Ian Duhig
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'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
I remember Dave Bulmer from my time at Leeds University -- we even got him to play his piano accordion in the French style for a revue I wrote. Since then his business practices and their legacy became a local, a national and now an international scandal. www.rollingstone.co.uk/music/featur...
‘They make the laws to chain us well’: Folk music fights for its rights
Music historians and artists discuss Dick Gaughan’s fight to reclaim his music, and the protest at the heart of folk music’s continued legacy.
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Happy Birthday MR James! Celebrate it by giving a good friend a book of James' short stories with this marking the page for 'Casting the Runes'.
Only just seen this review of my site-specific poem 'Machines', written for an event at Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills with Ryoko Akama, Minami Saeki, Taku Sigimoto and Ahmed Kaysher. My poem was a duet with huge looms; Ryoko used mill rejectamenta: theculturevulture.co.uk/conversation...
COMMUNITY | Interwoven Histories - lost voices and the stories they have to tell... | the CULTURE VULTURE
Pavilion's Interwoven Histories explored the rich cultural heritage of the city's migrant garment workers. VANESSA MUDD went along to the closing event at Leeds Industrial Museum...
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Happy Yorkshire Day! I will spend this in traditional fashion by being completely right about absolutely everything.
Fortune Demonstrating the Gopher Dance from Caddyshack, Master of the Dresden Prayer Book (attributed), c. 1470–1483, illuminated manuscript, British Library, London
Host the anti-world cup in Avignon, you cowards.
Sky News@news.sky.com · 6d agoEuropean nations agree to boycott World Cup if FIFA goes ahead with World Cup sell-off
" . . . so the poetry workshop agreed to differ." (Princeton sophomores after a snowball fight)
gingerman222 was Glen Hansard, whose shocking loss has rocked the Irish music community. So many people have such warm memories of him but to add a small stone to the grateful cairn, this meant a lot: I supplied a few texts for Springtime including the one mentioned here and reading this was a boost
I've wanted to write this @theguardian.com country diary on a special place in #JohnClare and my family's lives for a while now. Many thanks to the Gatekeepers and the Puddocks for helping me... #countrydiary #naturewriting @johnclare.bsky.social @kovesi.bsky.social
Country diary: In poet John Clare’s garden, I contemplate my ancestor who lived here too | Nic Wilson
Helpston, Cambridgeshire: I picture Henry as a young lad, hiding in flowerbeds, chasing butterflies, learning to love nature
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A favourite poem of mine by the Sheffield-Irish Sean Jennett, which I think it is a monologue by a Yorkshire soldier killed in WWII North Africa campaign. It's up at the Grove Bookshop in Ilkley for their July Poetry Month celebrations.
This note gets it just right. You apologise for eating the plums, express sympathy for their owner and explain your motivation for eating them. Just one note: consider offering to replace the plums. This small gesture could do a lot to smooth things over
More wonderful guests lined up on the Writer's Bookshelf include Dani Garavelli, Jonathon Green, Martin Fitzgerald, Cosima Clara Gillhammer, Ian Duhig and Amy Jeffs.
The original photograph was by Mark Gerson who (I've just learned) died in May at the age of 104: www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Mark Gerson obituary
Photographer whose perceptive portraits of writers included well-known images of Evelyn Waugh, Doris Lessing and Faber poets of the 1960s
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Trump has always been pushing himself into celebrations, however unhappy it made other people in the photograph. This was from his campaign to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
So they found a coelacanth in our local park's lake surrounded by fragments of poems. Experts think these are from a coelacanthology it was compiling. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Prehistoric fish fossil found in Leeds' Roundhay Park
It is believed the creature had lain undiscovered for more than 320,000,000 years.
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Rietveld's 1917 Red and Blue Chair was specifically designed to be broken over the heads of Frenchmen
YT's Poem of the Week: 'Marky' by Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...
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Very grateful to Steve Whitaker at The Yorkshire Times for this look at my poem 'Marky'. The Irish proverb epigraph translates as 'It is often a man's mouth broke his nose'.
Sweep was the greatest Heathcliff -- here he is looking hot and wuthered about Cathy (Soo) on the moor.
I complained here some time ago that I was drowning in the amount of times I saw the word "immersive" used to describe art, poetry and music projects. However, it was worth them all to see its deployment here, courtesy of Private Eye.
Happy Birthday John Clare. A new book on his work and life will be published this year in which I am honoured to have this poem.
"Two girls setting seed potatoes, breaking clods with spade. Fairy thorns in middle of the field. Glenshesk, County Antrim, Northern Ireland" Robert John Welch, late 1890’s. National Museums NI’s Picture Library. www.nationalmuseumsni.org/collections
Getting the little bastard to pay attention is another matter entirely
Yeats United pioneered the formation of a double-midfield pivot for two interpenetrating gyres and great, interchanging wings. The system's weakness is the centre may not hold. Photo: Mel McMahon
