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Pigott Poetry Prize shortlist revealed. Books newsletter: a roundup of the latest news and a preview of tomorrow’s pages www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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First bit of today's #BookPost, a novel from @andrewgallix.bsky.social no less, head honcho of legendary 3:AM magazine and a fella who has done more for fresh, new, interesting writer over the last two decades than just about anyone you care to mention. Coming soon from Dodo Ink 👌

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read one of the stories from the collection here: minorliteratures.com/2024/02/15/i...

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READING’S A WASTE OF TIME, the dental hygienist said, hands in blue rubber gloves, blue rubber gloves in my mouth... A laugh-out-loud essay about physical and intellectual entrapment from Unsavory Thoughts by Thomas Walton @saggingmeniscus.bsky.social 💙📚 bookanista.com/from-a-dental-chair/

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Just made the final corrections! My novel, Loren Ipsum, is out on 11 September.

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He will be greatly missed. Here is his latest Clam contribution: www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-16...

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August 5th.

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"You might say he slipped into the literary world through a side door." PJ Blumenthal on Wolfgang Berends, part of the Not in Translation series. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-16-spring-2025/the-poet-wolfgang-berends-a-piece-of-passing-in-my-hand/

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'“Oh so now no Perec’s?” whined Thomas Hardy.' @heychisboucher, resident metaclamician, in the latest issue of the Clam. Subscribe for full access. https://www.exactingclam.com/issues/no-16-spring-2025/lockout/

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A well deserved glowing review for A Crumpled Swan, the forthcoming essay collection from @davidcollard.bsky.social about the rewards of letting poetry – and one poem in particular – into our lives.

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What he said.

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Coming in March!

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100 news kiosks from around the world www.trevortraynor.com/newsstands

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"Clammy, you're a ripple in the heated velvet breeze." Resident metaclamician @heychrisboucher closes off another issue as only he can. Subscribe or subscribe a friend for '25. https://exactingclam.com/issues/no-15-winter-2024/the-clams/

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A Statement Regarding The Barbellion Prize, 2025

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Extraordinary article [Mansouri’s career] is also evidence that blurring the boundary between translation and authorship is sometimes a good thing, and that we should leave room for unorthodox philosophies of translation. yalereview.org/article/amir...

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"Only a voice crying in the wilderness can bring true wildness and imagination back into our literature, which is too often oh-so-tame and trying oh-so-hard to pretend to be something else." Kurt Luchs on Kenneth Koch. Only in print. Subscribe a friend for Christmas! https://buff.ly/3OkjmhW

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"I do reach a certain point, though, when the revision process has to end. This is because, as the work gains in thoughtfulness and consideration, so too does the notion that I probably shouldn’t publish it." @thomaswaltonpoet, exclusively in print. Subscribe to access. https://buff.ly/3OkjmhW

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"It caused poor man’s paralysis of the lower limbs, convulsions, and death, a condition known as lathyrism . . . " Lawrence Winkler on the perils of sandwich spread. Winter '24, exclusive to print. Subscribe for access (or subscribe a friend as a Holiday gift!) https://buff.ly/3OkjmhW

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On the map.

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"I still remember one gray Saturday when they were delighting in their utterly terrible dog." Kurt Luchs on fathers, firecrackers and infidelities. Winter '24, exclusive to print. Subscribe for full access (or subscribe a friend as a Holiday gift). https://buff.ly/3OkjmhW

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I wrote an essay on Balbuena's Grandeur of Mexico for the new issue of @exactingclam.bsky.social. If you're interested in the Baroque, in the problem of the audience, in the Viceroyalty of New Spain, in Sor Juana, there's something for you here: exactingclam.com/issues/no-15....

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Among many excellent pieces in the current @exactingclam.bsky.social, ‘On Conservation’ by @jgoldsmith.bsky.social is top tier. Thoughtful reflections on how the impulse for preserving natural, historical and local spaces has broader political appeal than it appears.

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"I don’t need to believe in any elevated metaphysics or theological dogma to recognise a good building and a good story." @jgoldsmith.bsky.social on conservation (and conservatism). Winter '24. Subscribe for full access (or subscribe a friend as a Holiday gift!) https://buff.ly/4eGGzFF

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"This detail, this twist in the revelation, has nothing to do with voices, listening, storytelling. But it’s lovely." @mccarthysharks on Odysseus' leg. Winter '24. Subscribe for full access (or subscribe a friend as a Holiday gift). https://buff.ly/3Zgdf4q

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"In other words, the buyers of collector’s plates were simply honest, hard-working Americans trying to beautify their homes. Plate World was their magazine." Kurt Luchs on the erotic charms of novelty tableware. Subscribe (or subscribe a friend as a Holiday gift). https://buff.ly/3OG7neZ

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This beauty arrived early. Bumper edition of @exactingclam.bsky.social. Officially out in a few days. Thanks to @tylergore.bsky.social for another snazzy cover. Wait till you get a load of our new Not in Translation series.

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Recent bit of press exposure has introduced my work to a whole new set of readers. This from Goodreads: "I am thoroughly confused and dismayed. I could not begin to describe the book, or the type of reader who would take pleasure in reading it. Be warned."

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Nice to see it quantified.

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Woke up, attended to my toilet, went for a walk, worked, snacked the cats, read @nytimes.com and it seems I'm in it. www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/b...

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We've been lucky enough to publish some of @ljabouttown.bsky.social's work in @exactingclam.bsky.social and now this is in the world. Well done @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. Strongest recommendation.

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