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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.

Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'm enjoying the miniatures of "Red River Valley", the latest from @imcmillan.bsky.social - very good on memory and shining moments. This reminds me of Causley's "Eden Rock".

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Martin Doyle @martindoyle.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

John McGahern taking no prisoners. From John McGahern: A Writing Life by Frank Shovlin

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Two really good young poets. I'm going - please join me!

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Maturity is not quoting this passage in a review with the comment "That's a lot of old Bauls"

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Always an interesting exercise to work out whether I agree with JN-T's choices - have a read and subscribe -

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Bluesky fact-check please: is the quote actually from "Vortex"? I think it's from "Vorticism" which Pound published later that year (1914) in the Fortnightly Review.

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

An interesting thread - and do buy Clare's "Lives of the Female Poets"...

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Peter McDonald @pmcdthisandthat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Lionel Johnson (WB Yeats's friend) writing in 1891. Plenty here that still has critical point, I think.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thom Gunn. A beautiful poem. "I was still separate on the shadow's ground/But, charged with growth, was being altered, Composing uncomposed."

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Dirt Rich" is reviewed by Declan Ryan with his usual sharpness in the current Poetry Ireland Review - I'm so grateful to him, and to Colm Toibin @poetryireland.bsky.social

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Peter McDonald @pmcdthisandthat.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Louis MacNeice, who died in London sixty-three years ago today.

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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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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The love poetry is the best bit of MacNeice's Autumn Journal

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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

My fav Mary Oliver poem.

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

In memory of Tim Curry, why not watch him in the lovely 1975 version of "Three Men in a Boat" - Tom Stoppard script, Stephen Frears directs, Michael Palin and Stephen Moore play along - youtu.be/zgwkbipco2M?...

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"THREE MEN IN A BOAT" (1975 Jerome K. Jerome TV Adaptation-starring Tim Curry, Michael Palin)

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

How pleasant to hear Dr Pinkwart is a poet’s apothecary. I expect he prepares lots of stinkwort as an anti-inflammatory. Plus linctures and tinctures - not laudanum as did for our poor S.T.C. - but cod liver oils with real cod in them and tisanes (as Poirot called tea).

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

How pleasing to find out that my apothecary's name is Dr Pinkwart

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Samuel Johnson, always worth a minute of your time -

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Not the hottest take, but when reviewing I often think of Sam Johnson on Lycidas: "Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief."

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

That @roguestrands.bsky.social has bet me a free KFC that this post won't get 150+ reposts/ lead to any sales of my pamphlet, Collecting the Data (Available via me or Red Squirrel Press). Help me prove him wrong please. A Mat Needs His Nuggs* * Booksales www.redsquirrelpress.com/product-page...

Screen shot of Mat Riches' poem called Riches.

Riches

It looked like the sort of wedge 
that would choke a shire horse to death:  
two grand in bundles of fifties, 
their waists pinched by red rubber bands.  

You asked me to count the lot, 
then drove away to meet a man  
who knew a man, and came back late 
in a lime-green Ford Cortina. 

I thought we were made of money
when you let me sit in your lap  
and we reverse-parked it, my feet  
pressing on your feet in the dark.

Taken from my pamphlet called Collecting The Data. I'd love you to buy a copy from me or via Red Squirrel Press. If you get it from me it will be signed (if you want it to be).

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Andrew Brown @seatrout.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This morning I took a picture of the mummified left hand of a saint. Perhaps I used the wrong camera, but to the profane eye it looks like a beloved dog chew.

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Alec Guinness on TS Eliot; "I have rarely met a man who could laugh so richly and warmly... I have never met a man with a better palate for a really good, strong, ice-cold, very dry Martini; and I doubt if I have met a man - playwright, poet, man of letters - of greater humility"

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I can't review this because Naush is a friend, but I can recommend it: Lentic, the new pamphlet from @naush.bsky.social - a beautiful thing available from @guillemotpress.bsky.social

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Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I had the pleasure of reading this new pamphlet by @naush.bsky.social in typescript. It's a real accomplishment - at least as good as her first, which was published a few years ago. Available from @guillemotpress.bsky.social, who seem only to produce the most attractive pamphlets imaginable.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

From 'Lunch with the FT'.

