I think the touring English Shakespeare Company histories at Bradford Alhambra were my teenage lightbulb moment. Thank you.

Delighted that the article based on my Historical Research Lecture (Nov 2025) is now online in the @ihr.bsky.social / @oxfordunipress.bsky.social journal Historical Research. 'Can popular #history be radical?' A real honour: thanks to my colleagues, especially journal editor @saracharles.bsky.social

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Delighted to have this opportunity to chat about The Malone Society with Beyond Shakespeare!

Monday 11 May @ 6.30pm online BEFORE THE ROSE: MARLOWE AT THE CURTAIN Dr Callan Davies takes you back to the years around 1587, when The Rose is being built on Bankside and Christopher Marlowe is living up in Shoreditch, close by to The Curtain Playhouse. £8 / £5 www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

Wonderful to hear @drlauravarnam.bsky.social sharing her poems on Beowulf and Margery Kempe (including Margery Kempe in Tescos) at the Medievalism colloquium today @londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social

Shakespeare in the Kitchen is officially published today @routledgebooks.bsky.social !!!! Thank you to everyone how has supported my work / my Cooking in the Archives project & made this book possible. 📸 of the Pear Pie recipe from my chapter on The Winter's Tale by @gaypanek.bsky.social

Epilograph 1 – T. S. Eliot I made this, I have forgotten, and remember. Made this unknowing, half-conscious, unknown, my own. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #Book #Epilographs

Meant to post this for the bard’s birthday! I highly recommend A TWIST OF ROTTEN SILK by Shakespeare Okuni @i-shakespeare.bsky.social. These amazing poems are woven out of the bard’s own words, an intertextual collage that creates a unique & generative voice. Afterword by @oldfortunatus.bsky.social

A Twist of Rotten Silk. New Shakespeare speeches. Out now. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #booksky #poetry #theatre #Shakespeare

"Thinking more deeply and more empathetically about disrupted ideas of home" - The 2026 Shakespeare Birthday Lecture by Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social #Booksky #EarlyModern #Folger #TheatreStudies #Shakespeare www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZV-...

Join me on Saturday 18 April 2026 at 2pm at Cover to Cover, Swansea, for a poems-and-responses session. With readings and musings, recitations and speculations, we'll release a new book into the world. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #booksky #event #poetry #theatre #Shakespeare

Spent a bit of time on my website this morning - not exactly my comfort zone, but authors need a wide skill set! I've now added pictures of the upcoming US edition of A HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN 25 POEMS, as well as the paperback cover (out with Penguin in the UK in September) 😍 www.catherineclarke.info

Northern Song or Lover’s Hymn? Why, both of course. Listen to this coded Palestinian folksong in Yasmine Hamdan's version – #NowPlaying #Lebanon #Palestine #Tarweeda #YasmineHamdan www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i5H...

One of my faves from Shakespeare Okuni’s (@i-shakespeare.bsky.social) brilliant A Twist of Rotten Silk, which I’m really enjoying today.

I have a seat in the abandoned theater in Beirut #MahmoudDarwish #Beirut #Lebanon #Poem #Poetry #Theatre www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52553/...

A fresh encounter with the words of #Shakespeare in this wonderful #poetry collection by @i-shakespeare.bsky.social. These #poems are made out of Shakespeare's words, re-fashioning familiar fabric into curious, beautiful and sometimes challenging new meanings and possibilities. Alchemy with words.

In Illyria, a shipwreck tears two siblings apart and sets off a chain of mistaken identities and confused desires. Edited by @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, this edition foregrounds Twelfth Night’s queer potential and explores madness, mourning and migration. Coming this winter: https://bit.ly/4bKgSoi

If you can, join us in DC on 18 April at the Folger for Shakespeare’s birthday lecture: www.folger.edu/whats-on/sha...

