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• Dan Sinykin in Defector on close reading • Nick Ripatrazone in The Metropolitan Review on Henry James and the work of a critic • Victoria Moul on Jack Clemo • Rob Wyllie in The Lamp in memory of of Alasdair MacIntyre 2/2

This passage in the Guardian's MacIntyre obit made me laugh. It captures the disposition of both men well.

Victoria Moul on what is Pindaric about #GeoffreyHill's Pindaric odes: open.substack.com/pub/vamoul/p/b… #ClassicsTwitter

A Monday bonus post over on the s---. Following some conversation about Geoffrey Hill there and elsewhere, I've unlocked and reposted a piece I wrote last year about Hill's Pindarics. Link in bio.

Coming soon to a fence near you: my face. (I'll be in Cambridge next week, as the Whichcote Society Poet in Residence at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to give a reading on Weds and a lecture on Thurs; details in replies. DO COME.)

Over on the s--- today I've written about the spring issues of three UK poetry magazines, with an eye to how you might choose between them. Link in bio.

I'm looking forward to reading this!

Congrats to Boris Dralyuk and all involved with the new issue of Nimrod. A terrific issue.

"Alasdair MacIntyre’s death was the most significant religious news of the week but it is extremely difficult to explain in the context of a news story why he mattered," writes Andrew Brown churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2025/…

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Women who have experienced the debilitating pregnancy sickness condition Hyperemesis Gravidarum have shared their hard-hitting stories for a new free photography exhibition at Science Gallery London 📸 The exhibition runs until Saturday 14 June. Details here👇 kcl.ac.uk/events/the-hid…

Over on the s---- today I've written a piece about Horace, Seneca, Boethius, Wyatt, Surrey, Wootton and the genuinely useful poem. Link in bio.

Featuring; • Morten Høi Jensen in Engelsberg Ideas on Thomas Mann • Derek Neal on a novel by James Lasdun • James Marcus in The New Yorker on Margaret Fuller’s collected work and two titles about her • Victoria Moul on combining Horace and Seneca in early modern English lyric

Today I’ve written about some poems about hawks (with some slightly grumpy asides about the irrelevance of biography). Featuring Skelton, Wyatt, Gunn, Duncan and d’Aubigné. Link in bio.

For lovers of lyric poetry this entire blog is a must.

Polish is the second most spoken language in the United Kingdom and has been for some years, and yet for some reason the huge surge of interest in Polish literature in Britain has yet to arrive? What’s wrong with this country 🇵🇱📚

My article in The Guardian as MPs in Westminster prepare for the final decisive votes this Friday on one of the most consequential laws of our generation theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

This was amazing. We covered everything from Shakespeare’s bilingualism to Basil Bunting. For the last fifteen minutes Victoria Moul recited poems. I get the impression she has memorised hundreds. (When she goes to the dentist she recites Larkin’s ‘Aubade’…!) Coming Monday.

Today over on the s--- I've written about one good (new) poem (by Gregory Leadbetter) and all the other poems it made me think of. Link in bio.

I’m deeply grateful to Victoria Moul for this brilliant piece on my poem ‘Garden Chair’ - as published in Bad Lilies - and its resonance with other poems. A wonderful surprise. The poem could not have found a better reader.