𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝
@jacqbetula.bsky.social
Woods. Words. Birds. Birch. Beech. Bach.
Reviewer of translated fiction for
@irishtimes.bsky.social
Also contributes reviews to The TLS.
Co-curator of the poetry festival Circling The Square.
https://circlingthesquare.weebly.com/
Reviewer of translated fiction for
@irishtimes.bsky.social
Also contributes reviews to The TLS.
Co-curator of the poetry festival Circling The Square.
https://circlingthesquare.weebly.com/
An interview from @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social with Gabi Reighi, who will be the translator of volumes 2 & 3 of Mircea Cărtărescu's 'Blinding' trilogy.
thelondonmagazine.org/interview-ga...
thelondonmagazine.org/interview-ga...
Interview | Gabi Reigh On Translating Romanian Literature - The London Magazine
Andreea Iulia Scridon Gabi Reigh speaks to The London Magazine about translating Romanian literature, the value of ‘literary archaeology’ and her Interbellum Series. Q. Tell us about yourself as a ...
thelondonmagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
An interview from @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social with Gabi Reighi, who will be the translator of volumes 2 & 3 of Mircea Cărtărescu's 'Blinding' trilogy.
thelondonmagazine.org/interview-ga...
thelondonmagazine.org/interview-ga...
Each day brings me a step closer to this!
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Each day brings me a step closer to this!
A short story, if not a novel.
Tre personaggi in cerca d'autore
📷 Josef Koudelka, 1976
#monochrome #bnwphoto #noiretblanc #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhitephoto #BWPhotography #blackandwhitephotography #dark #noir #conceptual
📷 Josef Koudelka, 1976
#monochrome #bnwphoto #noiretblanc #blackandwhite #bnwphotography #bnw #blackandwhitephoto #BWPhotography #blackandwhitephotography #dark #noir #conceptual
November 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
A short story, if not a novel.
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‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
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According to Cărtărescu in this interview, the English translation of Part 2 of the Blinding Trilogy will be published in the spring of 2027. He says the translator is Gabi Reigh.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=k6m8...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=k6m8...
A deep dive into the most challenging book I’ve ever read with Mircea Cartarescu
YouTube video by Eric Karl Anderson
m.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:09 PM
According to Cărtărescu in this interview, the English translation of Part 2 of the Blinding Trilogy will be published in the spring of 2027. He says the translator is Gabi Reigh.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=k6m8...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=k6m8...
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A terrifically detailed conversation between @lonesomereader.bsky.social and Mircea Cărtărescu on YouTube, on the occasion of Vol. 1 of Blinding being published by Penguin.
My review of the novel was in The Irish Times on Saturday and will be online in a day or two.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6m8...
My review of the novel was in The Irish Times on Saturday and will be online in a day or two.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6m8...
A deep dive into the most challenging book I’ve ever read with Mircea Cartarescu
YouTube video by Eric Karl Anderson
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A terrifically detailed conversation between @lonesomereader.bsky.social and Mircea Cărtărescu on YouTube, on the occasion of Vol. 1 of Blinding being published by Penguin.
My review of the novel was in The Irish Times on Saturday and will be online in a day or two.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6m8...
My review of the novel was in The Irish Times on Saturday and will be online in a day or two.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6m8...
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coming soon: an anthology of Hungarian women's poetry, to be published by Seagull Books in January
Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, ed. by Ottilie Mulzet
Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, ed. by Ottilie Mulzet
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
coming soon: an anthology of Hungarian women's poetry, to be published by Seagull Books in January
Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, ed. by Ottilie Mulzet
Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, ed. by Ottilie Mulzet
A terrifically detailed conversation between @lonesomereader.bsky.social and Mircea Cărtărescu on YouTube, on the occasion of Vol. 1 of Blinding being published by Penguin.
My review of the novel was in The Irish Times on Saturday and will be online in a day or two.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6m8...
My review of the novel was in The Irish Times on Saturday and will be online in a day or two.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6m8...
A deep dive into the most challenging book I’ve ever read with Mircea Cartarescu
YouTube video by Eric Karl Anderson
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A terrifically detailed conversation between @lonesomereader.bsky.social and Mircea Cărtărescu on YouTube, on the occasion of Vol. 1 of Blinding being published by Penguin.
