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A modern master. This has been The Hejinian Era.

At last, a really good translation that doesn't make "you just change your life" burst out of an ignorable remainder like a fit.

I chair the acquisitions meeting of @reaktionbooks.bsky.social, an independent publisher. We're open to unsolicited book proposals: history, art, music, film, food, animal studies and any great indefinable non-fiction book ideas you might have. Check out the list and get in touch.

"Who is the man who appears unexpectedly in an OS map..?"

As the decorations get put away, so this old poem of mine comes out. A silly seasonal offering for #TwelfthNight, in which I invent a word for that very specific sadness we feel on seeing the space just lately vacated by our Christmas tree.

When she tells you she hates the way you read 'Beowulf' aloud to her.

#HappyChristmas Take your pick: June 16th, 1904 or December 25th, 2025. #Yulsses

The price of five gold rings has gone galactic

Tis the season to read all the update's sentence and not be tribal

Leave voters tied our hands for decades, and threw away all our rebates. The Tories and Reform steal from the poor. Labour are anti-corruption and are moving the Overton window. The "Get Starmer out" people may win one more of their governments by tantrum but not the argument. They haven't got one.

All words containing 'z' in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, in order of occurrence. All mentions of 'Ebenezer' picked out in black.

Dieses vor allem: fragen Sie sich in der stillsten Stunde Ihrer Nacht: habe ich gestern zu viel Kaffee getrunken?

Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.

Why send your poems out and why self-publish?

What a massively touchy thing to do when you've wronged the art of Julia Margaret Cameron.

John Carey RIP. Everyone should read his books on Dickens and Donne and the Faber Book of Reportage. Vary rarely a dull review...

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot