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Irish poet, cricket fan, book reviews, Bob Dylan. See my blog: https://ellipticalmovements #speirgorm "I give as examples Billy Mills, Susan Howe and J.H. Prynne, although the assumption that they write for themselves is entirely my own" J.C.C. Mays
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Martin Carthy is a true national treasure. I'll be all over his new album like a flannel once I've got hold of it.

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Either you don’t understand how this technology works, or you don’t know what empathy is – or both. A psychopath has no empathy, but like a large language model, they can fake it very successfully for the sake of appearances.

I am writing this with a pencil – it could be an author’s last line of defence against AI | Luke Beesley

I find Said interesting and rewarding to read, but his Kipling enthusiasm leaves me cold. lithub.com/hari-kunzru-...

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Thomas Meyer. Enough said. poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...

"...the workaday look of the original, whose rigid headings and justified paragraphs intimated a prose of rational sequence and the linear advancement of meaning. In this edition, for the first time, design and layout respond to a plain reading of the content." uniformbooks.co.uk/tenderbuttons.php

no signposts at the end of this long road just your foot prints #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #tanka

@billymills.bsky.social @mesnilman.bsky.social lovely interview with Stirlo at the end there youtu.be/M-wcFU5fZwY?...

The sweet scent of Hope from Clontarf! #COYBIG

Total collapse in progress. #COYBIG

#COYBIG Stirlo!

Lovely bus trip through Clare this morning

Cost-benefit analysis my arse, just do it: journalofmusic.com/news/there-a...

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The folks @writingandideas.bsky.social are over here now. Why don’t you give them a follow to find out all about this year’s festival and special event over the Summer & Autumn #youwillyouwill festivalofwritingandideas.com

“The quiet lines matter as much as the noisy ones.” ― Colum McCann

This week In the poetry blogs w/ @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @willsjack.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/05/poet...

If you have never read Fintan O'Toole, this was one of my main reads during the Brexit years. It has many post-its making the very best bits...

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“Sesame Street” has signed a new distribution deal with Netflix, as well as a separate deal with PBS, the show announced on Monday. This gives the children’s show a much needed-boost as it battles a financial crisis. nyti.ms/3Zswh7l

Increasingly recognized as a writer in her own right, Morrison is also at this time balancing the institutional work of shepherding a growing number of Black writers into the lists of mainstream publishing...

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Confucius Young, a minor official in charge of stores: ‘All I have to do is keep correct records.’ (after Mencius & D.C. Lau)

More Pepys via @davebonta.bsky.social www.vianegativa.us/2025/05/stol...

Roger Doyle / Finnegans Wake via @journalofmusic.bsky.social journalofmusic.com/reviews/elec...

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Review of a book of sounds by Keith Jebb Amazed to see a book of sounds get a fourth review, this time by Keith Jebb in the excellent Tears in the Fence: Billy Mills is a slippery poet. To call someone slippery is usually an insult, of course, implying duplicity, at least. But here it’s nothing…