What an unbelievably lovely thing - I had no idea this was happening - the wonderful Adrian Duncan talking about The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies on the Library of Lazy Thinking - blown away lazythinking.substack.com/p/adrian-dun...

Adrian Duncan on The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies by Jo Lloyd

Writer and artist Adrian Duncan shares his thoughts on The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies by Jo Lloyd

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What an unbelievably lovely thing - I had no idea this was happening - the wonderful Adrian Duncan talking about The Earth Thy Great Exchequer Ready Lies on the Library of Lazy Thinking - blown away lazythinking.substack.com/p/adrian-dun...

Adrian Duncan on The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies by Jo Lloyd

Writer and artist Adrian Duncan shares his thoughts on The Earth, Thy Great Exchequer, Ready Lies by Jo Lloyd

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Gratifying to see Mine here – "an intense, bracing, wildly digressive jeremiad" www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

Best Australian books out in August: new Meg Mason, musicians tell all and a time-travel tale by ‘a master storyteller’

Each month Guardian Australia editors and critics pick the upcoming titles they have devoured – or can’t wait to get their hands on

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"Today is August 4, 2026" There Will Come Soft Rains By: Ray Bradbury

finally, bradbury's title comes from the poem of the same name by sara teasdale:

Line Drawing, Layered Print on Saunders Waterford Paper

If I ran a book shop I would have a short novels and novellas shelf and a Contemporary Fiction that Reads Like a Classic shelf. Not those only, but it would be useful. And the second would spark debates, which would be fun.

Yes! Anna Jackson's versions of Catullus in "I, Clodia, and Other Portraits" are wonderful - and these extraordinary Ovid translations exchanges.uiowa.edu/axbeyond-jac...

Niamh Hollis-Locke@niamhvh-l.bsky.social · 3d ago

Recommend checking out Anna Jackson - she's got a number of books, and is a professor lecturing in English (with a focus on poetry) at Victoria University of Wellington. Great combo of critical/academic and creative work.

The giant and the wide Borage Sea.

Legend substack.com/@slamshopp/n...

Keith Ridgway: "When I think of Beckett, I think of beauty" www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Writers Talking Writers: Sigrid Nunez on Virginia Woolf and Keith Ridgway on Samuel Beckett

The National Book Award winner and Rooney Prize recipient discuss the enduring legacy of two boundary-pushing 20th century legends.

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Plus if you open your nightjars very very carefully you can fill in the Guardian puzzles page they come wrapped in

Nightjar Press@nightjarpress.bsky.social · last wk.

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Sitting on the terrace of the Dôme, drinking Pernods and talking about sanity with enormous hollows under my eyes.

A world of possibilities for #WITmonth 2026. I know I'll never read all of these in a month, but it's fun to dream!

31/7/26 - nocturn

Plus if you open your nightjars very very carefully you can fill in the Guardian puzzles page they come wrapped in

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A friend sent me this 15/10 Elizabeth Frink dog

Today is Tridi the 13th of Thermidor in the year 234. Thermidor is the month of heat. Today we celebrate apricots. #JacobinDay See today's page

One more thing on medieval Welsh literature - Tom Drury uses the quote below as the epigraph to "Pacific" and it kind of makes Manawydan into Tiny and Pryderi into Micah and if you know either of them it's SO PERFECT

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​At Nightjar, we have published 97 authors since 2009. That’s 110 individual titles (some authors have appeared more than once, and one publication,  The Invisible Collection , featured more...

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In the post, a fine collection of essays by @cclarklewes.bsky.social. And I am unlikely to ever write a book, but I am still thrilled to have my name on the (back) cover. @blackheraldpress.bsky.social

Raise your hand if you are a lit mag editor or reader who is very worried about the AI stuff the new Submittable CEO plans to try to force on us? That email introducing him yesterday is haunting me. We don't need or want AI anywhere near our submissions process.

a charming map of Cambridge, drawn by Gerard Manley Hopkins for a visit - I guess he'd forgotten his phone @ransomcenter.bsky.social

‘I liked that,’ said Offa, ‘sing it again.’ www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48461/...

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Excellent @thetls.bsky.social piece on the Mercian Golden Age by Sarah Foot, including high praise for @rorynaismith.bsky.social's biography of Offa #medievalsky www.the-tls.com/history/medi...

Some 8 liners: goblins, waffles, sandwich toasters, butterscotch etc.

Today: A distinguished musician and scholar, Kovacs Liao offers an accessible introduction to classical Chinese poetry through two remarkable couplets that reveal a world of #philosophy, #history and #art. #China #chinesepoetry #culture open.substack.com/pub/themadri...

On Two Duìlián 对联 by Qingzhu

By Alan Kovacs Liao

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scent of the pitch & tar wherewith they are newly marked. For the brute creation recognize each other more from the smell than the sight; & in matters of Identity & Diversity appeal much more to their noses than to their eyes.

Blurbs are sometimes pretty meaningless or generic, but the ones for Dooneen have a different quality I feel: you can just feel the respect and passion for the work. And oh look there’s @suchmayer.bsky.social!

[Annette Bening in American Beauty "I will sell this house today" voice] Dooneen will be on the Booker longlist tomorrow