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Kristian Evans

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Welsh writer, poet, editor, ecological thinker & founder of Modron Magazine: @modronmagazine.bsky.social www.serenbooks.com/book/100-poems-t… www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-pa…

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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
A remarkable poem, a #kenfig poem even, by the excellent @ZoeBrigley #poetry inkfishmag.com/knot/
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'Knot' by Zoë Brigley
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
G, by Zaffar Kunial
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
A solitary sea bindweed flower in the foreshore dunes at Kenfig
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Nick Walker @dr-nicky.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
RFK Jr.'s statement that autistic kids "will never pay taxes" makes a lot more sense when you realize the only autistic person he knows is Elon Musk.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
1. Because this issue is critical, but has received remarkably little coverage, here's a thread pulling out the key themes from my article yesterday, on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill, which puts decades of environmental protections to the torch. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour’s great nature sellout is the worst attack on England’s ecosystems I’ve seen in my lifetime | George Monbiot
The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Özge Lena @lenaozge.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
CATAPOETICS is out in the world! Happy Earth Day everyone! 🖤 You can read about "Catapoetry" in the @modronmagazine.bsky.social #catapoetics #catapoetry #catapoem #catastrocene #özgelena 👉 modronmagazine.com/earth-day-20...
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
A short film I wrote, filmed by Nathan Roach (Coal Poet Media), 'The Dunes', exploring the perspective of a runaway kid finding sanctuary in a desolate duneland on the Welsh coast. Huge thanks to Nathan for the beautiful images of #Kenfig #poetry #wales www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPkB...
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Earth Day 2025: The Dunes, A Film by Kristian Evans & Nathan Roach
YouTube video by Modron Magazine
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A picture of Venus in Aries last night, from the coast of south Wales
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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Today, a poem and interview with Dyfan Lewis, filmed alongside the river Taff, Cardiff, Wales 📽️ Dyma gerdd a chyfweliad gyda Dyfan Lewis, wedi’i ffilmio ar lan afon Taf, Caerdydd, Cymru 📽️ modronmagazine.com/2025/02/23/f...
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Ffilm: Cerdd gan Dyfan Lewis, Film: A Poem by Dyfan Lewis
Here is a poem and interview with Dyfan Lewis, filmed alongside the river Taff, Cardiff, Wales, UK. Funded by the Books Council Wales, Modron is a literary magazine in response to the ecological cr…
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
'There are limits to saying, In language, what the tree did.' from 'The Problem of Describing Trees' by Robert Haas
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Goethe
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 09/02/2025
Opposition to a proposed nuclear energy plant in Bridgend is mounting, with the local Green Party saying it is “unnecessary, unwanted and unsafe” wp.me/p8Mk4U-V1J
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Opposition mounts to planned nuclear plant as Starmer confirms new policy of 'Build, baby, build'
Martin Shipton Opposition to a proposed nuclear energy plant in Bridgend is mounting, with the local Green Party saying it is “unnecessary, unwanted and unsafe”. But doubts about the proposal come as ...
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Sian Corc @sianc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A beautiful Welsh lullaby Pais Dinogad/Dinogad's smock www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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The oldest Welsh Lullaby: Dinogad's Smock (Pais Dinogad)
YouTube video by Arseni Maximov
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
"Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority." Schopenhauer
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"What prepares men for totalitarian domination in the non-totalitarian world is the fact that loneliness, once a borderline experience usually suffered in certain marginal social conditions like old age, has become an everyday experience." Hannah Arendt
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Native American man carrying a sign that reads, "the beginning is near."
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
"The loss of paradoxical thinking is the blindness of our civilization. It happened when we repressed the feminine side of our lives as the inferior side" - Richard Rohr
Defaced Goddess statue, her face replaced with a cross
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
For those of you who haven't read the executive order about Alaska, it does a lot more than open ANWR to drilling and renaming Denali. They are going to revisit ANCSA, which gave lands back to Alaska Natives and was settled in 1971. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
(xvi)    immediately review all Department of the Interior guidance regarding the taking of Alaska Native lands into trust and all Public Land Orders withdrawing lands for selection by Alaska Native Corporations to determine if any such agency action should be revoked to ensure the Department of the Interior’s actions are consistent with the Alaska Statehood Act of 1958 (Public Law 85-508), the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) (16 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.), the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (43 U.S.C. 1601, et seq.), the Alaska Land Transfer Acceleration Act (Public Law 108-452), and the Alaska Native Vietnam-era Veterans Land Allotment Program under section 1629g-1 of title 43, United States Code.
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Winter sun beginning to set over the dunes
Dried out wildflowers silhouetted against sea and setting sun in sand dunes
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
'O Human Imagination O Divine Body' Plate 24, Jerusalem The Emanation of the Giant Albion - William Blake
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Eleanor Morton @eleanormorton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Literally every company now youtube.com/shorts/hL9pl...
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Literally every company now
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Grace Blakeley @graceblakeley.substack.com · 06/01/2025
Elon Musk’s fascist turn isn’t puzzling at all. It’s all about labour 🧵
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
"The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results." Rabindranath Tagore
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
You've been told over and over again that Gaza's official death toll is false. That's absolutely right. The death toll is in fact a drastic underestimate 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/new-study-...
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New study: Gaza's death toll is much higher than the world has been told
Far from being exaggerated, a new study underlines how Gaza's official death toll is a severe underestimate
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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Poems by / Cerddi gan Duriel E. Harris, Mari George, Siôn Tomos Owen, clare e potter, Sam Robinson. modronmagazine.com/issue-five-c...
