Sasha Dugdale
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Poet and translator The Strongbox, Carcanet, 2024
pinned post!
Thanks
@carcanet.bsky.social
– delighted about this and very grateful to the Anglo-Hellenic league,
@jhcreerw.bsky.social
@sofkazinovieff.bsky.social
& the judges of the
#Runciman
Award.
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Feels like I have been reading Peter Brown’s ‘Journeys of the Mind’ – the history of an intellectual life devoted to Early Christianity and Late Antiquity – in real time but finally nearing the end. Another book that has changed things for me in numerous subtle ways.
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Sun like the tiny bright pupil in the fog’s eye
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ΜΑΝΟΣ ΤΡΑΧΙΑΣ™
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Shoah (A Forest), 2003, by Polish painter, photographer,poster artist, illustrator and filmmaker, Wilhelm Sasnal.Born 1972 Oil on canvas 46 x 46 cm Wilhelm Sasnal is considered one of the most prominent and internationally successful Polish contemporary artists
#art
#painting
#artist
#BlueSkyArt
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The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
in UK and New Directions in US (and translated by me) is a book recommendation for 2026
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Jay Troyer
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Georgia O'Keeffe, American (1887-1986), Eagle Claw and Bean Necklace, 1934, charcoal on paper, 48.5 x 63.9 cm, MoMA, New York City, New York, USA
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Wolstonbury Hill at the end of the afternoon today. Bitterly cold but that magic solstice light.
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Ah the old Christmas morning tradition of suturing the orange
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Keep walking, and if there’s a hill climb it. Someone sent me ‘Christmas Garland’
@candlestickpress.bsky.social
and I was entertained to find I had a poem in it…
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0840 sunrise – follow the link to see it at Newgrange!
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Ukraine Unbroken
@arcolatheatre.bsky.social
includes a short play by Natalia Vorozhbit (in my translation) about men facing conscription. She’s a brilliant writer & this is unmissable:
www.arcolatheatre.com/event/ukrain...
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Ukraine Unbroken - Arcola Theatre
Across five gripping plays by some of today’s most acclaimed British and Ukrainian writers, we explore the resilience of a nation determined to remain free.
https://www.arcolatheatre.com/event/ukraine-unbroken/
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Ukraine Unbroken
@arcolatheatre.bsky.social
includes a short play by Natalia Vorozhbit (in my translation) about men facing conscription. She’s a brilliant writer & this is unmissable:
www.arcolatheatre.com/event/ukrain...
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Ukraine Unbroken - Arcola Theatre
Across five gripping plays by some of today’s most acclaimed British and Ukrainian writers, we explore the resilience of a nation determined to remain free.
https://www.arcolatheatre.com/event/ukraine-unbroken/
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Jay Troyer
15 days ago
Paul Klee, Swiss-German (1879-1940), Figurine Of The Colorful Devil, 1927, tempera, paper mounted on card, 47.7 x 30.5 cm, Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany 18 December 1879 - 29 June 1940
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Sarah Hesketh’s 2016 is a fine work of docu-poetry and it’s also an everlastingly relevant text as it returns individual human experience and expression to recent history and politics. It would be on my list of best books of 2025 as well.
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This is one of next year’s poetry highlights:
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‘…art is the frustration of the desire not to make art, you know?’ Philip Guston, from a conversation with Clark Coolidge in ‘I Paint What I Want to See’
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Unsettling, poignant, varied and often very beautiful writing about the post-war Soviet experience of the holocaust tr. by Sasha Senderovich & Harriet Murav.
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“I’m coming back. I’m coming home. Sometimes that happens. You think, oh, it’s happening again. You feel an interior quickening. . .” Marie Howe – a guide for this morning and every morning.
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ArtReview
23 days ago
“I’m thinking about an institution as some kind of archaeological truth”, says Ibrahim Mahama, No.1 on this year’s ArtReview Power 100 list
artreview.com/the-intervie...
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The Interview: Ibrahim Mahama
“I’m thinking about an institution as some kind of archaeological truth”
https://artreview.com/the-interview-ibrahim-mahama-power-100-mark-rappolt/
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John Kittmer
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Brilliant to get
@mptmagazine.bsky.social
’s latest issue focusing on the poetry of Greece and Cyprus. Since its foundation in the mid-1960s by Ted Hughes & Daniel Weissbort, MPT has been hugely important in bringing Greek poetic voices to an English-speaking readership. Great that this continues.
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For Russian-speakers: NLO has published a focus on Maria Stepanova's Священная зима ('Holy Winter' is published in English
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
) including my piece on translating Maria's Russian text:
www.nlobooks.ru/magazines/no...
