Tim Groenland
@groenbot.bsky.social
Academic in Dublin. Contemporary literature & publishing.
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Tim Groenland
@groenbot.bsky.social
· Jul 18
Issue 9: Editing American Literature - Post45
Edited by Evan Brier and Tim Groenland
post45.org
Here's something that me and Evan Brier have been working on for ages: a special issue on editors in postwar US literature, full of essays by brilliant scholars. Delighted to see it published! post45.org/sections/iss...
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A genuine embarrassment and national shame that this man is still platformed by our media and in the pro-Palestine movement
November 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A genuine embarrassment and national shame that this man is still platformed by our media and in the pro-Palestine movement
There should be wider coverage of these charges
people outside of Ireland will have missed this, but I think it's important for them to learn that a former sportsman has been found guilty of defrauding people out of millions while pretending to have cancer by sticking a phone charger up his nose
Imagine being the *very first* person to notice.
Person:
Hey wait a minute.
Isn't that
a phone charger?
Other person:
naw surely n...
Oh wait what
Person:
Hey wait a minute.
Isn't that
a phone charger?
Other person:
naw surely n...
Oh wait what
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
There should be wider coverage of these charges
Congrats to @brianrobmoore.bsky.social! The book is a banger & the translation is ingenious
Wonderful news from our former slug-in-residence Brian! And if you haven't read VERDIGRIS yet, what are you doing – slugs, nazis, the most pyrotechnical translation of vernacular you'll ever read. Run don't walk, etc.
We're excited to announce the winner of the 2025 Italian Prose in Translation Award (IPTA): VERDIGRIS by Michele Mari, translated from Italian by Brian Robert Moore @brianrobmoore.bsky.social, pub. And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social!
literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...
literarytranslators.org/winner-of-20...
November 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Congrats to @brianrobmoore.bsky.social! The book is a banger & the translation is ingenious
Today's class is on translation, translators, and the labour of translation - reading this by @jencalleja.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Today's class is on translation, translators, and the labour of translation - reading this by @jencalleja.bsky.social
"What does it mean to be a young, working-class male writer in contemporary Ireland?"
Free tickets for the closing event in our @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social programme (organised by @skeinpress.bsky.social and @poetryireland.bsky.social) are now available here:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/young-bloo...
Free tickets for the closing event in our @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social programme (organised by @skeinpress.bsky.social and @poetryireland.bsky.social) are now available here:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/young-bloo...
Young Blood: Class x Masculinity in Contemporary Poetry
What does it mean to be a young, working-class male writer in contemporary Ireland?
www.eventbrite.ie
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"What does it mean to be a young, working-class male writer in contemporary Ireland?"
Free tickets for the closing event in our @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social programme (organised by @skeinpress.bsky.social and @poetryireland.bsky.social) are now available here:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/young-bloo...
Free tickets for the closing event in our @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social programme (organised by @skeinpress.bsky.social and @poetryireland.bsky.social) are now available here:
www.eventbrite.ie/e/young-bloo...
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Journalism can be a thankless job but every now and then you get to ask the guy who threw his shoes at Bush what he thinks about Cheney's death and it's all worth it again
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Journalism can be a thankless job but every now and then you get to ask the guy who threw his shoes at Bush what he thinks about Cheney's death and it's all worth it again
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ok i think that's all of them
November 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
ok i think that's all of them
"What goes up but never comes down?"
.....
"Money!! Like, the cost of stuff!"
Topical riddle from the 7-year-old
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"Money!! Like, the cost of stuff!"
Topical riddle from the 7-year-old
November 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
"What goes up but never comes down?"
.....
"Money!! Like, the cost of stuff!"
Topical riddle from the 7-year-old
.....
"Money!! Like, the cost of stuff!"
Topical riddle from the 7-year-old
"Pariah Carey" - good headline I saw in a tabloid today. Obvious in hindsight, perhaps, but then so are all the best headlines
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
"Pariah Carey" - good headline I saw in a tabloid today. Obvious in hindsight, perhaps, but then so are all the best headlines
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seeking contributors for an edited volume
November 3, 2025 at 12:49 PM
seeking contributors for an edited volume
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Hatton, a sentient aerial view of a spilled bowl of soup, is the mascot for Tome City. The ingredients in the soup are local produce, and the spillage is in the shape of the city.
September 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hatton, a sentient aerial view of a spilled bowl of soup, is the mascot for Tome City. The ingredients in the soup are local produce, and the spillage is in the shape of the city.
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Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
November 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Wed: “Our migration numbers are too high”-Simon Harris
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
Thurs: “Taoiseach and Donohoe back Tánaiste’s remarks that numbers migrating to Ireland are ‘too high’”
Fri: ”migration numbers too high outside of international protection…as well”-Simon Harris
*Arson attack on infants in IPAS centre.*
They're calling it the wholesomest Saturday morning they've ever seen
November 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
They're calling it the wholesomest Saturday morning they've ever seen
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Politicians that spoke about "too much immigration" in the last few days are just as responsible #speirgorm some fucking neck on them
Justice Minister confirms arson attack on IPAS building in Drogheda last night.
"Fireworks were thrown into the building, causing a fire and putting lives at risk. This was a terrifying ordeal for the women and children living there, a number of whom were taken to hospital."
(1/2)
"Fireworks were thrown into the building, causing a fire and putting lives at risk. This was a terrifying ordeal for the women and children living there, a number of whom were taken to hospital."
