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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 05/04/2026

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

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Elleke Boehmer @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

To see the world whole, look from the far south, using cultural forms like southern stories, poems and music to get you there. My talk, Oxford Literary Festival, 28 March 2026. Thanks to all the lovely people who came along. @princetonupress.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

I decided to start writing in Substack for three reasons: 1. It would be nice to find some people. 2. To try and develop a regular practice. And finally, 3. Because I want to try and let go of some of the perfectionism that prevents me sharing things I've written. open.substack.com/pub/aliceisa...

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On beginnings, theme songs, spring, Caitlin Thomas, and connections

Amit Chaudhuri once talked about trying to write a novel consisting entirely of opening paragraphs.

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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Tomorrow the @royalholloway.bsky.social Poetics Research Centre will be leading live art performances and showcasing poetry films across floors 4 and 5 of @senatehouselib.bsky.social - be sure to drop by for bats, birds, bugs, and books🧡 www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

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Senate House Unbound: A Poetics Research Centre Takeover

Join the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre for an interactive evening of poetry celebrating the Spineless Wonders exhibition.

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

A post about watery forms, more-than-human stories, and what happens when you don’t dilute your watercolour wash sufficiently. substack.com/profile/4184...

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Alice is a poet(ish) (@aliceisapoetish)

A post about watery forms, more-than-human stories, and what happens when you don’t dilute your watercolour wash sufficiently.

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Here is something I didn’t know: while I was writing about Caitlin Thomas writing about Etna erupting, Etna was erupting!

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Poetry Off the Page @poetryoffthepage.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE IS LIVE‼️ We are so looking forward to the very fascinating, very international panels at “Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe” Conference. Check out the complete schedule at popconf2025.univie.ac.at. Wish to attend? Register at tinyurl.com/popglobe. #PoPAroundtheGlobe

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Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe – Advances in Poetry Performance Research

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Maybe you get a ice cube as a souvenir too?

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

It's done. Just about ready to be completely redone. Probably.

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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

We're excited to see that @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social & @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social's research on 'more-than-human stories of Antarctica' is one of the exhibits at the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase. Visitors will be able to craft their own 'more-than-human' story via a story cube.

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

It's possible I might have almost finished my Caitlin Thomas novel. Almost. Like, in the realm of 10 more pages or so to write.

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Was lucky to see this being carved into the wall.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

shout out to the medievalists. they’d have a paleography system for alien comms quicker than you can say STOP DEFUNDING THE GODDAMN HUMANITIES

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Emma Parker @dremmaparker.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Lovely to receive my author’s copy of this brilliant collection, which looks especially beautiful in the winter sun. Congrats @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social & @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

'More-than-human' story-making symposium at @OxLifeWriting 'establishing theoretical, methodological, and ethical sources of inspiration; interrogating issues of practice, aesthetic, and interpretation' #CFP deadline 28 Feb. antarcticstories.web.ox.ac.uk/event/more-h...

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Symposium call for papers

Set out more-than-human story-making as an interdisciplinary field of artistic research, establishing some theoretical, methodological, and ethical sources of inspiration, interrogating issues of prac...

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Do you want to know the best thing about neutrinos, which I have just learned from my son's physics paper? It's that the different types are called 'flavours'. Sometimes, physics is poetry.

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Elleke Boehmer @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Our book is out! Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere. @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social

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Patrick Limb @patchlimb.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm." - Seamus Heaney

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

And also: oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/event/book-l... with @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social First of two Oxford celebrations of our new book, out Dec 2024 with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social This event is 14 Jan at OCLW @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social The next is 23 Jan at the PoCo Seminar @engfac.bsky.social

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Book Launch: Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I have got out of the habit of posting. But this is my new stuff, check it out if you are interested in Antarctica and/or creative practice research. antarcticstories.web.ox.ac.uk If you're in Oxford in April 2025, you might fancy our workshop.

A group of penguins on an iceberg, with the headline: Antarctica more-than-human stories.

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

What Kermit (the frog) is called in ten different countries... 10. Kermit (Denmark) 9. Kermit (France) 8. Kermit (Romania) 7. Kermit (Slovakia) 6. Kermit (Italy) 5. Kermit (Canada) 4. Kermit (Iceland) 3. Kermit (the Netherlands) 2. Kermit (Poland) 1. Gustavo (Spain)

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Julia Lajta-Novak @julialajtanovak.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

Poetry performance researchers! We proudly announce the launch of a new international blog with a focus on theory and methodology: poetryoffthepage.univie.ac.at/blog/ Guest contributions cordially invited. Please spread the word! #spokenword

A screenshot of the Poetry Off the Page blog

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

Probably a long shot. A few years ago I read a short story about the essence or soul a bird (pigeon I think) jumping into the body of a girl just before she died. Told from bird's pov. Anyone recognise this? Please share.

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PoetNotaRockStar @poetnotarockstar.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Ilya Kaminsky on the question of poetry as political witness and resistance from “Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (Garth Greenwell, Poets & Writers March/April 2019)

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Heard about this exhibition, 'The Weight of Words' on R4 this morning. Made me want to a) visit and b) dash out and join an artist's collective. henry-moore.org/whats-on/the....

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The Weight of Words

The Weight of Words is an international group exhibition about the pursuit of poetry by sculptural means.

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Having fun tracking down old friends and new! @lucyallengoss.bsky.social look at you all blue and skyish.

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 23/09/2023

Looking forward to supporting the launch of my friend Cherry Doyle's new collection The Taste of Rain today. offaspress.co.uk/events/ I'll be reading from my MFA manuscript, a long poem in the form of a screenplay. Here it is with some of the works that inspired me.

Printed copy of manuscript, PROCNE, with a stack of books including Olio by Tyehimba Jess; Tarkovsky's writings, films, polaroids; Female Desire in Chaucer by Lucy Allen-Goss; Ovid's Metamorphoses; Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid by; and poetry by Anne Carson, Paisley Rekdal, Fiona Benson, Sandeep Parmar, and Malika Booker.

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Granite Man @granitedhuine.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Yes I know them, we went to Twitter together.

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Today I have written <pause for dramatic music to reach its climax> a paragraph.

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Katherine Collins @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

I have developed a sudden interest in the difference between maps and nautical charts. I'd like to know if there's a good source on these differences, the correct terminology, etc.

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