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1 year

Well literally no one turned up for my poetry reading! Someone from the toddler group in the next room did come in and give me a biscuit though, so perhaps all is not lost.

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Idea for a brilliant new default email sign-off.

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6 years

Coleridge was notorious for his one-star Trip Advisor reviews.

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9 months

A Christmas card from Thomas Hardy.

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5 years

In 2011 pupils sitting an Eton scholarship exam were judged on their ability to imagine giving a speech justifying the mass murder of civilians by the British government, is this significant.

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4 months

Adorno commits a Larry David-like gaffe which the also-present Charlie Chaplin immediately replays in mime-form.

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2 months

RIP Edna O'Brien.

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5 years

James Wright and the art of the wordless poem.

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1 year

Ewan McColl was the subject of one of all the all-time great Guardian corrections.

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6 years

Can't say I'm sorry about that Brexit rat #Dyson slinking off to Singapore, I tried one of these urinals of his once and the pee went everywhere.

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6 months

When cover designers are sick, sick I tell you, of yet another introduction by Sir Albert Howard.

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7 years

Lucie Brock-Broido's titles are better than many people's poems.

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6 years

Also contains perhaps single best response to TS Eliot’s anti-Semitism, by Emanuel Litvinoff, and as performed with Eliot in the audience at a reading in 1951.

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4 months

The most beautifully weirdest of nineteenth-century novels, the Turner watercolour of English fiction.

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7 years

Lovely existential edge to this French political insult.

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3 months

When asked what poem 'would be in his heart when [he] dr[ew] his final breath' (dramatic), Harold Bloom began to recite this:

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4 years

A poem by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin on the day of the publication of the Irish government report into the iniquitous gulag that was the Mother and Baby Homes.

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5 months

In later life, Graham Greene broke off his friendship with Anthony Burgess in disgust at the latter’s willingness to discuss his work on television. ‘He talks about his books’, Greene explained to Gore Vidal.

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6 years

Gerard Manley Hopkins. I also recall a description of him on his hands and knees in the seminary looking at raindrops on pebbles and crying at how beautiful they were.

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1 year

While my 7-yr old often gets carried away, can I just say the sound of Auden’s voice on this programme caused him to come running across the room to cover my laptop screen in kisses while yelling ‘I love you Auden’.

Three Faces of WH Auden - Episode 1 - BBC Sounds

A major three part series on the poet WH Auden begins with a look at his political work.

www.bbc.co.uk

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2 years

Saddened to learn of the death of Kevin Higgins in Galway. Here's a poem of his from an old issue of Metre. Condolences to Susan.

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6 years

In 1869 one of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s pet wombats ‘successfully interrupted a seemingly uninterruptable monologue by John Ruskin by burrowing its nose between the critic’s waistcoat and jacket.'

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2 years

Thanks to Douglas Dunn, flanked here by Don Paterson and Michael Longley, for his warmly benevolent presence at tonight’s celebration of his work in St Andrews. A wonderful occasion.

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8 months

The rarely-seen original printing of Geoffrey Hill’s ‘In Memory of Jane Fraser’, with its famous/notorious ‘unshook’.

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11 months

Pleasantly flustered in so many ways to see copies of this in the post today. Many thanks to @Carcanet for publishing. I hope you’ll consider reading. Triumphant tour of Aberdeenshire market towns to follow. Go, little book.

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1 year

Found this lovely old Turgenev in Ballater.

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6 years

Greetings Morven Aifric Sadhbh, born last night. Among the first to receive the news is Mr Ted, who will coordinate a commemorative special issue of the village newsletter. #morven #aifric #sadhbh #daughter

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11 months

An exquisitely laconic epitaph for a seamstress, by Zbigniew Herbert.

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5 years

Fucking hell, this poem by Paul Batchelor.

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5 months

Terribly sad to learn of the death of Helen Vendler, peerless close reader.

