Nicholas Allen
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‘signs and characters from the type-case of forgotten things‘ Sebald Late Heaney (https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
I have a lovely little nephew who lives in the south of England who I played cards with last week to our mutual amusement. He was agog at my northern accent and in a ps to a thank you note informed me that he is indeed champion of the universe at beggar my neighbour, and how to say ‘spades’. Geg.
Their best song, arguably, although it ends a little oddly youtu.be/byULAAfeLx8?...
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Frederick Douglass spent about six months in Edinburgh and we have no blue plaques, indeed very modest official commemoration of any kind. Let's change this.
Alison Stenning@alisonstenning.bsky.social · 6h agoHe was only briefly here - giving two lectures to North Shields anti-slavery society in 1846 - but it’s good to see Frederick Douglass celebrated, adding to the complex record of Shields’ history. www.bbc.com/news/article...
"However, as I get older, I feel the fragility of our lives with ever increasing intensity. And this feeling has become entangled with my horror at the winnowing away of once common wildlife, and our disconnection from the rhythms of nature."
David Higgins@davidhiggins.bsky.social · 12h agoI've published a version of my almost-prizewinning essay 'Minibeasts', shortlisted for the Nature Chronicles Prize in 2024. It's about my usual obsessions: wildlife, parenting, collapse, care, and hope. I would love for some of you to read it! medium.com/@d.higgins/m...
going to our town art house cinema to watch the odyssey as it’ll be more historically accurate on a small screen
We came back to a mountain of post, tucked among which were these two cards. It is so heartening to be thought of, especially on the day you shift creakily between worlds.
www.the-tls.com/classics/cro... My review of Emily Wilson and Henry Power in the new TLS.
Englished Homer
“It is probable”, Alexander Pope wrote in his translation of the Iliad (1715–20), “the author’s own words, at the time he used them, never meant half so
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It was such an honour to be in the Belfast Telegraph talking about Wild Iris—a paper I remember being delivered when I was little. Sometimes people assume it was easy for me to get published—that's not the story at all. Thanks to Áine Toner ❤️ www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/.../a/153146...
Gianni Infantino To Appoint John Delaney In New 'Head Of Transparency' Role https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/08/05/gianni-infantino-to-appoint-john-delaney-in-new-head-of-transparency-role/
Gianni Infantino To Appoint John Delaney In New ‘Head Of Transparency’ Role
IN A BID to relieve the intense pressure on his leadership as the head of FIFA, Gianni Infantino has sought to create a working group on transparency in the hope of conveying to member nations …
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Back to the other world tomorrow, a day of lashing rain today after a last morning in Robert’s Cove, bobbing and grateful. I enjoyed every moment at Myrtleville, and hope you have a moment this summer when you feel similarly at peace.
I met a man earlier who told me when he was young his gran would send him to the library in town to pick two books for her (Mills & Boon) and two for him, and when he came home she had dinner made and then they read together, each in an armchair. A lovely gift I thought, from a foresightful woman.
Boat, detail from Jack Yeats, ‘The Bowman’ (1947)
I find myself at the point where Jack Yeats painted Memory Harbour
@dedalusdenaries.bsky.social Just finished this. Insightful, fair. Some lovely distinctions. Love the landscape evocation. Good advise there for poets - 'surrendering to rhymes and phrases that dilute clarity...' (guilty)
