For #ModWrite this week, how about a ModRead? Our new Eliot Studies Annual is out now. Chew on these: - Special forum: THE ELIOT WE NEED Higher ed is collapsing, climate crises abound. Our Prez asks: "in what contemporary struggles could we enlist Eliot as an ally?"

Thrilled that my article on Eliot’s Polish plains has been published in The T.S. Eliot Studies Annual liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

German and Soviet pavilions in antithesis - Paris International Exposition, 1937

‘I dropped a C-bomb into Tolstoy’: one man’s quest to translate War and Peace into ‘bogan Australian’

Excited to be presenting a BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature tomorrow, ‘Tango Goes East’, on the story of tango’s musical journey eastwards to Poland and beyond.

Strange-looking pierogi at Warsaw diner (very good though)

First time in a Polish home and garden shop in the U.K. (in Nottingham). With signs and announcements in Polish.

A recent purchase: handbook of central and east Europe, from 1936

Staying in apartment goals in Warsaw

Kavka pickle cocktail :)

…the Free City of Danzig?

Lángos at Selwyn college 😍

My piece in @uk.theconversation.com on language and culture in Estonia:

Our piece from Pokrovsk in Ukraine on the famous Christmas carol inspiring Ukraine's defenders. With Jonathan Beale, Hanna Chornous, Daniel Wittenberg, Anastasia Levchenko & Imran Ali. #Ukraine #Pokrovsk #Christmas www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Klub Polonia addiction continues

Love the cloud moquette pattern on the London cable car

Military recycling: cannon bollard in London

A knotty railway map of Austria-Hungary, 1918

RELEASE DAY!!! It’s here at last and I am very proud of it. Immense thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social for supporting this project ( & check out the promotional code).

The cult of chicken paprikash continues

Mulled sloe gin 😍

Got so excited by the flurry of Polish flags on this Dutch map (but they’re the sign of long-distance hiking paths)

It’s a year today since my mum died. I wish I could write everything about her, but then I’d write forever, so I’ll leave it to this: she was the most beautiful person I have ever known.

Just had dessert and dessert for breakfast with @becimay.bsky.social (and her healthier beans)

Visited the Nigel Hall exhibition at Magdalene College with my students today - thinking about material, language and space

Mondrian design in a Netherlands train

‘No balloon’

Found (and bought) a Playmobil version of Vermeer’s The Milkmaid

Always fun to fly out of Humberside airport - do I travel to Amsterdam, do I travel to Aberdeen, or do I travel to the Edda Mistral service operation vessel for offshore wind farms on the North Sea…?

Thrilled to announce the release of Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe with Cambridge UP 🎉🎉 The book argues that accommodating the displaced population can strengthen states and benefit local economies in the long run. 📚 [Amazon: tinyurl.com/24m2mbkf] See thread below:

Love my steel ammonite from Hinderwell 😍😍 by KV Blacksmith: www.kvblacksmith.com

Obsessed with this colorful modernist Austro-Hungarian railway map from 1913

Absolutely spectacular cartoon about ‘The Estate of T.S. Eliot’

The American publisher Robert McBride on modern Poland (published in 1939). Here he mentions a sign above his table in a restaurant: ‘alcohol used moderately is harmless, even in the largest quantities’

Haven't seen one yet so wanted to make a starter pack for modernist studies organisations (and related platforms) as more migrate to Bluesky. Do help us out by letting us know who to add & do share so we can get connected! go.bsky.app/VAe3Wb1

Excited to receive my contributor’s copy of Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary today! 🎉 www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

First post on Bluesky - delighted to see my article on ‘Conrad’s Latitude: Geodetic Drift’ published in The Conradian. Here’s a photograph of the Warsaw meridian, too