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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 1h

If he'd stayed for the second half he would have realised nothing happens twice.

Romeo @romeoromeotango.bsky.social · 5h

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 6d

TFW you paid $1400 to see Beckett’s most famous work without knowing anything about it

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dr joshua phillips @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 4h

Even putting to one side the sheer inanity of this, how might he expect to do that? Reach into individual classrooms and throw things at students using singular ‘they’?

The chancellorship is an unpaid p/t gig where you gladhand donors and trot about in a silly robe once in a while.

Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 5h

'Nowhere will be safe for teenagers while I'm around.' is an odd boast, Bill.

William Hague still being a thundering tool after all these years.

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Stewart Home @stewarthome.bsky.social · 5h

I'm at Hardwork at Ryans, Stoke Newington Church Street from 2.30pm on Sunday 2 November. It's free with a lot of acts and improv behind the spoken word.

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 5h

above/ground press author John Levy wins the 2025 Shelley Memorial Award! / @poetrysociety.org ;
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John Levy wins the 2025 Shelley Memorial Award!

In case you hadn't heard, Arizona poet (and above/ground press author) John Levy has won the 2025 Shelley Memorial Award , presented by the ...

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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · 3h

This week, the MA poets discussed the relationship between tradition and experiment, including why we might choose to adopt, extend, reject, shatter, or embrace established forms! Lots of ruptured and playful approaches to the sonnet!

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Paul Brightwell @brightwell.bsky.social · 5h

Kurt Schwitters
Untitled
1937

Prob. made in Norway where in Jan 1937 Kurt followed his son Ernst into exile, the Nazis having begun confiscating his work from German museums. '1920' on the mount was a misattribution by the gallerist to whom Ernst sold several of Schwitters' pictures in the 1950s

A beautiful little collage on paper. 10.8 x 8.6 cm image on a 24.8 x 18.4 cm mount.

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 2h

Edited by novelist and short story writer @nicholasroyle.bsky.social, Manchester-based @nightjarpress.bsky.social publishes limited edition single short-story chapbooks by individual authors. Browse and buy their titles at #smallpublishersfair25, London, Fri 24 / Sat 25 Oct
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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 6h

Human-authored, with a little help from techniques, surrealism and history...

Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 8h

Elle: A Verse Novel by Robert Sheppard is a fierce, densely layered détournement, refashioning Joseph Kessel’s Belle de Jour through splices, warpings, and an unnerving overlay of 1960s Brighton scandal onto a surrealist template. Coming soon from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 7h

Deflated but not defeated! Part of a series...

Mike Ferguson @mferguson-writer.bsky.social · 7h

Peter Finch on Peter Finch ~ stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2025/10/defl...

Deflated Ego 10: Peter Finch on Peter Finch

Finch on Finch How does it go? The one where you work automatically at the times you’ve set yourself to get the job ...

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prof-alistair.bsky.social @prof-alistair.bsky.social · 7h

Very sorry to hear the news @robertsheppard.bsky.social & @ailsacox.bsky.social . I remember Angela well & fondly, & in particular a discussion of her creative piece in the Edge Hill Common Room involving random words being projected onto a white easel under which sat numerous stuffed toys - Vale.

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Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social · 7h

Angela Keaton, always inventive and mischievous.

Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 7h

I have heard some sad news. The poet Angela Keaton, a stalwart of the Edge Hill University Poetry and Poetics Research Group has died. She appears a lot on my blog; but here's one memorable post: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2009/10/ange...

Angela Keaton performing and constructing

Angela Keaton (top left) performing at the Walker Gallery as part of the Neon Highway reading, Angela reading at the Rose Theatre (Ormskirk)...

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Sarah-Clare Conlon @sarahclareconlon.bsky.social · 8h

Readings... this Friday, Manchester Poets, then 22 Nov, I'm on the line-up at the 50th Peter Barlow's Cigarette with Frances Presley, Jeremy Over & David Gaffney! More on both in this write-up, which (in other news) is my last for Creative Tourist. The End. www.creativetourist.com/event/peter-...

Peter Barlow’s Cigarette at the Carlton Club | Literature

Our favourite "afternoon of alternative poetries" Peter Barlow's Cigarette is back for the Autumn/Winter season.

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 7h

I have heard some sad news. The poet Angela Keaton, a stalwart of the Edge Hill University Poetry and Poetics Research Group has died. She appears a lot on my blog; but here's one memorable post: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2009/10/ange...

Angela Keaton performing and constructing

Angela Keaton (top left) performing at the Walker Gallery as part of the Neon Highway reading, Angela reading at the Rose Theatre (Ormskirk)...

robertsheppard.blogspot.com

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 8h

As a proud UCU member I applaud this intervention... @ucu.org.uk

University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 11h

Gavin Williamson claimed education unions were “blockers” at the COVID enquiry yesterday.

We were trying to save lives.

Our member, Donna Coleman, died on his watch.

@drjogrady.bsky.social on Newsnight.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 11h

Gavin Williamson claimed education unions were “blockers” at the COVID enquiry yesterday.

We were trying to save lives.

Our member, Donna Coleman, died on his watch.

@drjogrady.bsky.social on Newsnight.

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Small Publishers Fair @smallpublishers.bsky.social · 9h

Co-founder of the influential Beau Geste press (Devon, 1970-76), Martha Hellion is a Mexican book artist, curator and founder of the Centre for Research and Documentation of Artists’ Publications, Mexico City. She joins us for #smallpublishersfair25, Conway Hall, London, Friday 24 / Saturday 25 Oct

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John Harvey @johnbharveywriter.bsky.social · 8h

One hefty, much anticipated volume purchased on Monday's visit to @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 8h

Elle: A Verse Novel by Robert Sheppard is a fierce, densely layered détournement, refashioning Joseph Kessel’s Belle de Jour through splices, warpings, and an unnerving overlay of 1960s Brighton scandal onto a surrealist template. Coming soon from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social · 1d

Continuing our timeline series: No. 44 - 2004 – Work commences on the Oran Mor mural — a project that would become the largest piece of public art in Scotland, and one that remains unfinished to this day.

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote: 'Writing in outmoded forms shits in the mouths of the dead.' (I was reminded of it when someone quoted it in an essay I read the other day.)

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Matt Fallaize @mattfallaize.bsky.social · 1d

We should have had Angela Carter, we got Amis and McEwen.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 1d

Yours truly, a narrow shouldered pale female person, has been perambulating the streets of San Francisco well into the evenings since 1980, and I haven't really had any problems of the mugging/personal assault kind in this millennium, but tech dudes are timorous.