David Toms
@daithitoms.bsky.social
Writer. Pacemaker (Banshee Press, 2022). Northly (Turas Press, 2019). Writing recently in Magma, DRB, aswirl, Banshee, Gorse. New poetry coming soon.
🇮🇪 living in 🇳🇴.
🇮🇪 living in 🇳🇴.
Nothing makes me feel more like I'm in Norway than this sight outside my daughter's Montessori crèche.
February 12, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Nothing makes me feel more like I'm in Norway than this sight outside my daughter's Montessori crèche.
Are review subs @minorliteratures.bsky.social closed?
February 10, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Are review subs @minorliteratures.bsky.social closed?
I feel like you should not be allowed to use AI generated music as part of your figure skating routine at the Olympics. The thin end of the blade, as it were.
February 9, 2026 at 7:56 PM
I feel like you should not be allowed to use AI generated music as part of your figure skating routine at the Olympics. The thin end of the blade, as it were.
Forgot how daft snowboarding lingo is!
February 8, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Forgot how daft snowboarding lingo is!
For anyone interested in #winterolympics - Irish alpine skier Cormac Comerford will be up in a few minutes to finish out the men's downhill race 🇮🇪
February 7, 2026 at 11:57 AM
For anyone interested in #winterolympics - Irish alpine skier Cormac Comerford will be up in a few minutes to finish out the men's downhill race 🇮🇪
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Sara Baume does it again - this is the book equivalent of a deep life affirming breath and it’s been a joy to read over the last few days. Out in July from @grantabooks.bsky.social
February 6, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Sara Baume does it again - this is the book equivalent of a deep life affirming breath and it’s been a joy to read over the last few days. Out in July from @grantabooks.bsky.social
Will there be room for Gramsci at this opening ceremony? What it being the time of monsters and all
February 6, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Will there be room for Gramsci at this opening ceremony? What it being the time of monsters and all
Day one of the winter games I've spent at home minding a sick child and loving every second of the figure skating pairs. God I love the Olympics, for all its faults.
February 6, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Day one of the winter games I've spent at home minding a sick child and loving every second of the figure skating pairs. God I love the Olympics, for all its faults.
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New Bohs season starts on Sunday. Have missed live football in my life. There's nothing like shouting football advice to someone half your age, fifty yards away, who's more talented than you.
February 5, 2026 at 9:22 PM
New Bohs season starts on Sunday. Have missed live football in my life. There's nothing like shouting football advice to someone half your age, fifty yards away, who's more talented than you.
Got a really lovely message from a young person today who was fitted with a pacemaker at the age of 20 and they messaged me to say what my book Pacemaker, which they'd got as a Christmas gift this year, meant to them. Humbling to think my little book about walking and my wonky heart has that effect.
February 4, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Got a really lovely message from a young person today who was fitted with a pacemaker at the age of 20 and they messaged me to say what my book Pacemaker, which they'd got as a Christmas gift this year, meant to them. Humbling to think my little book about walking and my wonky heart has that effect.
My least favourite genre of NRK article: historically high food prices, but it's up to you start baking your own bread in order to save money:
www.nrk.no/nordland/sti...
The problem with this a) not everyone has the time and b) you can't change structural issues alons
www.nrk.no/nordland/sti...
The problem with this a) not everyone has the time and b) you can't change structural issues alons
Stine sparar 15.000 kroner i året på eitt enkelt grep
Då favorittbrødet til familien nærma seg 60 kroner stykket, tok ernæringsrådgjevar Stine Pedersen Svarthe grep. No bakar ho sjølv og sparar fleire tusen kroner kvart einaste år.
www.nrk.no
February 4, 2026 at 7:42 AM
My least favourite genre of NRK article: historically high food prices, but it's up to you start baking your own bread in order to save money:
www.nrk.no/nordland/sti...
The problem with this a) not everyone has the time and b) you can't change structural issues alons
www.nrk.no/nordland/sti...
The problem with this a) not everyone has the time and b) you can't change structural issues alons
Watched this tonight, on loan from our library, on DVD. I've not been this frustrated by a film in a long time and by the end we were left just baffled. A garbled mess of visuals and while narrative always took a backseat, the last 30mins it just seemed to collapse.
February 1, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Watched this tonight, on loan from our library, on DVD. I've not been this frustrated by a film in a long time and by the end we were left just baffled. A garbled mess of visuals and while narrative always took a backseat, the last 30mins it just seemed to collapse.
Understanding skiing for me has been relatively easy in that it kind of occupies the same place in Norwegian life that the GAA does in Ireland. It is the national sport and the nation-building sport. Also once ostensibly amateur. And as @bernhardellefsen.bsky.social notes, ideally it's heroes
Getting ready for the winter Olypmics with this excellent examination of skiings place in contemporary Norwegian society, the age of the attention economy and the society of the spectacle.
February 1, 2026 at 1:25 PM
Understanding skiing for me has been relatively easy in that it kind of occupies the same place in Norwegian life that the GAA does in Ireland. It is the national sport and the nation-building sport. Also once ostensibly amateur. And as @bernhardellefsen.bsky.social notes, ideally it's heroes
Getting ready for the winter Olypmics with this excellent examination of skiings place in contemporary Norwegian society, the age of the attention economy and the society of the spectacle.
