Nick Drake
@nickfdrake
Writer. Recently, Out of Range and The Farewell Glacier (both Bloodaxe), Cave (opera) with Tansy Davies; All the Angels (Globe); Between Worlds (opera)...
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Coming soon! @nickfdrake's long-form poem, The Farewell Glacier, broadcasts on Sun 4th Feb at 19:30 on @bbcradio3. First performed at COP 26 last year by Peter Mullan, it's an epic journey into the mysteries, wonders and climate emergencies of the Arctic. #ClimateCrisis
📼 We're recording @nickfdrake's long-form poem A Farewell Glacier in Glasgow, Manchester & London 🧊 First performed at COP 26 last year by Peter Mullan, it's an epic journey into the mysteries, wonders and climate emergencies of the Arctic. Coming soon to @BBCRadio3 !
Fantastic news. Many congrats
Thank you, so much, for the thoughtful messages. I’ve been at work all day – still here, in fact, and likely to be for a while – so I haven’t been able to write back, but I will. And I’m thoroughly jazzed to know so many brilliant, kind, generous people. Thank you!
Superb drawing together of truths and realities by @robbiecowen
I mourn the Sycamore Gap tree. But I also grieve for whoever chopped it down | Rob Cowen theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
the idea of a carbon footprint calculator was invented by British Petroleum not to encourage conservation, but to focus consumers' attention on their own emissions and distract their attention from the incomparably greater emissions of the industry itself. salon.com/2023/05/13/how…
It gives me vast pleasure to find myself @nickdrake taking my rightful place between two geniuses... oh, hang on... mojo4music.com/magazine/lates…
This is a brilliant collection, the writing is audacious, poetic, passionate, moving…
Arinze Ifeakandu wins Dylan Thomas prize for ‘kaleidoscopic reflection of queer life in Nigeria’ theguardian.com/books/2023/may…
🍾🥂⭐️to @3sisterstheatre and all involved in the fantastic, delicious Ripe 🍅
Our wonderful cast are performing ‘Ripe Tomato’ tomorrow and Sunday night at 8pm at the Cavern @VAULTFestival 🍅🍅🍅 There are only a handful of tickets left for our final two performances so be sure to grab yours now before they sell out! vaultfestival.com/performances/r…
Oh barf. Butter? Hearts of hydrogenated saturated full fat sycophancy …
My latest painting captures the true love of the President and Melania Trump, whose inspiring romance makes us all our hearts melt like butter.
Thank you so much @HappyWoman9 ie Lucinda Williams, for a moving, astounding concert @BarbicanCentre . Your elegies and celebrations are peerlessly beautiful, conjured from a handful of chords, a perfection of words, and a voice that don’t tell no pretty lies. Here’s to you -
Exceptionally important act of historical and architectural redemption - the Residency where the story of Khair Un-Nissa and James Kirkpatrick - and their two children, before they were sent to England - was lived out, as gloriously detailed in White Mughals by @DalrympleWill
Very proud to have played a small role in saving this extraordinary masterpiece- the British Residency in Hyderabad built for the White Mughal, James Achilles Kirkpatrick by Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II.
‘ A historical imagination equips you to understand that change is ceaseless.” @RebeccaSolnit excellent. No single story/solution. Cathedral thinking. And above all FOLLOW THE MONEY for the most important area of personal/public climate action theguardian.com/news/2023/jan/…
“But the ban is too narrow in its scope. It won’t cover single-use plastic water bottles, makes no mention of plastic bags and does not even try to control the burning of plastic waste in incinerators.”| John Vidal theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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England’s new ban on single-use plastics sounds impressive – until you study the facts | John Vidal
Thérèse Coffey’s weak plans aim low and will have minimal impact on one of the biggest problems threatening our environment, says the Guardian’s former environment editor John Vidal
Please spend 10 mins watching this. All the way through, please. Please share as widely as you can. Please keep it in a place where you can find it, in the months to come.
Superb distillation of the crimes and catastrophes of our colonial history and present by @DalrympleWill
For me the best podcast 2022 and a strong argument why more of this history should be on the National History Curriculum 👍🏽 Bravo @DalrympleWill (Shakespeare performed by the crew on a East India Boat 😳)
There is a monster leak of Arctic air heading towards the whole of North America. Many places will experience -20C. These leaks are becoming more frequent as the jet stream weakens. This is a new climate. The stability of the Holocene is over.
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