I know David Crystal's work on pronunciation in Shakespeare's time, but can anyone recommend a guide to pronunciation ca. 1500-1530? Say, for a Skelton or a Wyatt?

UNSW LITERARY PROVOCATIONS HUB SEMINAR Astrid Lorange (UNSW Art & Design), "Towards a Literary Theory of the Headache: On Jason Compson’s Headaches in The Sound and the Fury" 3:00 pm, Wednesday, 19 February Robert Webster 334, UNSW Main Campus No need to register. Come along!

Richard Conway and James Archer, Preface to PROGRAMMING FOR POETS: A GENTLE INTRODUCTION USING BASIC (1979):

"It seems to be in so much doubt What all of this is all about And what is what we are without And if there is an is at all Beyond whatever it is we call The where we are as usual[.]" Charles Madge, 1933

Here's a new article, on literary worldmaking as a question not of diegesis or form but medium. The case study is Robert McAlmon's weird but wonderful 1925 anthology, the Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers. Free PDF copies available here: tandfonline.com/eprint/2EQP3MK…

UNSW LITERARY PROVOCATIONS HUB SEMINAR #2 James Donald (UNSW), '"More Human Than Human" Is Our Motto: Robots, Cyborgs and Hybrid Humans' 3:00 pm, Wednesday, 12 March Robert Webster 334, UNSW Main Campus No need to register. Come along!

ON THIS WEDNESDAY: UNSW Literary Provocations Hub Seminar #2 James Donald (UNSW), '"More Human Than Human" Is Our Motto: Robots, Cyborgs and Hybrid Humans' Wednesday, 12 March, 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Robert Webster 334, UNSW Main Campus No need to register. Come along!

On poetry: youtube.com/watch?v=U6pBSq…

UNSW LITERARY PROVOCATIONS HUB SEMINAR #3 Prue Gibson (UNSW), "Writing the Doctrine of Signatures: Women, Plants, and Poisons" 3:00 pm, Wednesday, 16 April Robert Webster 334, UNSW Main Campus No need to register. Come along!

Evie Shockley and Kamran Javadizadeh on Ed Roberson's "Open / Back Up (breadth of field)": just wonderful: open.spotify.com/episode/4hixhD…

He sees deep and is glad, who accedes to mortality and in his imprisonment rises upon himself as the sea in a chasm, struggling to be free and unable to be, in its surrendering finds its continuing. Marianne Moore, "What Are Years?"

UNSW Literary Provocations Hub Seminar #3 Prue Gibson (UNSW), "Writing the Doctrine of Signatures: Women, Plants, and Poisons" Wednesday, 16 April 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Robert Webster 334, UNSW Main Campus All are welcome, and there's no need to register. Come along!

Will says the beach was good.

I'm looking for examples of literary writing which perform, reflect on, or theorise literary criticism. Pope's "Essay on Criticism" is an obvious instance; Moore's "Poetry" or O'Hara's "Why I Am Not a Painter" not quite what I'm after. Does anything spring to mind?

What should contemporary criticism do with the novels of Barnes, Loy, and Rodker, too often ignored by earlier critics? Read Simon During's review of Liz Pender's THE NEW MODERNIST NOVEL: CRITICISM AND THE TASK OF READING, just published in AFFIRMATIONS: tinyurl.com/bdd9hda3.