This analysis of the crisis at British universities, using Exeter as the prime example deserves a wide audience. johnheathershaw.substack.com/p/the-crisis...

Only when big names shout out do the media pick up the story. The story is not Exeter or their supporters it is about the dismantling of humanities: www.theguardian.com/education/20...

In solidarity, always, while simultaneously aware that I am extremely lucky to be where I am. c.org/2nzpctxpmF

This is one of the reasons why Exeter's decision to make cuts to the English department doesn't make sense. Even in a world where universities are solely for getting a job for graduates, English manages to do that rather effectively.

@steveracemp.bsky.social any comment on what's happening at the university?

Unbridled vandalism www.timeshighereducation.com/news/i-thoug...

It might just help change the senior management team's minds

Don't let the senior management at Exeter play silly financial games with the brilliant academic staff c.org/XDMSfwtvw5

It's made it to the FT giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

T.S. Eliot described by Golding as a 'silly old twit'. It's a wonderful review. www.the-tls.com/lives/letter...

Well that's all clear then

We're overjoyed to announce next summer's star-studded line-up of scholars. Join us at Merton College, University of Oxford, 4-12 July 2026, for an unforgettable week of poetry!

This tells us what a Reform government would be like

Why is the Eliot Summer School ALWAYS FUN? We think it's thanks to Director Cuda and all the students! Sign up, join, come or come again to nerd out at Eliot Camp this summer 💪🤓🌻

Perhaps if we think of AI as a market it might give us a reasonable guide on how to regulate it

An excellent, and to my mind, compelling read

It's the time of the philosopher

be gone analysis, examination, and determining... it is time to wonder

Why is this mysterious woman ALWAYS RIGHT? She's the skeleton key to T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land... register for the 2026 International Summer School and let's talk about why! tseliotschool.com. @intleliotsociety.bsky.social @tseliotfoundation.bsky.social thanks @benjuhmuhn.bsky.social art,

Hey what could be better on a chilly Thursday in November than to edit those abstracts destined for MSA/BAMS? Doing so with the Eliot Society grad reps, of course!

The Waste Land, Halloween edition!

Help me get this word out? Thanks! Scholarships available, full schedule soon

From the FT "Joel Mokyr is known as an economic historian rather than someone who stuffs their papers with whizzy maths. And this is the fourth Nobel in a row to feature a substantial economic history element." Some hope for the economics profession?

Always an fascinating award to following. Congrats to the winners. societyofauthors.org/prizes/the-s...

Shout it from the rooftops...

Top notch Eliot scholarship, plus *cough* a piece from myself

Delighted to have a small piece in here - thank you to the editors, and particularly Patrick Query. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/journal/tsesa

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.

Modern Fiction Studies has joined BlueSky! We'll be posting CFPs and announcing new issues. Our Spring 2025 issue is now available and open-access on Project Muse! Look for us there, or check out our newsletter here: vr2.verticalresponse.com/emails/48378...

Great to see all the positive thoughts on the new issue! We're biased but we think it is a really special issue: Why not subscribe and check it out for yourself: poetrylondon.co.uk/subscriptions/

"It is very depressing to find that the Labour Party in office has proved not only conservative but reactionary" T.S. Eliot on Keir Starmer... sorry Ramsay MacDonald

Reading Auden and for some reason ‘Marginialia’ resonated: Patriots? Little boys, obsessed by Bigness, Big Pricks, Big Money, Big Bangs.

We're delighted that Niall Campbell has been longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2024 for his third poetry collection, The Island in the Sound, which draws on history, folklore and memories of his native South Uist. @niallpoetry.bsky.social www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

Might words like immoral, unethical, fraudulent, corrupt, illogical, unfounded, be more useful that trying to make political labels stick?

archivists never fail to amaze... email sent: 8:03. question answered: 9:27

'Niall Campbell’s previous two collections had marked him out as a devoted singer, but in The Island in the Sound he’s added further layers, and colours, to his range.' - Declan Ryan, @irishtimes.bsky.social, on @niallpoetry.bsky.social's third poetry collection. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

A first post from us on BlueSky. To mark it, here is Liz Berry's terrific poem in our most recent issue:

Go and buy this and read my chapter on being a Marxist thief

Why are theories of comedy so serious? Reading Auden's and there are not many laughs...

Didn't come here for Trump analysis... but the chapter on Bloch is a good place to start

Poetry London is looking for a new poetry editor. The deadline is this week. poetrylondon.co.uk/opportunitie...

shamelessly stealing from profrog in another place: Lord Byron wrote some hilariously scurrilous rhymes about Lord Elgin (who lost his nose to syphilis, Byron claimed — part of a curse for stealing the marbles). If only there were some poets round here who didn’t much like Rishi Sunak

from another place: André Naffis-Sahely It has been one of the great privileges of my life, but after 3 years I’m stepping down. The Spring 2024 issue will be my last & I’m truly excited to see who will be chosen to lead the magazine starting with the Summer 2024 issue. Good luck to all applicants!

Poetry London is recruiting. An important role for a vital publication: poetrylondon.co.uk/poetry-editor/

Yet another vital department being decimated #SaveBrookesEnglish

“all poetical language is debauched into associations to any required degree” Empson. How's that for a first post on here?