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Tristram Fane Saunders

@TATFS

4 years

Judging from the replies to this, Taylor Swift has the politest fans around.

Neil McCormick

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Much as I love @taylorswift13 , can I just say that, from a personal point of view, she could have timed the release of her new album better. Had to drop everything & dash back from a Christmas shopping trip to review Evermore. Fans love surprise albums. Critics ... not so much.

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#Outlander star @CaitrionaMBalfe on snakes, sexual violence, and what to expect in season 3 via @teletvradio

Outlander star Caitriona Balfe on snakes, sexual violence, and what to expect in season 3

Outlander returned to Amazon Prime this week, and the third season of the cult time-travel saga has already been earning raves from the critics.

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The beautiful Terry Pratchett exhibition is a triumph for @SalisburyMuseum : my Sunday Telegraph review

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4 years

I spoke to John Darnielle ( @mountain_goats ) about God, poetry and making it through this year. He's not just a brilliant songwriter, but also a thoroughly nice chap.

'I am going to make it through this year if it kills me': the song lyric that's gone viral

Tristram Fane Saunders speaks to The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle, whose track This Year is enjoying an unexpected resurgence in lockdown

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@TATFS

4 months

Some news I don't think I've put on here yet: I'm quitting the Telegraph and starting a small magazine.

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6 months

A bit of news: I'm moving to Cambridge to write poems for two years

Tristram Fane Saunders appointed Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts

Poet and critic Tristram Fane Saunders is appointed Fellow Commoner in the Creative Arts at Trinity from October 2024 for two years. He has published five

www.trin.cam.ac.uk

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3 years

I get sent far more interesting poetry books than I can review. So here's a thread of some of the memorable ones I've finished this year, and a poem that I think gives a flavour of each book. Looking for Christmas present ideas? Poetry. Always poetry. (1/?)

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4 years

Gosh. This is the most notifications I've ever had. I've never really listened to Swift (I'm more of a poetry person) but I'm intrigued. I'll buy Evermore and give it a try. And if one of you feels like trying a bit of poetry, I have a small pamphlet:

Woodsong - The Poetry Business

Lost and bewildered, cursed to flit from tree to tree, Sweeney has lived in the woods so long he’s almost forgotten who he is. Most of us have forgotten, too. Playful and poignant by turns, Woodson...

poetrybusiness.co.uk

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2 years

Hullo friends. A bit of news: I've finished writing my first book. It's called Before We Go Any Further, it will be published by @Carcanet in June, and it includes a poem about this hat.

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4 years

Jorie Graham's RUNAWAY is hitting me hard this October, the most October of all Octobers.

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1 year

In exactly two months time, my first book is coming out - and now it has a cover!

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1 year

It exists! Out in June (UK), Aug (US). BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER: 37 flinching, compromising poems by an inessential new voice. Darkly luminous, like a dim bulb. Achingly tender, like a stubbed toe. (Go, litel boke.)

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8 years

@JamieDornan_org Fun interview about working with Jamie on #Jadotville : RT?

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7 years

Ocean Vuong: 'it's an incredible, surging moment for British poets' #poetry #twitterpoetryclub @tseliotprize

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3 years

'I only know that summer sang in me/ A little while, that in me sings no more.' - Edna St Vincent Millay

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2 years

The jacket blurbs TS Eliot wrote for Faber are always like: Despite his lack of popularity, Mr Flinch's work has a degree of merit. He is considered, by some, to be a noteworthy figure. An American critic has gone so far as to call him 'one of the 17 palatable writers of today'.

Jeremy Noel-Tod

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2 years

A first edition, tatty but intact, of the wonderful Welsh modernist Lynette Roberts, with jacket copy by T.S. Eliot

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5 years

This means the LRB didn't review the TS Eliot Prize winners for 2015 or 2017, main Forward Prize winners in 2014, '15, '16 or '18, or Forward First Collection winners in 2015, '16, '17. Imagine a film magazine that ignored the Oscars and Palme d'Or. It'd be a laughing stock.

