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harriettruscott.bsky.social
Poet. Only in it for the money. (And now also a CHASE-funded PhD student working on the blank spaces of 20th century poetry at UEA.)
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“Old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with and old books to read.” All we need in life, according to one 17th century writer.

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Tickets now on sale: www.eventbrite.com/e/thorpe-mar...

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Had a nightmare that I was trying to retake my final undergraduate exam.* As I wrote, I knew that I would have made things easier for myself if I hadn’t opted to write it while balancing on a tree branch writing into the pale spaces of an old photograph…

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Wyndham Lewis enters the All-Europe Man-Spreading Championships 1913z

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"Remember the very first time you watched 'Borat'? And you were like, 'Okayyyyy, TRUE, now I get what people are talking about when they talk about art'? 'To the Lighthouse' was like that."

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Today I have a cunning plan to get to my favourite library early and get THE BEST DESK. It is adjustable and has a view out of the window and has seen me through many tough writing days.

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When you’re reading a scholarly work and wondering if the author was playing the game of “how many obscure and unrelated words can I insert into my argument?” “Melismatic”? Really??

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First reconstruction of the original 1952 4’33” score by John Cage. David Tudor, 1989.

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I am so behind the reading times that I have only just read the kaleidoscopic, kleitic After Sappho from Norwich press @galleybeggars.bsky.social longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022. My copy was not exactly stolen - more liberated from a place where I felt it was not being appreciated.*

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The builders are wheeling wheelbarrows of rubble past my desk. Both the front and back doors of the house are open. They have advised me to give up trying to make notes on literary criticism for a while.

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#PloughMonday 🌾 GOD SPEED THE PLOUGH 🐎 📍St Bartholomew's Church • Llanover ⛪ #Wales

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I knew there was a reason I’m not going out tonight.

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To White Hall, and there spoke with Sir Paul Neale about a mathematical request of my Lord’s to him, which I did deliver to him, and he promised to employ somebody to answer it, something about observation of the moon and stars, but what I did not mind.

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This v interesting 1787 edition of Robert Burns’s poems has been brutally washed in solvent, probably by a lateC19 collector. This results in super clean pages but also a kind of cancelled, ghost marginalia that has been almost washed away. It’s like the book has repressed memories of a former life

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We're pleased to announce a deadline extension for the 'Modernism and Data' Special Issue! The new deadline is January 20th. See below for the CFP: modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/m...

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Today I was lucky enough to get a preview of a new story by @kitwhitfield.bsky.social and it was a smasher! Dark, beautiful fantasy with an amazing evocation of the sea. Future readers are in for a treat.

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A friend of mine proudly posted that he read 50 Non-work books in 2024. The thing that amazed me was that none of them seemed to be the sort of embarrassing romantasy / chick-lit / mysteries set in the 1930s that I read. So far this year - embarrassing books: 6 worthy and non-embarrassing books: 1

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‘On Going to Read Don Paterson’s Famous Zen Poem in the Digital Edition of his Book and Not Finding It’ #poetry #missingpoetry #digitalEditionsNotDoingTheirJob #thisIsMyThesisInANutshell

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My family has just attempted the TLS Christmas Quiz (first cousin to Uncommon Places from @cbeditions.bsky.social). We scored 20/200 and by the end were awarding ourselves points for vaguely having thought of that author at some point during the day.

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Somewhere in my house I have concealed a small cuddly wild boar. Where? Where??

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"Thank you so much for the poems, the greening grasshoppers and the concertina one. If and when [we] get a house, we will put this on the mantlepiece (if there is a mantlepiece)."—Ian Hamilton Finlay, 6 October 1964. Stephen Bann, with Colin Sackett, 1964/2024 #concretepoem

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Following @jntod.bsky.social’s impossible Christmas poetry quiz, here is another question I have no answer to. Unless it’s Malc Bradbry.

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Being a poet sometimes feels like just getting one poem after another rejected - which is why a kind, personal rejection email is so cheering. Thanks to the editors of The Interpreter’s House!

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More and more I think I have Never read any poetry. More and more I think I have never read any poetry. More and more I think I have never read any Poetry

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Come research with us! AHRC/CHASE Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD studentship at UEA & History of Advertising Trust ‘Creating a Feminist Archival Praxis to Reveal Histories of Women in the UK Advertising Industry’. Application deadline 17th Feb www.chase.ac.uk/cdas/creatin...

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Had a fabulous trip to the Rare Books Room at St John’s College Cambridge this week, to see their Mallarmé collection. What a Christmas treat! Letters between Mallarmé & Australian poet Christopher Brennan, together with some of Brennan’s own collection of Mallarmé’s most beautiful publications.

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Listen up Londoners. Two FREE tickets for Dr Strangelove (starring Steve Coogan) at the Noẽl Coward Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue tomorrow night (Wednesday 18th December). No strings. DM for details and the first to get back to me can have both tickets. NOT FOR RESALE.

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How well do you know your modern Christmas poems? I made a (possibly too hard) quiz someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/the-some-f...

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@juliansimpson.bsky.social I listened to the final part of Sebastian Harcourt and the Rose of Pamir yesterday and I am SAD. SAD. Possibly too sad to have Christmas. Not as sad as it looked like I was going to be at one point in the episode. I hereby award you all the prizes for radio drama.

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