U.S. publication day for A History of England in Twenty-Five Poems, with Pegasus Books. 🎉🎉 They picked a different author photo - looking suitably studious... www.simonandschuster.com/books/A-Hist...
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Author of A Twist of Rotten Silk or Words to That Effect (2026). Actor. Director. Linguist. Cymbelinism and Other Things of the Imogenation. Stories of the Bundle and the Box. The Bread and Cloth Company.
Yes. I call Arthur Rimbaud the French Chuya. Nakahara Chuya translated by Jeffrey Angles. #JapanesePoetry #PoetryTranslation #NakaharaChuya #JeffreyAngles www.penguin.co.uk/books/477651...
Angel at the Earth's Extreme
Although he lived only to age thirty, Nakahara Chuya ranks among the finest of Japanese poets, evoking in his work the alienation, ennui and romantic melancholy of a changing world. This edition colle...
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Puck: give me your hands ❤️ #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... My 8th #SlowShakespeare blog since 2018, DONE. A last magical image of Puck (Rosie Sheehy) @the-rsc.bsky.social Dream 2024. Of all the versions I've included, the 2 that have resonated most have been Brook 1970 & Noble 1994.
Black Bag by Luke Kennard (@lukekennard.bsky.social) is a firework of a novel: an investigation into the crisis of masculinity and an off-kilter love story that is blazingly funny and profoundly humane. Find out more about this Booker Prize 2026-longlisted book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Oberon: bless this house with sparkling dew! #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Maybe not dew-drops, but Puck's sparkly bubble gun in the current Globe Dream does a pretty magical job. Played by the fabulous Michael Grady-Hall.
Look at this beautiful new thing by the fabulous, path-finding @profcatheriner.bsky.social - in the innovative companion volumes to the Arden Fourth Series Shakespeare 🗡️🛏️💀💍🕯️❤️
The Arden Shakespeare@ardenpublisher.bsky.social · 2w agoBeds, perfumes, doublets, torches, lutes, clocks, handkerchiefs… Who owned these objects in early modern England? How were they used? @profcatheriner.bsky.social's 'Shakespeare's Objects' explores 33 significant objects in full colour illustration. Out today! https://bit.ly/4f7YOaM
Just got a 2am black cab and it was cheaper than an uber and we didn’t have to give each other a star rating. Five stars.
The 2027 Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook is out! They have reprinted my essay, ‘Perseverance in Getting Poetry Published’, written for 2026 edition. It’s surreal – I spent decades scouring this bible for tips & insights. Happy 120 anniversary @writersandartists.bsky.social www.writersandartists.co.uk
A joy to be in conversation with *Arundhanti Roy* after the screening of her movie, *In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones*. She kept it real, was funny, the audience was very warm. I saw this movie about clashes between students & profs with my ex-student & we shared big laughs :)
I’m about to meet one of my real‑life heroines!! This week, I get to talk to the beautiful & brave writer, Arundhati Roy, about her newly restored *In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones* as part of London Indian Film Festival The film will screen before our Q&A! whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...
Who Are the Palestinians? | Palestine Deep Dive with William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n83...
Who Are the Palestinians? | Deep Dive with William Dalrymple
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Pyramus/Thisbe: kissing the wall's hole😳 #MoonMad www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Extremely (w)holesome Pyramus (Emmy Stonelake) & Thisbe (Shahin Rezvani), with Quince (Scout Worsley) as the wall, in the current @the-rsc.bsky.social family version of Dream❤️ dir. Rachel Bagshaw & Robin Belfield
Here Is My Space - A Twist of Rotten Silk page 14 #ATwistOfRottenSilk #booksky #poem #poetry #Shakespeare
Recommend this novel - one of my favourites this year for its oddness, sweetness and strange optimism.
LRB Bookshop@londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 4w agoNEW PODCAST 🎧: In an audacious new take on the campus novel Luke Kennard’s protagonist, a penniless out-of-work actor, takes on a job unlike any other. He is hired to sit silently at the back of a lecture hall, concealed within a black bag. Listen here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...
I can't wait for this event on Sat 3 October, with one of my favourite bookshops: Teasel & Skylark in #Dorchester. Lovely to be in my home county of #Dorset! Come along to discover 25 time machines into #history, from 1066 to the Miners' Strike and more... www.teaselandskylark.com/events/a-his...
Crisis of Petrodollar, with Richard Wolff & Yanis Varoufakis www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAX9...
Crisis of Petrodollar with Richard Wolff & Yanis Varoufakis
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So grateful to our publishers at Bookchef for making this happen: #TheDawnOfEverything #Ukraine #DavidGraeber
Also walked through the Star Trek tunnel (my name for it) between the Radcliffe Camera and the Old Bodleian. Beam me up, Scotty!
Today’s Midsummer Day so final #MidsummerNightsDream. Not in my OWC edition but maybe in my NEXT book (stay tuned ;-)) dir Atri Banerjee at Regent's Park.Loved Bottom & Puck A LOT. Also, l somehow manifested my cover art colours for a pic:) Preorder here: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
Today’s featured production from my #Introduction for #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is the adaptation & translation dir. Habib Tanvir, *Kamdev Ka Apna Basant Ritu Ka Sapna*. Tanvir's casting+use of dialects drew attention to class divisions & rural/urban divides in MND. Preorder: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
Poem sighting from a reader in France. The poem is “Kickshaws”, the book “A Twist of Rotten Silk” (“Une torsade de soie pourrie”?), the reader-writer the boulanger and novelist Fabien Granier –
I love the turn in this poem by Caroline Bird, how she connects two things that couldn’t be more different. Then the sequence of the most unusual images that seamlessly stitch both parts of the poem together. #poetry #poemoftheday
Today’s featured production from my #Introduction 4 #OWC #MidsummerNightsDream is *Midsummer Mechanicals* (dir Kerry Frampton+Lucy Cuthbertson). So joyous - it created a sense of community in the theatre. My interview with Frampton: www.buzzsprout.com/891835/episo... Preorder: tinyurl.com/mre4rwtu
It doesn’t matter how far down the font list you hide Times New Roman, Word, I’m still scrolling through and selecting it.