Ledbury Poetry Critics

@LedburyCritics

5 years

@WritingatCentre @davepoems @ledburyfest @PoetrySociety @poetryschool @BrixtonBooks @Poetry_London @luckyflowerhowe @TCWPoetry @BernardineEvari @MPTmagazine - Some publications have catching up to do. For example, between 2011-2018 the London Review of Books has published 70 articles by 33 different poetry critics. All 33 were white. Those 70 articles reviewed 86 different books. All 86 were by white poets.

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1 year

Hullo friends. My first book is being published this month. It's called Before We Go Any Further. Here is the first poem from it.

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7 years

So @TheTLS website's 404 error page is my new favourite bit of the internet.

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6 years

"Your writing is apt to be rather chilly & impersonal" - Denise Levertov, aged 12, telling TS Eliot what's wrong with his writing (in a 1936 letter).

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2 years

Hey #EdFringe2022 people. I am writing a thing about the *weirdest* #edfringe shows. Is yours weird? Let me know. Not common-or-garden odd, proper weird. Macbeth underwater in Klingon, performed by eggs. That sort of thing.

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3 years

Hello. I've edited a new selection of the indispensable Edna St Vincent Millay for @Carcanet . It contains: 40 sonnets 44 lyrics 2 plays 2 short stories 1 howl of annoyance 7 agony aunt letters 1 almanac from a dystopian future

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8 years

Didgeridoos and legal blues: the strange story of how #MichaelJackson bought The Beatles #paulmccartney

Didgeridoos and legal blues: the strange story of how Michael Jackson bought The Beatles

Paul McCartney has filed a lawsuit to reclaim the rights to many of The Beatles' most famous hits from the world's largest music publisher, Sony/ATV.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@TATFS

3 years

It exists! It's a thing that exists! My copy of Edna St Vincent Millay: Poems and Satires, a long time in the making. It's out on Sept 30 from @Carcanet

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3 months

Hullo. My first book of poems turns one year old this week. 🎂 To celebrate, I'm giving away 4 free copies. Retweet this if you'd like one.

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1 year

In this weekend's poetry-stuffed @TelegraphBooks : An interview with AE Stallings A brand new poem by Declan Ryan A review of Selima Hill's new book Our critics' 75 top books of the year (which, unlike most other newspapers' summer books lists, includes poetry)

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2 years

EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY: POEMS AND SATIRES is one year old this Friday. To celebrate the publication-birthday, I have 3 free copies to give away to anyone who retweets this (I'll pick randomly on Friday from whoever has retweeted).

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1 year

Before We Go Any Further: 10 years of poems, bundled into one short book, published today. Gulp.

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2 months

A short 🧵: what do all these poets have in common?

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3 years

'An Ancient Gesture' by Edna St Vincent Millay.

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11 months

Meet GRAVY, a new quarterly poetry gig & zine. It now has a website:

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6 years

My ★★★★☆ Telegraph review of the utterly brilliant @MariaBamfoo

Maria Bamford, Leicester Square Theatre, review: 'a triumphant London debut'

How do you solve a problem like Maria Bamford?

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4 months

🎊

Seamus Heaney Centre

@HeaneyCentre

4 months

The Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast has announced the shortlist for the 2024 Poetry Prize for a First Collection! 🏆

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1 year

"You can't *write* for a living!" says hack who writes for a living.

We should cheer decline of humanities degrees

You do not need to have children in their early twenties, as I do, to know that the younger generation feels betrayed by the older one. The focus of this discon

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@TATFS

7 years

My ★★★★☆ review of @neilhimself 's Anansi Boys on @BBCRadio4 :

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5 years

My new poetry chapbook is out this weekend. It's called WOODSONG, and is about a confused, naked bird-man. This critic has given it the thumbs-up, or would if she had thumbs ("miaow" ★★★☆☆). Order a copy and we'll both love you forever.

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@TATFS

4 years

Fun fact: it often takes longer to get a response from a poetry magazine than it takes to gestate a human being.

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4 months

Poets, herewith the content you've been waiting for: Paul Muldoon, Camille Ralphs, Luke Kennard, Joelle Taylor, Dzifa Benson & Don Paterson review Taylor Swift's THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT.

What real-life ‘tortured poets’ think of Taylor Swift’s new album

Being a bard ain’t easy... Paul Muldoon, Luke Kennard and other award-winning writers on the star’s album, The Department of Tortured Poets

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@TATFS

6 years

For almost a year @harikondabolu has had death threats from people who are angry about a film they haven’t seen. He told me the whole strange story, and was just as sharp and hilarious as I'd hoped. (He's on at @sohotheatre this week. Book tickets!)

