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Jeremy Noel-Tod

@jntod.bsky.social

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Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about what I found this week digging about in the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-37-t...

Pinks #37: The Melancholy Spouts of Tractors

On The Poems of Seamus Heaney (2025)

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 19h

I am getting *way* too many emails. It’s worse than ordering something on eBay.

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 19h

Recently joined LinkedIn for work purposes. Just described its vibe to my wife as ‘very lanyard’.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about what I found this week digging about in the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-37-t...

Pinks #37: The Melancholy Spouts of Tractors

On The Poems of Seamus Heaney (2025)

someflowerssoon.substack.com

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50 Jenna Ipcar Fans Can’t Be Wrong! @ipcar.bsky.social · Nov 26

At the bank I was told "pick your four digit pincode but it can't be a year." "Aren't they all years?" I asked. We sat in silence for a bit.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 1d

Ah! Will look it up

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about what I found this week digging about in the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-37-t...

Pinks #37: The Melancholy Spouts of Tractors

On The Poems of Seamus Heaney (2025)

someflowerssoon.substack.com

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 1d

So this was around the time of Autumn Sequel…? LM describes the Everest doc in that

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 1d

I thought this John Berryman poem, exhumed from an archive by Shane Macrae and published in the TLS, was very fine.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 2d

When T.S. Eliot founded highbrow literary magazine The Criterion in 1922, do we think he knew an ice cream had beaten him to the punch?

Advert for Criterion ice cream, established 1920

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 5d

I was in fact thinking of him

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 5d

I’m here all night

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 5d

The existence of the Great Barrier Reef implies the existence of the Great Barry Reef

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 5d

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 7d

A Louise Glück miniature that appeared in The Threepenny Review in 2023. To my knowledge, it remains uncollected.

Passion and Form

Ah, they have kissed!
The rhyme
Comes in unnoticed.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 14d

This whole section really.

Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job.
AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 7d

Sorry, we can't afford to give you your real-terms pay cut.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d

'Staff at some institutions will not get even get the small rise due to them because of a clause in the negotiations that allows for a delay for up to 11 months if a university is facing financial difficulties.' So far, Dundee, Kent, Brunel, Coventry, Swansea.

Five UK universities tell staff they can’t afford pay rises

Negotiations over whether to honour 1.4 per cent increase ongoing at several other institutions amid financial crunch

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 7d

Imagining a mash-up of these two now:

I will howl all night in a deep lagoon
For an xbox

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 7d

I’m not, but it sounds ominous

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 7d

That sweet Guinness Zero smoothing the path towards my fifties

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 7d

You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to him

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 7d

The quality of low alcohol beer has really improved in recent years

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 10d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Keiron Pim @keironpim.bsky.social · 7d

Really enjoyed reading this! My favourite from this list? A toss-up between Harold Monro’s “Overheard on a Saltmarsh” and “Wy is School a Fing” by Sonny, aged 8.

Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 8d

I wrote about the bedtime poems my children have most enjoyed over the years, from a Cumbrian shepherd counting rhyme to Gertrude Stein someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/crap-poims

Crap Poims

Five poems my children have genuinely enjoyed at bedtime

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 7d

This just gets better and better! (Our copy of World is Round has a later illustrator)

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