Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
Jeremy Noel-Tod
@jntod.bsky.social
Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
future happiness John Clare, ‘Meadow Butterflyes’, from ‘The Midsummer Cushion’
Absolutely stone cold dedication to a work of popular history
We are driving to Wales on holiday. My wife has made a playlist of Welsh hits for the journey. I am referring to it as Absolute Bangors.
Update from the National Trust re. Dunwich Heath, 9.24am, Friday 31 July.
You want me to pivot to video? The thing that killed the radio star?
I like how they swerved "it must be well sealed" here
Trolleybus Enjoyer@trolleybusenjoyer.bsky.social · last wk.Very Alaska moment
Some 8 liners: goblins, waffles, sandwich toasters, butterscotch etc.
!! URGENT NORWICH SWEAR VOICE APPEAL !! We’re building an interactive UK swear map for our London show and we’re missing a proper Norwich voice. A real one, not someone doing an accent they heard on the telly once. Reckon you can do it ? DM us a voice note. You could end up in the exhibition.
He Do Police Academy 5 in Different Voices
Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
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*snarls* When I drop four cubes of ice Chimingly in a glass, and add Three goes of gin, a lemon slice, And let a ten-ounce tonic void In foaming gulps until it smothers Everything else up to the edge, I lift the lot in private pledge: He devoted his life to others.
Charles Beckett@charlesbeckett.bsky.social · last wk.* I once lost a poetry recital competition judged by the (teetotal) Irish critic and historian Owen Dudley Edwards on the grounds that, because I was (probably) quite a nice person, I couldn't do full justice to the voice of the poem I had chosen to recite - Larkin's 'Sympathy in White Major'
So what I'm hearing is that, sometimes, even Christopher Nolan nods
Re the Emily Wilson discourse - her Dad (A N Wilson) was the king of literary feuds. A good family tradition. Best one was his feud with Bevis Hillier who hoaxed him into including a fake letter in his biography of Bejteman where the first letter of each sentence spelt "AN Wilson is a shit".
My close reading of Andy Burnham's letter to the Guardian in 1991, defending Philip Larkin as a great poet
I wrote about how the young Andy Burnham's admiration for Philip Larkin was all part of his grand plan to rule the UK
"Little Englandism of the Left"
How Andy Burnham's bid for power started with Philip Larkin
someflowerssoon.substack.com
An uncollected poem by John Ashbery that first appeared in The Yale Review
A new Peterloo jug is news, because all known examples are printed over a leftover batch commemorating an admiral. This one is part of a new batch on a purpose-made jug, indicating sustained demand. On display soon at the People’s History Museum. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
People's History Museum to display rare Peterloo massacre jug
The jug commemorating the 1819 Peterloo massacre will be displayed at the People's History Museum.
bbc.co.uk
I wrote about how the young Andy Burnham's admiration for Philip Larkin was all part of his grand plan to rule the UK
"Little Englandism of the Left"
How Andy Burnham's bid for power started with Philip Larkin
someflowerssoon.substack.com
This makes me think that, whether they know it or not, most British people who write a bit of poetry are imitating George Crabbe
Andrew Male@andrewmale.bsky.social · 2w agoMy friend Simon has just sent me this astonishing poem that was in his local (Exeter branch) Wetherspoons magazine.
I took a phone (not my phone) to the phone shop to be fixed today. They asked me to scribble down my number for when it was done. In the context, it occurred to me what a miracle of convenient technology a biro and a lined ring-bound notepad would seem to most of the rest of human history.