I've been in Norway ten years this month, so wrote a little substack about some music and literature I like from Norway: davidtoms.substack.com/p/41-a-decad...

# 41 - a decade in Norway

August marks 10 years since I moved to Norway. Here's 10 things I think you should check out

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In the interests of fairness, Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos is going to adapt the UK's best poem "The Tay Bridge Disaster" as a blockbuster movie.

If anyone has recently been to Japan and had to find a workaround for hotel bookings that required faxing your reservation, please get in touch!

Ståle Solbakken better hope the plan to get hockeyed by France tonight pays off against Cote d'Ivoire. Otherwise he'll be the guy who denied us the chance to see Haaland take on the French for nothing.

Hold up, is there no one starting for Scotland against Brazil who plays their ball for the Old Firm? That must be a first!

I am ads for Morrissey in Lillestrøm years old.

The art of book design is as important to the idea of us making and asking people to pay for a quality product as anything else. AI out of all of it.

Fraser Denholm@fraserdenholm.bsky.social · last mo.

Writer pals: If you (rightfully) oppose the use of GenAI for writing books, please try not to use GenAI to create covers and posters. I'm seeing a lot of AI Generated covers and its pretty insulting to artists out there.

Landscape with Question is published tomorrow. Here is a piece I wrote on the book for the Carcanet blog. 🌱❤️

Carcanet Press@carcanet.bsky.social · last mo.

This week's Substack is by Leeanne Quinn, whose collection Landscape with Question comes out this June:⬇️ tinyurl.com/y5tpy6ju

Carlos Queiroz looks like a petty mobster who’s done a spell inside and doesn’t realise how much things changed on the outside while he was away.

Hydration break? It's raining FFS.

Where is the John Foot piece on how Italy not making it to three world cups in a row is a sign of the national malaise is what I want to know

granta.com/a-strange-bi... If you've never read Tarjei Vesaas, then you are in for a treat. Hopefully this excellent essay can convince you from. @grantamag.bsky.social Scandinavia issue. The Birds and The Ice Palace really are two of the best novels I've ever read.

A Strange Bird’s Cry

‘You are born into a family that has run the same farm since the 1600s, and as the eldest son it is not only expected that you will take over from your father, it is a given. How strong must the urge ...

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Who knew pursuing the writing dream would involve so much paperwork? And not the fun kind!

COVER REVEAL for HOLD OVER FIRE Delighted to share the cover for my new book. The cover image is a snapshot taken from the viewing platform on Nelson's Pillar in 1966 by my parents on honeymoon. They married on 21 February and were in Dublin the following week. The Pillar was blown up 8 March!

This is such an unbelievably good exploration of writing, translation, and so much else. Deep and wide as a lake, one of my books of the year tbh.

Broken Sleep Books@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

How complete + final the feeling as I lift its curve in the net is a hybrid lyric-essay that moves between elegy, translation, & ecological witness, finding its gravitational centre in a sketch by Barrie Cooke of two figures hauling a pike from a boat. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Further advance praise for Hold Over Fire 🔥

Ah, Arts Council Bursary Award application time!

Som en tog pendler Kongsberg-Oslo tre dager i uke kjenner jeg meg veldig igjen i dette. Jeg vil bruke litt men ikke alt tid på tog til å jobbe men det er nesten umulig. Og det med tog med kun fem vogn er ofte et problem på R12 toget også.

Seth@sethpiper.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sørgelig at vi ikke får dekning i togrunnelene som pendlere rundt byene bruker. Det verste er at folk blir gitt forsikringer om at ting 'blir bedre på sikt' helt uten grunnlag. En uting at offentlige penger brukes på kommunikasjonsfolk som gaslighter www.abcnyheter.no/stemmer/fors...

If you are interested in reviewing my new book or inviting me to read or collaborate in some way, get in touch!

David Toms@daithitoms.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Some advance praise for my new book, Hold Over Fire, out soon from Veer2. Grateful to writers who I really admire for their commitment to poetry as a form for possibilities. Big thanks to Ellen Dillon, Billy Ramsell and Peter Manson for their generous readings of my work. Ordering info soon x

You can now buy Book of Inversions and Bodyservant, in fantastic company with loads of amazing books and zines, at Cailleach Books www.cailleachbooks.ie/search?q=kit... which is also the festival bookshop for re:verb yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com/p/reverb.html @cmakris.bsky.social

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Some advance praise for my new book, Hold Over Fire, out soon from Veer2. Grateful to writers who I really admire for their commitment to poetry as a form for possibilities. Big thanks to Ellen Dillon, Billy Ramsell and Peter Manson for their generous readings of my work. Ordering info soon x

Norway is one of those countries where if a bank holiday falls on a weekend, its tough luck, you dont get it back that year. Next year there will be a total of 6 public holidays because of when they fall. www.nrk.no/ostfold/rode...

Røde dager 2027: Året med færrest mulige fridager

Er du glad i langhelger, bør du nyte pinsen til det fulle. Dette er nemlig siste langhelg før jul – og i 2027 blir det enda verre.

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Tell me someone has started a band called Name Three Songs.

Stuck inside of Vestfossen with the Kongsberg blues again.

Here's another novel gone out of fashion: The Gingerman. Deservedly or undeservedly so? Years since I read it.

E-poster om renteøkning på boliglån og avslag på jobbsøknader. Hurra!

I've only read 7 of the first forty of the Guardian's latest 100 greatest novels. I relied heavily in the early 00s on the Penguin Modern Classics list to act as such a list and it shows probably.

When I was younger, British parliamentary politics seemed so alive and engaging, exciting even in contrast to Ireland. It now seems simply exhausting and permanently in a state of crisis.

På toget mot Kongsberg (fra Nasjonal 15.51) og det uforsvarlige stappfull av folk. At det er kun et togsett er helt uforståelig. Jeg pleier å ta den 16.51 der det er nesten alltid to togsett. Merkelig!

I've been reading the American Heritage Dictionary again.