My review of the novel was in The Irish Times on Saturday and will be online in a day or two.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6m8...
My review of the novel was in The Irish Times on Saturday and will be online in a day or two.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6m8...
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from “Lines for Winter”
by Mark Strand
“Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars…”
Pairs well with Marais Plainte No 55
#ClassicalMusic #poetry
by Mark Strand
“Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars…”
Pairs well with Marais Plainte No 55
#ClassicalMusic #poetry
Forqueray Unchained Live, André Lislevand - M. Marais, Plainte N. 55
YouTube video by André Lislevand
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 12:10 AM
from “Lines for Winter”
by Mark Strand
“Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars…”
Pairs well with Marais Plainte No 55
#ClassicalMusic #poetry
by Mark Strand
“Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars…”
Pairs well with Marais Plainte No 55
#ClassicalMusic #poetry
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Excited to see some of you in Pearse Library this Friday and Saturday at the @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social 📚
Open to the public on Friday between 6-9 pm, and on Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm 📚
Be sure to come by and say hello at our stand, and peruse our selection of translated titles! 📚
Open to the public on Friday between 6-9 pm, and on Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm 📚
Be sure to come by and say hello at our stand, and peruse our selection of translated titles! 📚
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Excited to see some of you in Pearse Library this Friday and Saturday at the @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social 📚
Open to the public on Friday between 6-9 pm, and on Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm 📚
Be sure to come by and say hello at our stand, and peruse our selection of translated titles! 📚
Open to the public on Friday between 6-9 pm, and on Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm 📚
Be sure to come by and say hello at our stand, and peruse our selection of translated titles! 📚
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A lot of people should be ashamed, having behaved disgracefully.
Congratulations, @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social. This shows immense character:
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
I also wrote about this, for PNR:
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
But read Sarah's if you only have time for one.
Congratulations, @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social. This shows immense character:
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
I also wrote about this, for PNR:
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
But read Sarah's if you only have time for one.
I was the other poet in the Len Pennie row: here’s my story
Sarah Doyle’s poem Laika won high praise but when she queried similarities to it with the poem Good Girl she was caught up in a storm of accusation, denial and online vitriol
www.thetimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:42 AM
A lot of people should be ashamed, having behaved disgracefully.
Congratulations, @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social. This shows immense character:
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
I also wrote about this, for PNR:
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
But read Sarah's if you only have time for one.
Congratulations, @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social. This shows immense character:
www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/...
I also wrote about this, for PNR:
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
But read Sarah's if you only have time for one.
"And the auld triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal".
All along the banks of the Royal Canal".
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
"And the auld triangle, went jingle jangle
All along the banks of the Royal Canal".
All along the banks of the Royal Canal".
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Morning.
Dipper, wrens, grey wagtail, Alfred Brehm, 1913.
Dipper, wrens, grey wagtail, Alfred Brehm, 1913.
November 23, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Morning.
Dipper, wrens, grey wagtail, Alfred Brehm, 1913.
Dipper, wrens, grey wagtail, Alfred Brehm, 1913.
Manufacturing Consent suddenly has a different meaning.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Chomsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known, documents reveal
The philosopher and the sex trafficker were in contact long after Epstein was convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor, documents reveal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Manufacturing Consent suddenly has a different meaning.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Great chat with @chadwpost.bsky.social about this book and its author. And what to do with artists that do terrible things. And the time I conned my way into meeting Jeanette Winterson. dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/the-ikon-m...
"The Ikon Maker" by Desmond Hogan
A deeply sad book about parenting and sexuality.
dalkeyarchive.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Great chat with @chadwpost.bsky.social about this book and its author. And what to do with artists that do terrible things. And the time I conned my way into meeting Jeanette Winterson. dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/the-ikon-m...
If you're as keen as I am on the work of Iain Sinclair, these beautiful new editions from @swedenborghouse.bsky.social are essential.
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
If you're as keen as I am on the work of Iain Sinclair, these beautiful new editions from @swedenborghouse.bsky.social are essential.
I haven't read enough of these books to say anything worthwhile, but I thought 'Napalm in the Heart'
by Pol Guasch, translated by Mara Faye Lethem was very impressive.
by Pol Guasch, translated by Mara Faye Lethem was very impressive.
