What does it mean to think like a linguist? And how can we bring creativity and inclusive culture into language learning? Read Charlotte Ryland's fascinating piece in our LSP edited collection www.lspjournal.com/post/think-l... @cforsdick.bsky.social

Opening next week (& running till Nov) at London's Senate House Library is the "Spineless Wonders" exhibition. This free exhibition focuses on works without a bound spine & presents "rarely-seen printed materials spanning five centuries." www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

Saw about half of "After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960-2025," curated by Granary Books's Steve Clay and M.C. Kinniburgh, at The Grolier Club. This translation of Queneau, _One Hundred Million Million Poems_ (Kickshaws, 1983) was in the first case.

How do you translate a poem? Find everything you need in our NEW collection of poetry translation resources! Including worksheets for #teachers and top tips from former winner Gabi Reigh: www.stephen-spender.org/stephen-spen... Submit your entry by 31 July! #SSTPoetryPrize2025 #PortugueseSpotlight

The interview in this volume with endlessly inventive French poet Philippe Beck, conducted by @markrobsoninfo.bsky.social and Elodie Laügt, is a fascinating dialogue on poetry and prose.

A really interesting response by @gabrielasaldanhav.bsky.social to @ftnetwork.bsky.social's brilliant project:

Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University - Sign the Petition! chng.it/9vtymFBVFh

Not sure what to translate for #SSTPoetryPrize2025? Don’t forget our new collection of resources and top tips on how to choose a poem: www.stephen-spender.org/stephen-spen... Enter by 31 July for your chance to join the Stephen Spender Prize hall of fame! #SSTPoetryPrize #PortugueseSpotlight

I didn't know about this study when I visited Kettle's Yard at the weekend for the first time in years, but can confirm that being there helps with stepping away from the to-do list treadmill.

This is just awful (on top of the outrage of ancient history and religion and theology degrees going completely). How can you study a language at degree level without learning about the cultures, literatures and histories of that language?

The Stephen Spender Prize 2025 is now open for entries! Find all the details about this year's categories for schools, teachers, individual youth entrants and the 2025 #PortugueseSpotlight in our special launch newsletter: mailchi.mp/b7741de96744... #SSTPoetryPrize2025

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Really interesting interview in which Ian Maclachlan weaves together life writing, landscape and language, and advocates for poetry.

LAST CALL Don't miss your chance to win a Gold #OpenAccess book contract in #PeterLangPublishing 2025 Emerging Scholars Competition. Closes 30 April 2025. ow.ly/NORO50VAPZJ #QueerStudies #CallForSubmissions #EmergingScholars #PeterLang #DEI #LGBTQIA

Join us Wednesday 5 March from 5.30 p.m. in Centrala for launch of our guidance packs in support of displaced Ukrainians - co-created with Ukrainians in Brum. We will also talk about our ongoing work on visa precarity for Ukrainians in the UK. Everyone welcome: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/report-lau...

Please help us to save Modern Languages at Cardiff University: chng.it/Hmtvvdtptg

I’d love to be invited in 2025 to talk about it. And, if anyone would like to review it that’d be very much welcomed. Do please repost, thank you.🙏🏼

I am delighted to announce that today is my book’s publication day!!! 🎉 📕 Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the Politics of Domesticity is in print (and ebook) with @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social It looks gorgeous. It feels chunky. I couldn’t be happier! 😊

Applications for this year's Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant are now open. The closing date is 4th April 2025. For more information about eligibility criteria and how to apply, see the link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/the-...

Still a couple of travel bursaries left for the feminist translation slam/symposium on teaching feminist translation, 6-7 Feb, Oxford, organised w/ @stephenspender.bsky.social and the Queen's Translation Exchange. More bursary info on FTN website: feministtranslation.bham.ac.uk/events/

Many congratulations to students and staff @unibirmingham.bsky.social School for their awards in the @stephenspender.bsky.social translation prize competition www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/un...

Carnet du Monde. Annonce du décès de Jacques Roubaud par ses camarades de l’Oulipo :

Young Francophone Africans pack out poetry slams as region’s woes pile up Resurgence of poetry culture among west African youth amid political instability, economic insecurity and jihadist threat www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...