Reposted by Bill TinleyOrkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 2ha short poem name like when we meet a bovine and we say 'hi coo' #NationalPoetryDay #Haiku 1026461
Reposted by Bill TinleyDavid Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 6hFriends, come and talk to me about Irish poetry in Aberdeen and we can catch up over a single malt or two. www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...abdn.ac.ukCall for Papers: Alas Yes: Irish Poetry After Heaney, 20-21 February 2027 044
Reposted by Bill TinleyDavid Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 18hToday is International Translation Day - this poem is about language, inheritance, & the emotional labour of a poet writing in English for a mother whose language is Spanish Translation is not a technical exercise but a metaphor for a child’s role to interpret for the parent #poetry #poemoftheday 2336
Reposted by Bill TinleyLiam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Léiriú haiku amuigh faoin aer i nGaeilge agus i mBéarla agus rannpháirtíocht an phobail ann. Join us for a haiku reading in Irish and English with Liam Carson – featuring a gingko, or haiku walk, in which the audience will be invited to compose their own haiku.dublinbookfestival.comTrí Mhionlíne / Three Little Lines - Dublin Book FestivalJoin a bilingual Irish and English haiku walking tour with Liam Carson 083
Bill Tinley @btin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I have to confess I can't get past the sans serif. Why would you want your novel to look like a washing-machine instruction manual? I'm curious about Cusk but this piece wouldn't encourage me to bump her up the TBR list. @john-self.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...theguardian.comCelebrity, sex and motherhood misery: the 10 best books by Rachel Cusk … ranked!From an abstract portrait of an actor who might be Natalie Portman to a groundbreaking work of autofiction, we rate the best from the coolly controversial author 100
Reposted by Bill TinleyIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 09/09/20269yo boy gets the essence of the Scottish Play 06621
Reposted by Bill TinleyEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Want to hear about some of the amazing rewilding projects happening across Ireland, and what we can learn from overseas, especially Scotland and Costa Rica? My new book 'Setting the Land Free - Visions of a Rewilded Ireland' launches tomorrow (Wednesday) in @waterstones.bsky.social Cork at 6.30. 10406103
Reposted by Bill TinleyTristan Bouchard @tristanbouchard.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A Bach prelude for your morning ☀️ The way this flows and maintains its rhythmic structure almost feels like a meditation. Be well my friends 🎹 Prelude in C, BWV 846 - J.S. Bach 1652248382
Reposted by Bill TinleyIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026RIP Wendell Berry. I've thought about this poem. 'Our Real Work', a lot since starting on Confluence with @julietgutch It reminds me of Paul Valéry : “Une difficulté est une lumière. Une difficulté insurmontable est un soleil." : “A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun”. 011234
Reposted by Bill TinleyEoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Light as a living, dancing, entity. And just listen to the rhythmic sounds... 526445
Bill Tinley @btin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comThese 20 Words Are Worth a Thousand PicturesPeople-watchers, trainspotters and A.O. Scott agree: Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” is one of the shortest great poems in English. 000
Reposted by Bill TinleyIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Thanks Matthew Lyons for this invitation to join The Writer's Bookshelf and think aloud (on paper) and talk about my new project among other things. 0106
Reposted by Bill TinleyMassimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The Game of Thrones theme was composed by Ramin Djawadi, who is of Iranian descent. Hearing this melody played with Persian instruments and the daf drum is absolutely beautiful. Original post 591978504
Reposted by Bill TinleyMichael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/08/202670yr old FRED ASTAIRE — that's SEVENTY — gets his stylish groove on at the 1970 Academy Awards. 2885424968
Reposted by Bill TinleyThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Couldn’t make it up if we tried 48569111777
Reposted by Bill TinleyYaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Every time I see one of his works, I cannot help walking around it again and again. I saw this one today. 🇺🇦 Nazar Bilyk The Space Around Us 2018 Bronze Watch till the end. 2940562
Bill Tinley @btin.bsky.social · 10/08/2026open.substack.com/pub/themadri...open.substack.comThe Punch That Ended a Friendship: Vargas Llosa, García Márquez and the Secret They Took to the GraveA new biography of Mario Vargas Llosa revisits the extraordinary friendship behind one of the most famous ruptures in modern literary history. By James Hartley. 040
Bill Tinley @btin.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Discovered this creature on a walk in Donadea Forest this morning. Apparently it's a hazel dormouse. It might be of interest to @chrisgpackham.bsky.social. I have a few video clips but they won't load here. 020
Reposted by Bill TinleyMatthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I'm the Guest Poetry Editor for the October issue of The Madrid Review. Subs are now open and I look forward to reading your poems...! themadridreview.substack.com/p/submission...themadridreview.substack.comSubmissions for the October edition are open!Please spread the message far and wide and we'd love to read your work from wherever you are in the world! 27029
