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Victoria Moul
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Critic, scholar, translator and poet in Paris. Recent reviews in the TLS and The Friday Poem. Most recent books from CUP & Palgrave. Poems in various places. Weekly substack on poetry & translation https://vamoul.substack.com/ https://www.victoriamoul.com .. more

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 2d
Reacting to a poet's murder & more w/ @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @lisabrockwell.bsky.social @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @rmhaines.bsky.social
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 2
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 3d
A little bonus post about translating poetry for this Monday afternoon, a copy of a piece written originally for Marginalia Review of Books. There’ll be a longer piece on Thursday as usual.
In the translator's workshop: a poem from the "Subhāsitaratnakosha"
A brief extra piece to start this week: this is a copy of an essay commissioned last year for the ‘in the translator’s workshop’ feature in Marginalia Review of Books. It discusses my translation of a...
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 3d
I was reading Frog and Toad to our youngest just last night. I didn't grow up with these books at all but one of my PhD students passed a set on to me years ago when our older children were small. They are charming and very beautifully written.
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"Frog, are you the speaker of your poem?" asked Toad
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Toad sipped his tea. “Frog,” he asked, “are you making this up?”

“Maybe yes and maybe no,” said Frog.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 3d
"Frog, are you the speaker of your poem?" asked Toad
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Toad sipped his tea. “Frog,” he asked, “are you making this up?”

“Maybe yes and maybe no,” said Frog.
Toad leans forward in his chair, sipping tea, transfixed by Frog's ghost story. From "Shivers" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 7d
This week I have written about Crabbe, Lowestoft and authenticity in contemporary narrative verse. (And a bit about soft play centres, which Crabbe would certainly have included in The Borough had they existed in 1800.)
The freckled flower upon the flinty base: whither the narrative poem?
We spent the week after Christmas in north-east Suffolk, where my mother lives.
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Jeremy Wikeley @jwikeley.bsky.social · 9d
New edition of Peter Didsbury's "new and collected poems" this April. I am very excited. Poetry's best kept secret.

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Scenes from a Long Sleep | Bloodaxe Books
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 11d
A third Christmas poem, while we’re still in the season.
A Christmas poem, no. 3
Today’s Christmas poem is ‘A Christmas Carol’ by G.
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 16d
This week in the poetry blogs w/ @johnsiddique.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 52
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 16d
A seasonal post about Jonson’s Christmas masque, performed at this time of year in 1616/1617.
Did Ben Jonson invent Father Christmas?
Christmas his Masque
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 22d
Up today, the first in a short series of favourite Christmas poems. Merry Christmas everyone!
A Christmas poem, no. 1
Over the Christmas break, I’m sending out several brief messages with Christmas poems I particularly like, starting today with a poem I’ve been saving since the summer: Janet Lewis’s ‘A Lullaby’:
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 23d
The poetry of snow, brilliance in the dark & more w/ @shotscarecrow.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @elcurwen.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/12/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 51
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 26d
My grandfather who died before I was born was Anglo-Indian but after he moved to London after the First World War he pretended not to be in order to “pass” and told people he was “Welsh” instead. I actually believed it as my Dad had told me it too until I saw a picture of him!

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 26d
Only books I have ever binned rather than giving them away!

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John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 26d
Every time there's a breaking story about a celeb's treatment of women, everyone in the book world asks, "Is it finally Walliams?" Well, it finally is.
Exclusive: David Walliams dropped by publisher over inappropriate behaviour towards women
Telegraph investigation into best-selling children’s author uncovers claims that he ‘harassed’ junior female employees at Harper Collins
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 28d
A seasonal piece today on the different ways of writing a Christmas poem in early modern England.
How to write a Christmas poem in early modern England
Tracking trends in poetry
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 28d
It would be a pleasure!

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 29d
All of which just to say that I think what you are doing is unusual and v. impressive. I think a lot of poets who publish regularly in magazines consciously aim for a mix of online and print now, to balance out the pros and cons.

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 29d
And of course print magazines also pop up and disappear very regularly and I think most people submitting understand that a new magazine might only last a few issues (vs Poetry Magazine, or PNR or whatever with a professional outfit and huge archives).

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 29d
A lot of online magazine are also not "really" online publications in the impressive way that yours are -- I mean they are really just hosting a pdf or have quite clunky websites with awkward navigation. (The latter true of even some quite high profile ones, naming no names.)

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 29d
I think most people publishing online are fairly realistic about this though -- an online link is much more easily shareable and will probably get read much more but in most cases won't last that long. A lot of online magazines also review submissions and reply more quickly.

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · Dec 16
Celebrating Emily Dickinson's 195th b-day & more with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @jntod.bsky.social @annettemakino.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @johnglenday.bsky.social @writtenbyallison.bsky.social
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 50
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · Dec 13
My Mum always reminisces at Christmas about Christmas trees covered in real candles.

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · Dec 11
The running of the deer: celebrating Christmas in 1644
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · Dec 9
Poets on silence, erasure, winter & more @victoriamoul.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @pfanderson.bsky.social @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social 2/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 49
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · Dec 4
This week I have written about William Harvey and the circulation of the blood in the poetry of the 1660s. Not expecting a massive flood of readers for this one.
The heart of man, what Art can e're reveal?
Actually about dissecting hearts, sorry about that.
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · Dec 3
We did *all* the Latin (and Greek) verse in parallel text which hadn't been done before. I think we only got away with it because we had a very junior editor and John Drury, a senior clergyman, just kept saying politely "but I think we must have it all" and she coudn't work out how to say no!

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · Dec 2
This week in the poetry blogs with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @beckyltuch.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 48
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Gregory @gregorykearns.bsky.social · Dec 1
This weeks episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way is with the wonderful Gillian Allnutt whose book Lode has been shortlisted for this years T.S. Eliot Prize.

Check it out wherever good podcasts can be found.

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · Dec 1
Read my louche sex poem and much more besides in the new Little Review.

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · Nov 28
Actually the Penguin Herbert I did a few years ago was half parallel text as well but it’s very unusual now.