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Dai George

@daigeorge.bsky.social

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Poet, academic, other writings. Young and easy under the apple boughs. How to Think Like a Poet (Bloomsbury Continuum), out now

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Dai George @daigeorge.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Anyway, for anyone invested in this, I had a letter published in this week's TLS, responding to something that I feel tipped over into unfair distortion, the start of which I've screengrabbed. www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

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Dai George @daigeorge.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

By the waters of Leman I sat down and wept.

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Dai George @daigeorge.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I took a bad photo of the brilliant crowd at the Heath Bookshop in Birmingham who came out tonight to hear me spiel about HOW TO THINK LIKE A POET. Love Brum 💚

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Dai George @daigeorge.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Superb. Can't think of a book that comes closer to catching the feeling of music. In this case, dub and roots - the ghosts in the grooves.

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Dai George @daigeorge.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

More serious NY post. I don't read enough in volume atm to do a stack of fave books, but I hope that when I read I really *read*. And no book changed me more in '24 than Erasure. Hard to say why. I'd do a thread, but see previous post with resolution not to.

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Dai George @daigeorge.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Having your toddler smash a glass door at Christmas is good luck, right? Like the opposite of a mirror

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Dai George @daigeorge.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Sherry in a plastic glass with Carols from King's, keeping a fragment of Christmas tradition alive in a year of moving and upheaval. (Who knows where the glassware is.) Without being fatuous, I hope, I'm saying a small prayer of thanks for my comfort and security in a blasted world.

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Dai George @daigeorge.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Fair warning, I may sometimes use Bluesky for ramblings on film, as where else would I do that? Watched Alice Rohrwacher's transcendent La Chimera last night, which has set my mind abuzz.

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Dai George @daigeorge.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Ugh this pretty much broke me. Made me weep for the callowness and vulnerability of boys. And I have to admit fear, too, being a parent to one now.

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Dai George @daigeorge.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

C'mon then Timothee (or Tim-Chal as I like to call you) if it's really you then tell me what we got up to at Elton John's Oscars after party last year, HMMM?

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Dai George @daigeorge.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

On storm nights, I always think of the first stanza of this banger by Ted Hughes

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