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Billy Mills
@billymills.bsky.social
Irish poet, cricket fan, book reviews, Bob Dylan.
See my blog: https://ellipticalmovements

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"I give as examples Billy Mills, Susan Howe and J.H. Prynne, although the assumption that they write for themselves is entirely my own" J.C.C. Mays
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@billymills.bsky.social - Stevan Weine on the connection between Allen Ginsberg and Fra Angelico - allenginsberg.org/2025/11/w-n-...
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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Simon Harris says we need to talk about migration. People go bananas

Sinn Fein want to kick asylum seekers out of ipas centre’s and close the border basically and nothing from same people

Team sports
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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November 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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here’s another by Silvia Dobson. think a lot of this poetry is pretty fine. someone could do worse than finding out who is the executor of these writers’ estates (i know at least Oswell must have someone, he’s had stories reprinted recently) and republishing some of their poetry.
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Jimmy Cliff - Wonderful World, Beautiful People
YouTube video by EmceeGreenery
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November 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Tomorrow! @michistory.bsky.social @cemslimerick.bsky.social 25 November, 5.30pm, Mary Immaculate College, Room G08.
Mario Luis López Durán (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
will speak on ‘Lost in the archives, found on the battlefield: Irish officers in the Spanish army, 1690-1715.’
November 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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You will like this one as well @billymills.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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@billymills.bsky.social - Allen Ginsberg on the Kennedy assassination www.vlib.us/beats/ginsbe...
November 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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@billymills.bsky.social - Remembering now and always Bernadette Mayer - allenginsberg.org/2022/11/bern...
November 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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This is a great anthology! Such a rich range of voices on walking and landscapes 👣👇
'It is the best anthology of new work that I’ve read in years; anyone with an interest in contemporary British poetry should read it.' - Billy Mills

Last few copies of 'The Footing': our first (and, to date, only) anthology (unlikely to be reprinted)
thefooting.wordpress.com
November 21, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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@billymills.bsky.social - Friday's Weekly Round-Up - Richard Prince poster, Ginsberg criticism, new William Burroughs book, more Beat books, more Beat news
allenginsberg.org/2025/11/f-n-...
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Broken Sleep Books Need Your Help

I got this in my inbox yesterday:
Broken Sleep Books Need Your Help
I got this in my inbox yesterday:
ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I'm tired of Trump in my timeline.
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I had no idea what most of those things were.
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The world has, in fact, gone mad.

Not that this is news.

hyperallergic.com/1058360/maur...
Maurizio Cattelan Is No Duchamp
One elevated the prosaic. The other merely gilded the familiar.
hyperallergic.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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This weekend, join some of our poets including Anthony Vahni Capildeo, Lorna Goodison, and Colin Bramwell from 21st-23rd November at various events at Edinburgh's International Poetry Festival, Push the Boat Out!

This year's programme:
pushtheboatout.org/programme/
Programme - 2025 Push The Boat Out Festival
Can’t wait for Push the Boat Out? Get into the festival spirit by joining Marjorie Lotfi, poet and co-founder of Open Book, for an exploration of poetry from a handful of poets appearing at the festival. Expect to go away with new favourites! No homework or experience is required.
pushtheboatout.org
November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
I just ordered a book.
It may well be the case that small, independent presses are the lifeblood of literature, and a vital feature of our cultural landscape, providing an essential service in a complex ecosystem, like wrasses or shrimps. What is undeniably the case is that we have sold a total of five books this month.
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The wonderful Augustus Young, 83 and still going strong:

www.augustusyoung.com/p7.html
Augustus Young
www.augustusyoung.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM