David Collard
@davidcollard.bsky.social
Autheur. Unfluencer.
'A Crumpled Swan' (2025)
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'Multiple Joyce' (2022)
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'A Crumpled Swan' (2025)
https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/a_crumpled_swan/
'Multiple Joyce' (2022)
https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/
(No DMs. I block anonymous followers with no bio or original posts)
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Robert Potts, former editor of Poetry Review and a critic who inspired me when I was starting out, has started a Substack about John Berryman’s 77 Dream Songs, after learning them all by heart. I just bought an old copy on eBay to keep to hand as I read along every week substack.com/home/post/p-...
'Dream awhile'
In which the project is introduced, and we consider our resources
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January 19, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Robert Potts, former editor of Poetry Review and a critic who inspired me when I was starting out, has started a Substack about John Berryman’s 77 Dream Songs, after learning them all by heart. I just bought an old copy on eBay to keep to hand as I read along every week substack.com/home/post/p-...
"Internet not just a flash in the pan" insists minister.
Tánaiste Simon Harris has said AI is “no longer a concept” and is “here to stay” following a recent visit to San Francisco.
Harris said that as he travelled though San Francisco, he was “struck” by the “unavoidable reality” of how AI is “woven into daily life”.
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Harris said that as he travelled though San Francisco, he was “struck” by the “unavoidable reality” of how AI is “woven into daily life”.
jrnl.ie/6931204
Simon Harris says AI 'here to stay' after California trip and pledges Ireland will host AI summit
Harris said the ‘AI moment has arrived’ and it’s ‘time for Ireland to lead’.
jrnl.ie
January 19, 2026 at 1:40 PM
"Internet not just a flash in the pan" insists minister.
Another interminable insomniac night that ended, happily, with this, the first episode of the new Harry Hill podcast (with his guest Stewart Lee), which has just been uploaded. A great way to start the day (or end the night before), and recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhJx...
The Harry Hill Show - Stewart Lee
YouTube video by HARRY HILL
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January 19, 2026 at 8:05 AM
Another interminable insomniac night that ended, happily, with this, the first episode of the new Harry Hill podcast (with his guest Stewart Lee), which has just been uploaded. A great way to start the day (or end the night before), and recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhJx...
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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
Born on this day in 1892.
a black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie wearing a top hat .
ALT: a black and white photo of a man in a suit and tie wearing a top hat .
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January 18, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Born on this day in 1892.
I'm glad you brought that up.
Throughout 2025, I documented everything I bought at the supermarket reduced counter, a project inspired by Georges Perec's Attempt at an Inventory of the Liquid and Solid Foodstuffs Ingurgitated by Me in the Course of the Year Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-Four.
January 17, 2026 at 8:17 PM
I'm glad you brought that up.
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This month’s Substack comes with original artwork (not by me) and is basically a terrible mistake.
January 17, 2026 at 2:44 PM
This month’s Substack comes with original artwork (not by me) and is basically a terrible mistake.
The epic melancholy of abandoned towns in remote Montana, created by the railroads in the early 20th century and now isolated backwaters with a handful of residents. Beautifully photographed by Chris Attrell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYhB...
January 17, 2026 at 8:41 AM
The epic melancholy of abandoned towns in remote Montana, created by the railroads in the early 20th century and now isolated backwaters with a handful of residents. Beautifully photographed by Chris Attrell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYhB...
Phelim McDermot's 2014 staging of Mozart's Così fan tutte returns to the London Colosseum next month. It's set in 1950s Coney Island (a brilliant idea). To get you in the mood here are shots of the overture from the original production, which transferred to the New York Met.
January 17, 2026 at 7:37 AM
Phelim McDermot's 2014 staging of Mozart's Così fan tutte returns to the London Colosseum next month. It's set in 1950s Coney Island (a brilliant idea). To get you in the mood here are shots of the overture from the original production, which transferred to the New York Met.
What is the language using us for?
January 15, 2026 at 11:34 PM
What is the language using us for?
Fuck Gollum.
Nobel Peace Prize winner gives prize to Donald Trump in Oval Office meeting
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Nobel Peace Prize winner gives prize to Donald Trump in Oval Office meeting
Maria Corina Machado said she had given her medal to Trump, saying it was in recognition of "his unique commitment with our freedom"
www.mirror.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Fuck Gollum.
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De Democraten zijn echt de meest nutteloze politici ooit.
January 15, 2026 at 8:46 PM
De Democraten zijn echt de meest nutteloze politici ooit.
Thanks to all taking part in tonight's online launch for 'My Ear is Full of Milk,' a marvellous anthology dedicated to the life, work and legacy of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the funniest comedians ever to draw breath. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
January 15, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Thanks to all taking part in tonight's online launch for 'My Ear is Full of Milk,' a marvellous anthology dedicated to the life, work and legacy of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the funniest comedians ever to draw breath. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
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Thank you @davidcollard.bsky.social for a really lovely online book launch for @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Laurel and Hardy anthology My Ear is full of Milk. I shall be getting a copy. Some brilliant readings. I laughed and was moved.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
My Ear Is Full of Milk, An anthology of writing for Laurel & Hardy | Broken Sleep Books
A love letter to the greatest double act in cinema, My Ear Is Full of Milk gathers poets, essayists, and storytellers who have spent a lifetime laughing with, and thinking through, Laurel & Hardy....
www.brokensleepbooks.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Thank you @davidcollard.bsky.social for a really lovely online book launch for @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Laurel and Hardy anthology My Ear is full of Milk. I shall be getting a copy. Some brilliant readings. I laughed and was moved.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Staring at 7pm UK time - the online launch of 'My Ear is Full of Milk' with Simon Barraclough (co-editor), A. C. Clarke, John Canfield and Adele Evershed. A celebration of the life, work and legacy of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (seen here in 'Blotto')
two men are sitting at a table in a restaurant laughing and talking .
