Jeremy Noel-Tod
@jntod.bsky.social
Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
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After a Night in Camelot and Arden
The life of Patience Strong, England's best-selling modern poet
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I wrote about Patience Strong, almost certainly the best-selling English poet of the twentieth century, who wrote six poems a week for the Daily Mirror (all on a Monday morning) as well as a hit song, greeting cards and calendars, and whose print runs were in the 100,000s
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Met more than one young artist visiting London recently who'd been really anxious beforehand, as they'd seen so much on social media about it being a crime-ridden hellhole. They then proceeded to have an unexpectedly lovely time in one of the world's great cities, but it is actually just really sad.
February 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Met more than one young artist visiting London recently who'd been really anxious beforehand, as they'd seen so much on social media about it being a crime-ridden hellhole. They then proceeded to have an unexpectedly lovely time in one of the world's great cities, but it is actually just really sad.
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it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks
February 12, 2026 at 8:48 PM
it's not easy breeding deer for gigantism, but that's why I make the big bucks
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low-background steel
April 5, 2024 at 10:39 PM
low-background steel
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Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM
We're looking to capture experiences of what it means to be queer in the UK today! To do that we're collecting day diaries for 12th February. It doesn't matter what you get up to, or how you record it, we'd love to have it!🧵 (1/4) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26
In 1982, inspired by the work of MO the National Lesbian and Gay survey began, it sought to capture what everyday life was like for queer people living in the UK. For our latest open call we're continuing the work of NLGS and asking what does it mean to be queer every day?
#lgbtqhistory
#lgbtqhistory
February 12, 2026 at 9:55 AM
Today is the day! Record your day and be part of recording queer lives and histories in the UK. Sketch, type, write, or photograph your day. Even if you think your day isn't very interesting we'd still love to have it in our collection! All types of days, boring or brilliant are welcome #LGBTplusHM
And there is one specifically about the chaos that ensues from a trip to get some milk
February 12, 2026 at 11:43 AM
And there is one specifically about the chaos that ensues from a trip to get some milk
Joan Aiken's Annabel and Mortimer stories still stand up as zany adventures
February 12, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Joan Aiken's Annabel and Mortimer stories still stand up as zany adventures
When your research topic is mentioned four times in the index
New poster for ‘VLADIMIR’ unveiled.
Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall star in the limited series, coming March 5 on Netflix.
#Vladimir #RachelWeisz
Rachel Weisz and Leo Woodall star in the limited series, coming March 5 on Netflix.
#Vladimir #RachelWeisz
February 11, 2026 at 9:51 PM
When your research topic is mentioned four times in the index
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Also - archivists!!! 😂 how is AI going to manage sorting and unfolding letters that are hundreds of years old and crumbling?! Or working with students on assignments!?
Microsoft released a study showing the 40 jobs most at risk by AI:
February 11, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Also - archivists!!! 😂 how is AI going to manage sorting and unfolding letters that are hundreds of years old and crumbling?! Or working with students on assignments!?
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Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking
the whole thing is of course completely revolting. 20 YEARS to settlement for refugees? no settlement if you’ve ever had a criminal conviction or a tax debt? 10 YEARS added if you’ve ever received benefits? partners and children on their own routes to settlement? What are you even TALKING about
February 11, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Genuinely, if you live in the UK you should so the consultation just to find out some of the unbelievable details of what's being proposed. Even with their spin and obfuscation it's shocking
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I‘ve messed around with Claude enough to believe that in at least one specific way, LLMs are going to transform serious journalism & humanities research, similar to what they’re doing for coding: turning bounded but unstructured information (read: archives) into structured machine-analyzable data.
February 10, 2026 at 1:04 PM
I‘ve messed around with Claude enough to believe that in at least one specific way, LLMs are going to transform serious journalism & humanities research, similar to what they’re doing for coding: turning bounded but unstructured information (read: archives) into structured machine-analyzable data.
I once had to ask an American student who was taking my Jane Austen summer school class in Cambridge not to return romantically by foot to the nearby stately home we had visited in a minibus as the land in between was a military firing range
February 10, 2026 at 1:16 PM
I once had to ask an American student who was taking my Jane Austen summer school class in Cambridge not to return romantically by foot to the nearby stately home we had visited in a minibus as the land in between was a military firing range
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I am sick, absolutely sick, of the retreat of civic society, the media and the other political parties in the face of Reform UK - one of the most existential threats the state structures have faced for decades.
Reform is threatening Bangor University over a student society’s decision. The society isn’t Bangor University—but this is a neat preview of how a Reform government would work: public money for supporters only. Trump-style politics, UK edition.
