'Since when,' he asked,
'Are the first and last line of any poem
Where the poem begins and ends?'

#seamusheaney

ILMC S2 E12 : romans islandais avec Éric Boury - Radio Campus Tours - 99.5 FM Janvier 2026 : le grand traducteur de l’islandais, qui s’apprête à publier pas moins de quatre traductions au cours des trois prochains mois, était de passage en Touraine dans le cadre des rencontres ...

Lundi dernier, RCT a diffusé la 12e émission de la saison, un entretien avec le grand traducteur Éric Boury, qui publie ces jours-ci deux livres, un d'Arnaldur Indriðason et un de Hallgrímur Helgason.

N'hésitez pas à aller écouter et à commenter ici !

www.radiocampustours.com/emissions/il...

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spartan: Spies and Spycraft in Ancient Greece Podcast Episode · Instant Classics · 15/01/2026 · 43m

The new Instant Classics on ancient undercover operations but we also explore why writing itself could seem so dangerous! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

The best books of 2025 We read over 110 books in 2025. Possibly too many? Here’s the top of the tops.

my list of the finest books of 2025 (Fiction, Non Fiction & Memoir) for Shortlist feat. @vincenzo.bsky.social @olgaravn.bsky.social @benpester.bsky.social @michaelpedersen.bsky.social @leaypi.bsky.social @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social @nicklowles.bsky.social

www.shortlist.com/books/the-be...

Poetry Workshops with Rebecca Sharp
17 & 24 Jan, Arbroath – free, ticketed

Led by poet & playwright Rebecca Sharp, these workshops will explore the ways stories are preserved, forgotten, or reinvented – from history to legends & folklore. No experience needed.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-wor...

Test reads: Scottish Speculative Fiction Panel with Christopher Caldwell, Angie Spoto, and Lorraine Wilson, chaired by Elaine GallagherThursday, 22 January, 7PM Waterstones Glasgow Argyle Street Pictured are Christopher Caldwell, Angie Spoto, Lorraine Wilson, and their respective books

People in and near Glasgow, I’m thrilled to participate in this panel on Scottish Speculative Fiction next month at Waterstones Glasgow Argyle Street!
Tickets available via link:

www.waterstones.com/events/an-ev...

A very interesting excerpt, that also suggests how agents’ archives can help to reveal what goes on “behind the scene”.

Nick Richardson · Puffing on the Coals: Alchemical Art Chemical reactions reflect human dramas, which reflect celestial movements, which reflect the mind of the divine. The...

‘Paracelsus, a vicious critic of Galenic doctors (“a misbegotten crew of approved asses”), transformed the field of alchemy by instructing his peers to make medicines, not gold.’

Nick Richardson on alchemy.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Word of the day is ‘fanfaronade’ (19th century): to strut and swagger about as if you own the stage.

Clare Bucknell · At the Museo Byron: Byron and Teresa What must it have been like to live cheek by jowl with the man you’d cuckolded? In the early 19th century, for a woman...

‘The cavalier existence, rule-bound and closely surveilled, was often dull. The “hot-blooded aristocratic rebel” side of Byron must have been frustrated. “Nobody has been stabbed this winter,” he wrote in March 1820.’

Clare Bucknell on Byron’s stint in Ravenna:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

YouTube video by The Scot-Craft Podcast Pictish Shorts Episode 5- With Daniel MacLean

New year, new mini-podcast interview, this time with archaeologist and Burghead dig veteran @danielmaclean.bsky.social. Some great insights from Dan on the majestic Nigg cross-slab, recent Pictish discoveries at Burghead and Birsay, and an overlooked sculpture fragment from Dores on Loch Ness.

Delighted that my next novel Richard Heart Julianne will be coming out on the mighty @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social next year.

Hope you enjoy it. I loved writing it.

✒️ Poetry Ireland Review (issue 148, theme of 'home') is open for submissions until 28th Feb
@poetryireland.bsky.social
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Brilliant news. Congrats to @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social and @ronanhession.bsky.social. What a partnership!

The first BBC Radio 4 Bookclub of the year was a great chat with Leonard and Hungry Paul author Ronan Hession - listen again here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... @ronanhession.bsky.social

I am one of the mentors on this programme.

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Deadline approaching!

Maggie O’Farrell’s #HAMNET, shortlisted for the 2021 #WalterScottPrize, comes to screens next month. We begin our archive delve with O’Farrell telling the story behind the tragedy of the Shakespeares' son, starting with an insight into their marriage. See the full interview
https://loom.ly/oXYli3c

My kids start sentences in one language and end in another. I hope school doesn’t shrink their joyous, noisy worlds | Shadi Khan Saif Maybe there’s room for something gentler: letting children know they don’t need to change any part of themselves to belong

Translanguaging in action - a powerful illustration.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Italian blasphemy and German ingenuity: how swear words differ around the world Once dismissed as a sign of low intelligence, researchers now argue the ‘power’ of taboo words has been overlooked

Swearwords, unlike other parts of vocabulary, can be used both positively or negatively.

Thank fuck for that.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

‘People living here are horrified’: Irish-language signs vandalised in affluent east Belfast The PSNI describe it as ‘hate-motivated criminal damage’, while a TUV member calls it ‘probably the most predictable crime in Northern Ireland’

‘People living here are horrified’: Irish-language signs vandalised in affluent east Belfast

László Krasznahorkai, prix Nobel de littérature : «Une rencontre salvatrice» pour sa traductrice française Joëlle Dufeuilly raconte sa passion pour la langue hongroise et pour les textes empreints «de compassion, de musicalité et d’humour» signés par l’écrivain qu’elle a découvert en 1996.

László Krasznahorkai, prix Nobel de littérature : «Une rencontre salvatrice» pour sa traductrice française

Joëlle Dufeuilly raconte sa passion pour la langue hongroise et pour les textes empreints «de compassion, de musicalité et d’humour» signés par l’écrivain

Poste de lecteur·ice à l'Université de Bourgogne Europe (IUT), 2025-2026

https://saesfrance.org/poste-de-lecteur%c2%b7ice-a-luniversite-de-bourgogne-europe-iut-2025-2026/

Compte-rendu de la table ronde avec la section 11 du CNU, 3 octobre 2025

https://saesfrance.org/compte-rendu-de-la-table-ronde-avec-la-section-11-du-cnu-3-octobre-2025/

Tories set a low bar after misspelling Britain on conference chocolate

Voici 5 articles ou reportages à propos des #USA qui ont retenu mon attention ce mercredi 10 septembre 25 au matin.
(Vue de Los Angeles c.1900, University of Colorado Library)

Voici 5 articles ou reportages à propos des #USA qui ont retenu mon attention ce lundi 8 septembre 2025 au matin.
(Caricature de la pieuvre de Standard Oil, Puck, 1904)

Pour tous les collègues qui préparent les etudiant/e/s au nouveau #capes anglais de L3, le président du jury du capes vient de répondre à mon mail: l’épreuve 1 correspond bien au sujet 0 du site institutionnel
Je répète l’épreuve 1 correspond au sujet 0 😉

Poste de contractuel·le à l'Université d'Artois, 2025-2026

https://saesfrance.org/poste-de-contractuel%c2%b7le-a-luniversite-dartois-2025-2026-2/