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)

This is going to be amazing!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Proofs! ✨

Terrific New Yorker article about James Schuyler, written by @dchiasso.bsky.social as the new biography by Nathan Kernan is soon to come out. It reminded me of the pervy frissons I felt as I read Schuyler's beguiling novel "Alfred and Guinevere", probably twenty years ago. Good times.

Marx on AI: ‘When machinery seizes on an industry by degrees, it produces chronic misery among the workers who compete with it.’

I’m on Amazon!

Whole page to swim around in in this week’s TLS

The replies to this are interesting about the power (and perils) of bluesky for writers (including academics). We write in a moment of media fragmentation, lacking clear rules about what to do (on- and offline), to engage readers in the topics that interest us. Many wise, encouraging thoughts here!

The @thetls.bsky.social let me eviscerate Wyndham Lewis 🖤🔥🔥🖤

My book’s cover 🩷

Am writing an intro to a special issue on Chaplin ✨🔥

Some late Prynne

Proofs I’m excited about 💕

Will be changing my profile to Phded @ Exeter once those minor corrections are out of the way. Thank you @mattseybold.bsky.social and Jason Baskin for being brilliantly insightful examiners and to @becimay.bsky.social for being such a wonderful guide along the way.

It’s live!

Hbd to me and Edward Lear ✨

Proofs 🥰

Giant Orwell handbook & a bit of my essay on machines. Congrats to brilliant Nathan Waddell!! 🤩🥰🤩

A Frank O’Hara scarf with ‘SARDINES in it’ from a favourite student :)

I wrote about anthologies that attempt to represent the democracy of modern poetry democratically someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/but-what-p...

A few fun things to know about this thing that already made you angry: 1.) Parrhesia program is direct result of a series of ad hoc committees who found student protesters were too disruptive when they shouted down fascists, blocked roads, & got shot by campus police. Parrhesia teaches civility.

Go get a discount on this awesome book

Lovely new review of Robin Field & Jerrica Jordan’s essay collection on modernism & #metoo: scalar.usc.edu/works/the-sp...