Beyond the Duero

26/07/2021

Very surprised but delighted that the US/Portuguese 'Adelaide Literary Magazine' has not only published 'The Anatomy of Disconnected Lines' but put it into print.

Would you believe this slipped our attention a couple of months ago! But this morning a copy of May's issue arrived. You can read it and buy it online at http://adelaidemagazine.org/2021/05/15/the-anatomy-of-disconnected-lines-by-tim-harris/, or buy it on Amazon at
https://www.amazon.com/Adelaide-Independent-Literary-Magazine-2021/dp/1955196524/ref=.

18/07/2021

From 'The Anatomy of Disconnected Lines'—also published in the literary magazine La Piccioletta Barca—we are printing limited editions of six artworks. Three diptychs with the themes of dislocation, disassociation and degradation. The artwork's analogue collages will be displayed in Seville later this year. The six digital collages are:

'It Could Be Proved Algebraically'
'Imaginary Geodesic Chalk Lines'
'A Vector Diagram of Bethnal Green'
'A Circle More or Less Enlarged'
'A Turbulent Sea of Discomfort'
'A World of Unpredictability and Imperfection'

See them at https://beyondtheduero.com/product-category/all/prints/?article=7592. They're giclée quality, 70cms x 70cms, and printed on 310gsm Hahnemühle German Etching.
You’ll find they’re competitively priced and shipped free.

11/07/2021

'The Anatomy of Disconnected Lines' by Tim Harris, is about someone he came across going to work in London. He says ... people might say he was OCD. I found that he was charming, individualistic, and what makes our lives so rich: the diversity of human kind. I believe it strikes a note of interest and understanding of his personality ... an understanding of the human condition.

We publish books that cast an idiosyncratic eye over the human condition … they’re quite unique! Check-out our latest opuscule, first published by highly regarded UK literary magazine La Piccoletta Barca.

There's a limited edition of 100 copies, individually printed and bound in our studio in Feria, Spain. They’re inexpensive and shipped free.
https://beyondtheduero.com/product/the-anatomy-of-disconnected-lines/

08/07/2021

Delighted that the highly regarded UK literary magazine La Piccioletta Barca has published 'The Anatomy of Disconnected Lines'. You can see it in Issue 33 of their magazine.

By Tim Harris, he says: This piece is about someone I came across going to work in London. People might say he was OCD. I found that he was charming, individualistic, and what makes our lives so rich: the diversity of human kind. I believe it strikes a note of interest and understanding of his personality ... an understanding of the human condition.

Check it out at La Piccioletta Barca here https://www.picciolettabarca.com/posts/the-anatomy-of-disconnected-lines.

I first noticed him on the other side of Westbury Avenue, as we both made our way to the bus stop.

06/07/2021

First published by the US literary blog Sad GirlsClub in September last year, at https://www.sadgirlsclublit.com/post/the-metaphysical-diorama-of-a-fisherman-tim-harris.

¨Exquisite!¨ Florencia, Seville

¨What a beautifully written article. Thank you.¨ Masha, The Algarve

¨I read this article it's very well written.¨ Caroline, The Algarve

What our readers told us about 'The Metaphysical Diorama of a Fisherman'.

Monte Gordo. A typical Algarve beach resort buoyed by the boardwalk over the beach and the community of fisherman it overlooks. The fishermen are singular, independent, and introspective, but on a misty winter morning they show us a more talkative side ... in their own inimitable way.

Also go to https://beyondtheduero.com/product/the-metaphysical-diorama-of-a-fisherman-3/ and check out the limited edition book with six pages of illustrations not seen in the literary magazine. It's hand made and bound and costs only 17,50€ with free shipping.

06/07/2021

First published by the New York literary magazine Litbreak in December last year, a magical fantasia of strange perceptions from the London neighbourhood of Muswell Hill.

See it at https://litbreak.com/cockerels-that-turn-in-the-wind/ and also https://deadmule.com/tim-harris-creative-non-fiction-may-2021/ where it was published a couple of months ago.

Also go to https://beyondtheduero.com/product/cockerels-that-turn-in-the-wind/ and check out the limited edition book with six pages of illustrations not seen in the literary magazines. It's hand made and bound and costs only 17,50€ with free shipping.

