Roy Kesey

@roykesey

Some things I do: write (Sarabande, Jonathan Cape/Random House, Dzanc), translate (Soho Press, Serpent’s Tail), teach, read, bind, photograph. Ideal job: walking around looking at stuff. Photos mine unless otherwise noted, e.g. profile tintype by Amy Güth.

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Roy Kesey@roykesey· 29d

The only way to know what dreams were dreamt in this bed: read Home at Grasmere, the journal of Dorothy Wordsworth. 📷📸🧭🛏️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #england #lakedistrict #grasmere #dovecottage #photography #clarity

A color photo of an old wooden bed, very small by contemporary standards, with white sheets, a green blanket, and a white sleeping bonnet hanging from the corner of the headboard.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Jul 12

I am very lucky: I get to lead students across northern England each year. What I hope they discover: the power of stillness, of silence, of looking carefully, of engaging fully. Here: a shot of Lake Windermere. 📷📸🧭🌊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #england #lakedistrict #windermere #photography #clarity

A color photograph in nostalgic, dramatic tones, of sunlight streaming through thick clouds onto a lake.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Jun 2

In the hope of getting my own statue outside the Ulster Museum, I too am going to invent a new temperature scale. It shall start with True Room Temperature and go both ways from there.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Apr 16

Even in a world on fire, dogwoods commit to the bit.

A dogwood tree blossoms bright pink in a rural yard

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Dec 19

It was a long fast walk across the moors up to Top Withens, where Emily Brontë set Wuthering Heights. I thought no one would join me, gave the students plenty of outs. 5 came anyway. 1 said, "We want to see why you care so much.” I’ll remember that. 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #topwithens #haworth #photography #clarity

A color photograph of two trees at the top of a steep hill covered with long green grass. The sky is cloudy but bright. From a distance it looks like a single tree, and then you arrive and see truly.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Dec 12

Belongings of the least-accomplished Brontë sibling. Branwell had plenty of the talent in multiple fields, and talent will never be enough. 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #bronteparsonagemuseum #haworth #westyorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A color photograph of a deer skull with small antlers tucked into a wooden letter box on a writing desk.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Dec 10

Once more to the castle. 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏰 #scarboroughcastle #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A black-and-white photograph showing the ruins of a medieval castle, with clouds in the background.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Nov 23

A student working on a travel writing exercise, near Robin Hood’s Bay. 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #travelwriting #robinhoodsbay #dinosaurcoast #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A color photograph with a green meadow in the foreground, a young person seated on the ground in silhouette, and a cloud-filled sky.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Nov 22

A raven on the castle wall. 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏰🪶 #birdsky #raven #scarboroughcastle #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A black and white photo of a raven in silhouette on an old stone wall.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Nov 21

I guess if anywhere is going to change hands between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists seven times in seven years, might as well be 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏰 #scarboroughcastle #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A black-and-white photograph showing the ruins of a medieval castle, with a field of wildflowers in the foreground, and complex clouds in the background.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Nov 20

I mean I guess if you’re going to set a vampire story somewhere, might as well be 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #whitby #abbey #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A black-and-white photograph of the ruins of an ancient abbey against the setting sun.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Nov 15

Robin Hood’s Bay. 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #robinhoodsbay #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A black-and-white photograph of sunlight reflected on a bay, the headlands beyond, and a cloudy sky.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Nov 13

The limestone cap of Malham Cove. 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌿 #limestone #rocksky #malhamcove #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A color photograph of a thick gray cap of natural limestone fragmented by weather, with ferns growing in between the fragments.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Oct 31

Back to my fighting weight #burnishbeercompany #salisbury #maryland

A color photograph of a pint of lager next to a can reading Roy Light, a beer produced by Burnish Beer Co.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Oct 17

A delight of copper beech 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌿 #copperbeech #treesky #kiplinhall #richmond #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A close-up color photograph of two oxblood-colored leaves.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Oct 9