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2 months

A shiver-inducing Thomas Hardy poem, spoken by his friend Horace Moule, who died by suicide.

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3 years

David Shrigley on writing.

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7 years

Embarrassed to learn of a cat even smugger than he is (ie Ralph), Hamish averts his gaze from @cox_tom 's excellent new book.

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7 years

One unquestionably good reason for tweeting about John Ashbery is Because He Is So Great.

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8 months

Terrible sentences by great novelists, an occasional series: ‘She wore a white dress that showed her throat gathering like a fountain-jet of solid foam to balance her head’ (DH Lawrence, The Trespasser).

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4 years

Birthday memento mori.

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4 months

George Eliot’s best novel, thought Henry James. Right, wrong, contrarian, mad?

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2 months

Things that are near yet distant.

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4 years

DW: (Proffers small package.) Post office person: Any value? DW: Just a small book. (‘Doing human’ voice.) Of mine! Post office person: So no then.

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10 months

It’s publication day for my @carcanet book Child Ballad, so here’s a sonnet from it on the herring gull-haunted graves of St Nicholas Kirk on Union Street.

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7 months

Laugh-along line-breaks with RS Thomas (see for yourself which one).

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4 years

Glad to chip in with a few stray thoughts here. #DerekMahon

Derek Mahon, Belfast-born giant of Irish poetry, dies aged 78

Poet famed for A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford and Everything Is Going to be All Right, read on national TV as the pandemic hit, has died after a short illness

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Unable to visit a local hotel for a bowl of chips because of a wedding, four-year-old suggests we can go back ‘when the marriage is over.’

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3 months

‘And the mind lays by its troubles…’: reading Wallace Stevens at midsummer. Autocorrect was keen for me to say roubles, not troubles, for some reason.

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1 year

Coming attraction.

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7 years

First contact. #beckettforbabies

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4 years

‘Plunging into the dark forever’: the first poem from Derek Mahon’s first book. His death is a shattering loss to Irish poetry. #derekmahon

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7 years

9/10 for lightning-fast decision to hop on lower deck of pram and accompany us to library, point deducted for changing her mind and jumping out shortly afterwards. @thecatreviewer

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4 years

Striking image of the great John Hume, who has died.

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5 years

Heartbreaking to learn of Ciaran Carson’s death.

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5 years

The annihilation of men, a 3-step plan: 1) Poem published in New Statesman. 2) ??? 3) Men annihilated.

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3 years

A book to redefine Irish poetry.

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5 years

It’s Ciaran Carson’s birthday.

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5 years

Today my wife tried to say ‘I’ll never wear make-up’ but instead said ‘I’ll never mair wake up’, thus unwittingly trapping herself inside some gruesome Scottish ballad. #spoonerisms

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10 months

Hard to read even a single sentence of Sir Thomas Urquhart’s without suspecting he was quite mad.

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6 years

This errata slip from the old Agneau Prynne Collected makes an elegant little found poem.

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1 year

Indelible memories of the great Michael Gambon in Krapp's Last Tape at the Gate in Dublin. RIP.

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7 years

What poetry personality cult is currently hovering over the Milk Tray in your local Co-op.

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10 months

Some characteristic Christmas cheer from RS Thomas.

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4 years

Name a writer you love and feel you scarcely begin to understand.

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6 months

Austin Clarke a half-century since his death.

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6 years

Mary Oliver was doing what?

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10 months

‘Welcome to English poetry’, says the poet and scholar Refaat Alareer, introducing a course on that subject at Gaza University (Refaat Alareer was killed in an Israeli strike today in Gaza).

English Poetry Lecture 1 An Introduction to Poetry

Advanced English PoetryRefaat AlareerEnglish Department Islamic University, Gaza, Palestineالشعر الإنجليزي رفعت العرعير الجامعة الإسلامية غزة قسم اللغة الإنج...

