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Watching Eyes Wide Shut in a cinema that used to be the home of Louis XIV’s doctor is somehow very appropriate.

For the latest episode of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, I talk to Katharine Towers 🍃 about Elizabeth Bishop’s influence on her writing & in particular Katharine’s new poem ‘Elizabeth Bishop’s Sad Epitaph’. What can we say about solitude as a creative force? twowaypoetry.podbean.com

I’ve probably had worst days at work, but I can’t remember one.

academia is just making mental notes on how you don’t want to behave when you become a professor and then never becoming a professor

Golden threads don’t always lead you out of the labyrinth

Mixed day doesn’t tell the half of it!

A plague on Reviewer 2s and all your "helpful" feedback which yes, I do find "disappointing."

NO ACADEMIC outside the UK thinks that the REF is a good idea, or indeed, that it has any international significance ...

The last time there was an "America First" rally at Madison Square Garden, in 1939:

Apparently 16 is the magic number!

Being invited to workshops on how to boost my institution’s reputation at the same time as research time is being cut and teaching loads increased is… a bit much imho.

BREAKING: The majority of universities in the UK

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

Listening to Joan Baez is all I can do this morning. Love & solidarity to all my friends in the US.

Staff pass motion of no confidence in UEA Probably no UK #university management has the confidence of its staff anymore There have been too many betrayals, too many mistakes, too much pain ... & too much money paid to the talentless bbc.com/news/articles/…

Not this Jonathan, unfortunately.

Celebrate Taylor Swift's 35th birthday with a literary deep dive into the lyrics of some of her biggest hits, featuring Amber Regis Jonathan Ellis and Katherine Ebury offtheshelf.org.uk/event/analysin…

Why academia is sleepwalking into self-destruction. My editorial Brain If you agree with the sentiments please RT. It's important for all our sakes to stop the madness academic.oup.com/brain/issue/14…

Applying for PIP for my mum was not easy. If you’re lucky enough not to need benefits don’t stereotype those who do. The idea that the UK is overly generous to disabled people is ridiculous.