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Art is how we fix the consciousness contract
The world has always been a work of art, and you have always been an artist.
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Word-swallowing memorisers: Hello!, and info about Wednesday's session, and next book club
Oct 26, 2025
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Memorising poems and stories is magic that remakes the material world
On Dante's Inferno, indigenous songlines, and shifting baseline syndrome
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This moment needs your deep weirdness and your intellectual rigour
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Reading is a psychedelic drug, and medieval monks knew how to do it best
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Democracy was founded on the legal suppression of grief, and why politics without art is death
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The weird is biting back
Dec 13, 2024
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Memorising poems and stories is magic that remakes the material world
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Reality is a sculpture, not a jigsaw puzzle
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Memory club: pledges, Yates pages, notes from our first book club
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Reminder: Memory club begins on Sunday
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On poetry and imagination: A conversation with Alice Oswald and Valentin Gerlier
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Memory club: new dates, plus suggestions about pledges
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Welcome to the Word Swallowers' Winter Memory Club
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Reviving the ancient memory arts as an act of resistance
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Word Swallowers' Memory Club
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Word-swallowing memorisers: Hello!, and info about Wednesday's session, and next book club
Oct 26, 2025
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Memory club: new dates, plus suggestions about pledges
Sep 4, 2025
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Welcome to the Word Swallowers' Winter Memory Club
Dates, books for book club, how to pledge, and other details
Aug 22, 2025
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Reviving the ancient memory arts as an act of resistance
Because the world we imagine will grow from memory
Aug 14, 2025
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