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4 months

Speaking next month at an event on Yeats and the contemporary, so here’s a Yeats poem I can’t easily imagine a contemporary poet writing.

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2 years

Charles Simic RIP.

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4 months

Big beast.

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From the remarkable chapter in AS Byatt’s The Virgin in the Garden on teaching Keats’s ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn.’

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3 years

Cavafy: a good poet to read in an age of senile imperial violence.

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2 months

A pleasure to be reviewed by Robert Selby in this week’s TLS.

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2 years

Before the ‘insanely excited to announce’ tweet (specifically, the eighteenth century).

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6 years

The nagging desire to smuggle one of these lads into an academic conference then stand up after a panel and say 'Less a question than a cormorant.'

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2 months

It’s Philip Larkin’s birthday, and here is (I think) one of his finest poems, unpublished in his lifetime.

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5 years

Rimbaud carved his name into the temple of Luxor, c. 1878=80.

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7 months

When I told our seven-year-old that this book has a very sad ending, he observed 'I hope nothing bad happens to her jacket.'

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1 year

Today I learned that someone once threw a party in Debussy’s honour but he couldn’t be bothered turning up, even though the someone in question was Proust.

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4 years

My mother just sent me this photo of teenage me at, believe it or not, the World French Spelling Competition in 1989.

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6 years

Companions of a lifetime. #johncalder

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3 years

Thousand-page biography of Pessoa. When will I find time to read this. Most likely never.

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6 years

More than a little taken aback today when a recently-graduated student gave me this boat.

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2 years

Remarkable sleuthing on a Prynne facebook group, where someone has worked out that the line ’86 zero quip markers, over raised D flash /on its red matt square’ in Prynne’s Red G Gypsum refers to a lamp-post – this lamp-post.

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3 years

Monument to Paul Celan in his birthplace of Chernivtsi, now in Western Ukraine.

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4 years

James Joyce, died on this day in 1941.

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6 years

Worried now that future @borderirish tweets may be subject to random army inspection before being allowed through.

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6 years

Small reminder that Yeats omits HD and Mina Loy from his Oxford Book of Modern Verse (and Austin Clarke) while still finding room for seventeen – seventeen! – poems by that eejit Oliver St John Gogarty.

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6 years

Matthew Sweeney is walking into eternity on Ballyliffin Strand. #timormortisconturbatme

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6 years

Surprised to notice belatedly that the teaching copy of Ariel I’ve schlepped around for all these years Ia in fact a first edition!

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4 years

Idea for a pre-emptive poem about a second pandemic wave called Covid’s Metamorphoses.

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7 years

A fierce-sweet Adrienne Rich poem to carry into autumn. #twitterpoetryclub

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3 years

A national poem of national feeling by Roy Fisher on this day of national significance for the national nation.

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3 years

Very sad too to hear of the death of my old lecturer Brendan Kennelly.

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10 months

New Ishion Hutchinson book looks to be a cracker. I see he has been reading his David Jones and Geoffrey Hill. Readers of my novel Stretto may recall his cameo appearance in that text.

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6 years

Whispering these words out loud as I read. #tomleonard

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5 years

Geoffrey Hill suggests nothing rhymes with Gramsci. How about: Then over a dram she Read me some Gramsci.

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6 years

Are Cambridge Analytica aware that their new name, Emerdata, means 'beshitten' in Italian?

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3 years

Who Thom Gunn thought was any good.

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3 years

Samuel Beckett famously struggled to get his novel Murphy into print, a short thread. 1/x

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6 years

This is what the contents pages of academic books should look like.

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8 months

Is Seán Hewitt the most Housmanesque of modern poets.

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8 years

A poem by Dennis O'Driscoll, on what would have been his sixty-third birthday. #twitterpoetryclub

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10 months

Modern languages are under threat at @aberdeenuni . Here’s a poem of Hölderlin’s in translation by @kathleenjamie . Foster and protect cultural connections: save modern languages at the University of Aberdeen.

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