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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 22h

I have a CD replacement of vanished vinyl. This week's record from the pile.

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The Dispatch @birminghamdispatch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Join founding editor Kate Knowles as she sits down with @lukekennard.bsky.social to unpack the madness, heart, and romance behind one of 2026's most talked-about books.

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“He is ensuring that what he feels and what he thinks are secondary to the subject, the person who is dead or dying.” Colm Tóibín reflects on the poetry of Thom Gunn. buff.ly/Qdy6Hh2

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A Reticent Eloquence: Colm Tóibín on the Poetry of Thom Gunn

In August 1991, in a review of a new anthology of sixteenth-century poetry, Thom Gunn noted two poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt. These were poems that dealt directly with the execution of friends and ass…

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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What’s this? It appears to be some sort of volume. Yes. That was a rhetorical question. Is it obtainable? Yes, and soon! How soon? Possibly tomorrow. You can check with the publisher. _You_ can check with the publisher. Yes. Let’s do that. Fine. You first. No, after you. #IvorCutler #HoorgiHouse

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So good to get a frame at last for this wonderful birthday gift from January of one of my favourite poems by one of my favourite poets.

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Mark Scroggins @markscroggins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some stanzas from a forthcoming longish poem here: wordpress.boogcity.com/2026/09/28/p...

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Poetry/ Mark Scroggins – Boog City

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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Turning a Tide internationaltimes.it/turning-a-ti... Steve Spence

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Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New pamphlet with Red Ceilings. www.theredceilingspress.co.uk

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"His biographer Frank Shovlin said McGahern would find it humorous that the State would seek to honour him, after he was fired from his job as a primary schoolteacher in Clontarf in 1965 following the banning of his second novel The Dark." www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

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Four Irish authors honoured with stamps celebrating their work

Books by Colm Tóibín, Emma Donoghue, Claire Keegan and John McGahern featured on new An Post stamps

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's not a 'big ask'. They voted for it.

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Spokane Rising @spokanerising.com · 29/09/2026

Send Stephen Miller to The Hague.

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Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Billy Mills is a poet/reader/critic who emanates a rootedness in the natural weather of life; he is attentive to the sound of this in poetry, and radiates that various meditative bird-like singing. Paul Vangelisti and Alan Baker: A Review ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

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Paulo da Fonseca @paulodafonseca.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Mary Ellen Solt. Moonshot Sonnet, 1964

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Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is amazing.

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

8 old reviews (long o/p) on my blog, accessed from here: robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2026/09/revi.... On Chris. Middleton, Rosmarie Waldrop, Allen Fisher, Tom Raworth, Andrew Crozier, Angela Leighton and even Julie Tippetts (formerly Driscoll)...

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ReViews 1-8: Number 1: Mimeo Mimeo 4 (magazine)

I am going to post eight reviews written a number of years ago and published in now difficult to come by volumes. This post will also form...

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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Wakefield was a fraud who engaged in deliberate data falsification. Investigations revealed that he had altered patient medical histories, fabricated data, and reported false onset times. He lost his license to practice medicine in the UK in 2010. www.immunize.org/clinical/vac...

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Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Monday #morningread John Clare’s ‘Nutting’

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Richard Wells @slipperyjack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Been working my way through Jan Švankmajer's short films. One that has particularly stayed with me is the quietly chilling Buñuelian allegory The Garden (1968), probably his most overtly political work. A man is invited to a country estate with a perimeter fence made of silent human 'volunteers'...

People forming a daisy chain around a grand country estate. The short is a biting Kafkaesque critique of totalitarian conformity and collectivism. It mirrors the stifling mediocrity, absolute submission, and absurd normalisation of oppression under Czechoslovakian communism.

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Chrissy Williams @chrissywilliams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The poetry magazine I edit is back with a new issue!

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

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ReViews 1-8: Number 1: Mimeo Mimeo 4 (magazine)

I am going to post eight reviews written a number of years ago and published in now difficult to come by volumes. This post will also form...

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Poisonous is the word

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FIP en direct @fipnowplays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

♪ #nowplaying Waiting for the dawn - Yazz Ahmed (A paradise in the hold - 2025) www.radiofrance.fr/fip

Waiting for the dawn - Yazz Ahmed (A paradise in the hold - 2025) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip

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Trevor Joyce @trevorjoyce.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

wildhoneypress.com/BOOKS/Posses... Latest book. Interrupted at #149 by a hemorrhagic stroke. That shapes it retrospectively.

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Possession by Trevor Joyce

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For your interest, 'A plan of the town of Liverpool', from 'The Picture of Liverpool, or Strangers' Guide', 1808. The edition owned by Allan Melville and used by his son Herman on his visit to the city in 1839, and referred to in the novel 'Redburn'.

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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 26/09/2026

[1973] Hamlet - Unaired advert for Hamlet Cigars featuring Daleks.

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me and Andrew playing table tennis with my new book!

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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

internationaltimes.it www.internationaltimes.it/archive/inde...

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So, does this mean that proposals are fed into an AI system which can then be used to train it? Did those applying give their consent for this?

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If I were running a university where staff spent weeks and weeks of time putting grant proposals together only for UKRI to feed them into LLMs without informed consent—effectively theft of the time and work—I’d be taking serious action to defend those staff. But I’m not running a university, so

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So they're now talking about attacking the system of policing and law. Arrest these f*ckers. Stop bowing down to them and dancing around them.

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Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friday #morningread Gerard Manley Hopkins’s ‘Hurrahing in the Harvest’

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I've been writing some prose pieces about rooms. This room is full of snails.

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Week 38 of documenting everything I lose and find in 2026.

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Ira Lightman @iralightman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Geraldine Monk

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Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is there a more concise, precise term for 'words that aren't actually true'?

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Sacred Parasite @sacredparasite.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Numbering... The 1st printing of @wildtwin.bsky.social's new novella Latchkey is an edition of 350 hand-numbered copies printed locally in Berlin. Official release date: 29.9.26. Pre-orderable TODAY at: www.sacredparasite.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

'University students have raised concerns over the software used to submit assignments and check them for plagiarism, amid fears their work could be used to train tools which use artificial intelligence.'

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York Uni students' fears over Turnitin essay-checker AI plan

Students are "scared" about proposals which could see their work used to train AI, their union says.

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Fabio Chiusi @fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

AI Exec: We May Have Pulled Off “The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Helen Tookey @helentookey.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This year’s Lowry Lounge @thebluecoat.bsky.social on Sat 31st Oct, featuring international guests and a magical altar. Demons may be raised… www.trybooking.com/uk/event/118...

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The 2026 Lowry Lounge: Malc, Magic and Mexico

Our annual celebration of Wirral-born writer Malcolm Lowry

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International Times @internationaltimes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026