On the Presence of Being Everywhere is a platform for Richard Mather's poetry, prose and non-fiction writing.

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Aimed at those who appreciate poetry and philosophy, my website acts as a platform for showcasing both passions, with poems, essays, and reflective pieces on language, phenomenology, religion and ontology. An ongoing focus is on how language not only 'speaks' writing into being (often beyond the writer's conscious control), but how it speaks people into being, leaving us with the unsettling feeling that language has its own agenda, an agenda that we cannot hope to understand. In a world where language is omnipresent (the 'being-everywhere' of language), the challenge is not merely to resist its control but to harness its incredible power to convey (and even reclaim) our authentic selves.

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LANGUAGE (langue): A transcendent source of all utterances (parole). Language is in all places and all at once (totum simul). In other words, it is present as a whole everywhere. Language is not diminished by its presence in speech or writing. Indeed, speech and writing contains and reflects the whole of language, though to varying degrees. Though it is present in many forms, language remains undiminished; it is fully and completely present in each and every iteration. The difference in how language manifests is not a difference in language itself, but a difference in the capacity and ability of the speaker/writer to receive it.

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Richard Mather is a freelance writer based in the north of England. His poetry, op-eds and news articles have been published in various media outlets and literary magazines in the UK, USA and the Middle East. He has also contributed to online commercial platforms for the sharing of academic research.