Paul Robichaud
@pjrobichaud.bsky.social
Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany (Reaktion, 2026) • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Poems in NewPoetry.ca, The South Shore Review, and The Ekphrastic Review • Professor of English
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Paul Robichaud
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· Sep 28
If you live in the UK, you can now pre-order 'Stories of the Stones' directly from Reaktion Books or your favourite bookseller. Publication date is 1 February, 2026!
Pre-order here: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/stories...
Pre-order here: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/stories...
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Prof Ronald Hutton on The Great God Pan: Lord of the Wild.
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The Great God Pan: Lord of the Wild - Ronald Hutton
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November 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Prof Ronald Hutton on The Great God Pan: Lord of the Wild.
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With the internet becoming ever more unreliable, I wonder if anyone will publish known facts and general knowledge in a book or, rather, multiple books, everything in alphabetical order, safely printed on paper so it can’t be changed on the sly. Numbered spines would be a plus.
November 28, 2025 at 9:08 PM
With the internet becoming ever more unreliable, I wonder if anyone will publish known facts and general knowledge in a book or, rather, multiple books, everything in alphabetical order, safely printed on paper so it can’t be changed on the sly. Numbered spines would be a plus.
Seen on my morning walk.
November 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Seen on my morning walk.
My home office companion.
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My home office companion.
We've been enjoying the series 'Pluribus,' though my millennial wife's take on Carol's character is different from mine. She sees Carol as an incredibly and intensely negative person, whereas I just thought she was a normal Gen X-er. 😂
November 28, 2025 at 2:59 PM
We've been enjoying the series 'Pluribus,' though my millennial wife's take on Carol's character is different from mine. She sees Carol as an incredibly and intensely negative person, whereas I just thought she was a normal Gen X-er. 😂
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Author Fiona Robertson is our guest today, we discuss Fiona's book Stone Lands and some of the ancient sites that inspired the book and feature in it. We chat about memory, landscape, loss and enduring love. We talk about ancient sites and the magic of the old stones.
stoneclub.rocks/podcast
stoneclub.rocks/podcast
November 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Author Fiona Robertson is our guest today, we discuss Fiona's book Stone Lands and some of the ancient sites that inspired the book and feature in it. We chat about memory, landscape, loss and enduring love. We talk about ancient sites and the magic of the old stones.
stoneclub.rocks/podcast
stoneclub.rocks/podcast
‘Pan and Fortune’ (1793), by William Blake, born #OTD in 1757. The engraving illustrates John Gay’s 1740 fable about a young heir who angers Pan by cutting down trees on his estate to pay for his gambling debts. The goddess Fortune blames the heir for gambling with ‘knaves.’
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
‘Pan and Fortune’ (1793), by William Blake, born #OTD in 1757. The engraving illustrates John Gay’s 1740 fable about a young heir who angers Pan by cutting down trees on his estate to pay for his gambling debts. The goddess Fortune blames the heir for gambling with ‘knaves.’
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Happy Thanksgiving, America!
November 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Happy Thanksgiving, America!
Even if you’re familiar with the history of fairies in western culture, Egeler’s book is worth reading. His discussion of Icelandic folklore is fascinating and he’s consistently interesting, as in his account of J.M. Barrie and traditional Scottish fairy belief. #FolkloreThursday
November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Even if you’re familiar with the history of fairies in western culture, Egeler’s book is worth reading. His discussion of Icelandic folklore is fascinating and he’s consistently interesting, as in his account of J.M. Barrie and traditional Scottish fairy belief. #FolkloreThursday
Enjoy this beautiful performance of Kenneth Grahame’s ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ from The Waterboys’ 2019 album ‘Where the Action Is.’
Piper at the Gates of Dawn
YouTube video by The Waterboys - Topic
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November 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Enjoy this beautiful performance of Kenneth Grahame’s ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn’ from The Waterboys’ 2019 album ‘Where the Action Is.’
Happy Thanksgiving, US friends!
November 27, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Happy Thanksgiving, US friends!
Thrilled to receive this endorsement of ‘Stories of the Stones’ from Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social, author of the excellent ‘Stone Lands: A Journey of Darkness and Light Through Britain’s Ancient Places’!
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Thrilled to receive this endorsement of ‘Stories of the Stones’ from Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social, author of the excellent ‘Stone Lands: A Journey of Darkness and Light Through Britain’s Ancient Places’!
The ‘Table de Sacrifice,’ 100 meters north of the stone alignments at Kerzérho, Erdeven, Brittany. In local folklore, this stone is ‘where the blood flows.’ #WyrdWednesday
📷 June, 2023
📷 June, 2023
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The ‘Table de Sacrifice,’ 100 meters north of the stone alignments at Kerzérho, Erdeven, Brittany. In local folklore, this stone is ‘where the blood flows.’ #WyrdWednesday
📷 June, 2023
📷 June, 2023
An offering of grasses at West Kennett Long Barrow, July 2023. #TombTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
An offering of grasses at West Kennett Long Barrow, July 2023. #TombTuesday
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A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Tove Jansson
🖼️ Tove Jansson
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Goodnight.
🖼️ Tove Jansson
🖼️ Tove Jansson
Thrilled to see this advance review for ‘Stories of the Stones’ from @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social!
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Thrilled to see this advance review for ‘Stories of the Stones’ from @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social!
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Those solitary stones that keep silent watch, that persist across the rise and fall of our own petty kingdoms, are storytellers. When we learn the language of the Long Neolithic they speak across time. It is beholden on us to listen. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Those solitary stones that keep silent watch, that persist across the rise and fall of our own petty kingdoms, are storytellers. When we learn the language of the Long Neolithic they speak across time. It is beholden on us to listen. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
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Megaliths, Colonsay, Scotland #StandingStoneSunday
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Megaliths, Colonsay, Scotland #StandingStoneSunday
Happy #DoctorWhoDay to all who celebrate!
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy #DoctorWhoDay to all who celebrate!
Standing stones at Erdeven in Brittany, June 2023. The alignments are a bit messy, but you can still walk amongst the stones. #StandingStoneSunday
November 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Standing stones at Erdeven in Brittany, June 2023. The alignments are a bit messy, but you can still walk amongst the stones. #StandingStoneSunday
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“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
- Doris Lessing
- Doris Lessing
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
- Doris Lessing
- Doris Lessing
My current non-fiction reading, Kate Kennedy’s excellent 2021 biography of composer and poet Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), who spent his last 15 years in a mental asylum.
November 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
My current non-fiction reading, Kate Kennedy’s excellent 2021 biography of composer and poet Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), who spent his last 15 years in a mental asylum.
I rewatch this every year, most recently the excellent restoration included in the Severin boxed set ‘All the Haunts Be Ours’ (2021).
Penda’s Fen reinvents Mercia for the modern age
How an experimental British 1970s television play pioneered a folk horror revival
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I rewatch this every year, most recently the excellent restoration included in the Severin boxed set ‘All the Haunts Be Ours’ (2021).
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Old Oak Tree, Valerie Greeley.
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Old Oak Tree, Valerie Greeley.