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196 НЛО (6/2025)
https://www.nlobooks.ru/magazines/novoe_literaturnoe_obozrenie/196_nlo_6_2025/
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‘The passing of time has made me more aware of the vertiginous nature of subjectivity, of poetry’s potential to hold us, demand that we pay attention, as we try to go about our daily lives.’ Beautiful blog by
@notjustdancing.bsky.social
on the composition of her new book ’Hôtel Amour’
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28 days ago
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‘Thetis‘ from Phoebe Giannisi ‘Goatsong’ tr. Brian Sneeden
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29 days ago
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Desperately upsetting. We are going backwards.
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about 1 month ago
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Harry Wallop
about 1 month ago
Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s
@thetimes.com
about Tom Stoppard
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English PEN
about 1 month ago
Together with
@irishpen.bsky.social
and the Estate of Seamus Heaney, we’re delighted to announce Tom Paulin’s Namanlagh
@faberbooks.bsky.social
as the winner of the
#PENHeaneyPrize
2025, awarded tonight at the
@nlireland.bsky.social
. Find out more ⤵️
www.englishpen.org/posts/news/t...
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Tom Paulin wins PEN Heaney Prize 2025 - News & Events - English PEN
https://www.englishpen.org/posts/news/tom-paulin-wins-pen-heaney-prize-2025/
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English PEN
about 1 month ago
We are deeply saddened by the death of Tom Stoppard and extend our heartfelt condolences to his loved ones. A longtime supporter of English PEN and the recipient of the 2013 PEN Pinter Prize, Tom's contributions to literature and the arts leave an immense and enduring legacy.
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A genius playwright and a total gentleman.
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about 1 month ago
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Natalia Cecire
about 1 month ago
Everyone is posting about the EUP sale but another hot tip is that it also applies to paperback pre-orders, for example Sara Crangle's two-volume study of Mina Loy
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nethere...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-elevate...
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Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy
Nethered Regions – An Anatomy of Mina Loy
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nethered-regions-an-anatomy-of-mina-loy.html
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Refugee Council
about 1 month ago
"We are a country of migrants... The vast majority of refugees who come here want to work hard, give back, and become proud Britons." Watch our CEO Enver Solomon speaking about Britain's asylum system on Channel 4 News last night.
@channel4news.bsky.social
www.channel4.com/news/debate-...
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Debate: Is Britain’s asylum system broken?
We spoke to the former director general of the UK Border Force, Tony Smith, and the Refugee Council's Chief Executive, Enver Solomon.
https://www.channel4.com/news/debate-is-britains-asylum-system-broken
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Going to Athens tomorrow for a reading & discussion of ‘The Strongbox’
@carcanet.bsky.social
for the Anglo-Hellenic League & looking forward to a glimpse of the city.
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Philip Hoare
about 1 month ago
they're auctioning Blake's Tyger next week seems impossible, like selling a comet or a shooting star
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A new blog
@voltaire.ox.ac.uk
by Professor Andrew Kahn on revisiting Shmuel Feiner’s 'Moses Mendelssohn: Sage of Modernity'
@yalepress.bsky.social
and Mark Mazower's book-length essay 'On Antisemitism':
voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/t...
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The Modernity of Moses Mendelssohn
In his new book-length essay On Antisemitism the historian Mark Mazower observes that far from undermining the intellectual underpinnings of antisemitism and resolving the ‘Jewish question’ in favo…
https://voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/the-modernity-of-moses-mendelssohn/
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An excellent essay on the close reading of poems and what it can achieve.
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PN Review
about 1 month ago
On Wednesday 26 November, join us at 6.30pm at Manchester Poetry Library, where
@francescabrooks.bsky.social
and Martin Kratz will be introducing the life and work of Lynette Roberts, after Carcanet's recent publication of her Collected Poems. Find out more:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-who-...
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Poets Who Stopped: Lynnette Roberts
Join us as we explore the life and work of poet Lynnette Roberts, delving into why she stopped writing and the impact of her legacy.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poets-who-stopped-lynnette-roberts-tickets-1968206202735?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Natalya Vorozhbit’s short play for this is a really great piece of writing. I hope it reaches people:
www.arcolatheatre.com/event/ukrain...
