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Sandra Toffolo @toffolosandra.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📢Fully funded PhD position in #earlymodern history! At University of Roma Tre, in collaboration with the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento, in the framework of my project "Travellers' interactions in early modern Italy." isig.fbk.eu/en/news/deta... Deadline 16 October 2026! #skystorians

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Very much enjoyed 'Painting the French Riviera' at @royalacademy.bsky.social. (Several of Gurminder Sikand's favourite artists in it, too.)

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Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A call for artists' books for Between the Arts. Submit by 15th October. More info on www.khio.no/events/2417 From Ane Thon Knutsen: It is possible to submit books without attending the conference. Part of the exhibition will be on show at Edvard Munch's Atelier Ekely in Oslo from 12th June 2027.

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Between the arts / The 36th annual international conference on Virginia Woolf - Kunsthøgskolen i Oslo

Oslo National Academy of The Arts and the University of Oslo are proud to be hosting the 36th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf on June 16th - 20th 2027 on the theme Between The Arts.

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We're delighted to announce an OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS for our brand new journal, 'East of the Elbe: Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe'. More info attached, and on the new submissions site (www.whp-journals.co.uk/EE/index). Submissions will open on 15th September. #envhist #envhum

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Talk, coming up 24 Sep 2026 - Moveable Type and the Early Modern Imaginary Image reproduction and the Early Modern mental universe Lecturer: Stephanie Leitch Sponsor: American Academy in Berlin www.americanacademy.de/program/move...

This printed image is a German colored woodcut, artist unknown, from c. 1505. It depicts in the foreground dark skilled people - men, women and children - standing on land wearing skirts and feathered headdresses, and in the background a body of water on which ships are visible.

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Enjoyed Lila Matsumoto's 'Talk a Blue Streak' (Monitor Books, 2026).

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Our 🌠 Series Advisory Board for Early Modern Maritime Humanities 🙏 Fred Hocker, Vasa @elsjevankessel.bsky.social @medievalmariner.bsky.social @stevementz.bsky.social @plymprivateer.bsky.social @schottemargaret.bsky.social Sebastian Sobecki, Toronto Uni @suzezij.bsky.social brill.com/page/forthco...

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Very pleased that Gurminder Sikand is one of the artists in 'Women on the Edge of Time', curated by Linsey Young, which opened at the Vadehra Gallery, Delhi, today. On until 18th September, 2026. www.vadehraart.com/exhibitions/...

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Sandra Toffolo @toffolosandra.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

📢CFA - Would you like to join the team "Travellers' interactions in early modern Italy" at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento? A 32-month position is now open for a postdoctoral researcher focusing on encounters involving travellers in Trento and Gorizia! isig.fbk.eu/en/news/deta...

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FBK is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Early Modern History, with a focus on encounters involving travellers in Trento and Gorizia

This position is offered within the project Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy (TRAVEL), funded by a Consolidator Grant from the Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS-2023-02909) (PI: Sandra ...

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"As I approach the blocking stones I realise that the barrow is, for me, a sacred place, because the memory of childhood is a sacred place. And part of it is preserved here." Seventy miles, thirty-five hours, four counties, two long barrows. longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/slow-netwo...

Blocking stones, West Kennet Long Barrow, Wiltshire, July 2024.

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Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

50% off! Just putting in a plug for "Balkan Departures", studies of travel writing from Southeastern Europe (Greek, Romanian, Serbian, Croatian, Bulgarian) www.berghahnbooks.com/title/bracew...

Balkan Departures: Travel Writing from Southeastern Europe
Edited by Wendy Bracewell and Alex Drace-Francis
(Berghahn Books, currently half price)

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David Anderson @dranderson15.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm happy to announce that my anthology of Black sea writing, I Will Take to the Water: An Anthology of African Americans and the Sea, is scheduled to be published by the University of Chicago Press in December 2026. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The cover for the book I Will to the Water: An Anthology of African Americans and the Sea. The image includes a painting by Winslow Homer of a muscular Black man aboard a small ship in stormy waters, looking ahead as sharks circle the ship.

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Sad to miss it, but am excited that ''Women on the Edge of Time,' curated by Linsey Young, and including, among other artists' works, 8 of Gurminder Sikand's paintings, opens at the Vadehra Art Gallery, Delhi, a week today (on 21st Aug 2026). (Will post a link to details of the show when they're up)

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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Please consider submitting your work for our upcoming special issue with VPR based on RSVP's theme for the recent conference: rs4vp.org/cfp-movement...

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VPR CFP: Movements & Migrations – RSVP

Victorian Periodicals Review calls for proposals for a special issue on "Movements and Migrations." Proposals due 1 September!

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The first time any of her artworks will have been exhibited in India.

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Thrilled that 8 of Gurminder Sikand's paintings are in India for a group show, curated by Linsey Young, at the Vadehra Gallery in Delhi. (Further details to be posted when the show opens later this month.)

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Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Spend an hour with Ange Mlinko, Michael Caines, and me as we discuss the work of Henri Coulette (1927-1988), whose NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, which Michael and I co-edited, is now available from @carcanet.bsky.social: youtu.be/WodlOh5NjMY

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Henri Coulette: New and Selected Poems Book Launch

YouTube video by Carcanet Press

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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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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Save on your summer #poetry reads. Come in for a browse, with up to 50% off, direct from us ☀️ ninearchespress.com/shop#!/SALE/...

