lines

The beating snow clad bell wi sounding dead
Hath clanked four - the woodmans wakd again
And as he leaves his comfortable bed
Dithers to view they rhymey feathered pane
And shrugs and wishes - but its all in vain
The beds warm comforts he must no forego

John Clare 1820

#1stlines #poetry
January 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
2 books, a thread through my reading, connecting books, ideas, emotions and actions.

Conversations with 平出 隆 Hiraide Takeshi opened up my understanding of current Japanese poetry.

#Booksky #2books #poetry #Japan #Nishiwaki #西脇順三郎 #Hiraide #平出隆
January 14, 2026 at 2:12 PM
I hope that Erfan Soltani will not be murdered by the Iran regime. And that if he is his sacrifice will be long remembered.

#Iran #ErfanSoltani
January 14, 2026 at 2:41 AM
Reposted by Steven Forth
New notebook (a small French-made sketchbook)
January 13, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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In leu of comments (in linguistic form) on reading Han Kang's new book, We Do Not Part, I did a piece of calligraphy.
January 13, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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Design books

Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things by William McDonough and Michael Braungart

#Booksky #books #design #designbooks #sustainability #circular
January 13, 2026 at 3:29 PM
1st lines

And what is life? An hour-glass on the run
A mist retreating from the morning sun
A busy bustling still repeating dream
It's length? A moments pause, a moments thought
And happiness? A bubble on the stream

John Clare 1820

#1stlines #poetry #England
January 13, 2026 at 3:27 PM