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Kevin Gardner

@kg520.bsky.social

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Editor, anthologist, reviewer, professor. Alexander Pope | John Betjeman | contemporary poetry.

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 2d

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to see my new selected edition of Anthony Thwaite’s poems (At the Garden’s Dark Edge, published by Baylor University Press) featured by George Szirtes in the Eastern Daily Press.

www.edp24.co.uk/news/2557097...

Poet and archaeologist who was part of the fabric of Norfolk life

‘This is the simple poem,’ wrote Anthony Thwaite OBE, poet, archaeologist, teacher, broadcaster, television presenter, traveller, critic,…

www.edp24.co.uk

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 8d

👍🏻 I was lucky enough to have a preview, and it’s fantastic.

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Renard Press @renardpress.com · 8d

Something rather exciting is coming in three short weeks – a beautiful collection of excerpts, poems, short stories, scenes from all the authors we’ve published in our first five years.

📚 All proceeds to our Bookbanks scheme.

renardpress.com/books/renard...

#beautifulbooks #booksky

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 12d

Obvs will blather on more about this v soon, but book 4 is on its way... www.waterstones.com/book/cherry-...

Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak by Rishi Dastidar | Waterstones

Buy Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak by Rishi Dastidar from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

www.waterstones.com

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 11d

I’m very much looking forward to this collection. You can whet your appetite with my review of Graeme’s excellent chapbook, Last of the Coalmine Choirboys, wildcourt.co.uk/from-the-shi....

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 12d

Very excited for you, Rishi - and for myself, since I get to read it!

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 17d

I had the privilege of spending some time with Seamus Heaney over the last week... www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Seamus Heaney kept up a staggeringly high strike rate of good poems

The Poems of Seamus Heaney, collected together in one volume for the first time, is a record of nearly 60 years of excellence

www.thetimes.com

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 19d

My pleasure! Your collection deserves many readers!

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks for the new link!

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 19d

My pleasure! Hope your collection makes its way to many shelves!

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 19d

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 19d

My new review essay of collections by @betarish.bsky.social, @tomsastry.bsky.social, Michael Vince, and Kieron Winn is published today in Wild Court. Find out why I like them so much: wildcourt.co.uk/a-hobby-of-exi….

https://wildcourt.co.uk/a-hobby-of-exi…

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · Sep 24

One quick scroll through Robert Galbraith’s replies and you can see he’s the face of everything wrong with Blue Sky.

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · Sep 24

Lunatics, the lot of them. It’s a book review, for God’s sake.

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · Sep 23

It’s a fair review, despite the outrage and pother and hand-wringing it has provoked on other social media. It’s scrupulously candid and objective in its criticism, which is all we should ask of a reviewer.

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks for posting about this, Ian. Looks like a terrific book. I must put it on my Christmas list!

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · Sep 1

And he managed to get all four of his kids home at the same time for the occasion, so it was a very good day for him.

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · Sep 1

Thanks, Graeme!

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · Aug 31

Many thanks, Simon!

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · Aug 31

A very happy birthday to my dad, who turns 97 today!

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · Aug 24

😉

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · Aug 23

The third figure isn’t winking, is she?

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Nebulosa da Chama ♀ @br4zuc4br.bsky.social · Aug 16

Reading this delightful book by @fugitiveink.bsky.social on Kindle in Brazil and instantly transported to Norfolk. 🌘🪾🦉⚓️🪦🕯️🌬️
(also astonished to find out Jack O' Lantern's Toby and I share a mother)

Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · Jan 17

This collection of ghost stories by @fugitiveink.bsky.social was a Christmas present. Finally settled in tonight to read the opening story, and what a thrill - full of seething dread, unsettling undercurrents, much like the Norfolk landscape the stories occupy. Having read some of Barendina’s 1/2

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · Aug 9

As well as today being Larkin's birthday, this year it's 70 years since the publication of his first mature volume, 'The Less Deceived'. The poems in it were mostly written during his five relatively happy years in Belfast, and the volume would be published in 1955, the year he moved to Hull. 1/2