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Amardeep Singh @electrostani.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I've been doing a new project w/a grad student collaborator & we got interested in Tagore's short stories. (Alongside everything else, he was a world-class short story writer!) We made a collection of them; it's the largest set currently online (I think): scalar.lehigh.edu/literature-o...

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Literature of Colonial South Asia: Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore: A Collection

A Collection of Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore in English Translation

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Are you interested in developing genuinely interdisciplinary piece of research? Applications for the International Interdisciplinary Research Projects, focused on the theme of ‘Mobilities’ are now open. Apply now: bit.ly/4y9wiwJ

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Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I recently featured on a Behavioral Scientist Reads podcast about the fictional subfield of “travel psychology” that appears in the novel Flights by Olga Tokarczuk. It is a discussion of mobility and its politics. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/b...

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Episode 2: What Is Travel Psychology?

Podcast Episode · Behavioral Scientist Reads · 30 July · 54min

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

FREE UK postage across your #poetry purchases direct from us until the end of July. Don't miss out on these recent books and so much more...📚 ninearchespress.com/shop

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Shop | Nine Arches Press

Buy Nine Arches Press poetry books online - purchase our poetry collections, Under the Radar magazine subscriptions and browse new publications.

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

A summer treat for our lovely readers - buy direct from us and get FREEPOST across all UK book orders. Poetry direct to your door ✉️ What will you choose? ninearchespress.com/shop

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 05/07/2026

In this high-concept hybrid work, Deryn Rees-Jones summons a vivid fever dream of Paris, a city simultaneously real and mythologised, where place is sodden with memory and time seems to exist all at once

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Poetry Review: Hôtel Amour by Deryn Rees-Jones

CJ Wagstaff Few poets navigate the terrain of grief and memory with the same authority and daring as Deryn Rees-Jones. Celebrated both as a writer and Professor of Poetry, Rees-Jones has long establis...

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Enjoyed @padrig.bsky.social's collection 'Blood Feather' (2023), poignantly read around appropriate anniversaries.

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A return visit to the book sale on its final day and another very pleasing purchase: £4 for the first volume of Hilary Spurling's biography of Matisse to put with Gurminder Sikand's copy of the second volume.

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Pleased to have picked up for £4 in a sale 'Gauguin: Maker of Myth' (Tate Publishing, 2010), including an essay by @cforsdick.bsky.social on Gauguin and Segalen.

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Sandra Toffolo @toffolosandra.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

📢CFA: I'm very pleased to announce that a new PhD position has opened up in my FIS project "Travellers' interactions in early modern Italy", at the University of Roma Tre in collaboration with the Italian-German Historical Institute Trento. More info: isig.fbk.eu/en/news/deta... Deadline: 14 July.

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Delighted that giving the opening talk at yesterday's event on 'Travel Writing and Its Limits' at the University of Warwick allowed me to be at such an enjoyable day of stimulating papers and productive discussion from which I learned much. And a pleasure to catch up with @carlethompson.bsky.social

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Poetry Salzburg sent the new collection, Candlelight, to the printers today. John Lucas is remembered in its pages.

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Glad you posted about this, Rory, or I'd have missed it.

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A happy #Bloomsday to all! Hear Joyce reading from Ulysses and Finnegans Wake in two rare recordings from the 1920s: publicdomainreview.org/collection/j… #Bloomsday2023

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Thanks Deryn! It was an honour and a real pleasure judging this with you and @gosspoems.bsky.social, and lovely to be able to contribute to the ongoing memorial for Michael.

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Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Always great to see the fantastic work the #EnglishAssociation does @englishassociation.bsky.social and today to celebrate the winner of the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. Huge congratulations to Susannah Dickey, this year’s winner, for ‘Isdal’

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

We're launching a new journal and can finally share the news! Edited by Stephen Brain and Victor Pal, 'East of the Elbe: Environment and Society in Central and Eastern Europe' will open to submissions in Autumn this year, for a first issue in 2027. More information forthcoming soon! #envhist #envhum

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Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Join us for the FREE online launch of exquisite new poetry pamphlets by Hilary Menos and Elaine Ewart on 28 May: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... NEW PAMPHLETS by Hilary Menos and Elaine Ewart - now available! newwalkmagazine.bigcartel.com

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Sarah Wolfson @sarahwolfson.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I know small poem Sunday is a thing here, but I’d love to do a more general round-up of minimalist poetry. Which poets do you admire who write/wrote on a very small scale, (i.e. work that is slight, compact, compressed, even aphoristic)?

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

It's perhaps the first viewing of one of the two since it was shown in 'The Circular Dance' exhibition in 1991 @arnolfiniarts.bsky.social in which Gurminder exhibited with Sutapa Biswas, Chila Kumari Burman, Jagjit Chuhan, Nina Edge and Shanti Thomas.

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Tim Youngs @timyoungs.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Pleased that Gurminder Sikand has two early paintings in the group show 'Diaphanous' at Indigo+Madder in London. Thursdays to Saturdays, or by appointment, till 20th June 2026.

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Pavilion Poetry @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Our collections our now available to purchase on the LUP website! Find out more here: bit.ly/PavilionPoet...

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Sandra Toffolo @toffolosandra.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

📢CFA: 3 PhD fellowships within the project ‘Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy’, at the universities of Padua, Trento, and Roma Tre, in partnership with the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. More info: isig.fbk.eu/en/news/deta... Please feel free to circulate widely!

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TRAVEL – CfA 3 PhD Positions in Early Modern History

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