Alexander Velky
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story
Between January 2022 and March 2023 I wrote a sort of memoir entitled "Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story". I had long had the idea...
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Alexander Velky
- 3 days ago
- 6 min
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 2: “Tell me about a time you made a mistake.”
My mother thought I was old enough by this point to get a regular weekend Job. And I wanted money for two reasons...
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Alexander Velky
- 4 days ago
- 14 min
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 1: “Tell me about something you accomplished that you're proud of.”
I got my first regular Job at the age of 14 because we’d moved from North Wales to The Hog County in the South of England...
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Alexander Velky
- 4 days ago
- 13 min
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Chapter 0: “So, tell me about yourself...”
I was born in The City of a Thousand Trades, in the West Midlands of England, on St John’s Day 1983...
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Alexander Velky
- 4 days ago
- 8 min
Curriculum Vitæ: a working life story, Prologue
I’m nearly forty, and I think I’m in the first stages of an early-onset Midlife Crisis—if not a full-blown bout of Existential Dread...
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Alexander Velky
- Jun 21
- 1 min
[Idle] Threatening cuts
I thought I'd better post a brief update on progress toward publication of the new book...
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Alexander Velky
- Jun 14
- 5 min
The life of St Dogmael
“St Dogmael” lived about 1500 years ago; he came from a royal family in what is now West Wales; and he chose to dedicate his life to God.
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Alexander Velky
- May 31
- 2 min
"Threatening cuts" promotional video released
The promotional interview video for the forthcoming Doubtist Books poetry book "Threatening cuts" by Alexander Velky has now been published.
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Alexander Velky
- May 13
- 1 min
Doubtist Books - Poetry - Project Gilgamesh
Today the last to be allowed to die / Will say her words and give the nurse the nod...
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Alexander Velky
- May 13
- 3 min
Doubtist Books - Poetry - The horror
We two were born, entwined like vines, to share dull destiny...
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Alexander Velky
- May 13
- 1 min
Doubtist Books - Poetry - Threatening cuts
Through the bathroom mirror’s condensation / I’m sizing up my hair for harvest time...
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Alexander Velky
- Sep 28, 2021
- 5 min
The national flags and symbols of Landskeria
Over the past six years many people have asked me about the flags and the symbols of Landskeria. About their meanings and origins.
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Alexander Velky
- Jun 27, 2021
- 5 min
Wy’r Ddraig / The Dragon’s Egg
Almost two years after the first great unveiling of Landskerian public art, the second instalment in the Landskerian art trail.
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Alexander Velky
- Mar 8, 2021
- 1 min
Doubtist Books - Poetry - Attitude: rampant
We fell asleep beneath red leaves / And left the goats to ramble / I dreamt of apple blossom, / You dreamt of apple crumble...
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Alexander Velky
- Mar 8, 2021
- 1 min
Doubtist Books - Poetry - Big American fridge
I often lie awake and wonder / About the things that I might like / If money were not an issue, / If space were not an object...
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Alexander Velky
- Mar 8, 2021
- 2 min
Doubtist Books - Poetry - The skraeling
My folk, my family told in tales, were taller in those days...
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Alexander Velky
- Oct 1, 2020
- 9 min
Cwmcerwyn, Mynachlogddu
Cwmcerwyn was a prominent farmhouse on the eastern slopes of Pembrokeshire’s highest peak; often called Preseli Top in the past...
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Alexander Velky
- Jun 27, 2020
- 12 min
Ash dieback is a pain in the arse
For a few months now, my coccyx has ached every time I sit down. It’s a minor complaint, but a persistent one...
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Alexander Velky
- Jun 19, 2020
- 12 min
Landskerian Cadastral Tree Survey 2020
A comprehensive survey of 670 trees in our 2.5-acre garden in West Wales, as they were in June 2020...
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Alexander Velky
- Mar 31, 2020
- 4 min
Lockdown log
Like many people, I’ve found my usual routines interrupted this spring...
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