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Registration is now open for Miles Leeson's online lecture "Who's There? The Psychology of Hauntings in Iris Murdoch's Fiction" from the Institute of Applied Psychology series!
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November 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Registration is now open for Miles Leeson's online lecture "Who's There? The Psychology of Hauntings in Iris Murdoch's Fiction" from the Institute of Applied Psychology series!
Sign up here: forms.gle/VztiefDtKDZC...
We invite you warmly!
@irismurdoch.bsky.social @lesleyjamieson.bsky.social
Sign up here: forms.gle/VztiefDtKDZC...
We invite you warmly!
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Selling a few Iris Murdoch novels. What fun!
me: "The wrong person dies in this one, that's all I'm saying"
IYKYK
me: "The wrong person dies in this one, that's all I'm saying"
IYKYK
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Selling a few Iris Murdoch novels. What fun!
me: "The wrong person dies in this one, that's all I'm saying"
IYKYK
me: "The wrong person dies in this one, that's all I'm saying"
IYKYK
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'“These three o'clock awakenings when one starts up, imagining that one has a mortal sickness; and indeed this is true. Life is that sickness, and at that cold hour one can realize it'
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 AM
'“These three o'clock awakenings when one starts up, imagining that one has a mortal sickness; and indeed this is true. Life is that sickness, and at that cold hour one can realize it'
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Iris Murdoch's queer Poetry
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This is a blog on Murdoch’s Queer Poetry. Is it a layer of Queer History or the record of a Psychosocial Anomaly? It is based on Iris Murdoch (ed. Anne Rowe, Miles Leeson, Rachel Hirschler & Frances ...
One line in a poem of complicated love between women, written to Brigid Brophy, by Iris Murdoch reads: ‘Don’t make of sex a basic category’. To her journal she committed the following reflect…
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November 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Iris Murdoch's queer Poetry
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A few nights away from finishing Iris Murdoch's A WORD CHILD, going to miss it the second I do.
I re-read/loved A SEVERED HEAD over the summer, have previously read UNDER THE NET and THE BLACK PRINCE, got a few more piled up to read.
Pls share any of YOUR Iris love below.
📚💙
I re-read/loved A SEVERED HEAD over the summer, have previously read UNDER THE NET and THE BLACK PRINCE, got a few more piled up to read.
Pls share any of YOUR Iris love below.
📚💙
November 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A few nights away from finishing Iris Murdoch's A WORD CHILD, going to miss it the second I do.
I re-read/loved A SEVERED HEAD over the summer, have previously read UNDER THE NET and THE BLACK PRINCE, got a few more piled up to read.
Pls share any of YOUR Iris love below.
📚💙
I re-read/loved A SEVERED HEAD over the summer, have previously read UNDER THE NET and THE BLACK PRINCE, got a few more piled up to read.
Pls share any of YOUR Iris love below.
📚💙
Want a famous desk previously owned by JRR Tolkien and Iris Murdoch (and before Tolkien C.S. Lewis, although they don't mention it here). You'd better have deep pockets...
🧙♂️ A escrivaninha onde Tolkien finalizou O Senhor dos Anéis vai a leilão em 11/12/2025 na Christie's! Estimada entre £50k e £80k (até R$ 500 mil), a peça foi usada por ele em Oxford e depois vendida à escritora Iris Murdoch.
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#Tolkien #Leilão #Literatura #Senna #Christies
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Escrivaninha de J.R.R. Tolkien Vai a Leilão com Estimativa de R$ 500.000,00
A escrivaninha usada por J.R.R. Tolkien durante seu período como Professor Merton de Língua e Literatura Inglesa na Universidade de Oxford será leiloada no dia 11 de dezembro de 2025…
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November 19, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Want a famous desk previously owned by JRR Tolkien and Iris Murdoch (and before Tolkien C.S. Lewis, although they don't mention it here). You'd better have deep pockets...
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'A clean well-lighted place for books' (to borrow from Hemingway) at John Sandoe, Chelsea, for the launch of Iris Murdoch's 'Poems from an Attic': lovely evening with 'The Nice and the Good' (to borrow a Murdoch title) including the book's four editors one of whom is my student-days friend Anne Rowe
November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
'A clean well-lighted place for books' (to borrow from Hemingway) at John Sandoe, Chelsea, for the launch of Iris Murdoch's 'Poems from an Attic': lovely evening with 'The Nice and the Good' (to borrow a Murdoch title) including the book's four editors one of whom is my student-days friend Anne Rowe
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Iris Murdoch
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Reading ‘right now’ or reading forever!
Daily writing promptWhat book are you reading right now?View all responses Reading ‘right now’ or reading forever! In truth I am reading a newly published book of poems by Iris Murdoch,…
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November 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Iris Murdoch
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I ❤️ Iris Murdoch #youdon'tsay - I'm so excited she has a new book out despite having died in 1999 and it's poetry - my fave - here are some of my thoughts: How I found an unexpected connection to science in the works of Iris Murdoch – by a molecular biophysicist theconversation.com/how-i-found-...
How I found an unexpected connection to science in the works of Iris Murdoch – by a molecular biophysicist
An academic has used ten of Iris Murdoch’s novels and some newly discovered poems to illuminate scientific concepts.
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November 17, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I ❤️ Iris Murdoch #youdon'tsay - I'm so excited she has a new book out despite having died in 1999 and it's poetry - my fave - here are some of my thoughts: How I found an unexpected connection to science in the works of Iris Murdoch – by a molecular biophysicist theconversation.com/how-i-found-...
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In 2026 I will once again joining forces with Kim at Reading Matters to host 'A Year with Iris Murdoch'
We kick off with The Sea, The Sea in January.
I've never read her before so looking forward to this one!
