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Ian Duhig

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'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 1h

Privilege Street, Leeds, 1970s. Armley, off Thornhill Road, by Peter Mitchell

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks @poetclare.bsky.social !

Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 8h

Maura Dooley visited Chris Wood's Grimm show at Scarborough Art Gallery for which I have written a series of Mortuary Rhymes, as opposed to nursery rhymes, in keeping with the Grimms' tone. She posted this catalogue last page, a suggestion why Yorkshire people are natural matches for such a project.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely nailed on he would.

Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 1d

'Do Your Job, God' (Roy Keane praying)

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 1d

'October Gold', John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1889. There was a terrific exhibition of his work on at Scarborough Art Gallery when I was there to do the Grimms talk with artist Chris Wood; they were hung well and their atmosphere travelled well, as it did with Chris' eerie art.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 5d

Terrific RTE show on the new Heaney book:

www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Arena Live - The Poems of Seamus Heaney

Live from the Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire for a special event to mark the publication of The Poems of Seamus Heaney. Rick was joined by Bernard O’Donoghue and Rosie Lavan, who edited this new ed...

www.rte.ie

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 5d

Michael Longley, from 'Ghost Orchid'

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Valerie

Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 6d

for World Mental Health Day from 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb', my most recent book of poetry

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 7d

I've got new poems I've been working on for five French prime ministers

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 8d

I've carved them myself and your mother is absolutely right: they're rock solid. A trebuchet filled with these could knock out a garrison.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 8d

Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged horse, being spavined now he has to get about the best he can like the rest of us.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 8d

What's clever about the old Irish carved turnip heads is they capture perfectly the makers' disgust at the commercialisation of Halloween.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 9d

"I'm not sure Batman is going to see the signal if we only shine it over our mantle piece."

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 10d

Enjoyed reading with Chris Wood at Scarborough Art Gallery from our Grimms' project yesterday, returning with a gift of Brian Catling's 'The Stumbling Block, Its Index', an attempt to write sculpture. 'Pens are too light / Take a chisel to write' -- Bunting, 'Briggflatts'

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 10d

Archaic Greek Gold Plaque of Gorgon Flossing Her teeth, 7th century BC. Parco Archeologico di Himera, Palermo

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 11d

Spotted in Kildare and reported by the Irish Examiner, concerned to explain the reasoning behind the decision and why you'll make an eejit of yourself if you can't accept the fact of closure immediately