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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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I’ve discussed this with a digital content expert*, and we’ve identified that the problem with the lameness of Bluesky is that people don’t repost content enough on here, which, bc there’s no algorithm, they should, to amplify posts worth seeing. Y’all need to retweet (yes I know) more. *a mutual

My May 2025 Recent Reading is now live, in which I review these books: Interior, Linda Black, Shearsman Books, Fisher King, Thomas Meyer, Verge Books, Cancer, Tom Raworth, Carcanet, @carcanet.bsky.social #poetry ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/r...

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www.vianegativa.us/2025/05/poet... via @davebonta.bsky.social

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Good to see @journalofmusic.bsky.social continue to cover this: journalofmusic.com/news/impact-...

Another gem via @coracle.bsky.social

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New blog post: A celebration of Penteract Press! @anthonyetherin.bsky.social @claraetherin.bsky.social marianchristiepoetry.net/a-paean-to-p...

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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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