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Snail is probably my favourite secondary F&T character.

If there’s a “criticism is biography” school in poetry, there’s a “poetry podcast is autobiography” school. Helena de Groot hosts this charming series of discussions with contemporary poets. Not a craft podcast so much as an exploration of a version of the poetic mindset. #poetry #poetrypodcasts

Write a book about writing for mystery (artistic, not whodunnit): a tough mission, one not quite completed here. (This is a problem with several of the books in the “The Art of…” series.) I don’t know that I’ll be any more mysterious after this. Still, readable. #booksky #tinybookreviews

Fuck me. Fuck us all, really. The fact that somebody invented a machine to cut the spines off of books to scan them is a hate crime aimed at anyone who speaks a language.

What I like about this podcast is that it’s about poems, rather than being mostly about poets. (Some podcasts seem to think that nobody is interested in poetry, but they might be interested in some gushing about poets.) Not shy, very entertaining. #poetrypodcasts @rattlepoetry.bsky.social

The Poetry Space_Books Podcast · Updated Weekly · Join hosts Katie Dozier and Timothy Green for The Poetry Space_, a weekly poetry podcast featuring lively, free-wheeling discussions on poems, poetry craft, and the wr...podcasts.apple.com

I have been thinking on this and I find it so hard to answer! #booksky @irishlittimes.bsky.social

Look what came in the mail today!! @pjrobichaud.bsky.social #booksky #storiesofthestones Can’t wait to dig in!!

This seems like it’s a quiet-part-loud type of thing. But no: when universities line up to become defence contractors while the humanities are being starved out, that’s just everyday fascism that, in 2026, nobody thinks they should be embarrassed about.

Boost for skills and research as 35 universities across the UK partner in new defence allianceA new Defence Universities Alliance with 35 UK universities will help strengthen defence research, build critical skills and support the UK's future defence capability.www.gov.uk

This book is full of allusions and references (classicial, biblical, Shakespearean), juxtapositions, and abstruseness. In other words, it's a good poet's poetry book, or a good academic's poetry book, which I don't mean as any insult. #tinybookreviews #poetry #canlit @griffinpoetryprize.bsky.social

Devotional ForensicsWinner, Griffin Poetry Prize Canadian First Book Prize Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize With dazzling wit and brittle tenderness, multi-award-winning poet Joseph Kidney catches all in his hig...gooselane.com

I try not to post much about medicine here, but this concept is too stupid not to respond to. Cancer is in no respect a toxin disposal mechanism. It is the result of genetic errors that create malfunctioning cells. I hope David Wolfe is held responsible for every gullible dimwit he kills.

Paul Muldoon is the best rhymer in English poetry today. Fight me. I’ll clarify what I mean: he’s great at inventive rhyme that doesn’t punch you in the head so much as to become sing song, or children’s verse (not that there’s anything wrong with that), or something resembling a pop song (ditto).

It occurred to me that I post poems without comment. But when I do readings, I sometimes add a few words of explanation: This is about the London Underground, which is a wonder of engineering and of effort to create a public good. It’s also often gross and weird and disorienting. But not always.

Perhaps my favourite Muldoon so far. So inventive, so personal. I can’t think of another poet so unafraid of vocabulary, yet so natural with it. The language play is acrobatic, never ostentatious. And the cover’s great. (So many poetry books have terrible covers.) #poetry #booksky #tinybookreviews

Horse LatitudesThe title of Horse Latitudes, Paul Muldoon's tenth collection of poetry, refers to those areas thirty degrees north and south of the equator where sailing sh...us.macmillan.com

A very interesting read. Although firmly in the (somewhat strange, I always find) “criticism is biography” camp. @lrb.co.uk #poetry

Seamus Perry · The poet slams his door: Likeable Michael LongleyMichael Longley, who was all too familiar with protracted writer’s block, often spoke of precariousness in the sense...www.lrb.co.uk

I have a new poem in the latest issue of @pinholepoetry.bsky.social #poetry #canlit #poemsaboutsubways

Issue 5.2 · P I N H O L E • P O E T R YWe’re so pleased to present our eighteenth issue, a collection of poems around the theme of subways, subtext, undercurrents and all that lives underneath. It features the work of twenty-three poets an...pinholepoetry.ca

Waiting for Chinese food with Paul Muldoon and a Coke. #poetry #irishpoetry