Hari Kondabolu interview: ‘I’ve had death threats about The Simpsons – I don’t want to be a martyr...

For the past year, US comedian Hari Kondabolu has been receiving death threats from people angry about a film they haven’t seen.

www.telegraph.co.uk

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5 years

I'm on @BBCFrontRow tonight reviewing new poetry books. Slightly nervous. Tune in at 7.15 and send good vibes my way, please. 😨

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9 months

This year's BBC Ghost Story for Christmas is Lot No 249. I had a chat with... the thing in Lot No 249 ( @jamescswanton )

Meet the scariest man on TV this Christmas

In the BBC's Ghost Story for Christmas, an Egyptian mummy rises from the dead. Its star James Swanton explains why mummies have a bad rep

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@TATFS

4 years

*new poetry book review klaxon*

Poetry book of the month: Deformations by Sasha Dugdale

An unnerving new poetry collection draws inspiration from the Odyssey and the artist Eric Gill's abuse of his family

www.telegraph.co.uk

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@TATFS

4 years

Cathy Yan's Dead Pigs is sharp, funny and beautiful. I've been waiting for it to get a release since 2018. It's finally coming out this Friday on Mubi. The director's interview with @robbiereviews is a must-read

Director Cathy Yan: 'We're more likely to see female characters covered in blood than sweat'

How the Birds of Prey director went from a low-budget Chinese satire to a $100m blockbuster, with a little help from Margot Robbie

www.telegraph.co.uk

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4 years

A strange book with hidden depths: Citadel by Martha Sprackland ( @PavilionPoetry )

Poetry book of the month: Citadel by Martha Sprackland

Did you ever make a toy telephone as a child?

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1 year

'Hedgehog' by Paul Muldoon

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4 years

Comedians of Twitter! Are any of you live-streaming your stand-up shows, or recording specials in your living rooms this month? Let me know, for a potential newspaper feature.

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4 years

Would anyone like a poetry magazine? I've run out of bookshelf space, so I'm having a clear out of old issues of all the biggies: PN Review, Poetry Review, POETRY, Rialto, Poetry London, Dark Horse, The North, etc. DM me if you would like some free poetry and I'll post you one.

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5 years

Bog oak and a blowtorch: @neilhimself writes about what it was like to sit for a portrait with Lorna May Wadsworth

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4 years

A Covid-test sonnet in @TheTLS today.

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11 months

My first book, Before We Go Any Further, is four months old today.

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5 years

It's the Telegraph website's 25th birthday today, so the paywall is down - for 24 hours all my poetry reviews are free to read. Here they are in a thread:

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4 years

After a whole decade in which every single poet the LRB reviewed was white, it has belatedly caught up to the work of Jericho Brown and Danez Smith

Kevin Okoth · Part of Your America: Danez Smith and Jericho Brown

How do you write against your audience, an audience that celebrates your work but interprets it narrowly? The title on...

www.lrb.co.uk

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8 months

Is it me, or has there been a sudden flurry of poets writing novels? Andrew McMillan, Holly Pester, Joelle Taylor, Kaveh Akbar, Pascale Petit & Phoebe Stuckes all have first novels out this spring/summer.

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4 years

Right, I did a poll, and people said they might be interested in this, so here goes: A THREAD on how telegraph poetry book of the month reviews work. [1]

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9 years

"There's loads of sexism in the acting profession" says Amanda Abbington, "but not on the set of #Sherlock ." #Radiotimesfest

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@TATFS

1 year

Join me & my dead-eyed stare next Wednesday, for poems & wine

Carcanet Press

@Carcanet

1 year

Join @TATFS for the in-person launch of his debut collection, Before We Go Any Further! ✨The launch will be held at Waterstone's Gower Street, London, on the 19th July from 6-7.30pm. Find out more here:

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10 months

A poem by the wonderful @billie_poet – who is reading for @getmoregravy at @pengetheatre on Sun 10 Dec:

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2 years

Excellent stuff from @jntod . Also raises the question: why are Wole Soyinka's poems out of print?

