Still trying to understand how a life insurance Ad can deliver one of the most important life lessons.

T. S. Eliot's first big post-war recording of his poetry, at the Sanders Theatre, Harvard, for the Harvard Vocarium. Where sights and sounds of modern poetry are - Harvard Gazette - goo.gl/alerts/i6gacV #GoogleAlerts

On The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz. #poetrycommunity #poets #poetrylovers newcriterion.com/article/the-tr…

Thom Gunn: the leather-bound lyricist thearticle.com/thom-gunn-the-…

Tasteful lyrics, I trust!

Look hard to spot the tiny arrow.

A cracking start to Arts Society’s autumn season with Fabergé’s fabulous eggs and fall of the Romanovs bishopsstortfordindependent.co.uk/whats-on/a-cra…

Seamus Heaney remembered on his anniversary rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/… via RTÉ

Display panels on #WilliamGoldings life & novels go up today @ venues around Exeter. Part of our #LordoftheFlies @ 70 celebrations🥳#CityofLiterature #heritage Find them: Exeter Library Bookbag Exeter Phoenix Exeter Books and Music Positive Light Projects Image ©William Golding Ltd

British Foreign Secretary announces the suspension of approximately 30 arms export licenses to Israel bcs of ‘clear risk that might be used to commit violations of international humanitarian law’ in #Gaza.

The Japanese word “tsundoku” describes the secret habit of acquiring books and then letting them pile up without necessarily ever reading them. I plead guilty! For some, just possessing a book is sometimes enough (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

The first full-length biography of Emily Hale, secret love of T.S. Eliot, is published today! Full details of The Silenced Muse by Sara Fitzgerald on our News page: tseliotsociety.uk

John Berryman elegised Louis MacNeice, whom he called (in a letter to Richard Wilbur) 'one of my best-loved friends', in Dream Sing 267: My love for Louis transcended his good work, and—older than Henry—saw him not in the dark & suffocating.

An ‘Unlawful Presence’ nybooks.com/articles/2024/… via The New York Review of Books

'Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you;' — The Dry Salvages, published #OTD 1941

Today I sent off my edition of the correspondence between William Golding and Faber (primarily his friend and editor, Charles Monteith). What a writer Golding was! And has there ever been a talent-spotting editor as successful as Monteith? Publication will be November 2025.

Delighted to read - in 'Adventures with Authors', by the publisher and university administrator Sir Sydney Roberts - this nice comment by Harley Granville-Barker on T. S. Eliot: "Eliot has a little way, with which I cordially sympathise, of leaving his correspondence to mature."

What T.S. Eliot’s Letters to Emily Hale Reveal About the Poet’s Romantic Past lithub.com/what-t-s-eliot… via Literary Hub