Bill Tinley @btin.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Having breakfast outside this morning, I turned on Merlin to verify if that was a bullfinch I could hear. (It was - I'm learning!) But when the recording ended, it had picked up a long-eared owl. In Maynooth. Is that possible? Maybe @birdwatchireland.bsky.social might know? 000
Reposted by Bill TinleyPup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 21/07/2026“Don’t worry Ringo. We can edit him out later” 351312277
Reposted by Bill TinleyAndreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 #AbolishICE, #SlavaUkraini @andreasor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026David Pakman: #SenileSatan woudn't leave. #WorldCup #Spain 52154891689
Reposted by Bill TinleyIan Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Very grateful to Steve Whitaker at The Yorkshire Times for this look at my poem 'Marky'. The Irish proverb epigraph translates as 'It is often a man's mouth broke his nose'. 1182
Bill Tinley @btin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Completely agree. What are they on now - the 21st package of sanctions? Death by a thousand bureaucratic cuts. Every day of failure is counted in lost lives. 000
Bill Tinley @btin.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Startling bird population decline figures. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comListen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 yearsGuardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost 031
Reposted by Bill TinleyRandyLand @randyland65.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Global warming is real .... just slow 36989293217
Reposted by Bill TinleyDaniel @15letters.net · 15/06/2026Leeds fans everywhere nodding their heads. “Yep. That’s our dude.” #LUFC 532692514
Reposted by Bill Tinleywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Early women pioneers of climbing such as Lucy Walker, the first woman to summit the notorious Matterhorn mountain in 1871 all wore skirts on their climbs..... #WomensArt 26898183
Reposted by Bill TinleyAlexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Freedom 250 sounds fun www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... 26910209
Reposted by Bill TinleyOlena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 03/06/2026During russia's attack on Kyiv on June 2, Veronika, a mother of two was killed while running with her children to a shelter. Her sons, aged 2 and 4, were taken to Okhmatdyt children's hospital. The mother did everything she could to save her children. She did not survive. 💔 Source: Suspilne, TSN. 1217390
Reposted by Bill TinleyYaroslava @strategywoman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026While we are being warned of a possible night attack, I want to turn to Ukrainian poetry. Poems by Ukrainian poet and servicewoman Yaryna Chornohuz will be published in the US by Arrowsmith Press this autumn. 211293315
Reposted by Bill Tinleywomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak, Birds from the Sea (1960) #WomensArt 3865146
Reposted by Bill TinleyMichael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s... 447188326433
Reposted by Bill TinleyJohn Self @john-self.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Love this book, and Armitage's is one of the best in it. Geoff Dyer's is great too, where he complains about not being asked to contribute to the book. "I could turn it around quite quickly and would not require a fee." 3195
Reposted by Bill TinleyLed By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 17/05/2026Immigration make Britain brilliant 510139224210
Reposted by Bill TinleyTrëy @quiksnowboard7.bsky.social · 08/05/2026#MusicHistory On this day 1984, Bob Marley’s iconic greatest hits compilation Legend was released on Island Records. Legend is the best-selling reggae album of all time, certified 18× Platinum in the US. It logged 885 nonconsecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 (2nd only to Dark Side of the Moon). 39760128
Reposted by Bill TinleyRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Gustav Klimt was 17 years old in 1879 when he drew (with charcoal and black chalk) this portrait of a young girl. His superb technical ability as a draughtsman is evident even as a teenager in the way he uses shadow to create a three-dimensional picture on paper. 23674281120
Reposted by Bill TinleyChairman Moët @chairmanmoet.bsky.social · 05/05/2026I keep on seeing Putin described as "paranoid" but all the things he's reportedly worried about happening seem fairly rational and realistic to me. 1161602176
Reposted by Bill TinleyDavid Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 02/05/2026I love how this poem moves from funny to serious I've seen this. The bar in Belfast International Airport. We heard the alarm, could smell the smoke & sat on & finished our pints. I have witnessed the second half of the poem too. It's time to pour our pints on the fire #Poetry #Poemoftheday 201215485
Reposted by Bill TinleyBryan Behar @bryanbehar.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Never have 4 people more wished they were still in the deepest, darkest recesses of outer space. 842190433043
Reposted by Bill TinleyDavid Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 01/05/2026An essay collection on the poetry of Michael Longley, out around now I believe. I contribute a chapter on Longley and ‘the west’. wfupress.wfu.edu/books/poetry... 072
Reposted by Bill TinleyArgyllanderⓋ🏴🇪🇺😷 @argyllander.bsky.social · 30/04/2026If done by UKGov, the project would get talked about for 5 years, the consultation would cost £20B then we'd end up with with a single 1 mile segment of solar panels being installed on the railtrack paid for by the taxpayer with all electricity profits privatised. 4973