No, Philip Larkin is not being "cancelled" by schools

The culture war against teachers and academics is manufactured by right-wing newspapers and rent-a-quote reactionaries.

www.newstatesman.com

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@TATFS

2 months

I had a wonderful time (and far too many drinks) at the Seamus Heaney Prize last night (and am still recovering)

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1 year

My first book of poems, Before We Go Any Further, came out on Thursday. I'd love to do more readings for it, online or in person. If you fancy booking me for anything at all, drop me a line! I'll go anywhere. Have Poems, Will Travel.

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2 years

'Oh beautiful world! Oh beautiful world!' Oscar Wilde leaves Reading Gaol, 125years ago today.

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3 years

'I am *awfully* broke. Would you mind paying me a lot?' A masterclass in how to write to poetry magazine editors, from Edna St Vincent Millay.

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9 years

2/2: "Ben said, 'just hit me in the face', and I did - very hard!" #womenofsherlock #radiotimesfest

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5 years

One of several important takeaways from this thread: the @LRB , allegedly a "Review of Books", has not reviewed a book by a BAME poet for 10 years.

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7 years

Tom Hiddleston's 'mesmerising' Hamlet impresses first night crowd | via @telegraph

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@TATFS

4 years

Behold: the most entertaining poems you will ever read about nuns in Peru.

Poetry book of the month: Monica's Overcoat of Flesh by Geraldine Clarkson

After leaving a silent religious order where creative writing was forbidden, this poet has found her voice in a fresh and exciting debut

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6 years

Bit of news: my poems about an insane, naked bird-man flying around a medieval forest have won the @poetrybusiness New Poets Prize, and will be published by Smith|Doorstop next year. 🐦🌲

The New Poets Prize - The Poetry Business

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 New Poets Prize We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 New [��]

poetrybusiness.co.uk

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@TATFS

1 year

First event at the Poetry Cafe in over three years! So glad it's reopening. London hasn't been the same without it.

The Poetry Society

@PoetrySociety

1 year

Join us at The Poetry Café on 19 July for an evening with four fantastic poets! Karen McCarthy Woolf will be reading from her new work '[UnSafe/Space]', joined in discussion by Anthony Anaxagorou, Jason Allen Paisant and Malika Booker. Book your ticket:

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3 years

Today I read an article about fiction publishing which unironically used the phrase "tiny, five-figure advances".

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6 years

My ★★★★★ review of Fiona Benson's frighteningly brilliant (and brilliantly frightening) VERTIGO & GHOST is in The Telegraph today ( @mia_qs @JonathanCape )

Poetry book of the month: Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson

Meet Zeus:

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1 year

For a thing: best opening sentences in literature. Go. Bonus points if you can single out *one word* in the sentence that makes it excellent

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5 years

AND THEN HE WON. 🎉

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5 years

Roger Robinson made me laugh and reduced me to tears at last night's @tseliotprize readings. Wouldn't it be wonderful if he won?

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4 months

Hello, readers of Twitter. Describe your ideal poetry magazine to me. What would it do (& *not* do)?

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4 years

A new book of poetry that made me laugh out loud within the first three (3) lines, which I think is a record.

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@TATFS

3 years

Opening a can of worms here, but a question for anyone interested in the arts: what's the problem with prizes, and how can it be fixed?

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@TATFS

4 years

Contents: 23 great poets and one baffled muppet (me).

Carcanet Press

@Carcanet

4 years

We're beginning today with an announcement 🥁... We're very excited to introduce the next instalment of our bestselling New Poetries anthology, number 8 in the series, coming Jan 2021! Head to our blog to read the list of contributors and find out more:

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1 year

Today is my 30th birthday. So, birthday poems please.

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1 year

The Berthe Morisot exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery is just radiant.

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1 year

This is out *this week*! 🎉

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@TATFS

1 year

It exists! Out in June (UK), Aug (US). BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER: 37 flinching, compromising poems by an inessential new voice. Darkly luminous, like a dim bulb. Achingly tender, like a stubbed toe. (Go, litel boke.)

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I'll be live-tweeting tonight's #ForwardPrizes , because I've spent the last week cut off from the internet so am itching to tweet about everything.Tonight: news from the UK's most exciting book awards. Tomorrow: detailed live coverage of my hangover and fried breakfast.