We kick off with The Sea, The Sea in January.
I've never read her before so looking forward to this one!
Annoucing A Year with Iris Murdoch for 2026!
I’m delighted to once again join forces with Kim from Reading Matters during 2026 for a Year With Iris Murdoch! This will be our fourth year jointly exploring the work of one Irish writer…
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November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In 2026 I will once again joining forces with Kim at Reading Matters to host 'A Year with Iris Murdoch'
We kick off with The Sea, The Sea in January.
I've never read her before so looking forward to this one!
We kick off with The Sea, The Sea in January.
I've never read her before so looking forward to this one!
The Iris Murdoch Review has gone to print! Members can read it online from today if they just can't wait for the hard copy. Non-members can purchase one for £15, or simply join the Society.
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Iris Murdoch Review 16, 2025 - The Iris Murdoch Society
The wealth of academic material published in this issue not only broadens our understanding of Murdoch’s own vision of her fiction and philosophy, but more importantly perhaps, the range of responses ...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
The Iris Murdoch Review has gone to print! Members can read it online from today if they just can't wait for the hard copy. Non-members can purchase one for £15, or simply join the Society.
irismurdochsociety.org.uk/product/iris...
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I only started reading Iris Murdoch in the last year or so, and maybe it's too late to be truly changed by a book but her work is thoughtful, human, restorative and readable for pleasure in a way I'd recommend to anyone.
November 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I only started reading Iris Murdoch in the last year or so, and maybe it's too late to be truly changed by a book but her work is thoughtful, human, restorative and readable for pleasure in a way I'd recommend to anyone.
We're looking forward to being in Rome soon!
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
We're looking forward to being in Rome soon!
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What can Iris Murdoch's philosophy teach us about ethics today?
The Monist is seeking papers that go beyond close reading—bringing Murdoch’s ideas into dialogue with contemporary moral philosophy.
Submission deadline February 1st, 2026: oxford.ly/47LmkW8
The Monist is seeking papers that go beyond close reading—bringing Murdoch’s ideas into dialogue with contemporary moral philosophy.
Submission deadline February 1st, 2026: oxford.ly/47LmkW8
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What can Iris Murdoch's philosophy teach us about ethics today?
The Monist is seeking papers that go beyond close reading—bringing Murdoch’s ideas into dialogue with contemporary moral philosophy.
Submission deadline February 1st, 2026: oxford.ly/47LmkW8
The Monist is seeking papers that go beyond close reading—bringing Murdoch’s ideas into dialogue with contemporary moral philosophy.
Submission deadline February 1st, 2026: oxford.ly/47LmkW8
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This is brilliant. Iris Murdoch and her beer mat collection :)
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This is brilliant. Iris Murdoch and her beer mat collection :)
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@oldenoughtosay.com yesterday I came across an old Iris Murdoch essay on drinking in Oxford as a female Don in the early 50s. Thought it might pique your interest. Was in Cryil Ray's Compleat Imbiber no.2.
November 9, 2025 at 9:54 AM
@oldenoughtosay.com yesterday I came across an old Iris Murdoch essay on drinking in Oxford as a female Don in the early 50s. Thought it might pique your interest. Was in Cryil Ray's Compleat Imbiber no.2.
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November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Congratulations to @irismurdoch.bsky.social on the posthumous publication of Iris Murdoch's poetry collection 'Poems from an Attic'
November 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Congratulations to @irismurdoch.bsky.social on the posthumous publication of Iris Murdoch's poetry collection 'Poems from an Attic'
Launch! Tomorrow! In Chichester!
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Launch! Tomorrow! In Chichester!
Happy Publication Day to 'Poems from an Attic' from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social!
Here's a new podcast with the editors and our friends at Chatto and Windus: soundcloud.com/user-5488042...
Here's a new podcast with the editors and our friends at Chatto and Windus: soundcloud.com/user-5488042...
Poems from an Attic Podcast
In this episode Miles is joined by Anne Rowe (University of Chichester/Kingston), Rachel Hirschler (Kinston University) and Rosanna Hilyard (Chatto & Windus) to celebrate the publication of 'Poems fro
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November 6, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Happy Publication Day to 'Poems from an Attic' from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social!
Here's a new podcast with the editors and our friends at Chatto and Windus: soundcloud.com/user-5488042...
Here's a new podcast with the editors and our friends at Chatto and Windus: soundcloud.com/user-5488042...
Even more on Murdoch's poetry! This time courtesy of The Daily Telegraph.
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Five poems to read on your coffee break
Welcome to The Telegraph’s new series, where we’ll publish a new poem for you to enjoy every week
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November 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Even more on Murdoch's poetry! This time courtesy of The Daily Telegraph.
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t...
www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-t...
Full details for the Eleventh International Iris Murdoch conference have been released!
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Details and more here: irismurdochsociety.org.uk/events/
CFP: irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2025/11/04/1...
irismurdochsociety.org.uk/event/12thco...
Details and more here: irismurdochsociety.org.uk/events/
CFP: irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2025/11/04/1...
Twelfth International Iris Murdoch Conference, University of Chichester, 14–16 August 2026 - The Iris Murdoch Society
The Eleventh International Conference on Iris Murdoch studies will take place at the University of Chichester in 2024. The conference will showcase ongoing, and published, Murdoch scholarship with a p...
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November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Full details for the Eleventh International Iris Murdoch conference have been released!
irismurdochsociety.org.uk/event/12thco...
Details and more here: irismurdochsociety.org.uk/events/
CFP: irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2025/11/04/1...
irismurdochsociety.org.uk/event/12thco...
Details and more here: irismurdochsociety.org.uk/events/
CFP: irismurdochsociety.org.uk/2025/11/04/1...