It’s here! The 2026 Dublin Literary Award Nominated Titles are out! ✨📚
69 novels nominated by 80 libraries from 36 countries, including 5 Irish authors & 30 translated works in 17 languages.
Explore the full list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new...
#DublinLitAward #DLA2026
69 novels nominated by 80 libraries from 36 countries, including 5 Irish authors & 30 translated works in 17 languages.
Explore the full list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new...
#DublinLitAward #DLA2026
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I haven't read enough of these books to say anything worthwhile, but I thought 'Napalm in the Heart'
by Pol Guasch, translated by Mara Faye Lethem was very impressive.
by Pol Guasch, translated by Mara Faye Lethem was very impressive.
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Great idea to publish the list of nominated titles then the judges create a longlist.
'In a new development for the Award this year, the judges will select a longlist of up to 20 titles, which will be announced on 17 February 2026 while the shortlist of 6 titles will be revealed on 7 April 2026.'
'In a new development for the Award this year, the judges will select a longlist of up to 20 titles, which will be announced on 17 February 2026 while the shortlist of 6 titles will be revealed on 7 April 2026.'
It’s here! The 2026 Dublin Literary Award Nominated Titles are out! ✨📚
69 novels nominated by 80 libraries from 36 countries, including 5 Irish authors & 30 translated works in 17 languages.
Explore the full list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new...
#DublinLitAward #DLA2026
69 novels nominated by 80 libraries from 36 countries, including 5 Irish authors & 30 translated works in 17 languages.
Explore the full list here: dublinliteraryaward.ie/features/new...
#DublinLitAward #DLA2026
November 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Great idea to publish the list of nominated titles then the judges create a longlist.
'In a new development for the Award this year, the judges will select a longlist of up to 20 titles, which will be announced on 17 February 2026 while the shortlist of 6 titles will be revealed on 7 April 2026.'
'In a new development for the Award this year, the judges will select a longlist of up to 20 titles, which will be announced on 17 February 2026 while the shortlist of 6 titles will be revealed on 7 April 2026.'
It's lovely to see the finished mural that quotes from my late brother Dennis' poem 'Skywriting' on a wall of the park in Thurles, the town in which he grew up.
"I want it to be not just Summer but May:
horizons broadening, light expanding by the day."
"I want it to be not just Summer but May:
horizons broadening, light expanding by the day."
November 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It's lovely to see the finished mural that quotes from my late brother Dennis' poem 'Skywriting' on a wall of the park in Thurles, the town in which he grew up.
"I want it to be not just Summer but May:
horizons broadening, light expanding by the day."
"I want it to be not just Summer but May:
horizons broadening, light expanding by the day."
Is there a switch I can use to turn off the USA?
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Is there a switch I can use to turn off the USA?
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We were honoured to be mentioned in this fantastic article @rte.ie about the upcoming inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair alongside so many wonderful independent Irish publishers, including @lilliputpress.bsky.social, @skeinpress.bsky.social, @machapress.bsky.social, and so many more.
November 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
We were honoured to be mentioned in this fantastic article @rte.ie about the upcoming inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair alongside so many wonderful independent Irish publishers, including @lilliputpress.bsky.social, @skeinpress.bsky.social, @machapress.bsky.social, and so many more.
This thread is an insightful take on this tired subject.
I try to read all the Booker winners, so I am in the middle of this year's (Flesh) right now. It's decently well-written, but if it is the last word on masculinity (total lack of interiority, driven solely by sexual impulses that cannot be explained or controlled) then masculinity is in real trouble
Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 AM
This thread is an insightful take on this tired subject.
Morton Feldman trios to look forward to.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=beei...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=beei...
Morton Feldman Trios box set trailer
YouTube video by Anothertimbre
www.youtube.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Morton Feldman trios to look forward to.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=beei...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=beei...
I got this recently. What a great approach all of the musicians had to exploring tonal ranges, space, broken rhythms, etc.
Amazing.
Do you know it @jazzsnob99.bsky.social?
Amazing.
Do you know it @jazzsnob99.bsky.social?
November 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I got this recently. What a great approach all of the musicians had to exploring tonal ranges, space, broken rhythms, etc.
Amazing.
Do you know it @jazzsnob99.bsky.social?
Amazing.
Do you know it @jazzsnob99.bsky.social?