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Professor Tiffany Stern amused and amazed everyone today with her eruditon on Shakespeare's Loos and Lav Paper 🧻 Thanks to everyone who came to the Open Day online or in person! We hope you had a great day and that you'll be back soon as students🥰 #Shakespeare #toilet #lecture

We must ride one another or die

Lamb & Flag Poetry Night! Tonight! 7pm! I think I’m going to read some… translations?

O’Bama

Coming soon to a fence near you: my face. (I'll be in Cambridge next week, as the Whichcote Society Poet in Residence at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to give a reading on Weds and a lecture on Thurs; details in replies. DO COME.)

Trajan on the posters like it’s 1998. We’re so fucking back

Melvyn Bragg is Michael Palin’s Wario

Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928), whose birthday it is today.

I’ve just read this, Pound’s ‘Love-Song to Eunoë’ (1915), for the first time over lunch. A great reminder that there’s no contradiction between a poem’s being funny and its being beautiful: ‘I have seen the respectably married | Sitting at their hearths: | It is very disgusting.’

Shakespeare was fine for an era that valued ravishingly beautiful language and astonishing insight into the human spirit but we have moved on from all that. Grow up

No fi- ligature? No like. Prime instead of an apostrophe? Oh, you’d better believe that’s no like.

How does a person come up with 'I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space—were it not that I have bad dreams.' That shit's too good

Louis MacNeice in prophetic mode: an age in which ‘reading and even speaking have been replaced | By other, less difficult, media’

I know we shouldn’t hope for much from celebrities, but I’m so disappointed in Johnny Flynn, one of my favourite songwriters and a brilliant actor to boot. First the lame collaborations with Robert Macfarlane, now… that

I’m glad people enjoyed this MacNeice poem. But here’s its less friendly neighbour: a defence of lawless poets…

Come to DULWICH next Wednesday night to hear me and Matthew Hollis reading/in conversation (tickets are £5; each includes a complimentary drink): tickettailor.com/events/bellhou…

Marking fifty years since the first publication of Seamus Heaney’s seminal collection, North, this edition reproduces its elegant first setting and its original jacket. North: the heritage edition is out now faber.co.uk/product/978057…