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David Farrier
On the 1966 Poem That Warns of Bio-Acoustic Die-Off and the Destruction of Our Soundscapes
David Farrier Revisits Basil Bunting’s Classic, “Briggflatts”
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David Farrier
| April 9, 2026
The Dust of Ancient Suns: Making Art and Meaning From the Depths of Deep Time
David Farrier on the Work of Katie Paterson
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David Farrier
| May 6, 2022
On John Berger and Rediscovering Drawing During Lockdown
David Farrier Returns to the "Edge of What He's Become"
By
David Farrier
| August 25, 2020
With Apologies to Susan Sontag, We're Going to Need Metaphor to Get Through This Global Illness
David Farrier on the Ways We Talk About Coronavirus
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David Farrier
| May 15, 2020
On the Reverie and Detachment of the American Road Trip
"Mechanical travel blunts our sense of the world."
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David Farrier
| March 4, 2020
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