Alex Houen
@alexhouen.bsky.social
§ Academic https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Alex.Houen
§ Co-editor of Blackbox Manifold http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk
§ Poet https://blackspringpressgroup.com/products/ring-cycle
§ Co-editor of Blackbox Manifold http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk
§ Poet https://blackspringpressgroup.com/products/ring-cycle
Spending a few days in the rainforest of Queensland’s Lamington National Park. There are Antarctic Beech Trees here that are over 2000 years old! Amazing place
July 29, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Spending a few days in the rainforest of Queensland’s Lamington National Park. There are Antarctic Beech Trees here that are over 2000 years old! Amazing place
I’m in #Sydney / Gadigal country, for the first time in years, staying near where I grew up. It’s wonderful to be back. Been sketching the view from my balcony to take it all in
July 18, 2025 at 7:59 AM
I’m in #Sydney / Gadigal country, for the first time in years, staying near where I grew up. It’s wonderful to be back. Been sketching the view from my balcony to take it all in
Some of the exercises in the ‘Spirituality’ section of Italian on Duolingo are rather curious
June 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Some of the exercises in the ‘Spirituality’ section of Italian on Duolingo are rather curious
I’ve come to see the terrific mural that commemorates The Battle of Cable Street that took place on 4 Oct 1936 when thousands of Londoners opposed a march by Mosley’s Fascist ‘Blackshirts’.
No pasaran! ✊
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...
No pasaran! ✊
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...
April 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
I’ve come to see the terrific mural that commemorates The Battle of Cable Street that took place on 4 Oct 1936 when thousands of Londoners opposed a march by Mosley’s Fascist ‘Blackshirts’.
No pasaran! ✊
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...
No pasaran! ✊
www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Hi...
Am pleased to have a poem, ‘Prick of Conscience’, in the latest @pnreview.bsky.social. It’s an elegy for my father who died aged 94 — pretty remarkable seeing as he’d smoked up to 80 cigarettes a day when younger.
As Tom Raworth wd say: Rise If Possible.
www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scri...
As Tom Raworth wd say: Rise If Possible.
www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scri...
March 30, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Am pleased to have a poem, ‘Prick of Conscience’, in the latest @pnreview.bsky.social. It’s an elegy for my father who died aged 94 — pretty remarkable seeing as he’d smoked up to 80 cigarettes a day when younger.
As Tom Raworth wd say: Rise If Possible.
www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scri...
As Tom Raworth wd say: Rise If Possible.
www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scri...
My cat, Bean, loves watching this little television I bought her
March 18, 2025 at 7:49 AM
My cat, Bean, loves watching this little television I bought her
Very much enjoying Mina Loy’s novel INSEL because of passages like this 👇
February 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Very much enjoying Mina Loy’s novel INSEL because of passages like this 👇
Richard Flanagan’s hybrid book Question 7 is excellent in drawing together various narrative strands on WWII POWs, Rebecca West and HG Wells, the development of the atomic bomb, genocide, rivers, and growing up in Tasmania
amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...
amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...
January 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Richard Flanagan’s hybrid book Question 7 is excellent in drawing together various narrative strands on WWII POWs, Rebecca West and HG Wells, the development of the atomic bomb, genocide, rivers, and growing up in Tasmania
amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...
amp.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...
My Christmas present to my house is this art work by Alastair Mackie: a life-sized heart moulded from the paper of an abandoned wasp’s nest🫀
December 28, 2024 at 11:58 AM
My Christmas present to my house is this art work by Alastair Mackie: a life-sized heart moulded from the paper of an abandoned wasp’s nest🫀