ALT: two men are sitting at a table in a restaurant laughing and talking .
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January 15, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Staring at 7pm UK time - the online launch of 'My Ear is Full of Milk' with Simon Barraclough (co-editor), A. C. Clarke, John Canfield and Adele Evershed. A celebration of the life, work and legacy of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (seen here in 'Blotto')
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This is tomorrow (thursday), live online at 7pm UK time. Join me, co-editor Simon Barraclough and fellow contributors Adele Evershed and A C Clarke. All welcome!
January 14, 2026 at 7:23 AM
This is tomorrow (thursday), live online at 7pm UK time. Join me, co-editor Simon Barraclough and fellow contributors Adele Evershed and A C Clarke. All welcome!
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Live online tonight at 7pm, the launch of 'My Ear is Full of Milk' Join me, co-editor Simon Barraclough with contributors A. C. Clarke, John Canfield and Adele Evershed. Free, and all welcome. If you're not already on the guest list email me via my website davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site. No DMs!
January 15, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Live online tonight at 7pm, the launch of 'My Ear is Full of Milk' Join me, co-editor Simon Barraclough with contributors A. C. Clarke, John Canfield and Adele Evershed. Free, and all welcome. If you're not already on the guest list email me via my website davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site. No DMs!
Live online tonight at 7pm, the launch of 'My Ear is Full of Milk' Join me, co-editor Simon Barraclough with contributors A. C. Clarke, John Canfield and Adele Evershed. Free, and all welcome. If you're not already on the guest list email me via my website davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site. No DMs!
January 15, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Live online tonight at 7pm, the launch of 'My Ear is Full of Milk' Join me, co-editor Simon Barraclough with contributors A. C. Clarke, John Canfield and Adele Evershed. Free, and all welcome. If you're not already on the guest list email me via my website davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site. No DMs!
This quad poster proof by the great Peter Strausfeld for the Academy Cinema in London is a trial print made before lettering was added. Can anyone identify the film on the basis of these three figures?
January 15, 2026 at 9:20 AM
This quad poster proof by the great Peter Strausfeld for the Academy Cinema in London is a trial print made before lettering was added. Can anyone identify the film on the basis of these three figures?
Here's Feldman's mesmerising 'For Samuel Beckett, which he completed shortly before he died: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH2J.... It's a piece that 'begins in the middle of nowhere, drifts around for about 45 minutes, and then simply stops.' (David Hurwitz, Classics Today)
January 15, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Here's Feldman's mesmerising 'For Samuel Beckett, which he completed shortly before he died: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH2J.... It's a piece that 'begins in the middle of nowhere, drifts around for about 45 minutes, and then simply stops.' (David Hurwitz, Classics Today)
Watching 'The Song of Lunch' again, with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson at the top of their game. A subtle, quietly devastating epic of age and loss. It's his very best performance, I think.
January 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Watching 'The Song of Lunch' again, with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson at the top of their game. A subtle, quietly devastating epic of age and loss. It's his very best performance, I think.
Stuck indoors with a bad back and thinking of @cdrose.bsky.social and his Goldsmiths Prize reading this evening, and @ronanhession.bsky.social launching the French translation of Ghost Mountain in Paris with @elfodongo.bsky.social. Good work fellas!
January 14, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Stuck indoors with a bad back and thinking of @cdrose.bsky.social and his Goldsmiths Prize reading this evening, and @ronanhession.bsky.social launching the French translation of Ghost Mountain in Paris with @elfodongo.bsky.social. Good work fellas!
This is tomorrow (thursday), live online at 7pm UK time. Join me, co-editor Simon Barraclough and fellow contributors Adele Evershed and A C Clarke. All welcome!
January 14, 2026 at 7:23 AM
This is tomorrow (thursday), live online at 7pm UK time. Join me, co-editor Simon Barraclough and fellow contributors Adele Evershed and A C Clarke. All welcome!
Many handsome and touching tributes to the sorely-missed Alan Rickman, who died ten years ago today. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
A prompt to watch (or re-watch) his superb performance in The Song of Lunch, based on Christopher Reid's epic poem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsXK...
A prompt to watch (or re-watch) his superb performance in The Song of Lunch, based on Christopher Reid's epic poem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsXK...
The Song of Lunch (2010) Starring Alan Rickman & Emma Thompson
YouTube video by Clips Universe
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January 14, 2026 at 6:40 AM
Many handsome and touching tributes to the sorely-missed Alan Rickman, who died ten years ago today. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...
A prompt to watch (or re-watch) his superb performance in The Song of Lunch, based on Christopher Reid's epic poem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsXK...
A prompt to watch (or re-watch) his superb performance in The Song of Lunch, based on Christopher Reid's epic poem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsXK...
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Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.
Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies at 86
Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.
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January 13, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86.