Tim Youngs

​A screenshot of a map showing the route of an overnight walk from Kirk Sandall to Goole, via the River Don Navigation, the New Junction Canal, the Aire and Calder Navigation and the Dutch River.

​An overnight walk from Kirk Sandall to Goole, via the River Don Navigation, the New Junction Canal, the Aire and Calder Navigation and the Dutch River, 6.30pm Friday 25 July to 5.30am Saturday 26 July.

An improvised, illustrated thread of uncertain length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/

Challenging maps and exploration symposium Join us for a day of expert panels discussing the connections, historical and contemporary, between maps and exploration.

Book your place for the FREE symposium, Challenging Maps & Exploration, @rgsibg.bsky.social 30 Oct!

Sponsored by The Sunderland Collection, the event is hybrid & features experts talking about #maps and 'exploration (historic & contemporary), Indigeneity, empire, & more.

#skystorians 🗃️

If you're working on female travellers or travel writers anywhere in Eurasia between the 11th and 16th centuries CE, we'll want to hear from you! #medievalsky

My latest, The Invention of Colonialism, is FREE TO DOWNLOAD for another week:
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I very much enjoyed the preview at the Box, Plymouth, UK, last night of the @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social touring exhibition 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes'. It's on at the Box until 7th Sept. 2025 and I'm delighted that 3 paintings by Gurminder Sikand remain part of it.

Congratulations, Deryn! I'm looking forward to reading it.

There’s Everything to Play For: The Poetry of Peter Finch by Andrew Taylor: A Review There’s Everything to Play For: The Poetry of Peter Finch, Andrew Taylor, Seren Books, 2025, ISBN: 9781781727829, £12.99 Andrew Taylor’s There’s Everything to Play For is intended as a companion to…

My review of Andrew Taylor's There’s Everything to Play For: The Poetry of Peter Finch now live. Thanks to @serenbooks.bsky.social for sending it my way.

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Very much enjoyed the Ken Kiff exhibition at the Hales Gallery, London (on until 24th May 2025). Kiff was one of Gurminder Sikand's favourite artists.

This cover shows a blurred image of a women in a 1920s style black dress standing in front of a patterned wall. The text reads: Hotel Amour. Deryn Rees-Jones

Coming soon: We’re excited to reveal the stunning cover for ‘Hôtel Amour’, Deryn Rees-Jones’, highly anticipated follow up to her T.S. Eliot shortlisted collection ‘Erato’. Publishing on 7 July 2025. Pre-order at www.serenbooks.com/book/hotel-a... @notjustdancing.bsky.social

Gurminder Sikand's painting, 'Planting' (AKA 'Among Trees C'), 1994, recently acquired by @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social, is reproduced in the book Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscape edited by Eleanor Clayton (Thames & Hudson, 2024)

So pleased that Gurminder Sikand's painting, 'Planting' (AKA 'Among Trees C'), 1994, has entered the collection of @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social

It took me almost nine years to get here. With an absolute dream team, embarrassingly pleasant editorial reviews, and an afterword by the amazing Gerry Heng, all 900 pages will be available in the autumn. #medievalsky www.cambridge.org/us/universit...

Here's a little book I wrote on the invention of English colonialism, just in time for your late summer reading. Out in July. www.cambridge.org/us/universit... #medievalsky

CFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026,
University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social)
Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)

Very pleased to have two poems in issue 27 of Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, and to follow two by @dradny.bsky.social, whose launch of his collection 'European Hymns' inspired the first of mine.

Had a very enjoyable evening giving a talk on Gurminder Sikand's artwork. Great questions and observations.

Delighted to receive today my copy of Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies, eds Samia Ounoughi, Emmanuelle Peraldo, @afquaireau.bsky.social (Routledge, 2025). Very grateful for the keynote invitation that allowed me to be part of it.

New travel-writing prize for women writers! Deadline is end of the month... www.ilseschwepckeprize.co.uk

I learned from and very much enjoyed the conference on W. Somerset Maugham at Le Mans Université and am grateful for the keynote invitation that allowed me to attend.

Pleased to have received my copy of 'Moving Identities
Constructing the Self and the Other in Travel Writing, eds
Winfried Eckel and Sandra Vlasta (Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg) (UWH), for which I'm happy to have supplied the preface.

Glad now to have seen the Tate's touring show 'Women in Revolt!' in all three of its venues, most recently (and until 1st June 2025) at the Whitworth in Manchester, and Gurminder Sikand represented in each. A real pleasure also to have been in the company of the other artists and of curators.

THE LITHIC GATHERING: SHIFTING TEMPORALITIES & MYTHOLOGIES OF RITUAL STONE STRUCTURES - CALL FOR PAPERS

Deadline: Friday 28th March

Response by: Saturday 5th April

Symposium: Friday 16th May @manmetuni.bsky.social

@dcahf-met.bsky.social #academicsky #folklore #stone #myth

Moving Identities: Constructing the Self and the Other in Travel Writing, ed. Winfried Eckel and Sandra Vlasta.
Essays on travel writing in English, French, German, Polish, and Spanish from the 18th to 21st century.
New from Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg.

Our next research seminar is on 11 March (4.30pm)! Please join us to welcome Alison O’Byrne who will present a paper titled ‘Strangers to the City: Travel and Tourism in Eighteenth-Century London’.
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Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley and Kathryn Walchester eds., Microtra... The COVID-19 global pandemic and ensuing lockdowns spurred many investigations into forms of mobility that differ from more conventional journeys. This renewed interest in “vertical travel” has int...

My review of Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley and Kathryn Walchester eds., Microtravel: Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection (Anthem Press,2024) for Viatica is now online. journals.openedition.org/viatica/5098

CfP: The Modernist Long Poem, London, 25 Oct 2025 (cfp d/l 25 Apr 2025) The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century Saturday 25 October 2025 Northeastern University, London Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922),…

I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c...

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We've just published a new paperback edition of Anne Holt's 'Taking a Walk: A History of Recreational Walking in Britain'. We're offering 20% off paperback copies from now through 7th Feb using code 'walkerpb2025' on our site: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #walking #britain

‘There’s a majesty to grief’: TS Eliot poetry prize winner Peter Gizzi The American writer won the prestigious prize for Fierce Elegy, a collection informed by the deaths of his family members. He explains why poetry is like friendship – and why he loves small words

My latest for @theguardian.com; I interviewed the winner of this year's TS Eliot prize, Peter Gizzi: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

In 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed over 70 meetings in Scotland. From 15 January we will begin once more posting about each one on their anniversary, with links to the full texts of newspaper reports of them.