ON MAKING BOOKS.
Looking forward to this conversation with the Bodleian Libraries’ Printer in Residence 2025–26, the wonderful James Freemantle.
If you're in or near Oxford on Tuesday 12 May, come along. It's free!
visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/2026/m...
I'm on the extreme left.
Delighted to have written the Afterword for Katherine Hunt and Dianne Mitchell's fizzing collection on literary and material forms -- available for pre-order now with a discount.
Delighted to have written the Afterword for Katherine Hunt and Dianne Mitchell's fizzing collection on literary and material forms -- available for pre-order now with a discount.
oh will look out for this!
This is a great book
It's 13 March day! If you'd like a free copy of my prose collage of one day from the past -- 13 March 1911 -- send me a DM and I'll see what I can do.
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
It's 13 March day! If you'd like a free copy of my prose collage of one day from the past -- 13 March 1911 -- send me a DM and I'll see what I can do.
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...
“A village theatrical staging of N. F. Simpson’s absurdist play The Hole. Abandoned when it became clear that its anti-religious sentiments would not go down well in a church setting. (2025)”
From a list of projects undertaken and abandoned by Adam Smyth.
Our next event!
Sarah Cusk and Sophie Floate, Printed books from the libraries of some Oxford humanists
Thursday 12th March, 5:15pm, Lower Lecture Theatre, Berrow Foundation Building, @lincoln.ox.ac.uk
With a small exhibition!
In-person only: book via email secretary@oxbibsoc.org.uk.
OBS / Lincoln College research associate position!
We invite early career / grad scholars to apply to our new 2-week research associate position @lincoln.ox.ac.uk. Any interesting projects that will benefit from 2 weeks at Lincoln -- £500, accommodation and meals. Deadline 27th March
Call for papers!
INSCRIPTION 7 (out 2027) will be all about BLANKS. It will be (as ever) a BEAUTIFUL and MAXIMAL object.
Send us your ideas!
Historical / theoretical / creative / creative-critical -- or some strange blend.
First step: 400-word proposal + brief CV by 1 April 2026.
CFP attached.
JOB!
Come and be my colleague!
Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of English Literature, ca. 1780–1914, at Balliol College, Oxford.
Details: www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/balliol-peop...
superb!
On Thursday of this week (12th Feb.)!
Books! Collectors! Elizabethans! Libraries!
In person (Oxford) or online (Zoom).
Inscription 6 on TEARS & RIPS will be out in early summer.
Pre-order now at inscriptionjournal.com/how-to-buy
Artists in issue 6:
Bas Jan Ader, I'm too sad to tell you, 1970, © MoMA / Scala
Dave Beech, When News Hit Shore, 2023
Stephen Emmerson, Holes, 7" vinyl record, 2026...
Our next talk!
Francesca Galligan on 'Sir Christopher Hatton and his books: reconstructing an Elizabethan library.'
How and why do we reconstruct historic libraries?
Thurs 12th February, 5:15 pm T.S. Eliot Theatre, Merton College, Oxford (+ online via Zoom - register secretary@oxbibsoc.org.uk)
Pleased to see the latest volume in the Materials Readings book series: The Early Seventeenth Century Verse Miscellany: Directions and Re-Directions, by Cedric C. Brown
www.routledge.com/The-Early-Se...
