Everything wrong seems a failure of care, in language, thought and action. I think that’s why the technology to bypass these processes is so threatening, particularly since it accelerates the lack of care already structurally inbuilt into violence and inequality.
Thrilled that my Academy of American Poets Prize-winning poem “In Dreams” is now published!
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It is publication today for Late Heaney I am told, although I imagine it’ll be a while before I see it between ice storms and the broad Atlantic. I thought I’d share a few thoughts about it, as it’s a different kind of book for me in form and style.
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My fortnightly online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' begins on Wed 1st Oct, 7-9pm.
Numbers are capped to allow a small group experience, and there are still a few places left. More information and booking details here.
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"The Sorrow of Love," written by W.B. Yeats in 1893 and first published in his collection "The Rose."
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Absolutely worth a follow, support, and read. Wonderful writer.
The back and front jacket of 'The Blue Hour' by Angelina D'Roza, white text against vertical bands of bluish colour, set against a background of green silken folds.
"You can’t make taro edible without a little work. Look how lovely this pestle with the bird’s head handle, its wings in the wind. How much like today with its worn-smooth stone. You touch me without purpose as I walk by. The bird in its extraneousness."
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Absolutely brilliant! So looking forward to this book.
Yesterday I officially submitted my PhD dissertation — I am now Dr. Ittenbach!
Submitted a full draft of my doctoral dissertation to my committee today. Feels absolutely wild. Celebrated with BBQ, just like my dad back in the day when he did the same.
A truly fantastic book by an exceptional poet (and Press!)
In case you were looking to backup your kindle books (since Amazon is removing the option to download them on the 26th), this script works quite well in minimizing the click-pain of downloading them individually:
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‘The solace he seeks is to be found not in nature, but in a removal of nature from nature mediated by cultural exchange, by the gathering of information.’
David Trotter on Ken Loach:
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My publishers are now seven (!) months overdue paying me. I've been kindly asked by a few readers how they can help.
Best of all is a paid subscription to my Substack: tomcox.substack.com
If you cannot afford that, I've set up this link on my site: tom-cox.com/support-toms...
Thank you!
Tom
Producer/Director Aoife McArdle is a graduate of The School of English at Trinity. The aesthetic is so Arts Building.
My next book, LIFELINES, will be published this spring, so I thought I'd put together a short post about it. It's a story, in part, about a place where three countries meet around two ancient lakes. And where pelicans, people, borders and bears share the watershed. julian-hoffman.com/2025/01/10/l...
Wondering what took me so long to read R.S. Thomas
Tonight’s New Year. The weatherman
forecasts a bone-cold ten below,
but now you cling to heat and skin
to banish auguries of snow.
'The Last Day of the Year', Chris Jones, in the 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology. You can download the PDF here:
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portal
portal
portal
portal
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the UK countryside is teeming with interdimensional portals. All you have to do is look hard enough for them.
Still absolutely wild to have my poetry in a real, held-in-hand book
Apocalyptic Landscape. Available for pre-order from Valley Press. www.valleypressuk.com/preorder/p/a...
POETRY COMPETITION: I'm inviting submissions based on a short-course I've devised called 'Apocalyptic Landscape Writing'. Materials can be accessed here: research.hud.ac.uk/media/assets.... The idea is for poets to choose a landscape and write a response to it that might be construed as apocalyptic.