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Patrick McGuinness

@padrig.bsky.social

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Writer, academic, endotic traveller. Books: Blood Feather 2023; Real Oxford 2021. Ghost Stations, CB Editions , Sept 2025. FRSL. Prof of French and Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.

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Kirkdale Bookshop @kirkdalebooks.bsky.social · 2d

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 3d

How long before ICE agents come for Pope Leo?

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Really enjoyed this

Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 7d

Oxford sights, in l'an trentiesme de mon eage, or at any rate my 30th Michaelmas Term as a tutor here. Not sure where the years went, somewhere between the purposeful paddleboarder and the skull on the hull.

Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 7d

My start of term inbox

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 7d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 10d

London-based @cbeditions.bsky.social (founded in 2007 by Charles Boyle) is a publisher of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, including work in translation. Find their books (including 'Ghost Stations' by Patrick McGuinness) at #smallpublishersfair25 on Fri 24 & Sat 25 Oct:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 12d

After the hardware shops I'm at Museum der Dinge/Museum of Things. Enjoyed the way they classify. Very taken with the Remembering and Stimulating shelves and the excellent kitsch trio: jingoistic, devotional, topical

Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 13d

Yes. I have come far to regain the vibe...

Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 13d

My great pleasure visiting towns and cities: hardware shops. Not just because they're living museums of use, but bc they're like embassies of past ways of living, defiantly hanging on. Berlin has several superb examples.

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 16d

So glad you like it thank you! I like to think we don't need to be Belgian to get it but it helps with base note!

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 18d

From when Channel 4 was my education, my art school, my university

RIP Tony Harrison

Harrison V Part 1

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 19d

The latest issue of the Journal of Literary and Intermedial Crossings finds me both frank and reflective. With thanks for Michael Rosenfeld for the interview and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for my time as writer in residence. Dank u wel, het was een genoegen.

Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 23d

Great to be back at Pordenonelegge to read from my new book Italian translation. Blood Feather became Linea Fissa, Landline. With thanks to Interno Poesia Giorgia Sensi and Filippo Morre

Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 25d

This is a wonderful read thank you!

Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 25d

I miss them

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 27d

Check out the Sutton Trust's Elitist Britain 2025 report.

Link to report: www.suttontrust.com/our-research... @suttontrust.bsky.social

Privileged and powerful: how the privately educated dominate elite roles in the UK - The Sutton Trust

Unpacking the findings from our major research into Britain's most powerful figures.

www.suttontrust.com

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you! So grateful to @cbeditions.bsky.social for publishing. I didn’t buy that but I was glad to find this.

Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 29d

Yes! If you go quickly you'll be able to snap it up...

Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 29d

What the future looked like in the past

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · Sep 14

Loved doing this, thank you.

Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · Sep 13

Yes! The Oxford/Cardiff axis ...

Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · Sep 13

Patrick McGuinness
‪@padrig.bsky.social‬
When the dynamite sapped them,
a ripple climbed their flanks: their mouths
were trying to say something difficult

Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · Sep 13

Happy to be in this fantastic book from @c20society.bsky.social with my elegy for the cooling towers of Didcot. If we know how to look, these structures and their places are full of meaning and stories.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Sep 13

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts

At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.

www.nbcnews.com

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