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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

And if you're thinking, 'Etchings - meh', go and read the chapter on Griggs in Christopher Neve's Unquiet Landscape: it will help you see them in all their darkened glory. www.thamesandhudson.com/products/unq...

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Unquiet Landscape

Christopher Neve’s classic book is a journey into the imagination through the English landscape. How is it that artists, by thinking in paint, have come to regard the landscape as representing states ...

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Today's very exciting book post is Jerrold Northrop Moore's lavishly illustrated biography of F.L. Griggs, the great etcher (and patron saint of the Etch a Sketch). My dodgy camera doesn't do justice to these haunting ruin-scapes.

Cover of FL Griggs: The Architecture of Dreams by Jerrold Northrop Moore

Etching entitled 'The Ford' by FL Griggs

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The pleasure's all mine; it's terrific!

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I very much enjoyed A Hobby of Mine by @betarish.bsky.social from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social - joyful waves of repetition and variation that put me in mind of Frank Kuppner

A hobby of mine is asking: how would David Foster Wallace have written it?
A hobby of mine is attempting to write things the Way David Foster Wallace might have done, and failing.
A hobby of mine is buying any second-hand edition of The Golder Gate by Vikram Seth I ever see.
A hobby of mine is Tabasco.
A hobby of mine is predicting when money dies.
A hobby of mine is predicting when Miami sinks.
A hobby of mine is thinking up sports entertainment formats for a post-apocalyptic planet.
A hobby of mine is re-litigating the past until it asks to be taken from the courtroom and hanged until it is dead.
A hobby of mine is saying 'wait till next year' even though I know my team will be crap then also.
A hobby of mine is only reading my horoscope when I feel some part of my life is out of control.
A hobby of mine is opening all the cupboards in the kitchen looking for chocolate to eat, even though know there lsn`t any

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Further testing has only confirmed her opinion. They are both wrong, though.

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Absolutely scandalised by my wife's suggestion that Welsh cakes should be eaten hot

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

And then Ivan Klima's A Summer Affair. I'd read and enjoyed Klima's Love and Garbage, and liked the first few chapters of this, but then it settled down into a rather tedious and distressing tale.

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Followed by Simenon's frankly brutal roman duré The Snow Was Dirty, about a petty criminal in an occupied city. One of the bleakest books I've ever read...

Cover of Georges Simenon, The Snow Was Dirty

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Recent reading... Love a bit of Arnold Bennett and Buried Alive was no exception. Light and comic (and a bit dated e.g. in gender attitudes) but adroitly done and really brilliant in places, especially when it offers a few ideas on the artist's experience...

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ain't that the truth. Recent high point was a prawn salad in Stockholm airport, but otherwise a constant battle (in which I'm often defeated).

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We've been told, "Turnitin have confirmed they will not implement the new end user licence agreement during this academic year, with no changes expected before 1 September 2027 at the earliest." But presumably it's coming at some point.

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Absolutely. 2-3 years ago my students knew that genAI was wrong. Now, after having been heavily encouraged to use it by the university, there's much more misconduct and much more confusion (both genuine and performed) about what's allowed.

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

'Underperforming' = knowingly screwed into the dust by an unsustainable funding model

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

"A task Charles had considered but postponed for 20 years because of the daunting workload" - of two weeks! The lazy bastard.

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

And memorably/grotesquely by Lowell in 'To Speak of the Woe that is in Marriage': Gored by the climacteric of his want He stalls above me like an elephant

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I listened to that tape a lot. I was shit at the game though.

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm grateful to have five poems, and a very generous introduction by Svitlana Kryvoruchko, in the latest issue of Astraea, the Ukrainian journal. Come and take the weight off your feet in the Schopenhauer Chair! astraea-journal.org/index.php/jo...

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Astraea

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Very kind of Tim Turnbull to share some of his recent hallucinations with us, via Red Squirrel Press

Cover of Our Lady Brings Tidings by Tim Turnbull

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Nothing more relaxing than watching a bit of telly in the evening

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I very much liked The Horseman on the Roof but mainly for the gruesome plague stuff and heroic posturing

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I'm doing two events next Wednesday - a thing on swearing with (among others) him off the Viz, and then a sort of lecture-in-verse on art history (really!) as part of the evening performances. See you there I hope!

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

What Are Words Worth 2U2? is currently happening at Northumbria, a fantastic programme of arts and writing. If you're in the North East then do have a look and come to whatever tickles your fancy - there's absolutely loads going on. erratic-front-a98.notion.site/WWW2U2-Event...

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Heh, fair enough (though I might read that line more ambivalent too!)

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Well, call me F R Leavis, but there IS a generous sympathy in that last line, regardless of what we might learn about Larkin elsewhere...

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

It's a definite contender for mine too

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"And then I grabbed Mrs Slocombe's..."

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

@tonywilliams.bsky.social @luketurner.bsky.social spotted at Headingley Library today.

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Depressing to hear of the closure of the MA Creative Writing @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social - a programme with such a long and wonderful history tossed aside. It's vandalism.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Anna Ruysch (1666-1754)Dutch Golden Age flower painter, younger sister of more well known painter Rachel Ruysch. Women painters became expert flower paintes as they were not allowed in academies to study human models and anatomy #WomensHistoryMonth

Photo of a painting on a purple wall in an ornate gold frame, the work is of an arrangement of flowers against a dark background

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Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

On the homepage of @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social atm, 60+ titles related to Keshed. Mix of fiction, non-fic, poetry old and new inc. work by @jamesscudamore.bsky.social @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social @heidijames.bsky.social @tonywilliams.bsky.social [more below] uk.bookshop.org/lists/how-to...

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How To Get Keshed and Influence People

A list of titles related to Keshed.

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Mann's one of those writers where as I'm reading him I know it's good, and often I'm very much enjoying it, and yet there's not much momentum - it's always a bit effortful

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

That's definitely an option - I was in the last issue though so not sure I can try again so soon

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Suggestions pls for where to submit a 3,000-word prose poem 😜

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I like a terrified but cryptic crossword, or as they're known, scaredword

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Oh, it IS your copy... What are all the numbers for?

Title page with Property of Bill written on it

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Does your burglar frequent Cancer Research in Alnwick?

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Managed to break my shameful 416-day streak on chess dot com. Here's to next Christmas Day not involving playing a game on my phone!

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It's the number one ingredient of yer classic miasma

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Rationalising the spice rack by throwing out things that are out of date. We have a clear winner - bought before we moved here from Sheffield 15 years ago and not used since.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Good morning from May Morris’ 1917 embroidery

Embroidered hanging design of birds flying around delightful bushes

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Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

All Maladapted on the Western Front

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