“There’s nothing more embarrassing than being a poet, really.” —Elizabeth Bishop

Poetry teaching Twitter, advice please. How - how - HOW do you get students to read poetry aloud with feeling and engagement, rather than the I'm-just-getting-through-this-don't-look-at-me monotone? What exercises do you use?

First glimpse of the programme for July 2023! How exciting is this lineup? Please RT & share far and wide with students, friends, colleagues: scholarships still available. DM here with questions or interest. ies.sas.ac.uk/study-and-trai… T. S. Eliot Prize T. S. Eliot Foundation International T. S. Eliot Society

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Upcoming film adaptation of #VirginiaWoolf's novel, Night and Day. hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

Wassily Kandinsky - Dance Curves, 1926

Extremely heartening to see an increase in this year's provisional entries for A level English Literature.

I’m told this is the look the kids are all after this summer - they’re calling it Samcore on TikTok

Tokyo twilight 🇯🇵

NEW: we don’t reflect enough on how severe the housing crisis is, and how it has completely broken the promise society made to young adults. The situation is especially severe in the UK, where the last time house prices were this unaffordable was in ... 1876.

Jenni Nuttall @Stylisticienne was a wonderful scholar and teacher, and a colleague and friend on whom I could always depend for home truths, thoroughly practical advice, and a shared supply of chocolate to tide us through long hours of admissions interviews. She is so, so missed.

I remember the experience of reading ‘History’ as an A-level student and feeling then that this was going to be a transformative poem… just magical.

Good news! A Level English Literature entries up 7.8%, according to the provisional figures from Ofqual for the summer 2024 exam series. #TeamEnglish #engchatuk

Key Messages from A-level results day 🧵   English remains a very popular A-level choice + numbers are growing. More than 60,000 A-levels in English were awarded in 2024. Robert Eaglestone Matt Carnaby University English IES Team English Litdrive UK The British Academy 1/5

here, the only thing that can make us feel better: an image of Samuel Beckett setting it all up on fire.

who cares about christopher nolan adapting the odyssey. when will someone adapt THEODICY (paradise lost)?????

I had a great time presenting a paper based on my doctoral research at the UCL English Graduate Research Seminar last night. Great to catch up with academic staff and my peers.

yeah i use “AI”