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3 years

A bunch of poetry books & magazines at the free book exchange in Penge East station. Get'em while they're oblique.

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2 years

An exhausting conversation with Roger Waters.

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@TATFS

1 year

I'm putting on a poetry night on May 17 at @BookshopBound with readings from @CamilleRalphs_ @CarolineBirdUK @DzifaBenson @edgarjameskunz & @JoeCarrickVarty . It will be splendid. (& there's a free zine too.)

GRAVY #1: Poetry Readings with Caroline Bird

An evening of poetry readings curated by Tristram Fane Saunders

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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6 months

Poetry Book of the Month choices from @TelegraphBooks for 2024 - in-depth reviews of Anne Carson, Camille Ralphs & Karen McCarthy Woolf:

The best poetry books of 2024 so far

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include an extraordinary posthumous collection from Gboyega Odubanjo and JH Prynne’s unlikely lullabies

www.telegraph.co.uk

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5 years

Roger Robinson made me laugh and reduced me to tears at last night's @tseliotprize readings. Wouldn't it be wonderful if he won?

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5 years

I don't have a cameraphone, so I can't do that thing where you take a photo of the book you're reading, but WITCH by Rebecca Tamás is v good indeed. Now please imagine a dog-eared copy artfully framed in the sunlight beside a mug of coffee. Thank you.

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@TATFS

5 months

The last words of the last poem in my book.

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@TATFS

2 months

For a thing: are there any good poet/filmmakers out there at the moment making interesting short films based on poems? (Either their own poems or those of other writers.)

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3 years

A brand new poem by Sarah Howe. Poem of the Week in @TelegraphBooks , 05/06/21.

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@TATFS

7 years

ME: plz can i review Kumukanda? ED: ok ME: how many words? ED: 22 ME: um... ED: including publisher's details ME: challenge accepted

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9 years

Does #Sherlock have Aspergers? "He's somewhere on the spectrum, as are most men, but he's undiagnosed." - #MarkGatiss at #RadioTimesFest .

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7 months

At 7.30pm on Tue 20 Feb, I'm hosting GRAVY BOAT ( @getmoregravy ), a poetry night aboard a 1913 cargo ship. It will be amazing. Tickets here:

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2 years

It's my birthday, so I am reading Thom Gunn.

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1 year

The very first review is in for Before We Go Any Further, from Philip Terry in the Guardian. And he liked it! What a joyous way to start the weekend.

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Tristram Fane Saunders

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4 months

I'm hosting this mini-festival of poetry & music. We'll be announcing the line-up soonish. For now, all I can tell you is that it is *superb*.

GRAVY

@getmoregravy

4 months

Did I mention, it's FREE!

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Tristram Fane Saunders

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A beautiful, thoughtful review of Before We Go Any Further. I've been saying it for years: The Yorkshire Times's poetry coverage puts the LRB's to shame.

Review: Before We Go Any Further By Tristram Fane Saunders

Like a man drifting in and out consciousness, Tristram Fane Saunders’ grip on poetic theme and direction is fevered, mediated by his own susceptibility to the surreal, or to alternative landscapes...

www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk

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Tristram Fane Saunders

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5 years

I went to the pub with @amandapalmer and it was excellent.

Amanda Palmer on 'ninja gigs', songwriting and her open relationship with Neil Gaiman

Go on – ask me a question!

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Tristram Fane Saunders

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4 years

I haven't been very good at doing twitter lately, because, well, y'know. But news: I now have a 'poem of the week' column. Week one - brand new poetry by Sam Riviere! (well, by Martial, but unrecognisably warped & reinvented by Sam Riviere) [1/3]

Poem of the week: from After Fame by Sam Riviere

Mischievous and cynical about modern life, one moment skewering his status-obsessed contemporaries, and the next mock-seriously urging the reader to buy his own books:

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Tristram Fane Saunders

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6 years

From Abigail Parry's 'Jinx', published this week by @BloodaxeBooks . It's wonderfully creepy, and quite unlike anything else.

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Tristram Fane Saunders

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4 years

My Poem of the Week column from Saturday's @TelegraphBooks . 'To fall short of perfection/ is to leave a necessary space.' From Touched by Alan Buckley.

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