Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 05/06/202550 years ago today - 5th June - Britain voted 2:1 in a Referendum in favour of remaining in the Common Market (as we used to call it) 000
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 21/04/2025I am pleased to say my poem 'Beirut' has won the Mist and Mountain International Poetry Prize 2024-25 mistandmountain.co.uk/mist-mountai...mistandmountain.co.ukMIST & MOUNTAIN INTERNATIONAL POETRY PRIZE 2024-25 – Mist and Mountain 010
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 19/03/2025A professor was lecturing to his English class: “In English, a double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, a double negative is still a negative. However, there's no language where in a double positive can form a negative.” A voice from the back of the room piped up, “Yeah, right.” 140
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 25/02/2025The film A Complete Unknown has brought Suze Rotolo back to our attention - she is the girl on Dylan's arm on the cover of his Freewheelin' album. Today is the 13th anniversary of her death. I wrote the lyrics for this song by Mike Cohen. It is our 'YouTube hit'! (19,000+ plays) youtu.be/FIrvtjtHy9wyoutu.beSuze RotoloYouTube video by Mike Cohen - Topic 010
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 22/02/2025An excellent lecture yesterday by AE Stallings, Oxford Professor of Poetry. What These Ithakas Mean: Cavafy, Translation, Influence and Imitation. She explored each of these aspects with great insight and understanding. I will post a link when it becomes available on the Faculty website 020
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Greece became the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar on this day 1923 - which seems surprisingly recently 020
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 13/02/202580 years ago tonight, the Allied bombing of Dresden killed 18,000-25,000 in an efficient combination of incendiary and high explosive bombs. A 'trial run' of the technique at Darmstadt killed 11,000 - 12,500 on 11-12 September 1944. A day to ponder the moral arguments. 152
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Today is World Greek Language Day Pretty much whatever language we speak, we are all using Greek words many times a day 111
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Arthur Stevens, inventor of the first portable hearing aid, died 30 years ago today. An alumnus of Jesus College, Oxford – he was Welsh. continued 110
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 29/01/2025The long-serving Lodge porter at Jesus, Fred Realley, who on seeing Stevens when he visited Jesus after 40 years said 'Hallo Mr Stevens, Sir, haven't seen you for a while'. Stevens was so touched that he gave the College £1m there and then rather than leave a legacy 000
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Well said that woman www.bbc.com/news/videos/... stay listening to the end for Trump's responsebbc.comBishop asks Trump to show mercy to LGBT people and migrantsRight Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde made a plea to the president in a sermon that Trump later criticised. 020
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 21/01/2025So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information. George Orwell who died 75 years ago today 001
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 21/01/2025George Orwell died 75 years ago today. His essay "Politics and the English Language" (1946) includes this advice: Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out. Never use the passive where you can use the active. 020
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 20/01/202550 years ago today, Bob Dylan released Blood on the Tracks open.spotify.com/album/4WD4ps...open.spotify.comBlood On The TracksBob Dylan · Album · 1975 · 10 songs 010
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Yesterday was the birthday of Vassilis Tsitsanis, a leading figure in rebetika music and a wonderful bouzouki player. A cloudy Sunday today. During the Nazi occupation of Thessaloniki, Tsitsanis wrote 'Cloudy Sunday' that became a sort of unofficial national anthem. youtu.be/wJDg_aXS_7Uyoutu.beVasilis Tsitsanis - Συννεφιασμένη Κυριακή / Cloudy Sunday (English lyrics) 1941YouTube video by TheBaronofBallstein Ballstein 085
Reposted by Richard DevereuxJohn Kittmer @johnkittmer.bsky.social · 13/01/2025www.anglohellenicleague.org/news/runcima... The long list for this year’s Anglo-Hellenic League #Runciman Award has just been published. Lots of great books here!anglohellenicleague.orgJudges announce the long list for the Anglo-hellenic league Runciman Award 2025 — Anglo Hellenic LeagueJudges announce the long list for the 2025 Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 187
Reposted by Richard DevereuxA. E. Stallings @aestallings.bsky.social · 17/01/2025What’s the point of senators making laws now? Once the barbarians are here, they’ll do the legislating. 4183
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 11/01/2025My collection Echoes from the Cave - a fifty-year love affair with Greece - is being published this month. It marks the 50th anniversary of when I first set foot in Greece. 000
Richard Devereux @richarddevereux.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I'd like to find some interesting Greeks to follow - in English or Greek. Any suggestions, please? 010