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Ukraine Unbroken - Arcola Theatre
Across five gripping plays by some of today’s most acclaimed British and Ukrainian writers, we explore the resilience of a nation determined to remain free.
https://www.arcolatheatre.com/event/ukraine-unbroken/
about 1 month ago
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Refugee Council
about 1 month ago
Stability is what allows people to heal, learn English, find work and become part of their communities. The government must provide people with the security to get on with their lives. Read more here 👉
thetimes.com/article/6f83...
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Refugees who were months away from settlement now face 15-year wait
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms will apply retrospectively, it has been confirmed — and it is claimed the bureaucracy will cost up to £1.3bn
https://thetimes.com/article/6f8338d1-833d-48e2-b69c-6cce0471f52c?shareToken=0e1c6f3cfe152bfd473858e40df56753
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Refugee Council
about 1 month ago
Our new analysis shows once the system is fully operational, 1.66-1.9m reviews of refugee status would need to be done over the first decade, resulting in a total cost of between £1.1 - 1.27bn, depending on how many people lose their protection at review.
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Refugee Council
about 1 month ago
The government’s plan to review refugee status every 30 months is unworkable and extremely costly - and applying it retrospectively to people already granted protection will make an unmanageable system even worse.
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Molly McKew
about 1 month ago
The “deal” deprives Ukraine of everything it has won by withstanding Russian aggression and defending the borders of Europe. It rewards Russian lawlessness—and makes America complicit in the lawlessness. It’s the end of post WWII American power.
www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-...
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28 Points Later
A definitive guide to the Russian zombie diplomacy of Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine — aka what happens when you let the Russians eat your brains
https://www.greatpower.us/p/28-points-later
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Fitzcarraldo Editions
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'Far from a literary gimmick, the novel comes across as an urgent call to resist complacency and recover one’s vitality in the face of injustice. It’s a stunner.'
@publisherswkly.bsky.social
gives THE DISAPPEARING ACT by Maria Stepanova, tr. Sasha Dugdale:
www.publishersweekly.com/9780811239400
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The Disappearing Act by Maria Stepanova
In this captivating and capacious novel from Stepanova (In Memory of Memory), a 50-year-old novelist experiences a bizarre and l...
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780811239400
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This poem (from Brecht to Margarete Steffin) was featured in
@mptmagazine.bsky.social
'The Constellation' in 2014 (translated by David Constantine) as part of a feature about the literary collaboration & relationship between Steffin & Brecht.
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Titian’s dog was apparently painted out by later generations who thought that it was undignified to have a dog lifting its leg in the presence of the adoring Magi and the tenderest of Holy Family scenes. But Titian knew…
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Mikhaïl Durnenkov’s play UTOPIA is having its English-language premiere this month at Yale University School of Drama. I translated this play, about the painful hold of history, a while ago – but it’s never felt so actual. Mikhaïl lives with his family in exile.
yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11...
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REVIEW: In drama school’s ‘Utopia,’ a reckoning at a Soviet-era bar
The Russian play “Utopia” makes its English-language debut at the David Geffen School of Drama in a production running through Friday.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/11/18/review-in-drama-schools-utopia-a-reckoning-at-a-soviet-era-bar/
about 1 month ago
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This festival of displaced musicians and composers takes place in January:
anothermusicfestival.com
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Another Music Festival | DISPLACED - 18, 21, 23 January 2026
DISPLACED - 18, 21, 23 January 2026
https://anothermusicfestival.com/
about 1 month ago
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A beautiful reading by
@notjustdancing.bsky.social
tonight for the launch of Hotel Amour. As
@serenbooks.bsky.social
editor
@zoebrigley.bsky.social
said, it's a beautiful brilliant book, full of nearly unbearable grief and nearly unbearable joy.
www.serenbooks.com/book/hotel-a...
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Hôtel Amour - Seren
“Extraordinary in its formal conception and emotional accuracy…” – The Telegraph “This is simply extraordinary writing, laced with wonder and devastation…” – Joanna Klink A sequel to her T. S. Eliot P...
https://www.serenbooks.com/book/hotel-amour/
about 2 months ago
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For our forest’s night… ‘Shrub & Willow’ by
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about 2 months ago
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Modern Poetry in Translation
about 2 months ago
Cover reveal! ✨ MPT ‘The Antidote to Agony: Focus on the Poetry of Greece and Cyprus’, guest edited by Jessica Sequeira, posts to subscribers and all pre-orders on 28 November. Cover image: from the Aigis (goatskin, pen), 2015 by Phoebe Giannisi
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Mark Crail
about 2 months ago
The first issue of the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star, appeared
#OnThisDay
18 November 1837. Without it, Chartism would have been a far weaker thing.
www.chartistancestors.co.uk/northern-sta...
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