I'm reading Fiona MacCarthy's biography of William Morris and it's insult-to-injury that because DG Rossetti barged into Morris's marriage, he inevitably does the same to his biography
Tony Williams
@tonywilliams.bsky.social
Novelist & poet. Latest novel COLE THE MAGNIFICENT https://linktr.ee/tonywilliamswriter
One of the things about leaving the other place was that I lost a long thread I had written about the writing of my novel Cole the Magnificent and the reading that had fed into it. Today I had reason to open the Word doc where the text was written, and I thought it might be worth reposting here...
Tony Williams@tonywilliams.bsky.social · last wk.[voice of 2023:] My novel Cole the Magnificent is out from @saltpublishing.com, so I thought I would start a thread about what sort of book it is, and about the various texts and ideas that have gone into it
[voice of 2023:] My novel Cole the Magnificent is out from @saltpublishing.com, so I thought I would start a thread about what sort of book it is, and about the various texts and ideas that have gone into it
Today's very exciting book post is Jerrold Northrop Moore's lavishly illustrated biography of F.L. Griggs, the great etcher (and patron saint of the Etch a Sketch). My dodgy camera doesn't do justice to these haunting ruin-scapes.
I very much enjoyed A Hobby of Mine by @betarish.bsky.social from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social - joyful waves of repetition and variation that put me in mind of Frank Kuppner
Absolutely scandalised by my wife's suggestion that Welsh cakes should be eaten hot
Recent reading... Love a bit of Arnold Bennett and Buried Alive was no exception. Light and comic (and a bit dated e.g. in gender attitudes) but adroitly done and really brilliant in places, especially when it offers a few ideas on the artist's experience...
I'm grateful to have five poems, and a very generous introduction by Svitlana Kryvoruchko, in the latest issue of Astraea, the Ukrainian journal. Come and take the weight off your feet in the Schopenhauer Chair! astraea-journal.org/index.php/jo...
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Very kind of Tim Turnbull to share some of his recent hallucinations with us, via Red Squirrel Press
Nothing more relaxing than watching a bit of telly in the evening
What Are Words Worth 2U2? is currently happening at Northumbria, a fantastic programme of arts and writing. If you're in the North East then do have a look and come to whatever tickles your fancy - there's absolutely loads going on. erratic-front-a98.notion.site/WWW2U2-Event...
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Depressing to hear of the closure of the MA Creative Writing @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social - a programme with such a long and wonderful history tossed aside. It's vandalism.
Anna Ruysch (1666-1754)Dutch Golden Age flower painter, younger sister of more well known painter Rachel Ruysch. Women painters became expert flower paintes as they were not allowed in academies to study human models and anatomy #WomensHistoryMonth
On the homepage of @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social atm, 60+ titles related to Keshed. Mix of fiction, non-fic, poetry old and new inc. work by @jamesscudamore.bsky.social @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @heidijames.bsky.social @tonywilliams.bsky.social [more below] uk.bookshop.org/lists/how-to...
How To Get Keshed and Influence People
A list of titles related to Keshed.
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Suggestions pls for where to submit a 3,000-word prose poem 😜
Managed to break my shameful 416-day streak on chess dot com. Here's to next Christmas Day not involving playing a game on my phone!
Rationalising the spice rack by throwing out things that are out of date. We have a clear winner - bought before we moved here from Sheffield 15 years ago and not used since.
'the UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs." www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
All 2.4m of Britain’s creative workers are at risk — and we know why
A new report into the impact of AI on the creative sector makes for apocalyptic reading. The government must act now
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This poem from my 2014 collection The Midlands seemed a bit histrionic at the time, but I feel like the world has grown into it
Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
Independent research identifies few learning gains
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Very much enjoyed Lidl's 'about 2000-piece' jigsaw. Five missing and two duplicates. 👌
