Reposted by Ira LightmanIan McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 12hIT is important because without it Newton would just have discovered gravy. 88015
Ira Lightman @iralightman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Goodman's magazine poem joins folk form: which draws chancy attempts at crafting. As did dud and hit originators of folk songs or tales. Good ones don't strive to dis-resemble, or beat, the rest. They pass, blend, and don't stand close study. Magazine "acceptance" spins the folk roulette wheel. 000
Reposted by Ira LightmanDeep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 03/03/2025March is Women in Horror Month, which coincides with Women's History Month. One reason I started Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein a few years ago was to help focus my reading and discover new authors, ones I might not otherwise read. Here are some of the women I've discovered through the blog. 627482
Reposted by Ira LightmanMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We all love sweeping generalisations. 1129847
Reposted by Ira LightmanRachel Loden @rloden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026I’m searching for a short comic poem/piece mentioning “Edgar Bottle” that appeared in the TLS in one of three issues devoted to experimental writing: The Changing Guard (August 6, 1964 & September 3, 1964) or "New Ways in History: the 1966 Experimental Spreads” (1966). The TLS has been (1/3) 193
Reposted by Ira LightmanDavid Quantick @quantick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026This really is a site for sore eyes. 99612
Reposted by Ira LightmanAssociation for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 17/09/2026Happy #NationalFoxDay to all who celebrate! 🦊 #fox #poem #poetry Ian Hamilton Finlay FOX see me wan time ah wis a fox an wis ah sleekit! ah gaed slinkin heh an snappin yeh the blokes aa sayed ah wis a GREAT fox aw nae kiddin ah wis pretty good had a whole damn wood in them days hen 18652
Ira Lightman @iralightman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I was lucky enough to get a library loan of The Bay of Naples by Wendy Mulford. I knew the poems from her selected, here archive.org/details/ands...archive.orgAnd suddenly, supposing : selected poems177 p. ; 25 cm 100
Reposted by Ira LightmanHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059762393
Ira Lightman @iralightman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Having a retro Randolph Healy moment. If only the Oppenheimer movie had ever been as simple and factual as this. Free of pomposity but deadly observant about the new power, as annihilating to consider as the non-immanent G-d 000
Reposted by Ira LightmanMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 11/09/2026There’s a nice tradition in the UK, when a statue has been standing for 100 years it’s allowed to sit down. 1532640
Reposted by Ira LightmanBertrom. @bertrom.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Liverpool photographer Edward Chambré Hardman appeared often in my life when I lived on Hope street and Gambier Terrace. It was wonderful to be surrounded by such magnificent buildings. A colleague of mine at Open Eye gallery Peter Hagerty introduced me to his work. 28325
Reposted by Ira LightmanRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I wrote in March: Feminism is far from dead, but people love to write its obituary. I’ve lived through dozens of them over the decades, and there’s been a fresh flurry over the past few years....theguardian.comThe one thing everyone gets wrong about feminismPeople love to declare the death of the women’s movement, pointing to the ‘failure’ of #MeToo or the Epstein files, but don’t give up the fight just yet, writes Rebecca Solnit 934897
Reposted by Ira Lightmankimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026‘pool all a mareshiver / of lights” 1122
Reposted by Ira Lightmankimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 04/09/20262 from Sappho (tr. Peter Whigham) 0177
Reposted by Ira LightmanRob Spence @spencro.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I will not be sitting on this bench. 073
Reposted by Ira Lightmanwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Emily Young has been called ‘Britain’s greatest living stone sculptor’ #Womensart 6654137
Reposted by Ira LightmanPhilip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This is very interesting. Impressive experimental work, and shows the current limitations of predictive AI even for this highly studied phage. I see that the failures of prediction due to poor structural information for the protein in question are particularly acute for so-called Protein H... 1/2 4247
Reposted by Ira LightmanPeter McDonald @pmcdthisandthat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Louis MacNeice, who died in London sixty-three years ago today. 1122
Ira Lightman @iralightman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I'm sad to hear that Rachel Blau DuPlessis has died. I persuaded my local library to buy the two volume boxed edition of Drafts this year, and think it's brilliant. A real way forward for people who love long poems, sampling as it does the style of many other long poems. 181
Reposted by Ira LightmanDavid B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Really sad to hear Rachel Blau DuPlessis has passed — can’t overstate her importance to modernist studies, while at the same time being one of the best poets in America. The Drafts sequence is beautiful and rewarding and intimidating, and I’d encourage starting with Draft 85: Hard Copy 13511
Reposted by Ira LightmanNathan Francis @nathanfrancis79.bsky.social · 03/09/2026"I don't look on #poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length." Poems: www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-a... ✒️ #JohnAshbery, American poet, #DOTD 3 September 2017. #Poetry #Literature 084
Ira Lightman @iralightman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Prior to reading his latest book Zone: correlations (1973-2021), I have been doing a deep dive into the work of Barrett Watten, which was the summit of Everest in my twenties. As the work is not easy to obtain in the UK, I have turned scans into Kindle readable e-pub texts for my own use. 100
Reposted by Ira Lightmanwomensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Emmanuelle Moureaux's installation Slices of Time, 2020. Composed of 100 layers of numbers in 100 shades of rainbow colours and 20 layers of numbers in white, the installation visualizes the next 100 years to come (2020 to 2119) #WomensArt 3625101