(1/2)
November 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Politicians that spoke about "too much immigration" in the last few days are just as responsible #speirgorm some fucking neck on them
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'There’s big trouble in the world of little magazines.' — Tristram Fane Saunders
Tristram Fane Saunders on what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish without any fanfare.
Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
Tristram Fane Saunders on what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish without any fanfare.
Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
Essay | Why Magazines Fail by Tristram Fane Saunders - The London Magazine
Drawing on recent literary magazine closures, Tristram Fane Saunders asks what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish.
thelondonmagazine.org
October 2, 2025 at 12:13 PM
'There’s big trouble in the world of little magazines.' — Tristram Fane Saunders
Tristram Fane Saunders on what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish without any fanfare.
Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
Tristram Fane Saunders on what makes 'little magazines' so fragile, why they matter and why they so often vanish without any fanfare.
Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/article/essa...
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Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.
October 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Thrilled to announce my new book (electronic version out now, print next month) — it proposes a new value theory grounded in the longue durée of literary institutions, 1800–present.
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just over a month from now! want to distribute postcards or hang flyers for the DSPF? Fill in this form!
forms.gle/LePucX4D5Pym...
forms.gle/LePucX4D5Pym...
October 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
just over a month from now! want to distribute postcards or hang flyers for the DSPF? Fill in this form!
forms.gle/LePucX4D5Pym...
forms.gle/LePucX4D5Pym...
omg
Imagine being such a family of melts that a national paper issues a guide to dealing with you where the advice is similar to that of if you encounter a bear while hiking.
October 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
omg
We have postcards
October 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
We have postcards
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this is a hugely helpful list of possible countermeasures against AI, but (yet more helpfully!) lists the counter-countermeasures students could take to cheat anyway. overall, an indication of how dark & exhausting things have become for those of us trying to get people to actually think & read
Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments
ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...
docs.google.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:16 PM
this is a hugely helpful list of possible countermeasures against AI, but (yet more helpfully!) lists the counter-countermeasures students could take to cheat anyway. overall, an indication of how dark & exhausting things have become for those of us trying to get people to actually think & read
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Excited and honoured to be part of the very first Dublin Small Press Fair 📚
Indie publishing all the way! 💖
Indie publishing all the way! 💖
The inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair is happening at the end of November!
30+ presses, events, readings, and more. Organised by me and @eireannmor.bsky.social. More information coming very soon - follow @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social for updates
30+ presses, events, readings, and more. Organised by me and @eireannmor.bsky.social. More information coming very soon - follow @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social for updates
October 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Excited and honoured to be part of the very first Dublin Small Press Fair 📚
Indie publishing all the way! 💖
Indie publishing all the way! 💖
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Nigel Newton, CEO of Bloomsbury, telling us why AI is good for publishing with this fun caveat: “We are programmed deep in our DNA to be comforted by the authority and the reliability of big brand names, & that applies more than ever to the names of big writers."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
AI can help authors beat writer’s block, says Bloomsbury chief
Publisher last week reported jump in revenue in academic and professional arm thanks to AI licensing deal
www.theguardian.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Nigel Newton, CEO of Bloomsbury, telling us why AI is good for publishing with this fun caveat: “We are programmed deep in our DNA to be comforted by the authority and the reliability of big brand names, & that applies more than ever to the names of big writers."
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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with apologies to Mr. Joyce, we think that even Gabriel would not be late for the #DublinSmallPressFair2025
November 28 (opening panel 5 p.m.; book sales 6-9)
November 29 (book sales 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; closing panel 4-5)
Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2
snow may or may not be general all over Ireland
November 28 (opening panel 5 p.m.; book sales 6-9)
November 29 (book sales 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; closing panel 4-5)
Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2
snow may or may not be general all over Ireland
![a white postcard with the following text set in Bodoni: "It was always a great affair, the [text color changes to blue] Dublin Small Press Fair in Pearse Street Library on November 28 and 29, 2025. [back to black text here] Everybody who knew about it came to it, members of the family, old friends of the family, the members of Julia's choir, any of Kate's pupils who were grown up enough, and even some of Mary Jane's pupils too. Never once had it fallen flat."
At the bottom of the card, in a smaller point size, the text reads "With our sincere apologies to Mr. Joyce, come along to the Dublin Small Press Fair and bring your family, friends, and neighbours. We can't promise that snow will be general all over Ireland, but we can guarantee you'll find a new book to enjoy!".
Beneath that are the logos of the fair and its sponsors—Dublin City Council, Dublin UNESCO City of Literatyre, Poetry Ireland, Publishing Ireland, and Skein Press—and the URL dublinsmallpressfair.com.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hxhh5dxa4u6a7w6jkk6pwkg2/bafkreihhy5ascd2ypfpxbwehgztp2o5cborobafq5fks3gyp4zx2owy5d4@jpeg)
October 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
with apologies to Mr. Joyce, we think that even Gabriel would not be late for the #DublinSmallPressFair2025
November 28 (opening panel 5 p.m.; book sales 6-9)
November 29 (book sales 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; closing panel 4-5)
Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2
snow may or may not be general all over Ireland
November 28 (opening panel 5 p.m.; book sales 6-9)
November 29 (book sales 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; closing panel 4-5)
Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2
snow may or may not be general all over Ireland
An annual ritual: getting weirdly emotional watching the Dublin Marathon from outside my house
October 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
An annual ritual: getting weirdly emotional watching the Dublin Marathon from outside my house