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Caravaggio’s Bodies Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 4 March · 44m

In which @erinmaglaque.bsky.social and I are unnerved by Caravaggio podcasts.apple.com/en/podcast/t...

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On the latest episode of the podcast, @erinmaglaque.bsky.social joins Thomas Jones (@moonjets.bsky.social) to discuss the ways that Caravaggio represented his models’ bodies on canvas and what makes his paintings so unnerving.

Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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On 9th April 1917, whilst smoking a pipe in his dugout doorway, the poet and writer Edward Thomas was killed.

His greatest legacy, his writings, still influence the way we perceive place and consider our place within the landscape.

#ww1 #linocut #art

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“I was also wondering whether this image of the light filtering through, it’s almost a space in which your poems exist?” Great comment, brilliant collection.

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Dark Night by John of the Cross in this weeks LRB
brilliantly translated by Martha Sprackland—

there i stayed
and there forgot
my cheek lay on my beloved fair
and all things ceased and i was lost
and all my worldly doubt and care
were sunk among the lilies there

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Looking at this thing of beauty! Render by Billy Ramsell is a PBS recommendation and one of the most inventive and original collections I've read. Get your pre-orders in!

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Watching Edward Norton, on Colbert, talking about Walt Whitman.
I like Edward Norton. Lot of people would rather he yucked it up, kept it light & breezy, but it's refreshing to see someone care about poetry.
He knows it isn't popular with the masses but he talks about what he cares about regardless.

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A photographer friend of mine is starting a visual and literary project around dementia, memory and time - if anyone would like to join in, it's here:

www.becomingunmapped.com

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Clever, isn’t it? #sylviaplath

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We're excited for our TRIPLE ONLINE LAUNCH
Tuesday 21st April, 7pm
Featuring #poetry from @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social as they celebrate these wonderful new books.
Pay what you can: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

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Publication day for LIGHT YEAR by @jennywcreative.bsky.social a luminous #poetry meditation on time, memory, exile, love and healing.

Graceful and intimate, poems of "sublime precision".

"Witness, these poems say, and linger, and wonder."

Congratulations 💜
ninearchespress.com/publications...

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Just picked up @jennywcreative.bsky.social’s Light Year from News from Nowhere in Liverpool this is going to be good

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Frank O'Hara reads "Present"
Frank O'Hara reads "Present" YouTube video by Zachary Pace

youtu.be/8Gt6RbOk308?...

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-22 in Kiev today. Another poem from Bonememory by @annaveprinska.bsky.social

2 months ago 9 3 1 1
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Delighted to share a #blog post where @jennywcreative.bsky.social shares the "reflective journey" of writing Light Year and her stunning title poem:
ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2026/01/in-c...
"Delicate and enduring", Light Year is available to pre-order:
ninearchespress.com/publications...

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Join the PBS Spring Showcase featuring @jennywcreative.bsky.social and Karen McCarthy Woolf in conversation about their new #poetry books with Sinéad Morrissey.
Jennifer Wong will be launching LIGHT YEAR, out that week.
Tuesday 17th February, 18.30
FREE but please book:
www.ncl.ac.uk/university-e...

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Poets – in their boundless-absurd desire to fly – / flock their verse with birds, babbling / and babbling and calling it birdsong.

Loving BONEMEMORY by
@annaveprinska.bsky.social

2 months ago 5 1 1 0

“We were dead and could breathe”

Paul Celan

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Paul Celan is exquisite on the page. Good morning poets.
#Poems #Poetry #PaulCelan

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