February 1, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Getting ready for the winter Olypmics with this excellent examination of skiings place in contemporary Norwegian society, the age of the attention economy and the society of the spectacle.
One of my new years resolutions has been to be more au fait with classic Norwegian writing. There's Ibsen and Hamsun of course, but I'm starting with Amalie Skram and her tetralogy about a family living just outside of Bergen
January 30, 2026 at 10:50 AM
One of my new years resolutions has been to be more au fait with classic Norwegian writing. There's Ibsen and Hamsun of course, but I'm starting with Amalie Skram and her tetralogy about a family living just outside of Bergen
Jeg flyttet til Norge i sommeren 2016 av egen vilje og det tok meg 5-6 uker å orientere meg god nok til å begynne å søk etter jobb. Det tok meg noen uker til før jeg fikk en. Det er utrolig å forvente at noen kan starte jobbsøk med en gang de kommer hit.
"De krever at flyktninger søker jobb fra dag én. Gir det mening å forvente dette av en afghansk kvinne uten norskkunnskaper? Er det rimelig at hun straffes for ikke å kunne sende jobbsøknader før hun har lært språket?" klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...
Arbeidslinje eller symbolpolitikk?
Ap-regjeringen vil gi lavere ytelser og flere krav til flyktninger. Høyres svar i form av en «borgerkontrakt» er ren symbolpolitikk.
klassekampen.no
January 29, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Jeg flyttet til Norge i sommeren 2016 av egen vilje og det tok meg 5-6 uker å orientere meg god nok til å begynne å søk etter jobb. Det tok meg noen uker til før jeg fikk en. Det er utrolig å forvente at noen kan starte jobbsøk med en gang de kommer hit.
Hup Bodø/Glimt! The bragging rights for those lads over Haaland are immense. They'll be drinking out on that the rest of their lives
January 20, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Hup Bodø/Glimt! The bragging rights for those lads over Haaland are immense. They'll be drinking out on that the rest of their lives
If you haven't read it by the way, I can strongly recommend the book Perfecting Sound Forever on the history of music recording
On the point about music, people have only had recorded sound available for a little over 100 years and it has already changed format so often, I suppose. We've also listened to it on radio waves so are used to it's lack of physicality alongside physical ownership simultaneously.
January 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM
If you haven't read it by the way, I can strongly recommend the book Perfecting Sound Forever on the history of music recording
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The MS of the Week is RIA MS B ii 1, Astronomical tract. The frontispiece is an astronomical rotula with a moveable index attached, illuminated with red and yellow pigment.
Visit @rialibrary.bsky.social to read more about the manuscript and explore highlights from the RIA Library’s collections.
Visit @rialibrary.bsky.social to read more about the manuscript and explore highlights from the RIA Library’s collections.
January 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
The MS of the Week is RIA MS B ii 1, Astronomical tract. The frontispiece is an astronomical rotula with a moveable index attached, illuminated with red and yellow pigment.
Visit @rialibrary.bsky.social to read more about the manuscript and explore highlights from the RIA Library’s collections.
Visit @rialibrary.bsky.social to read more about the manuscript and explore highlights from the RIA Library’s collections.
Reposted by David Toms
Two English Literature students leaving a tutorial with Geoffrey Hill, Leeds University, 1973.
January 18, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Two English Literature students leaving a tutorial with Geoffrey Hill, Leeds University, 1973.
I haven't seen anything about what's actually going on with Maduro and his wife now for several days. Are they just in custody? Like, seems crazy to me that there isnt round the clock info on it. There's really just too much happening isnt there?
January 14, 2026 at 1:25 PM
I haven't seen anything about what's actually going on with Maduro and his wife now for several days. Are they just in custody? Like, seems crazy to me that there isnt round the clock info on it. There's really just too much happening isnt there?
Dette er farlig og, spør du meg, nesten uansvarlig av statskanalen å drive med normalisering – ja tom hylling av – "side hustles" og dermed en nedvurdering av konseptet av et godt lønn til en trygt, vanlig jobb.
www.nrk.no/nyttig/xl/tj...
www.nrk.no/nyttig/xl/tj...
Tjener tusenvis ved siden av fulltidsjobb
Å spe på lønna har blitt mer populært.
www.nrk.no
January 13, 2026 at 6:36 AM
Dette er farlig og, spør du meg, nesten uansvarlig av statskanalen å drive med normalisering – ja tom hylling av – "side hustles" og dermed en nedvurdering av konseptet av et godt lønn til en trygt, vanlig jobb.
www.nrk.no/nyttig/xl/tj...
www.nrk.no/nyttig/xl/tj...
As im powering my through Dag Solstad's novel about his character Bjørn Hansen, I listened to the episode of Klassekampens Solstad podcast, where Karl Ove Knausgård stated that in his view, foreigners couldn't read Solstad. That is that he was so Norwegian that he was kind of beyond translation.
January 12, 2026 at 5:08 PM
As im powering my through Dag Solstad's novel about his character Bjørn Hansen, I listened to the episode of Klassekampens Solstad podcast, where Karl Ove Knausgård stated that in his view, foreigners couldn't read Solstad. That is that he was so Norwegian that he was kind of beyond translation.