Jeremy Noel-Tod

Tough -- that's true neighbourliness though

I cannot overstress how fucking constantly we were working

Honestly, I will not be content until we get a 5 way split at 19% each and the various regional parties splitting the other 5%

At the

Thanks, Christopher! That’s the edition I first read Bunting in.

It’s notable that Eliot tended not to reprint his early prose on American subjects, as he cultivated a British audience. But there are interesting things in the Complete Prose, such as his pieces on Marianne Moore.

Pinks #40: How It Feels Rubbing Down a Gravestone Personal insights into a poetic masterpiece

I wrote about Basil Bunting’s modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts — published 60 years ago this month — and what I learned from the poet’s own comments on his poem

He says some pretty dubious things about culture and ‘blood’ in the Thirties — not just the notorious quote — but he was too much of a Europhile to reduce America to this

Even T.S. Eliot would have called bullshit on this

Two signs pointing right. Top sign says, "Brigflatts". Bottom sign says, "Friends Meeting House 1675". Blue skies above.

From Tottenham Court Road to old Northumbria,
insights from Bunting on his "long modernist poem Briggflatts" (as in the Quaker meeting house) beautifully captured by @jntod.bsky.social.

(Hearty thanks to @longbarrowpress.bsky.social for sharing.)

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Glad you enjoyed it! If you want to hear more, there are some complete recordings here. The first Briggflatts links you come to on the page don't seem to work anymore unfortunately, but the ones further down do writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/...

I would like to -- I didn't realise it was so close to the Lakes

Pinks #40: How It Feels Rubbing Down a Gravestone Personal insights into a poetic masterpiece

I wrote about Basil Bunting’s modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts — published 60 years ago this month — and what I learned from the poet’s own comments on his poem

emerald fennell’s the ragged-trousered philanthropists

After a Night in Camelot and Arden The life of Patience Strong, England's best-selling modern poet

I wrote about Patience Strong, almost certainly the best-selling English poet of the twentieth century, who wrote six poems a week for the Daily Mirror (all on a Monday morning) as well as a hit song, greeting cards and calendars, and whose print runs were in the 100,000s

A love poem for Valentine's Day from my new book, "Dirt Rich"

My Norwich Heart I bought my heart by City Hall For pennies on a market stall And in my happiness I made An Eden of the Royal Arcade I schooled my heart at UEA (It took the Poetry MA) And soon my hard heart overflowed With feelings for the Dereham Road I lost my heart on Waterloo Park Avenue, and so did you, The day we went from Mile Cross To Heartsease on the ring road bus

On Valentines Day, a poem to the city he loves, by Norwich poet Ron Nevett

BrewDog owners call time on craft beer pioneer The producer of Punk IPA and Elvis Juice has called in AlixPartners to run a sale process which could prompt the break-up of one of Scotland's best-known consumer businesses, Sky News learns.

A curse is lifted from the Earth

Let’s say three million people get a sense of fulfilment and security. But woah woah woah, I’m *maybe* losing out an essentially theoretical £8-9k? Deals off Keir!

USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The ...

I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
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Now this is what I call an honest-to-goodness proper old-fashioned committed-to-the-bit thread

Loved his mountain railways, didn’t know about this side of him

Met more than one young artist visiting London recently who'd been really anxious beforehand, as they'd seen so much on social media about it being a crime-ridden hellhole. They then proceeded to have an unexpectedly lovely time in one of the world's great cities, but it is actually just really sad.

it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks

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And there is one specifically about the chaos that ensues from a trip to get some milk

Joan Aiken's Annabel and Mortimer stories still stand up as zany adventures

When your research topic is mentioned four times in the index