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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 15h

Dada perfection

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Caroline Hett @carolinehett.bsky.social · 21h

The Waste Coat

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 22h

Itō Jakuchū's 'Frog' of 1790 for me is the iconic image of numbed uncomfortable bafflement at the predicament of existence in the coming modern world, much as Munch's 'Scream' expressed it through horror.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Virginia Woolf said of him, 'Here comes Tom Eliot in his four piece suit." Could this waistcoat be from that suit?

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

What do you call the huge grey poet in the middle of the room being ignored by everybody? TS Elephant #HappyBirthdayTSEliot

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Peter McDonald @pmcdthisandthat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the many gems of Dublin folklore about Yeats, recorded by Richard Ellmann in 1946.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

John Wayne followed by a set worker defrosting his horse for a scene in The Alamo, 1959. Photo: Dennis Stock

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Delighted to see Matt Rice on this in good company with Maighread Medbh and Tishani Doshi, Daniel Brenchi-Sluman and one I can't read www.englishpen.org/posts/news/p...

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PEN Heaney Prize 2026 shortlist - English PEN

English PEN announces the six shortlisted titles for the PEN Heaney Prize 2026.

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Bill Tinley @btin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Also available in black and white puddings.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.” ― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This, this is also what writing is

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Dannie Abse #botd once told me he went to do a reading where the MC introduced as Dannie's surname as 'Abbs', presumably after an analogy with the poet Peter Abbs. Dannie gently confided to the MC that his surname was actually pronounced 'Abbsy'. 'Oh, grand' said the MC: 'You can call me Jonesy!'

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My favourite is that "average" comes from an Arabic word meaning "lost goods", and had been used by sailors to describe the practice of fairly sharing storm losses for ages before mathematicians thought that's a useful calculation

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gbclarkson.bsky.social @gbclarkson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Grateful for an extremely thoughtful and perceptive analysis of Singletary (shearsmanbooks.bsky.social), by Mandy Pannett, in the latest issue of Tears in the Fence tearsinthefence.bsky.social

Singletary by Geraldine Clarkson
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‘Singletary’ – a single word used as a title, a word rich in etymology and
associations. Once a locational name based on ‘singe’ - single and ‘treow’ - tree.

Immediately a picture is conjured up in the reader’s imagination of a solitary tree, stark against the skyline, a single boundary marker. Or maybe the image is of a ‘swingle -tre’, a swingle tree, an agricultural tool for processing flax. So many other associations also come to mind – an impression of something unique, distinct, singular and remarkable but also lonely and isolated, the opposite of anything collective or shared in a group. The concept of Singletary itself is personified in the
title poem and ‘shushed from the world’. Throughout the poems there is silence, religious devotion and a sense of submission but, in Geraldine Clarkson’s marrying of opposites, there is also brutality and pain. A prominent image is the Sacred Heart of Jesus which, in Roman Catholic faith, symbolises Christ’s

passionate love and mercy but which is often depicted as a bleeding, flaming, thorn-crowned heart pierced by a lance. An image of agony.
Other images reflect this duality such as a ‘host of green angels’ also seen as ‘locusts in rapture’ (‘Gibbet’) while the narrator of Crosscomforters’ is in a rut, ‘rocking in sludge’ and God is ‘in the rut too – both of us stuck’. In this environment a steel table is set with ‘bowls of fruit and vitamin pills’ while the ‘body of faith’, personified, is ‘sated and comatose, big toes twitching’. In ‘Sweet Holm Glosa’ a life of religious seclusion is described as being ‘soldered into a cell, / with clam shells razoring the walls.’

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On a bus with a TV screen showing me what's going on outside my bus window. it's like being in a less-exciting version of Don Paterson's poem 'Postmodern'.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

You should aim to write poems that hold your readers' interest like this.

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Disco bishop

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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just occasionally, you come across a new poem from a young poet that reassures you all is well with the future of poetry. Dean Browne, from his debut Picador collection ‘After Party’

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Victorian couple trying not to laugh while they get their photograph taken. via Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Noggin the Nog was broadcast so long ago that early episodes were in Old English www.youtube.com/watch?v=l69h...

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Noggin the Nog in Old English

YouTube video by Old English and lyre with Russell

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

RIP Paddy Keenan. I only watched the Bothy Band reunion show again last week, which was very moving so this was all the more shocking, his face and amazing playing still at the front of my mind. This via Feargal Whelan www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzYK...

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The Maid Behind the Bar / O'Rourke's / Eilish Brogan

YouTube video by Paddy Keenan - Topic

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

9yo boy gets the essence of the Scottish Play

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Fellini would have loved Violet Carson #botd, here as Ena Sharples in an iconic image our northern equivalent of 'The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog', by Caspar David Friedrich. She looks over the Salford sung by Ewan MacColl as 'Dirty Old Town', maybe thinking about a milk stout.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Honoured to be here: paywalled, but I like the effect of Clare's words disappearing into the mist. A 'meteor' into the 19thC meant any atmospherical disturbance, hence 'meteorology'. Clare's 'personal' experience of one was a common tale, as if Clare incorporated folk culture so much he embodied it.

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Ian Duhig - Whisp, White Meteor

Ian Duhig: Whisp, White Meteor

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I’m thrilled that my artist partner of Confluence, Juliet Gutch, has been shortlisted for the 2026 Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize. The piece, 'as we need air', is in spruce and maple and from Dovetailing, a project for which the starting point was the craft of luthiery. @photosbydavidlindsay

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

RIP 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”.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This reminds me of the mediaeval scholastic notion that a donkey presented with two identical bales of straw would starve to death being unable to choose. AI would, of course, then back up and run down the other track to finish the job fairly.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Missed Mary Shelley's birthday yesterday but here's one of her favourite badges in later life.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Elizabeth Bishop supplied Marianne Moore with rhymes.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Philippa Troutman took this photo in Alnwick recently. Rabbits and hares do not appreciate signs making peremptory demands of them like this one, so they knock it about when they think nobody's looking.

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

There are more wonderful editions of the Writer's Bookshelf coming up over the next few weeks from Harry Sword, Amy Jeffs, Rachel Morley and Rebecca Rideal.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"Blyton! thou shouldst be living at this hour!"