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padrig.bsky.social
Writer, academic, endotic traveller. Books: Blood Feather 2023; Real Oxford 2021. New book of essays, Ghost Stations, out in 2025 with CB Editions. FRSL. Prof of French and Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
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My book of poems Blood Feather is out imminently in Italian. The original title didn't work in italian, so I chose Linea Fissa, Landline. Thanks to Giorgia as always and Interno Poesia.

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Respect to whichever colleague has been teaching in the ground floor seminar room this week.

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Delighted. Thank you so much to the judges, our publisher my co translator and the poet himself.

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Delighted and honoured to have won the Scott Moncrieff Prize with Stephen Romer for our translation of Gilles Ortlieb. Thanks to Arc publications, Jean Boase-Beier and Sean O'Brien for his introduction.

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The SDN calls on the leaders of Cardiff University to reverse its damaging proposal to shut its School of Modern Languages. #SaveCardiffLanguages 1/11

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Wrote this for @londonreview.bsky.social about boarding school, the press, memory, and what it is to 'be there'. And about a remarkable teacher and person.

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Merch at Libramont hospital is at the edge of good taste, the syringe-biro but the filet américain with cornichons is top notch (not pictured) as is the dessert menu, here seen trolling the gastric bypass poster with invitations to indulge

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Some wonderful tributes here www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Nothing says welcome to Belgium like Bruxelles Midi/ Brussel Zuid station, here seen under a lid of pewter cloud and with a light varnish of acid rain. Plus something to take the edge off.

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Sights on the morning (ahem) run: ice cream van retirement pasture off Weirs Lane, and a fresh-looking ghost-sign for what I assume was a Welsh greengrocer, revealed now that Top Tackle has cast its last line.

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Orange against orange

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Orange against orange

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Caernarfon sunset again, machlud haul Caernarfon eto

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Excellent new year resolution

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Machlud haul Caernarfon sunset

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Père Lachaise: good place to avoid the crowds in tourist-choked Paris: Georges Rodenbach's disconcerting tomb (is he climbing in or out?), Victor Noir's shiny bump, Parmentier of potato fame, Pierre Quillard, who I grew to admire writing my book on poetry and politics in France.

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Some intimate and not-so intimate moments with paintings at the Louvre. Mona Lisa seen through fractals of selfies & crowdsurf-shots, then Fra Angelico's Beheading of JtB all to myself. Herod's expression, and the way, on the left, what has happened is always still happening...

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So honoured to be on this list. I've admired the shortlists and winners over the years, since I was student/aspiring translator , so I'm so pleased to be on it. Being there with my friend Stephen for Gilles's poems is the best way I could be there.

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Delighted to be publishing, with @cbeditions.bsky.social, a book of essays about trains, stations, travel and memory, places and non-places. Also essays on Uwe Johnson, Mallarmé, Vallotton, Spilliaert, Liviu Campanu and Yeats and RS Thomas meeting on the Holyhead train.

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Fantastic choice, wonderful book.

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Delighted and proud to be on the shortlist for the PEN Heaney Prize for Poetry alongside poets I admire. With thanks to the Estate of Seamus Heaney, English PEN and PEN na hÉireann www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...

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