18/06/2021

Monte Gordo. A typical Algarve beach resort buoyed by the boardwalk over the beach and the community of fisherman it overlooks.

Here's the final extract from our opuscule 'The Metaphysical Diorama of a Fisherman' first published by the literary blog Sad Girls Club last year. Illustrated with the fine art print 'I Suspect Such a Disparate Union Might Break Before the Nets'.

Go to https://beyondtheduero.com/product/the-metaphysical-diorama-of-a-fisherman-3/ and check out the limited edition book. It's hand made and bound and costs only 17,50€ with free shipping.

'“How many you caught?” a young boy challenges José, shivering uncontrollably from an early morning bathe in an icy ocean.

He simply replies with discretion, “Muitos.” which the boy seems happy with; though clearly, the fisherman hasn’t gathered his nets that were placed in the sea yesterday. They’re still soaking, with a catch he trusts is increasing moment by moment.

Co**ha! Co**ha! Co**ha!

José, in thermals, fleece, bib-and-braces and boots, with a coarsely stubbled chin, deeply furrowed brow and thin white mane—that flies in the wind—digs inside the pocket of his fleece and takes out an unusually large cockle shell. It’s almost the size of a scallop. They stand together; the fisherman, a large man, clothed to withstand the forces of nature and the naked youngster with his smooth tight olive skin beaded with salt water. His black hair—shiny from the surf—stands-off his scalp like the wires of a hairbrush. The boy hangs onto his scrawny chest with his slender arms, clutching his sandy sweatshirt, shorts and sandals. He tries keeping the remaining warmth inside himself. José holds out the pristine shell in his cracked hands. It’s perfectly white. Chalky outside but polished inside. It’s rare to find one so big. The child stares intently into the shallowness of the giant cockle shell rubbing his index finger over the inside surface; he’s fascinated by its pearliness and glassy smoothness.'

A few of the boy’s fellow bathers call him from the boardwalk, eager to warm themselves off the beach. He returns shouting excitedly, “Co**ha! Co**ha! Co**ha!“, not able to lift his eyes from the shell.

07/06/2021

Monte Gordo. A typical Algarve beach resort buoyed by the boardwalk over the beach and the community of fisherman it overlooks.

Here's the second extract from our opuscule 'The Metaphysical Diorama of a Fisherman' first published by the literary blog Sad Girls Club last year. Illustrated with the fine art print 'A Colourful Chaos of Pennants Flying High Above the Gunnels'.

Go to https://beyondtheduero.com/product/the-metaphysical-diorama-of-a-fisherman-3/ and check out the limited edition book. It's hand made and bound and costs only 17,50€ with free shipping.

'“Six kilometres?” I question, not believing a net could be that long. Put together from a handful of nets, a tier would be no more than six hundred meters long. It would stretch from Monte Gordo to the next beach Praia de Santo António; Spain coincidentally nearly six kilometres farther eastward.

For the purpose of measurement, I imagine the nets striding out of town parallel to the multi-storied hotels and residential complexes: the complexes all simple geometry, bands of concrete balconies, and glass. Up and down along the boardwalk they rise and fall like an erratic bar chart of occupancy or rental value. They bookend a few remaining villas—fin de siècle idylls with pretty column-ed verandahs and bougainvillea-ed front gardens—over which they cast their long shadows. Then past Monte Gordo’s esplanade of concrete the nets would run alongside untouched beaches of dunes and grasses until reaching Praia de Santo António, a few hundred fathoms from the Spanish border. This time without lifting his head a lopsided grin breaks across José’s face and to qualify his math he wryly adds, “Over ’ere.” He throws a hand towards what I suppose are piles of nets; they’re covered by plastic tarpaulins and placed in tidy lines between the dories.

Whether collectively his nets might reach the border with Spain is hypothetical: José’s tiers are farther out and stretched square to the praia taking advantage of offshore currents. Placed end-to-end, they would—if not reach the coast of Morocco—make significant inroads towards Africa. Yet if the fishermen along the beach formed an amicable cooperative—and with the expectation that like José each one had ten tiers—placed end-to-end they would effortlessly cross the Straits of Gibraltar and arrive in the Moroccan port of Tangier. I’m disinclined to make this observation; even if this was practical or permissible, I suspect such a disparate union might break before the nets.'

