Tim Youngs

Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...

📖 Forthcoming this month, a new book from our colleague, Dr Gareth Roddy (@grod.bsky.social), "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940." Pre-order your copy now from @uolpress.bsky.social!
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Deadline to submit proposals is a month away! Don't miss the boat!

Very grateful to the TG Gallery, Nottingham, for having hosted 'Gurminder Sikand: Paintings and Drawings, 1994-2017'. Delighted to have seen Gurminder's art there again, four years after 'The Weaver of Songs', her exhibition of drawings from 2018-21, which closed just weeks before her passing.

Curious Travellers are delighted to be partnering with the long-running Liverpool Travel Seminar to host an Early Career Symposium dedicated to ‘Journeys of Curiosity’

Bluecoat, Liverpool, 25/09. Free (including lunch), registration by September 19th

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It was great to see you, Becky. Thanks for visiting the show.

Viatica, HS 8, 2025 : La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique (dir. Yvan Daniel & Alain Romestaing Viatica, HS 8 | 2025 : La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique Sous la direction de Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing   Dossier Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing Introduction [Texte intégral] ...

(cont.) ... Davide Vago, Odile Gannier, Pierre Schoentjes, Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Nina Rocipon et Haila Koo. www.fabula.org/actualites/1... Aussi, comptes rendus des livres de Catherine Pinguet, Jean-Jacques Bavoux, Christina Kullberg, Eva Johanna Holmberg et Philippe Antoine - Gilles Louÿs (dirs).

Vient de paraître: numéro hors-série 8 de la revue Viatica, intitulé "La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique". Dirigé par Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing, articles par Sylvie Requemora, Anne-Gaëlle Weber, Daniel López, Virginie Teller, Pascale Auraix-Jonchière, Philippe Antoine (cont.)

Balkan Quartet Published in Studies in Travel Writing (Ahead of Print, 2025)

On the extraordinary Balkan quartet by Kapka Kassabova: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Funded by a Leverhulme Research Project Grant, Rosemary Sweet and @richardjansell.bsky.social's new book explores a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to Europe. Read now: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun...

Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages to Open at The Getty - Medievalists.net The Getty Center will present Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages from September 2 to November 30, 2025, exploring medieval journeys through rare manuscripts, pilgrimages, trade, and imaginative…

Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages to Open at @gettymuseum.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/08/goin... #medievalmanuscripts #travel #getty

We are delighted to announce the longlist for our Michael Murphy Poetry Prize! englishassociation.ac.uk/michael-murp...
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​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 🗃️

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

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