Francis Ittenbach

My fortnightly online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' begins on Wed 1st Oct, 7-9pm.

Numbers are capped to allow a small group experience, and there are still a few places left. More information and booking details here.

www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...

21.09.2025 17:56 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

"The Sorrow of Love," written by W.B. Yeats in 1893 and first published in his collection "The Rose."

Support the mission of the International Yeats Society by becoming a member today! internationalyeatssociety.org/members/

#poetry #yeats #irishliterature #supportthearts

14.09.2025 18:32 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely worth a follow, support, and read. Wonderful writer.

10.09.2025 18:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The back and front jacket of 'The Blue Hour' by Angelina D'Roza, white text against vertical bands of bluish colour, set against a background of green silken folds.

"You can’t make taro edible without a little work. Look how lovely this pestle with the bird’s head handle, its wings in the wind. How much like today with its worn-smooth stone. You touch me without purpose as I walk by. The bird in its extraneousness."

longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

01.09.2025 13:26 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely brilliant! So looking forward to this book.

24.07.2025 15:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Yesterday I officially submitted my PhD dissertation — I am now Dr. Ittenbach!

05.07.2025 18:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Submitted a full draft of my doctoral dissertation to my committee today. Feels absolutely wild. Celebrated with BBQ, just like my dad back in the day when he did the same.

17.05.2025 01:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A truly fantastic book by an exceptional poet (and Press!)

19.04.2025 19:59 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

In case you were looking to backup your kindle books (since Amazon is removing the option to download them on the 26th), this script works quite well in minimizing the click-pain of downloading them individually:

gist.github.com/spf13/1fee1e...

19.02.2025 14:21 — 👍 134    🔁 57    💬 34    📌 10

David Trotter · Don’t go quietly: Ken Loach’s Fables It's largely thanks to Loach's example that social realism remains a potent and versatile cultural resource for young...

‘The solace he seeks is to be found not in nature, but in a removal of nature from nature mediated by cultural exchange, by the gathering of information.’

David Trotter on Ken Loach:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

02.02.2025 13:42 — 👍 56    🔁 18    💬 0    📌 0

The Villager | Tom Cox | Substack New writing on landscape, music, books, folklore, psychedelia, the natural world and other misty magical things outside the mainstream. Click to read The Villager, by Tom Cox, a Substack publication w...

My publishers are now seven (!) months overdue paying me. I've been kindly asked by a few readers how they can help.

Best of all is a paid subscription to my Substack: tomcox.substack.com

If you cannot afford that, I've set up this link on my site: tom-cox.com/support-toms...

Thank you!
Tom

30.01.2025 12:58 — 👍 48    🔁 22    💬 3    📌 1

Producer/Director Aoife McArdle is a graduate of The School of English at Trinity. The aesthetic is so Arts Building.

17.01.2025 18:41 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 4    📌 0

Lifelines: new book announcement! I’m extremely delighted to announce that I have a new book on the way, which will be published in the UK on May 15th and in a North American edition in Spring 2026. Regular readers of my blog…

My next book, LIFELINES, will be published this spring, so I thought I'd put together a short post about it. It's a story, in part, about a place where three countries meet around two ancient lakes. And where pelicans, people, borders and bears share the watershed. julian-hoffman.com/2025/01/10/l...

12.01.2025 17:15 — 👍 73    🔁 22    💬 8    📌 7

Wondering what took me so long to read R.S. Thomas

08.01.2025 20:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1

Tonight’s New Year. The weatherman
forecasts a bone-cold ten below,
but now you cling to heat and skin
to banish auguries of snow.

'The Last Day of the Year', Chris Jones, in the 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology. You can download the PDF here:
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08.01.2025 18:51 — 👍 18    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 4

portal

portal

portal

portal

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the UK countryside is teeming with interdimensional portals. All you have to do is look hard enough for them.

03.01.2025 19:13 — 👍 283    🔁 63    💬 7    📌 0

Still absolutely wild to have my poetry in a real, held-in-hand book

04.01.2025 18:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Apocalyptic Landscape – Valley Press – Independent Publishing Poems from the Expressionist Poetry Workshop Pre-order: delivery expected October 2024 The poems in this anthology emerged from a creative writing short course devised by Steve Ely, entitled 'Writi...

Apocalyptic Landscape. Available for pre-order from Valley Press. www.valleypressuk.com/preorder/p/a...

08.08.2024 18:44 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

POETRY COMPETITION: I'm inviting submissions based on a short-course I've devised called 'Apocalyptic Landscape Writing'. Materials can be accessed here: research.hud.ac.uk/media/assets.... The idea is for poets to choose a landscape and write a response to it that might be construed as apocalyptic.

11.01.2024 14:12 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0