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People either love or hate French Symbolist poetry. It's called the Mallarmité effect.

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I would hire Marl in a second on the basis of this '. . . your strengths?' answer alone

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I'm a big fan of @jntod.bsky.social's poetry substacks so I'm feeling particularly pleased that a poem from my new book features in this one.

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I suspect lots of you will have seen these notices but it was a new one on me while out for my walk near Collingham.

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Knock knock! Who's there? Æthelred. Æthelred who? Sorry, I wasn't prepared for the follow-up question!

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Thirty-six Master Poets' Poems with Crane Illustrations. Book, painted by Tawaraya Sotatsu, calligraphy by Hon'ami Koetsu, 17th century.

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Geoffrey Hill once invited Michael Longley over to read and when Michael phoned Edna after, Geoffrey asked to speak to her. "Did you catch the BBC radio broadcast of 'The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Peguy' Edna?" "Sorry Geoffrey; I was watching 'Boys from the Blackstuff'"

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Snow was general all over Stroud. It was falling upon the Tesco Express from its toilet seats and, further westwards, falling into its car park. It was falling too upon the chained trolleys. It lay drifted upon the dashboard of James Joyce's BMW . . .

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Reading the 1812 Grimms' fairy tales edition where Snow White's mother wishes for a child as white as snow, red as blood & black as ebony, I think of Deirdre in Irish myth who saw a blood-stained raven land on snow & say her love would have raven-black hair, blood-red cheeks & snow-white skin. Goth!

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Guardian coverage of Leeds match last night via Nick Barley.

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Johnny Doran, Lammas Fair, Ballycastle, Co Antrim c1940, one of the great pipers, influential through early recordings like Michael Coleman. I visited this Fair when I was staying in Antrim and started on my poem, 'The Lammas Hireling' after listening to local folklore and hearing Paddy Tunney sing

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Surprised you don't see more of these signs, tbh

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While we're about it

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Goldmark Gallery film of Chris Wood talking about his Grimms-inspired art and, er, me about working with him on the project and reading some the poems I wrote for it which I call 'mortuary rhymes' (as opposed to nursery rhymes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XF2...

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I always think something like this image hovers around a new poetry book I'm about to open. Pic via Marty McKenna

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Maybe it took an artist to see through the failed mask of reality to the creativity within

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Don't make this man's mistake on #ValentinesDay in Leeds!

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(Pleased to have one of these) Eight of the most romantic poems to read to your love this Valentine’s Day theconversation.com/eight-of-the...

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Honoured to feature as an epigraph for one of three new poems by Anthony Vahni Capildeo in the new LRB. See them all here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Honoured to feature as an epigraph for one of three new poems by Anthony Vahni Capildeo in the new LRB. See them all here: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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via Morgan Freeman

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Usual class present from No1 son -- instead of cake candles, wailing dip candles and a burning Wee Wicker Man to mark the passing of years and solstices!

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This badge was a birthday gift from a friend . . .

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When I was wring my new book 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb', I'd think of Jackie Coogan in his Uncle Fester role, the actor after whom Jacques Derrida was named. Derrida pic courtesy of Jay Shelat

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I am very grateful to Andrew Roycroft for his sensitive close reading of my poem celebrating one of Michael Longley's, RIP: andrewroycroft.substack.com/p/close-and-...

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In the end, the poetry workshop members agreed to differ

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Just in: Gabriel Moreno's new book! Guitar bard come to this country to brighten our lives. He has good taste in poetry and likes the great Adonis أدونيس so I will end by quoting a line from that master's 'Music' (trans Mattawa): 'In this house an immigrant lives and his name is meaning'.

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There are many takes on the William Carlos Williams original of this poem but this one sounds most like it is being spoken by someone from Leeds.

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Poets could find signs like this useful

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Today is #nationalyorkshirepuddingday celebrating a delicacy I love and cooked with tender care. However, this poem catches me between nations, generations and prejudices cooked into regional idioms and my father's response to such. Touchy? Yes, but he tired of Irish jokes quickly when he moved here

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Tristram Fane Saunders has helpfully posted this section of his interview with Michael Longley to put 'Harmonica' in a fuller context. I'm particularly grateful for this as the poem has become the ground for my last salute to him in my poem 'Michael Longley reads 'Harmonica'' in my recent book.

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I had a boss like this once, stickler for the formalities -- he didn't like me calling him Dick, for example. 'Charles' I think his name was.

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My reading of Michael Longley's 'Harmonica' for the new Poems on the Underground in his memory is just below the text on this link. Michael said it was his favourite among his own poems: poemsontheunderground.org/february-202...

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This late Simic poem reminds me a bit of Causley's 'Eden Rock'. I admire both poems immensely, particularly as my own last picnic draws closer.

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This is a version of Juvenal's line in his Satire X: Cantabit vacuus coram latrone viator --"The traveller with empty pockets will sing in the face of the thief."

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Just left a message in the book of condolences for John Prescott which concluded: "Goodbye John. You were a big man who nevertheless punched above your weight."

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A Gathering of Stan Laurel Impersonators, Douce Apocalypse; England (Westminster?), c. 1265-1270; Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 180, f. 50v

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I'm not sure these literary samplers are taking the right approach

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Michael Longley's death has sent me back to his friend, Seamus Heaney. This is my favourite Heaney poem - about how love is generous, enlarging and opening the heart.

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