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Mildly shocked to know that Ezra Pound's daughter has died. mailchi.mp/ndbooks/new-...

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Mary de Rachewiltz | 1925-2026

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Matthew Paul @matthewepaul.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It would be rude not to post this very fine poem by the late, great Sarah Maguire, from one of my all-time favourite collections The Pomegranates of Kandahar (Chatto & Windus, 2007) - though all her books were brilliant.

The poem ‘Total Eclipse’ by Sarah Maguire.

The cover of The Pomegranates of Kandahar, the 2007 poetry collection by Sarah Maguire.

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Gareth Prior @garethprior.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Given all this inexplicable noise about the Odyssey, I thought I’d reshare my take on @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social’s (staggeringly good) version, with thanks again to Ange Mlinko for publishing it:

Then again the gods might walk
Untroubled across the earth
Trailing their backstage grammar: myth
Anagnorisis, mask —

And the journey begins before
Departures: leaving a hall of suitors
End-stopped, the prince godspeeds to Pylos
Cresting each salt pentameter.

A stranger holds court in the airport lounge,
Their tale of ships and trickery
Turning me like a page —

Or that first surge of gravity
When the plane tilts to an azure language
Over the middle sea.

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Putting suncream on my kids today I was reminded of this brilliant and beautiful Ange Mlinko poem

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Naush Sabah @naush.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My new pamphlet, Lentic, is out today with Guillemot Press. 💙🏘️💦 Grab a copy here: www.guillemotpress.co.uk/poetry/naush...

Image of Lentic by Naush Sabah on a desk with other books in the background.

The author, Naush Sabah, smiles holding her new pamphlet, Lentic, in front of bookshelves.

New book, Lentic, on a mantle between a houseplant and mirror.

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Damnation - I gather that, in the print edition, there's a misquotation at the very climax of the piece. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

At the gym with a friend of mine this morning. He can hold this position for an impressively long ago. He says it's down to years of being stopped by the UDR.

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Very grateful that my book is reviewed in the new TLS. It's a generous piece, calling Dirt Rich "Bracing, often beautiful" and "a debut to treasure". You can read it here: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

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The stuff of life

The autobiographical mode is so entrenched in contemporary poetry that readers could be forgiven for getting a little impatient with it. But Graeme

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Wendy Cope, with a poem of great tenderness

To My Husband

If we were never going to die, I might Not hug you quite as often or as tight, Or say goodbye to you as carefully If I were certain you'd come back to me. Perhaps I wouldn't value every day, Every act of kindness, every laugh As much, if I knew you and I could stay For ever as each other's other half. We may not have too many years before One disappears to the eternal yonder And I can't hug or touch you any more. Yes, of course that knowledge makes us fonder. Would I want to change things, if I could,
And make us both immortal? Love, I would.

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John Hughes @johnmelhughes.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Marvellous "reverse" sonnet by John Ashbery. I love this poem so much.

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Philip Hoare @philiphoare.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

a charming map of Cambridge, drawn by Gerard Manley Hopkins for a visit - I guess he'd forgotten his phone @ransomcenter.bsky.social

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Kind of charmed by this statue of Thomas Mann with his dog by the Tegernsee - not charmed enough to finish one of his books, mind...

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I really admire Emily Wilson, but I find this (and much of the LRB review around it) just silly. And weirdly immature. If you would genuinely "be ashamed" to have written "any part" of a script in a successul much-seen film, your privilege is showing.

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

And who remembers him hosting Have I Got News For You? 🤎

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

When I first read this Larkin poem (a long time ago) it seemed a triumph of concision. But now I think it's vast and sprawling and mysterious.

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Ira Lightman @iralightman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Norman MacCaig. There is something in the vowel sounds set against the showman rhythms, that feels like deadpan delivery by someone holding back a belly laugh: a sort of Les Dawson affect.

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