Christmas Eve Proofs ❤️

Christmas Eve Proofs ❤️

Ron’s new book, Norwich Sonnets, just went to a reprint. You can buy it from Norfolk’s most interesting local interest publisher here waterlandbooks.co.uk/product/norw...

Real question, though it may not sound like it. What examples can you think of where an academic was profiled in the mainstream press (not field journal or para-academic pub) & it seemed to work out well for them?

‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’ 💀

My intro to a new special issue on Chaplin for CQ, along with a mounting pile of brilliant essay constructions. Here’s the link … onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1467...

Publisher of geniuses, #LastBooks, has just introduced a 20% discount on all their books. Type ‘20%2025’ when you get to the cart below … thelastbooks.org

Publisher of geniuses, #LastBooks, has just introduced a 20% discount on all their books. Type ‘20%2025’ when you get to the cart below … thelastbooks.org

Happy Wrong Thanksgiving to my neighbours in the melancholy republic to the south.

Sign my petition! 🙏 x

Sign my petition! 🙏 x

Against critical sobriety 🙃

God is dead, Charlie Brown

To mark the publication of my first book, join us online (or in-person) on 3rd Dec 2025 at 16:30GMT / 11:30EST Everyone is welcome 😊 Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social @becimay.bsky.social @emmywaldman.bsky.social Info: bit.ly/3LZXc6w

Look at this gorgeous thing I got given 😍😍😍😍😍

‘What a night that was, on that soft-looking bed, encircled by sound, said the sky’ (Keston Sutherland, Jokes)

Scholars of Critical University Studies & related fields need to consider whether the Brandeisian "bigness is badness" formulation applies to schools, especially universities, & applies precisely because scale is what makes schools attractive to parasitical profit-seeking enterprises.

Keston Sutherland on being close read (in Jokes (2025))

Book skin

Proofs ✨✨✨

I think it's likely that I look back on the book launch symposium for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century as one of the absolute highlights of my career thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible

Speaking on Veriry Soott today, among these assorted geniuses 🤩

‘try to cope with a woman who is not tantalised, who is actually extremely annoyed’ Anna Mendelssohn 🔥🔥🔥

Just arrived and as orange as can be ❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 !!!!

Just arrived and as orange as can be ❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 !!!!

Writing about because …

Machlud

Mist at home

On freedom …

today’s #ModWrite is a slow return to a UK time zone, but reflecting on the wonderful papers at MSA 25 @moderniststudies.bsky.social & the joy of presenting strategic incompetencies with @becimay.bsky.social, @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social, @jamesreath.bsky.social, Megan Quigley & Jess Payn

‘I think, although I have never thought it before writing it here …’ (Lauren Berlant)

Come and hear me talk about Bad Competence this coming Saturday in Boston ❤️✨🖤

I’ve heard and read bits of this and can confirm it’s WONDERFUL 🤩

Keston Sutherland’s newest ❤️🔥🤩💪✨

Keston Sutherland’s newest ❤️🔥🤩💪✨

For Chicago Review, I got to review the best contemporary poem I’ve ever read ❤️🔥✨

For Chicago Review, I got to review the best contemporary poem I’ve ever read ❤️🔥✨

Yay!! Copy just arrived!! ❤️❤️❤️

Some total excellence in the post ❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥

‘in the 1920s Louis Aragon took the alphabet and labelled it ‘suicide note’. that was a poem as well.’ (Sean Bonney)

‘If I lick you in a particular spot (bodily or geographically, your choice) you will make a specific noise. That’s how I wrote all my books’ (Sean Bonney)

‘The voice of the poem is not your friend’ (Sean Bonney)

My review of Keston Sutherland’s amazingly wonderful Meditations is just out in the Chicago Review ❤️

Hope you like my essay on Inimitability! Thx to brilliant Lewis Roberts, Jacob Ridley & Roddy Howland Jackson for their edits and help. www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

‘What have I made,/to have moved so even/you are obscure, or,/what is left?’ (Verity Spott)

Tom Raworth being wonderful

Snippet of my pleasure book, on meringue

‘The truth in your words is not yours to give.’ (Keston Sutherland)

On the REF (vis-a-vis pleasure)