Possibly just one for other Iris Murdoch obsessives - I've started reading through her again and doing some Thinking librofulltime.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/b... #booksky 📚💙

Pleased to soft launch a 2026 reading project - the works of Iris Murdoch in chronological order

In our latest podcast we interview Dr Miles Leeson, editor of Iris Murdoch’s Poems from an Attic - discovered in a box after her death player.captivate.fm/episode/4212... @irismurdoch.bsky.social

Reading my first Iris Murdoch novel (The Bell) and hoooo boy, this lady can write a damn sentence

I always read Iris Murdoch to close out the year and welcome the year. Let’s bring the idea of perfection back.

Newly discovered poetry by Iris Mudoch, introduced by Miles Leeson in the TLS! www.the-tls.com/literature/p...

Diarmaid Ferriter: Iris Murdoch went to pains to hide poems on her bisexuality. Was it wrong to publish them?

Breakfast with poets this morning. Fascinating discussion and now want to read all mentioned l, especially Nick Makoha- yerks!

The sun had gone, but the western sky to her right was still full of a murky orange glow, glittering with a few feathers of pale cloud, against which a line of trees appeared black and jaggedly clear. She could also see the silhouette of a tower, which must belong to the Abbey. ~ Iris Murdoch *

Lovely to see the new Murdoch poetry collection on the table at Waterstones Picadilly.

Dr Miles Leeson is set to discuss Iris Murdoch's poetry on Radio 4 next week. www.chi.ac.uk/news/chiches... @irismurdoch.bsky.social

If you haven't read Brigid Brophy, then do investigate! I doubt she'd thank me, but I think of her as nestling provocatively between Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch, with the sly, sometimes savage irony of the former, and the latter's bustling care for her characters. The Snow Ball is my favourite.

New Iris Murdoch Podcast episode! Reconsidering Jackson's Dilemma, thirty years on... soundcloud.com/user-5488042...

Wrote about my favorite non-2025 books that I read this year. Homer, Iris Murdoch, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, old German fairy tales, and more. countercraft.substack.com/p/the-best-b...

Next week is our special (online) Christmas Lecture with Lawrence Blum! Come along! 'Iris Murdoch, Dorothy Emmet, and Bernard Williams: Convergences and Divergences in Counter-Traditions in 20th Century British Moral Philosophy' 17th December, 3pm - 4.30pm BST www.womeninparenthesis.co.uk/news/

Keep an ear out for Miles Leeson on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week on the 22nd December - he'll be discussing Murdoch's poetry with some other fabulous guests! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Registration is now open for Miles Leeson's online lecture "Who's There? The Psychology of Hauntings in Iris Murdoch's Fiction" from the Institute of Applied Psychology series! Sign up here: forms.gle/VztiefDtKDZC... We invite you warmly! @irismurdoch.bsky.social @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social

Selling a few Iris Murdoch novels. What fun! me: "The wrong person dies in this one, that's all I'm saying" IYKYK

'“These three o'clock awakenings when one starts up, imagining that one has a mortal sickness; and indeed this is true. Life is that sickness, and at that cold hour one can realize it'

Iris Murdoch's queer Poetry livesteven.com?p=32061

A few nights away from finishing Iris Murdoch's A WORD CHILD, going to miss it the second I do. I re-read/loved A SEVERED HEAD over the summer, have previously read UNDER THE NET and THE BLACK PRINCE, got a few more piled up to read. Pls share any of YOUR Iris love below. 📚💙

Want a famous desk previously owned by JRR Tolkien and Iris Murdoch (and before Tolkien C.S. Lewis, although they don't mention it here). You'd better have deep pockets...

'A clean well-lighted place for books' (to borrow from Hemingway) at John Sandoe, Chelsea, for the launch of Iris Murdoch's 'Poems from an Attic': lovely evening with 'The Nice and the Good' (to borrow a Murdoch title) including the book's four editors one of whom is my student-days friend Anne Rowe

New Blogpost! Re-reading Iris Murdoch's early fiction. irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2025/11/17/r...

Iris Murdoch livesteven.com/2025/11/16/r...

I ❤️ Iris Murdoch #youdon'tsay - I'm so excited she has a new book out despite having died in 1999 and it's poetry - my fave - here are some of my thoughts: How I found an unexpected connection to science in the works of Iris Murdoch – by a molecular biophysicist theconversation.com/how-i-found-...

In 2026 I will once again joining forces with Kim at Reading Matters to host 'A Year with Iris Murdoch' We kick off with The Sea, The Sea in January. I've never read her before so looking forward to this one!

The Iris Murdoch Review has gone to print! Members can read it online from today if they just can't wait for the hard copy. Non-members can purchase one for £15, or simply join the Society. irismurdochsociety.org.uk/product/iris...

I only started reading Iris Murdoch in the last year or so, and maybe it's too late to be truly changed by a book but her work is thoughtful, human, restorative and readable for pleasure in a way I'd recommend to anyone.

We're looking forward to being in Rome soon!

New Blogpost! Iris in Brussels... irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2025/11/11/i...

What can Iris Murdoch's philosophy teach us about ethics today? The Monist is seeking papers that go beyond close reading—bringing Murdoch’s ideas into dialogue with contemporary moral philosophy. Submission deadline February 1st, 2026: oxford.ly/47LmkW8

This is brilliant. Iris Murdoch and her beer mat collection :)

@oldenoughtosay.com yesterday I came across an old Iris Murdoch essay on drinking in Oxford as a female Don in the early 50s. Thought it might pique your interest. Was in Cryil Ray's Compleat Imbiber no.2.

If anyone needs me, I'll be in the attic. @irismurdoch.bsky.social

Congratulations to @irismurdoch.bsky.social on the posthumous publication of Iris Murdoch's poetry collection 'Poems from an Attic'

Launch! Tomorrow! In Chichester!

Happy Publication Day to 'Poems from an Attic' from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social! Here's a new podcast with the editors and our friends at Chatto and Windus: soundcloud.com/user-5488042...

Even more on Murdoch's poetry! This time courtesy of The Daily Telegraph. www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t...

Full details for the Eleventh International Iris Murdoch conference have been released! irismurdochsociety.org.uk/event/12thco... Details and more here: irismurdochsociety.org.uk/events/ CFP: irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2025/11/04/1...

Thank you! @earreadthis.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=7llU...

I’m about to read a bunch of Iris Murdoch novels. I’ve never read one, so I’m open to suggestions of others I should check out.

New Iris Murdoch podcast episode! We're joined by Andrea Delaune to discuss her new book 'Iris Murdoch and Early Childhood Education' from @routledgebooks.bsky.social soundcloud.com/user-5488042...

'Re-release the Harry Peccinotti covers and I guarantee Murdoch will reach Joan Didion status in about six months...Eventually she will emerge triumphant because her novels genuinely are funny and sexy and cosmopolitan in a manner that doesn’t exist today.' fairyland.substack.com/p/make-book-...

This week in the @thetls.bsky.social, Miles Leeson from @chiunipress.bsky.social writes on Murdoch's poetry. www.penguin.co.uk/books/470920...

They're here! Ready for the @chiunipress.bsky.social launch on Saturday 8th November.

www.theargus.co.uk/news/2556732... @chiunipress.bsky.social

24 October 1945: Sartre gives a lecture on existentialism in Brussels and one Iris Murdoch is in the audience. From her notes, this was clearly a version of the now rather famous lecture he was to give in Paris five days later.