Me doing Kerelybonto at the Damn Fine Bookstore in Lyon, France, 2026. Oh no that's Hugo Ball doing Karawane at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, 1916. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #Booksky #Dada #LivePerformance #Lyon #Poetry

Come and join me this Wednesday 25 March 2026 at 5.30pm for a poem-and-response session at the Damn Fine Bookstore in Lyon, France. We’ll celebrate the release of my new book with readings and recitations, followed by a celebratory libation. Kerelybonto! #ATwistOfRottenSilk #booksky #Shakespeare

Margaret Ann Griffiths, Grasshopper, Arrowhead Press, 2011, page 350 – Writer’s Block I cannot pen a poem: my Muse is up the spout. I cannot pen a poem; the words will not come out. I cannot pen a poem; my brain is in a tizz. I cannot pen a poem but, fuck me, here it is. #poem #WorldPoetryDay

On #WorldPoetryDay, what's your favourite #poem? We all have treasured poems we carry with us and would like to pass on. My book #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems has a section of blank pages especially for you to add in your own choices (or creations!). Thanks here to @wendycaitlin.bsky.social and Alan x

Following the jewel fairy lanterns of #fritillaries through the dappled sunshine of a wood - is there anything more magical?

Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social contending with the human cost of valuable books. #booksky #history #shakespeare www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...

THE Emma Smith, author of Portable Magic: A History of Books and their Readers, troubles assumptions made about the First Folio, the nature of value, and how culture is communicated across time. Stay tuned for more from Emma on Throughlines this week.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrR-... #jorgedrexler #historia #history #nowlistening #song

Some events coming up, featuring A History Of England In 25 Poems. I'd love to meet you at one of these! All info via my website www.catherineclarke.info #history #event #reading #poetry

A Friday night in Baltimore. Thank you Cristina Deptula for bringing us all together. And thank you Tia Hamilton for hosting this spirited reading event at Urban Reads Bookstore. May your Black Star Line Literacy Bus hit the road in 2026! #booksky #bookstore #literacy #poetry

Thursday 5 March, 7pm, Politics and Prose, Union Market, DC. I’ll be part of this evening’s gathering of voices. Do join us. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #Poetry #Theatre #PoliticsAndProse politics-prose.com/the-hour-030...

I’m really excited to be speaking with Prof Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social about #Cymbeline and its ‘infinit questions of the circumstance of strange chances’ (as one c17th reader put it) on Monday 2 March!

Saturday 28 February 2026 at 7pm. Blacksburg Books, Virginia, USA. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Poetry #Theatre #Shakespeare

Jackie Oates, When I Was a Fair Maid, 2022. with my big hat and feather if you’d’ve only seen you’d sworn from your very heart a young man I’d’ve been my waist being small and slender my fingers thin and small I could rattle up the drum a dee the best among them all www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlRW...

Publication-day book launch event. Poem and response. Come and join me to celebrate the release of A Twist of Rotten Silk #ATwistOfRottenSilk at Blacksburg Books, Virginia, USA, on Saturday 28 February 2026. Details here – www.blacksburgbooks.com/events/autho...

The audiobook of A Twist of Rotten Silk #ATwistOfRottenSilk, read by Jackie Oates @jackieoates.bsky.social, with the afterword read by Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, is available on all major audiobook platforms. Here it is on Libro.fm – libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Jackie Oates @jackieoates.bsky.social is the voice of the audiobook of A Twist of Rotten Silk #ATwistOfRottenSilk, with Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social reading her own afterword. In Oxford on 21 November 2025, Jackie recorded Emma reading the afterword.

Book giveaway day 7/7. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today. DM me the word Silk. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare

Book giveaway day 6/7. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today. DM me the word Kickshaws. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare

Book giveaway day 5/7. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today. DM me the word Kerelybonto. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare

Book giveaway day 4/7. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today. DM me the longest poem title in the book. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare

Book giveaway day 3/7. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today. DM me the shortest poem title in the book. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Poetry #Shakespeare

Book giveaway day 2/7. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today. DM me one poem title that stays with you. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Giveaway #Shakespeare

Book giveaway day 1/7. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk today. DM me two poem titles you’d place side by side. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky #Shakespeare

14 February to 20 February 2026. Seven day giveaway open internationally. One copy of A Twist of Rotten Silk each day. Answer by DM a poem-title related question. Questions will be posted at varying times. Please DM only if happy to share postal address. #ATwistOfRottenSilk #BookSky

Velcome (page 39) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

Undone (page 38) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

This Is and Is Not (page 37) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

This Abruption (page 36) #ATwistOfRottenSilk

These Words (page 35) #ATwistOfRottenSilk