There shd be a dictionary of words with unknown origins (eg higgle-piggledy, whim-wham)

Ok have chosen this season’s unaffordable dress to dream about; it is floor-length, high necked, bare armed, blood red, tight fitting, with neat ruffles running all the way down it in strips like an extended rib cage, and is sometimes semi-transparent ❤️🔥

‘Tragic heroes and heroines, as Macbeth makes so abundantly clear, are like people trying never to sleep. They are people who cannot interrupt themselves or be interrupted.’ (Adam Phillips)

Been listening to loads of Sean Bonney over the last couple of days and thinking maybe only poetry, of all the available forms of utterance, is (or can be) adequate to expressing some kinds of political anger and felt futility

New bedside reading ❤️

Man, books are utterly exhausting aren’t they

So I caught my finger in the door on the way out of yoga and broke it

Argh the TLS has published my sarcy reply to a query about my Wyndham Lewis piece and Exeter is clean out of copies of the paper 😡

Something difficult but wonderful about this job is that whenever you find a new poet you really like (which is to say, keep reading and thinking about and whose lines you remember without trying to) they make you rethink 1, what literature is, 2, how you write

‘The voice of the poem is not your friend’ (Sean Bonney)

I've been reporting in East Africa on the impact of President Trump's USAID cuts, and I find that not only are children dying in large numbers but the pace is accelerating as stockpiles run out and people grow weaker. I also obtained an internal Trump administration memo stating

Gen z’s back in Exeter because midriffs

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Whenever Americans write to me about the fall I think something awful has happened I shamefully can’t remember