Countdown - Tomorrow is John Keats’ birthday! - 31 October Thursday, 30 October (Birthday Eve)

Tomorrow is John Keats’ birthday.

Celebrate Beauty’s resistance!

#JohnKeats #Endymion #Romanticism #PaulWBMarsden

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✍️ The Historical Fiction Masterclass 2025 — A Journey Through Time and Craft Every great historical novel begins not with a plot — but with an act of resurrection.

Over the past few weeks, thousands of readers have joined my Historical Fiction Masterclass for novelists — a six-part exploration of how to make the past speak again.

Here’s the full series.

#HistoricalFiction #WritingTips #PaulWBMarsden

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Countdown - 3 days to John Keats’ birthday - 31 October Tuesday, 28 October

3 Days to Keats’ Birthday!

The poetry of Earth is never dead
“Keats knew what the climate movement keeps relearning.”
“The poetry of Earth is never dead.”
— “On the Grasshopper and Cricket” (1816)
#JohnKeats #Romanticism #PaulWBMarsden

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Countdown - 5 days to John Keats birthday - 31 October When I have fears that I may cease to be

Why John Keats still steadies us when the world feels uncertain.

Countdown - 5 days to his birthday on 31 October

#JohnKeats #RomanticPoetry #WhenIHaveFears
#PaulWBMarsden

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The New Anarchy (After the manner of Percy Bysshe Shelley)

The New Anarchy

“We rose as lions when the world went mad,

We kindled light where none but darkness had;

And from their ashes shaped, with heart & hand,

A dawn of justice shining through every land.”

#NoToFascism #PaulWBMarsden #PercyByssheShelley

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Sweet adventures in 1974 My mum and dad didn’t have much money when I was growing up in the late sixties and seventies.

Childhood adventures, aged 6, to Mr Scully’s Sweetshop in my hometown of Frodsham in 1974.

Liquorice sticks, Love Hearts, candied mice, gobstoppers, flying saucers and Black Jacks.

#PaulWBMarsden #Sweets #1970’s

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I can’t run anymore but I remember my marathon races Some days I struggle to walk from pains that swirl around my body at the speed of sound, from centre of my lower back, to left side below rib cage, to right hip, to right shoulder, and down into my ba...

I can’t run anymore but I dream of my marathon races.

#PaulWBMarsden #Marathon #Pain

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✍️ When Titans Speak as Gods: Voltaire, Truth, and the Elon Musk’s Hubris By Paul W.

Every century invents a new idol.

In Voltaire’s Paris, that idol was the monarch blessed by Heaven.

In ours, it is the greedy technocrat, like Elon Musk anointed by markets.

#Voltaire #ElonMusk #EcoSapienism #Reason #PaulWBMarsden #Philosophy #GreatWriter

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Among the Trees of My Childhood: Remembering Jiffy, Castle Park, and the Quiet Joy of Autumn Sometimes I think the trees remember us.

Sometimes I think the trees remember us. Their roots grow around our childhood secrets, their branches cradle the laughter we once left behind.
#Autumn #ChildhoodMemories #NatureWriting #Nostalgia #PaulWBMarsden #WritingCommunity #EcoSapienism #Memoir #LoveOfNature

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