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Billy Mills
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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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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 8d
A Broken Sleep review special now live on my blog

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Art in Art: Cabinets of Curiosity and the Rise of the Gallery Painting
In the 17th century, emanating from Antwerp, a new genre of artwork came on the scene: paintings of paintings, works populated by a lush array of meta-images. From its origins in picturing private cur...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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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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This week in the poetry blogs w/ @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 47
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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@billymills.bsky.social - Surrealist poet David Gascoyne - allenginsberg.org/2023/11/s-n-...
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.
AMBULANCE DRIVER Cover me now with cobwebs and clemency. The clear sky has stolen my sense :-horizon after horizon, wheat in vast green lakes, sun that shakes the scent from lime flowers, wind that closes the plain to a snarling malison of dust. I must forget. The freight of the past is too heavy. Movement had taken us through glare of mid-day heat, through thickets of cork trees, through lonely villages where peasants still beat their corn with flails, where tanks clutter the ditches, monsters out of tune with the moon-eyed oxen in the fields St. Francis blest. From Bari to Benevento the mule carts impeded us. Clover swooned in placid crimson. Over the Apennines went clouds clenched to thunder. Under blown bridges lay derelict litter of war. Again and again we saw graves with wooden crosses; and the unknown dead, choir to uncertainty, caught and troubled our hearts. Capua, Cassino, Frosinone. Now we are taught the agony, the deprivation. Only mountains hold tranquillity. Old towns are gone. We who came blithely from the south have found grotesque mounds of stone, where time could claim the same churches, barns and inns, farmsteads, fair mansions, Road is to Rome. We are not pilgrims but somnambulists. St. Peter's dome is set in a pool of quiet, but we must pass the cool blond Tiber, down the straight convoy route, down the dark way, coil, loop and bend, stretching beyond the day towards night's mystery. We drive to where the battle-line is set, to get torn men, to fetch shell splintered soldiers, to drag from hell of pain, those who may never love their youth again. livest me of feelinall of insensibility, The freight of the present is too heavy. I must forget.
November 24, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Sad, sad news.

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Jimmy Cliff - Wonderful World, Beautiful People
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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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Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek (1920) psychogeographicreview.com/rossums-univ... via @bobbyseal.bsky.social
Rossum’s Universal Robots by Karel Čapek (1920)
Rossum’s Universal Robots is a play written by the Czech dramatist, Karel Čapek, in 1920 and was first performed on stage in 1921. It is known as Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti in the original Czech …
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November 24, 2025 at 10:10 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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QED. #ASHES
November 22, 2025 at 6:43 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 👣👇
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'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)
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Greyscale image of 'The Footing', a walking-themed anthology published by Longbarrow Press
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
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November 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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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:
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November 21, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Then let it have more!
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I'm tired of Trump in my timeline.
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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I had no idea what most of those things were.
Performative Purity Test score 90
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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The world has, in fact, gone mad.

Not that this is news.

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Maurizio Cattelan Is No Duchamp
One elevated the prosaic. The other merely gilded the familiar.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Odd things: This nine-year-old review has had 23 views in the last three days.

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Bill Griffiths Collected Poems and Sequences 1966-1996: A Review
Bill Griffiths: Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80), Collected Poems & Sequences, (1981-91) and Collected Poems Volume 3 (1992-96). Reality Street 2010, 2014 and 2016. Eds. Alan Halsey and Ken Ed…
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November 20, 2025 at 12:23 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:
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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.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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I just ordered a book.
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 7d
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
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The wonderful Augustus Young, 83 and still going strong:

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Augustus Young
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November 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM