Cotton grass and bracken, craquelure and rust with @victoriaspires.bsky.social @sallythomasnc.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @renee-emerson.bsky.social @rmhaines.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/08/poet...

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 31

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.

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This week in the poetry blogs with @lisamariebasile.bsky.social @jillpearlman.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @adamcairnspoet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @sallythomasnc.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/07/poet...

Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 30

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere, including Substack.

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Wonderful in-depth piece by @victoriamoul.bsky.social on the poetry of Philip Gross (@vaikuspg.bsky.social) covering his work from 1989 to his most recent collections The Shores of Vaikus and his 2022 @tseliotprize.bsky.social shortlisted The Thirteenth Angel. vamoul.substack.com/p/one-of-the...

One of the lesser order of recording angels

Reading Philip Gross since 1989

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Today I have written about several decades of reading the British poet Philip Gross.

One of the lesser order of recording angels

Reading Philip Gross since 1989

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Today I have written about reading about Homer.

What to read about Homer?

Suggestions from the beginner to the adventurous

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Today I've written a piece about one of the best books about Homer I've read recently.

Henry Power, "Homer-Haunted"

For paid subscribers, this is a slightly expanded version of the review of Henry Power’s new book Homer-Haunted: The Many Afterlives of an Ancient Poet, originally commissioned for Portico (Portico is...

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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 27

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.

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Today I have written about Silius Italicus, the classical Latin poet no-one has read, in the 1650s.

Like a patient Angler e're he strook

Silius Italicus in the 1650s

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Leverhulme Trust@leverhulme.ac.uk · last mo.

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Chaleur étouffante lors de la passation du premier écrit du brevet. Pourtant nous sommes dans un établissement construit récemment. Je n'ose imaginer l'état des élèves et collègues dans des bâtiments moins bien isolés, et dans des départements où il fait plus chaud que dans le mien.

Today I have written about Larkin's odes.

Larkin's odes

Lineage of joy into mortality hurled

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Today I have written about (writing about) translation.

What is translation for?

Some thoughts + a truly massive list of suggested reading in footnote 5

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We have an 18-month temporary lectureship in early modern British and European history just advertised at Newcastle - closing date 9th July www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW166/l... #skystorians

Lecturer in Early Modern British and European History at Newcastle University

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Early Modern British and European History on jobs.ac.uk!

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What’s the best thing you’ve ever read about literary translation / literature in translation? Can be general, specific, theoretical, pragmatic whatever, any combination of languages. I’m writing a piece about the ones that have stayed with me but curious which have been important for others too.

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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 24

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.

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Can anyone recommend anything good on Josephus' style (I mean his style in Greek)?

This is such a wonderful read. The ninth Eclogue is perhaps my favorite, and a companion to the first, in my view. (Also, I am *drooling* over that edition of the Eclogues and Georgics!)

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Today I have written about Virgil remembering (and forgetting) older songs.

Oh this is lovely. "maybe the wolves have blinked it" led me here: fawbie.info/electric-lig...

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Today I have written about Virgil remembering (and forgetting) older songs.

Today I have written about Virgil remembering (and forgetting) older songs.

All these songs I have forgotten

On Virgil, Callimachus, Homer, Heraclitus, Shakespeare and Seamus Heaney

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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 23

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.

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This week’s Monday post for paid subscribers is a fairly detailed & it’s fair to say not very positive review of Kaveh Akbar’s "Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse" (2023), first published in The Friday Poem. (This version somewhat revised.) With some more positive anthology-recommendations at the end.

On a disappointing anthology

Review of "The Penguin Book of Spiritual Verse. 101 Poets on the Divine", edited by Kaveh Akbar

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This week I have written about Horace Odes 3.21, his mysteriously moving poem to a wine-jar.

O gentle tile

On Horace, Odes 3.21

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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 22

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.

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Today’s bonus Monday post for paid subscribers is a review of Peter Davidson’s Arctic Elegies which I wrote originally back in 2023. Davidson’s book was covered just a couple of weeks ago by David Wheatley in the NRYB so I thought it would be a good moment to republish this one here.

Peter Davidson, "Arctic Elegies" (Carcanet, 2022)

Those of you who read the New York Review of Books might have noticed an article by David Wheatley a couple of weeks ago about Scottish poetry, reviewing Kathleen Jamie’s Cairn (which I haven’t read) ...

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Today I have written about some unusually realistic war poetry from the 1640s.

Realistic war poetry from the 1640s

All dagled o'er from face to feet / What with Raine and their own Sweat

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Number of young Britons out of work or training climbs above 1mn ft.trib.al/xwCoYMM

Number of young Britons out of work or training climbs above 1mn

Government report will warn of a ‘lost generation’ as number of ‘Neets’ rises to highest level in 12 years

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Today I have written about a not very well-known, but very good, early poem by Tennyson, with links to Chaucer, Pope and William Jones.

I have found / A new land, but I die.

Tennyson's 'Palace of Art' and mixed feelings about romanticism

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I’m going to be in the BL this afternoon and tomorrow, just in case anyone fancies a coffee.

Post-doc alert: wording not very clear but I gather this project is particularly interested in early modernists with an interest in pedagogy. EM scholars with school-teaching experience would be in a strong position. NB deadline soon. Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ527/s...

Senior Research Associate at University of East Anglia

Recruiting now: Senior Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 19

A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere,.

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