Authoritarian reflex is already working just fine.👇
Authoritarian reflex is already working just fine.👇
February 10, 2026 at 12:19 PM
I am sick, absolutely sick, of the retreat of civic society, the media and the other political parties in the face of Reform UK - one of the most existential threats the state structures have faced for decades.
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New post!
I take an in-depth look at Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, alongside forays into Victorian translations by William Morris and the brilliantly named Athanasius Diedrich Wackerbarth.
This is based on an undergraduate lecture I gave at Oxford in 2020.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2026/02/09/o...
I take an in-depth look at Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, alongside forays into Victorian translations by William Morris and the brilliantly named Athanasius Diedrich Wackerbarth.
This is based on an undergraduate lecture I gave at Oxford in 2020.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2026/02/09/o...
February 9, 2026 at 7:16 PM
New post!
I take an in-depth look at Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, alongside forays into Victorian translations by William Morris and the brilliantly named Athanasius Diedrich Wackerbarth.
This is based on an undergraduate lecture I gave at Oxford in 2020.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2026/02/09/o...
I take an in-depth look at Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, alongside forays into Victorian translations by William Morris and the brilliantly named Athanasius Diedrich Wackerbarth.
This is based on an undergraduate lecture I gave at Oxford in 2020.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2026/02/09/o...
'Some wet mud and a lizard who was chasing his tail' well describes my day
February 9, 2026 at 5:54 PM
'Some wet mud and a lizard who was chasing his tail' well describes my day
The long, never-ending corner
February 9, 2026 at 2:20 PM
The long, never-ending corner
Love to mark student work using a digital platform that is running slow and crashing. The streamlined online university is just around the corner now.
February 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Love to mark student work using a digital platform that is running slow and crashing. The streamlined online university is just around the corner now.
This is ground control to Major Tod
February 9, 2026 at 11:08 AM
This is ground control to Major Tod
The Quiet Corner pieces do seem to have been wallet sized. There's a similar story told in verse here barbellionsaid.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/u...
U A Fanthorpe ‘Patience Strong’ 1978
Patience Strong U A Fanthorpe Everyone knows her name. Trite calendars Of rose-nooked cottages or winding ways Display her sentiments in homespun verse Disguised as prose. She has her tiny n…
barbellionsaid.wordpress.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:04 PM
The Quiet Corner pieces do seem to have been wallet sized. There's a similar story told in verse here barbellionsaid.wordpress.com/2017/07/15/u...
Ah, that's interesting -- Strong went on a trip to South Africa too. I first came across the idea through a passing reference in Kilvert's Diary, when someone shows him a pamphlet about it (and he thinks it would be amazing if true).
February 8, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Ah, that's interesting -- Strong went on a trip to South Africa too. I first came across the idea through a passing reference in Kilvert's Diary, when someone shows him a pamphlet about it (and he thinks it would be amazing if true).
It's in the Listener, as part of his series 'The Poet and the Public'. Not a transcript exactly, more a summary with quotes.
February 8, 2026 at 10:00 PM
It's in the Listener, as part of his series 'The Poet and the Public'. Not a transcript exactly, more a summary with quotes.
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I wrote about Patience Strong, almost certainly the best-selling English poet of the twentieth century, who wrote six poems a week for the Daily Mirror (all on a Monday morning) as well as a hit song, greeting cards and calendars, and whose print runs were in the 100,000s
After a Night in Camelot and Arden
The life of Patience Strong, England's best-selling modern poet
substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:51 AM
I wrote about Patience Strong, almost certainly the best-selling English poet of the twentieth century, who wrote six poems a week for the Daily Mirror (all on a Monday morning) as well as a hit song, greeting cards and calendars, and whose print runs were in the 100,000s
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happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to post small poems you wrote, or ones you like by other poets :)
here’s a little one I love by Tom Pickard~
feel free to post small poems you wrote, or ones you like by other poets :)
here’s a little one I love by Tom Pickard~
February 8, 2026 at 2:24 PM
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to post small poems you wrote, or ones you like by other poets :)
here’s a little one I love by Tom Pickard~
feel free to post small poems you wrote, or ones you like by other poets :)
here’s a little one I love by Tom Pickard~
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Very interesting piece about a poet now forgotten
I wrote about Patience Strong, almost certainly the best-selling English poet of the twentieth century, who wrote six poems a week for the Daily Mirror (all on a Monday morning) as well as a hit song, greeting cards and calendars, and whose print runs were in the 100,000s
After a Night in Camelot and Arden
The life of Patience Strong, England's best-selling modern poet
substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Very interesting piece about a poet now forgotten