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Latin word of the day: vehiculum, vehiculi - transport, vehicle #LatinWordOfTheDay

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the newts are casting off winter…

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We must imagine Sisyphus happy

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George is in the latest TES discussing the bleak picture for Latin in Scottish state schools: “There is no doubt that educational austerity is biting hard, and hits subjects with the lowest uptakes hardest…” www.tes.com/magazine/new...

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The Latin Programme Poetry Sharing event is back! Join us in March at the Broadway Bookshop to celebrate this year's Poetry Prize! Reserve a space here : www.thelatinprogramme.co.uk/poetryprize-v

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For Valentine’s Day, from @theemmapress.bsky.social Anthology of Love

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February 12… an oldie up at inksweatandtears.co.uk/archive/kate... And the birds were most definitely singing at 4.10am today!

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‘The great children’s writers trusted children with irony and with sophisticated ideas: they trusted them to see in language a set, not of rules, but of possibilities.’ Katherine Rundell on children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Latin word of the day: turba, turbae - crowd #LatinWordOfTheDay

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Latin word of the day: lapsus, lapsus - slip, fall #LatinWordOfTheDay

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🔔 Want to be creative AND support our wonderful small Classics charity while you’re at it? Entries are open for The Latin Programme Poetry Prize! 🗓️Closing: 31 January 2025 🖊️Enter here: www.thelatinprogramme.co.uk/poetryprize-v #classicsbluesky

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Our #LatinVocabulary posts are now on Bluesky! Keep an eye out for more coming soon! Latin word of the day: sedeo, sedere, sedi, sessus - sit

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R102 is out now. Free UK delivery. Still only £9 per issue. Order one here, go on, dare you. www.therialto.co.uk/pages/produc...

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❛ Every time scientists go into the midnight zone / they find a new species. My son is telling me this / as he picks at his hands as if they are locks to release. David Stavanger's 'Octonaut', from the #MothArchives – Issue 36. 🐙

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🧵SALT🧵 It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question: Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from? The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised. 1/14

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Diagonals

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Lake-like still and watercolour washed sea

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Visited tiny church in growing gloom. Assumed bird notes outside was daughter singing. Nope. Sound grew, then stranger with panpipes appeared down the hill, passed by, and out of sight. Am fully convinced am now in #greenknowe #thedarkisrising #boxofdelights etc territory…

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Ursula's "Seasonal Quatrains" appear in Finding My Elegy (published in 2012 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).

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Still (so no Whamageddoning) from the year smallest child declared the Wham boys’ hairstyles reminded her of Sylvanian hedgehogs, so we spent the day remaking the video (cardboard-box-and-string chairlift an all…)

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Thinking of giving up poetry and just listing #VictorianCowNames (which of course have a poetry of their own…) Further inspection of the records reveals the following: - Mount Fearless - Warrior’s Woman - Achilles - Dido - Premier Magic - Satellite - Madrigal Butterfly - BalletGirl and… Daisy

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And today, more whimsical still than Nell Gwynne and family, I give you ‘Blanche Ingram’:

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(I am aware of animal-naming conventions, pedigree etc. But also love the idea of some Kendal farmer in 1888 thinking, oh yes, that gothic romance of 40 years ago? And its beautiful but cold rival to the heroine? Perfect!)

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And today, more whimsical still than Nell Gwynne and family, I give you ‘Blanche Ingram’:

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Ok, if you’re a small artist/creator with an online shop, post it in the replies here. If you’re not, repost this and with any luck the people gift hunting will find the gift makers. Let’s go!

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And for a Miltony-Satan (allegedly): www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/... Honestly, worth a click. The most strategic of strategic placement…

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A big thank you to the lovely Tom and Laurie of @andotherpoems.bsky.social for nominating my poem from Issue 4 for a Pushcart Prize! They’ve been real champions of this piece, I’m so delighted to have the experience of working with them.

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From the family ‘Herd Book’ - fanciful cow-naming. Bet ‘Wild Eyes Gwynne’ was a handful… @themerl.bsky.social

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A helpful gift shopping algorithm that I made for @theguardian.com a couple of years ago.

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I am keeping this post unpaywalled, on a permanent basis. It’s a pretty photo and I’m sure most people won’t venture beyond that, since we live in a busy, chaotic world, but I’m posting it and pinning it as an intro to my writing for those few who do... tomcox.substack.com/p/the-villag...

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I so hope she did… @britishlibrary.bsky.social Medieval Women: In Their Own Words exhibition

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Admittedly pretty niche, but here’s my Paradise Lost-y poem from @rialtopoetry.bsky.social 87, to celebrate John Milton’s birthday

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Hi everyone! We're over here now 🎊 we'll be posting updates about our authors and books as we go along! Any books, poetry, publishing & writing friends here already?

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If you’ve appeared in The Rialto, please come and say hello, we’d like to try and connect up all the bits of our poetry community and get some sense of who is using what platform, maybe even do a Started Pack or two. Seems like a good starting point.

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www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... A super listen, for anyone interested in history, Cheshire, Alan Garner, etc etc

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Who captures what it is like (for me, at least, when I find ‘my’ poetry: “That night I read it and re-read it. It made me breathless, like a punch in the diaphragm, like falling in love. It made me cry and I wanted to shout for joy.”

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This by @greeningpoet.bsky.social was a wonderful read on U. A. Fanthorpe: wildcourt.co.uk/u-a-fanthorp... and the new @aestallings.bsky.social ‘s prefaced collection of her poetry

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Poetry people and non poetry people, this is important.

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