Find someone who looks at you like 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #swan #birdsky #kiplinhall #richmond #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A color photograph of two swans swimming together in sunlit water, with saplings in the background.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Oct 6

A primrose at Kiplin Hall. 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #plantsky #kiplinhall #richmond #northyorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A color photo of a pink primrose in full bloom.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Oct 5

The Golden Lion Hotel has hosted eminent guests for 300 yrs, inc. future czar Grand Duke Nicholas, Queen Victoria’s 3rd son, & Andrew Carnegie. In the center of the dining room is this portal to the abyss. Good Scotch eggs. 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #goldenlion #northallerton #yorkshire #england #photography #clarity

A black-and-white photo looking down through a thin sheet of plexiglass into a medieval well located in the middle of the fucking dining room of a fancy English hotel.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Oct 4

Forest on a fencepost. 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #plantsky #hilltop #sawrey #cumbria #england #photography #clarity

A color photograph of a moss-covered fencepost on a background of green grass and reeds.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Oct 3

Jackdaw says I beg your pardon? 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #birdsky #hilltop #cumbria #england #photography #clarity

A jackdaw, a corvid with black body, gray head, and blue eyes, looks up from green grass.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Oct 2

I don’t much care what time it is, but I like a good clock all the same. 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #beatrixpotter #hilltop #cumbria #england #photography #clarity

A color photo of a beautiful clock, the pendulum blurred in motion, in the sitting room of Beatrix Potter’s home at Hill Top in Sawrey.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Oct 1

The floor of the Kentmere Boat, an 11th C. Viking dugout. Kendal Museum, Cumbria. 📷📸✒️📓🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #kentmere #kendal #cumbria #england #photography #clarity

The charred wooden surface of an eleventh century dugout.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Sep 30

Rydal Cave, from inside out. 📷📸🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✒️📓 #rydal #westmorland #cumbria #england #photography #clarity

A color photo looking out of the mouth of a cave at rocks, trees, far hills, and blue sky.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Sep 29

The water-mirror of Rydal Cave, an abandoned slate quarry in the side of Loughrigg Fell. 📷📸🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✒️📓 #rydal #westmorland #cumbria #england #photography #clarity

A color photograph of slanted slabs of slate reflected in a pond of water inside a cave.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Sep 28

There are worse places to write. Every summer we take a small group of undergrads through northern England. I run the travel writing. This shot is from the first hike, up Greenhead Ghyll, around & back down to Grasmere. 📷📸🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿✒️📓 #writing #grasmere #westmorland #cumbria #england #photography #clarity

A color photograph of a young woman writing in a notebook beneath a small tree overlooking a green valley.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Sep 26

A shot of of W. Wordsworth’s "The Recluse” in ms. "(…may) the hand Be ready and unwearied without plea, From tasks too frequent or beyond its power, For languor or indifference or despair." Thank you, Billy. 📷📸🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #jerwoodcentre #wordsworthtrust #grasmere #england #photography #clarity

A portion of a 19th century manuscript, the oak gall ink slightly faded to rich brown on the yellowed paper.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Sep 22

Some chimneys are chimnier than others. 📷📸🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #dovecottage #grasmere #westmorland #cumbria #england #photography #clarity

A black and white photograph of the three-tiered chimney on the slate roof of Dove Cottage.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Sep 18

An everlasting pea at Dove Cottage 📷📸🌊🧭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #dovecottage #flowers #grasmere #westmorland #cumbria #england #photography #clarity

A bright round fuchsia-colored flower with a delicate opening at the base of the blossom

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Sep 16

Adding my voice to the chorus of those mourning the passing of Dan Wickett. Dzanc was my first publisher and Dan was its heart and soul: tireless on behalf of writers and their work, generous with his time and emotional energy, kind and encouraging to everyone he met. Rest well, old friend.

Roy Kesey@roykesey· Jul 25

A little good strangeness from Renata Adler’s landmark Pitch Dark, ‪@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social 1983, reprinted 2013 📚🖋️ "The forbidden, the solipsistic tense is this: that things will have been other than they were."