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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It was amusing that CBC radio in Toronto, scrambling to cover the amazing news about Anne Carson's NOBEL PRIZE, did not interview a local poetry prof or classicist, but Dave Bidini from the band the Rheostatics. That's b/c Carson speaks on their album from 2025 (it's great, give it a listen):

Screenshot of The Great Lakes Suite by the Rheostatics ... from my Apple Music page. Anne Carson reads Moon, the first track. (It's lovely by the way.)

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thelifeofwords.bsky.social @thelifeofwords.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Since sharing #AnneCarson poems is having a moment, here's a poem I published as part of a broadsides series about twenty years ago. Not aware that it was republished in any later venue or collection (let me know if so, it will go in the unlost bibliography) #NobelPrize

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thelifeofwords.bsky.social @thelifeofwords.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

For no particular reason today, a small reminder that there's an online Anne Carson bibliography that relates her works, works she cites, and works cited in her works (over 3,500 records) - have a look unlost.uwaterloo.ca/bibliography/ #AnneCarson #NobelPrize

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Relational Bibliography – unlost

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Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

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thelifeofwords.bsky.social @thelifeofwords.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I wrote this article about the Oxford English Dictionary using The Other Place as a source of language evidence -- the most cited single source (if that's what it is) in updates since 2018. thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/published-tw...

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Lynne Murphy @lynneguist.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America is taking part in the Project Muse Subscribe to Open pilot, and the subscription threshold has been passed! This means that this year's issues will be fully open-access online at no cost to authors.

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thelifeofwords.bsky.social @thelifeofwords.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

A dictionary is having a time/tense problem and it's making linguistics Busky anxious.

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thelifeofwords.bsky.social @thelifeofwords.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I've now published v.2 of "Yarrowrhyme, or, Paul Muldoon's Soundprint", a reference guide to the ninety rhymes of Yarrow and twelve other poems". This updated document adds three poems and ~500 lines to the now close to 4,000 (!) expressions of thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/yarrowrhyme/

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Yarrowrhyme

I’ve completed the first major revision of my 2018 field guide to Paul Muldoon’s “soundprint” [see original post here]. Now with the title “Yarrowrhyme, or, Paul Muldo…

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thelifeofwords.bsky.social @thelifeofwords.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

1/ Getting ready to update my accounting of Paul Muldoon's yarrowrhyme [/Paul Muldoon's Soundprint thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/paul-muldoon.... My notebook says I should include "The Triumph" (TLS, 2020, then /Howdie-Skelp/) and "Near Izium" (Irish Times, 2022, then /Tagore/) ... Amazing to me that/

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Paul Muldoon’s Soundprint

Paul Muldoon’s virtuosity with rhyme is often commented upon by critics (“virtuosity” is a frequent epithet where his rhymes are concerned, as are “bravura”, and &#822…

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thelifeofwords.bsky.social @thelifeofwords.bsky.social · 31/07/2024

Now up and running - Unlost: Anne Carson Relational Bibliography v.1.0, listing 3,504 works by, on, and in Anne Carson, categorized by type, crossed-referenced, and annotated with over 1,000 subject tags. Carson fans and scholars, have a look: unlost.uwaterloo.ca

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unlost – Anne Carson Relational Bibliography

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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

I had such a fun time talking to the brilliant @kjavadizadeh.bsky.social about Sappho, poetics, sparrows, crushes, spells, and payback.

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thelifeofwords.bsky.social @thelifeofwords.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

For my maiden post on ye cyan site, a link to my new article on antedating in the Oxford English Dictionary. In N&Q because people love to do antedatings there. Tagging @jacklynch000.bsky.social and @jessesword.com and @petermgilliver.bsky.social who may have an interest. link: tinyurl.com/yf8bxzee

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