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Caroline Hett

@carolinehett.bsky.social
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Walk, read, write, swim, garden, sleep.

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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Make a band edible: Fleetwood Big Mac
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Home now after swimming the 2KM Christiansborg Rundt and the Kruger Relay in Copenhagen. Lovely time with friends and family in a beautiful city.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Walking the cobbles of Nyhavn thinking about Samuel Beckett and I pass this. Synchronicity?
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
This seems the perfect day for us all to read Julian Stannard’s excellent poem The University of Lanyard #Lanyard
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 12/08/2026
They should have timed Starmer's resignation for the moment of the eclipse, like some sort of ancient portent.
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wendy cloudberry @wendycloudberry.com · 16/05/2025
Delightful light night reading: From 1999, letters Samuel Beckett and Ernie Bushmiller exchanged over four months in 1952-1953:
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The Beckett/Bushmiller Letters | The American Reader
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/07/2026
‘It’s a national reclamation’: the 12-year festival bringing Samuel Beckett back to Ireland
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‘It’s a national reclamation’: the 12-year festival bringing Samuel Beckett back to Ireland
The playwright has long been considered one of the country’s most famous exports, but not an ‘Irish writer’. An ambitious new season of plays explores his complex relationship with his homeland – and tickets are already on sale for 2036
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Vase of flowers from the garden, everything apart from the cotinus grown from seed. My garden would like some rain now please.
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I wrote about how the young Andy Burnham's admiration for Philip Larkin was all part of his grand plan to rule the UK
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"Little Englandism of the Left"
How Andy Burnham's bid for power started with Philip Larkin
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Happy Days, Act II on Derrynane beach.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Michael Hofmann accompanied me to the lido.
Michael Hofmann accompanied me to the lido.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I love the way Michael Hofmann describes Wallace Stevens as “the Matisse among poets” and “imitating a whole orchestra, not despising the triangle.” (Behind the Lines by Michael Hofmann, published by Faber & Faber.)
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Today at the lido: 18 degrees in the water. Cycled 10KM here and about to cycle the 10KM home after a gorgeous swim. Forgot to bring a sandwich.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
After two months using the leisure centre’s sweat-drenched yoga mats, I finally rested my third eye on my own mat.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Christmas treats.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Happy birthday to William Blake and to me.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
Holy Trinity Church in Blythburgh is very special to me. Such a joy to find Humphrey Jennings—my latest poetry crush— looking at the same rafters in his poem ‘Blythburgh’.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
Dreamt I was with Humphrey Jennings on the terrace at Tate Modern. HJ was filming Hieronymous Bosch’s Ascent of the Blessed against the backdrop of St Paul’s at night. It was my job to turn on and off off an enormous floodlight. (I blame @jntod.bsky.social ’s wonderful poetry Substack.)
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 01/09/2024
Now finished the unfinished autobiography tra-la.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Having a very serious holiday romance with Louis MacNeice. It started with Selected Poems (ed by Auden), then raced on to his unfinished autobiography. My marriage is now in tatters; LM poems sound so goddam good read aloud.
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 08/08/2024
The violent fascist riots in the UK may be over for now. I begin to hope so. But it’s not sufficient to say they were ‘not British’. White supremacism is woven into history, culture, language. Here’s a thread of UK-based poets who have written about how this can be found in everyday situations.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 15/07/2024
Been thinking about this. Malcolm Lowry and also Jean Rhys. After Leaving Mr Mackenzie is a work of genius.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 15/07/2024
What has gone wrong, that we should all seem to be made of paper and straw? John Cheever, Journals, The Sixties Wonderful book.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 05/06/2024
I know I make a symbol Of the foxglove on the wall. It is because it knows you. from Dear Bryan Wynter by WS Graham
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 05/05/2024
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
The warmth and light beginning to go now. Coffin on its way. Fade. Gone. (Gardening Samuel Beckett style.)
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
“Great quiet over land and sea. No transistors. No excrutiating 2-strokes. Stone & stones everywhere, often golden, outcrop & innumerable walls.” Samuel Beckett, Letter from Malta
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Roquefort salad with pancetta, walnuts, mixed leaves and cherry tomatoes. In your face, Monday.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
Yesterday at the lido: 12 degrees in the water, swimmimg felt heavenly. Today at the lido: 11.5 degrees in the water, swimming felt difficult. Like swimming in different seasons, just one day apart. #coldwaterswimming
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
“Nice roughish sea today. Let it batter me twice.” September 1972 letter from Malta to Barbara Bray from Samuel Beckett.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
I made a carrot cake. Delicious.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
If you read only one thing today, make it this beautifully written piece by André Naffis-Sahely for Poetry London. poetrylondon.co.uk/i-will-be-su...
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‘i will be survived by myself / and the many times that i still have to die’ – Discover – Po...
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 13/10/2023
Seven more reasons why I should be banned from second-hand bookshops.
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
Today at the lido: 17 degrees in the water and light rain. The painful ‘ice-cream face’ stage comes at around 14 degrees and below. I love everything about the lido. Just look at the paintwork. ♥️
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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
What’s the best order to read Samuel Beckett for a non-completist?
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