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Annie Dillard, writing in The Atlantic
The world has signed a pact with the devil; it had to. It is a covenant to which every thing, even every hydrogen atom, is bound. The terms are clear: if you want to live, you have to die; you cannot have mountains and creeks without space, and space is a beauty married to a blind man. The blind man is Freedom, or Time, and he does not go anywhere without his great dog Death. The world came into being with the signing of the contract. A scientist calls it the Second Law of Thermodynamics. A poet says, “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower/ Drives my green age.” This is what we know. The rest is gravy.
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Good news that the deadline for documenting unrecorded footpaths has been scrapped - now we need a real right to roam... Article by Simon Armitage www.newstatesman.com/culture/natu...
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Walking is the soul’s preferred means of transport
Does doing something twice in two years count as a tradition? If so, we have a family tradition of going for a Boxing Day walk. It’s pre-meal, to work up
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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
This week’s #FridayPoem is ‘Birch’ by Hilary Llewellyn-Williams from her sequence ‘The Tree Calendar’ republished in ‘The Little Hours: New and Selected Poems’ www.serenbooks.com/2025/01/frid...
Photo of bare trunks of silver birch standing in the snow.
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Midwinter is behind us now of course, but I thought I'd share a recent piece by me about ice and salt, the tenacity of rock pipits, and the working class mystic Jacob Boehme... (and thanks to Sustainable Wales for publishing it) www.sustainablewales.org.uk/a-kenfig-jou...
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MIDWINTER AT SKER — Sustainable Wales
Ice on the rockpools and salt in the hail that lashed across the black shipwrecking hooks of Sker Point. I shrank into my coat, tugged my hood over my eyes and retreated.
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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 11/01/2025
Land of the cwtch, of fire, of magic, and of mystery - Wales has been creating magnificent, impassioned, and heartfelt lovers for millennia ✍️ Gwern Gwynfil wp.me/p8Mk4U-TAH
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Why the Welsh make better lovers
Gwern Gwynfil Santes Dwynwen is the patron saint of Welsh lovers and we celebrate both her and our lovers on the 25th January every year. As this date fast approaches what an excellent opportunity to ...
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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Thought I'd curate a Starter Park of writers living & working in Wales 🖋️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 drop me a line if you'd like to be added! go.bsky.app/7L23QS7 #WelshWriters #WtitingCommunity #Wales
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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Larkin hated us working-class, and that's why he's still so revered, because he exemplifies the canon in which only the white, male, middle-classes are included. 'I want to see them starving, The so-called working class. Their wages weekly halving, Their women stewing grass.' - Philip Larkin
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
“It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church, we should all be wearing crash helmets.” Annie Dillard
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Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
For those who've not found it yet.. I've made lists of UK Poets here so you can find them. Search it or click follow all for each one and you'd have more than 600 poets (& adding more to List 5 as I find them).
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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“In order to shoot off one email per week for a year, ChatGPT would use up 27 liters of water, or about one-and-a-half jugs… that means if one in 10 U.S. residents—16 million people—asked ChatGPT to write an email a week, it’d cost more than 435 million liters of water.”
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AI doesn’t just require tons of electric power. It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
It also guzzles enormous sums of water.
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Disgraceful. Nature Reserves and SSSIs need far stronger protections or we''ll continue to lose them to land speculators and developers.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Still the best two sentences on climate action.
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Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Yes, also surprised to see no mention of the huge decline of working class voices in both publishing and the arts in general
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Zoë Brigley @zoebrigley.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
This is a really interesting one. Interview by @glynedwards.bsky.social
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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Modron Issue 5 / Rhif 5 Modron Read Kexin Huang / Darllenwch Kexin Huang: "a gondola is a bowstring of water away from a crescent wing" "mae gondola rhyw linyn bwa o ddŵr o siâp cilgaint adain" Translation by Siân Melangell Dafydd modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...
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A Poem by / Cerdd gan Kexin Huang
Translated by  / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd  Jiangnan Wings Adenydd o Jiangnan Kexin Huang (She/her) won a poetry prize awarded by The Chinese Writers Association (over 1,000 G…
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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
MODRON ISSUE 5 RHIF 5 MODRON Read ‘Cusp of the Last Cold Moon’ Darllenwch ‘Pen Pella’r Lleuad Oer Olaf’ by/gan James McConachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social Trans. by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...
A bat roosting
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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
MODRON ISSUE 5 RHIF 5 MODRON Read ‘What the Deep Ocean Said to the Billionaire’ Darllenwch ‘Yr Hyn A Ddywedodd y Cefnfor Dwfn Wrth Y Biliwnydd’ by/gan Jonathan Kinsman Trans. by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...
A sea of money
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Modron Magazine @modronmagazine.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
MODRON ISSUE 5 RHIF 5 MODRON Read 'Of Luring' Darllenwch ‘Deny’ by/gan Hildred Crill Translated by / Cyfieithwyd gan Siân Melangell Dafydd modronmagazine.com/a-poem-by-ce...
A snail shell
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
“Out of a clear sky you send broken heart emojis” Zaffar Kunial’s brilliant, confronting poem is scored into the scarred, scoured, “jagged blooded” heart of this ongoing moment. First written in May, but—as Israeli strikes kill 12 more in Gaza today, mostly women & children—it bears re-sharing.
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Natalie Ann Holborow @natholborow.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
So grateful to have been a part of this wonderful new issue of Modron Magazine (and to have had a lovely afternoon in a very rainy Oxwich filming with my good friend Taz Rahman then warming up with coffee) ☕ 🌊 modronmagazine.com/feature-vide... #writing #poetry #ecopoetry #wales
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FEATURE VIDEO: a Poem and Interview with Natalie Ann Holborow
Produced by Taz Rahman
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