Hardstanding for the bier: A post with an excellent poem by
@ravoon.bsky.social
in it, and some stuff about bedside manners and soup. Oh yes, and a terrible football-related joke.
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👀 "Perhaps Faber has given up on the common reader – or thinks the common reader has given up on poetry –"
Beautiful June poem for exhausted people... by Kathleen Jamie
'The waste, the ham-fistedness, the stupidity, the inevitability, the hurt'.
I had to leave front-line academia because I ran out of toes to slice off to squeeze into the ever-shrinking glass slipper. My wife has just about escaped redundancy (for now); many of her colleagues haven't been so lucky.
Or Gregory Woods
Arguing with Rebecca about poetry was great fun - free to read below - and I'm happy to say we have carried on the discussion after publication (with Rebecca continuing to point out where I'm horribly wrong) -
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"Rain on the Studio Window" (2009) - David Hockney
I was asking earlier "Who is poetry's David Hockney?" But I phrased it badly. I am still interested though - who, like DH, combines skill and craft with vividness and joy?
Some thoughts on Louis MacNeice on the move, inspired by and shamelessly indebted to @johnclegg37.bsky.social.
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I think the reason Arne Slot was let go by Liverpool this recently is because he’d planned to not play Salah all of the last month of the Premier League..Yes, he was thinking of No Mo May…No, you a…
"Rain on the Studio Window" (2009) - David Hockney
This needed to be said.
Two pieces from me this week you may have missed: (2) what it's like to live inside the unceasing retreat of British Higher Education and its rapid unscheduled disassembly. It's, well, bad.
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