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
YT Poem of the Week: 'Trust Me' by Mary Ruefle yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...
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This reminds me of summers long ago Mahir Taşyurt, 'Untitled', 2026
These posts with photos of eclipses in colanders remind me of Christian Morgenstern's 'Nightsong of the Fish' (1909)
Bumper sticker from Blacksburg Books: good for poets who want to get run off the road
this necessary uplift, the Poetry Shelf Breathing Room nzpoetryshelf.com/2026/08/11/p...
Poetry Shelf Breathing Room: Three poems by Bill Manhire
The Distant Road Some days I try to stare pastthe distant roadat all the roads beyond it nothing there yet then the noise of desperate enginescomes on the windthe sound of waves too and look! a chi…
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uh boss bad news the guys on the floor are saying the centre cannot hold also the gyre is widening
The daughter of a lady who lives opposite called to let us know how her mother was recovering from her hip replacement. I offered to shop etc but she kept looking at my t-shirt, put on without thinking. It's Susie from Curb Your Enthusiasm with one of her regular insults, a gift from my son . . .
Damnation - I gather that, in the print edition, there's a misquotation at the very climax of the piece. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.
Graeme Richardson@ravoon.bsky.social · 2w agoVery grateful that my book is reviewed in the new TLS. It's a generous piece, calling Dirt Rich "Bracing, often beautiful" and "a debut to treasure". You can read it here: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
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 · 3w 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