26/05/2021

Monte Gordo. A typical Algarve beach resort buoyed by the boardwalk over the beach and the community of fisherman it overlooks.

Here's the first extract from our opuscule 'The Metaphysical Diorama of a Fisherman' first published by the literary blog Sad Girls Club last year. Illustrated with the fine art print 'Looking Towards Santo António a Sea Fret Rolls Towards Us'.

Go to https://beyondtheduero.com/product/the-metaphysical-diorama-of-a-fisherman-3/ and check out the limited edition book. It's hand made and bound and costs only 17,50€ with free shipping.

' “The crabs cut ‘em … or plastic!” I nod understandingly. “Everything that comes to net ‘s not all fish!” he adds—delivering at first hand how inadequate waste management and irresponsible packaging impacts fishing. I sense it’s a counterargument to the accusation the industry itself is the main culprit in polluting the oceans.

Giant luths that flounder onto the beach to lay their clutch; bo***es, gannets, and gulls with the garfish, mackerel and sardines they dive for, are tangled together in ownerless gill nets. Unemptied. They float like a sub-aqua Reaper off the Algarve’s beaches—ruthlessly effective for decades. They’re miserable foci of misadventure drifting the oceans with a community of unfortunates, waiting for their macabre destiny.

For the moment, whoever is to blame for these calamities isn’t important. José sits on the Praia de Monte Gordo threading a needle through broken nets. His net management ensures they’re less likely to be problematic in the future.'

18/05/2021

From 'The Metaphysical Diorama of a Fisherman'—also published in the literary blog Sad Girls Club—we are printing a limited edition of three artworks.

Buy one or the triptych at a discount.

Check out https://beyondtheduero.com/product-category/all/prints/?article=6513

The three collages 'Looking Towards Santo António a Sea Fret Rolls Towards Us', 'A Colourful Chaos of Pennants Flying High Above the Gunnels', and 'I Suspect Such a Disparate Union Might Break Before the Nets' use photography exhibited from December to February in Seville.

They're available as digital prints in an edition of ten copies. They're giclée quality, 60cms x 60cms, and printed on 310gsm Hahnemühle German Etching.

You’ll find they’re competitively priced and shipped free.

11/05/2021

It was unexpected!

But 'The Dead Mule School' is featuring ‘Cockerels That Turn in the Wind’. We’re delighted to say this twenty five year old Southern American literary journal has followed Litbreak last year and published it. They say, ‘No good Southern fiction is complete without a dead mule’, well … we wrote about a northern London suburb, cockerels and bulls, but no matter! Check it out on their esteemed and idiosyncratic website.

check it out at https://deadmule.com/tim-harris-creative-non-fiction-may-2021/.

We’re also proud to let you know that the highly regarded 'La Picioletta Barca', produced by alumni of Cambridge University, will publish our new work 'The Anatomy of Disconnected Lines' in July, where an English eccentric discusses the peculiarities of his unusual pastime. It will be available as an opuscule on our website soon after. Until then check out their erudite website that’s, ‘a journey in the streams of thought’ … we’ll keep you posted about its publication date.

https://www.picciolettabarca.com/.

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10/03/2021

Muswell Hill ... the place had a touch of magic.

In truth it was a pretty, hill-top, neglected corner of the city that had the potential to be special, but probably wasn't at the time. Here's a eulogy with its head very firmly placed in the clouds on the neighbourhood's essential qualities and peculiarities. It's a fantasia of observations... but careful there's more than an essence of truth in its allusions, allegories, and symbolisms.

Enjoy this suburb of London as we did! ... and check out the enigmatic collages that accompany the text.

We're delighted and honoured that Litbreak Magazine, a literary journal chose to published Cockerels That Turn in the Wind in December last year.

¨Litbreak is an online literary journal based in New York City that publishes short stories, novel excerpts, poetry, creative nonfiction, reviews of books and films, interviews, and short literary autobiographies of writers. It's... ¨A Celebration of Diversity in Storytelling and Poetry since 2015.¨

I would stand at the top of Hillfield Park and idly watch the clouds drift across me, picking those I could from the sky. Sometimes far below ...