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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Pinks #40: How It Feels Rubbing Down a Gravestone
Personal insights into a poetic masterpiece
someflowerssoon.substack.com
I wrote about Basil Bunting’s modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts — published 60 years ago this month — and what I learned from the poet’s own comments on his poem
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I wrote about Basil Bunting’s modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts — published 60 years ago this month — and what I learned from the poet’s own comments on his poem
Pinks #40: How It Feels Rubbing Down a Gravestone
Personal insights into a poetic masterpiece
someflowerssoon.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 AM
I wrote about Basil Bunting’s modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts — published 60 years ago this month — and what I learned from the poet’s own comments on his poem
Even T.S. Eliot would have called bullshit on this
"American culture, with its English-Scotts-Irish origin, is great and worth fighting for."
Has he not heard any American popular music?
Has he not heard any American popular music?
February 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Even T.S. Eliot would have called bullshit on this
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From Tottenham Court Road to old Northumbria,
insights from Bunting on his "long modernist poem Briggflatts" (as in the Quaker meeting house) beautifully captured by @jntod.bsky.social.
(Hearty thanks to @longbarrowpress.bsky.social for sharing.)
someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-40-h...
insights from Bunting on his "long modernist poem Briggflatts" (as in the Quaker meeting house) beautifully captured by @jntod.bsky.social.
(Hearty thanks to @longbarrowpress.bsky.social for sharing.)
someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-40-h...
February 15, 2026 at 12:36 PM
From Tottenham Court Road to old Northumbria,
insights from Bunting on his "long modernist poem Briggflatts" (as in the Quaker meeting house) beautifully captured by @jntod.bsky.social.
(Hearty thanks to @longbarrowpress.bsky.social for sharing.)
someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-40-h...
insights from Bunting on his "long modernist poem Briggflatts" (as in the Quaker meeting house) beautifully captured by @jntod.bsky.social.
(Hearty thanks to @longbarrowpress.bsky.social for sharing.)
someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-40-h...
I wrote about Basil Bunting’s modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts — published 60 years ago this month — and what I learned from the poet’s own comments on his poem
Pinks #40: How It Feels Rubbing Down a Gravestone
Personal insights into a poetic masterpiece
someflowerssoon.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 9:20 AM
I wrote about Basil Bunting’s modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts — published 60 years ago this month — and what I learned from the poet’s own comments on his poem
Reposted by Jeremy Noel-Tod
emerald fennell’s the ragged-trousered philanthropists
February 13, 2026 at 4:30 PM
emerald fennell’s the ragged-trousered philanthropists
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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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A love poem for Valentine's Day from my new book, "Dirt Rich"
February 14, 2026 at 3:59 PM
A love poem for Valentine's Day from my new book, "Dirt Rich"
On Valentines Day, a poem to the city he loves, by Norwich poet Ron Nevett
February 14, 2026 at 11:45 AM
On Valentines Day, a poem to the city he loves, by Norwich poet Ron Nevett
A curse is lifted from the Earth
BrewDog owners call time on craft beer pioneer
The producer of Punk IPA and Elvis Juice has called in AlixPartners to run a sale process which could prompt the break-up of one of Scotland's best-known consumer businesses, Sky News learns.
news.sky.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:53 AM
A curse is lifted from the Earth
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Let’s say three million people get a sense of fulfilment and security. But woah woah woah, I’m *maybe* losing out an essentially theoretical £8-9k? Deals off Keir!
February 14, 2026 at 9:35 AM
Let’s say three million people get a sense of fulfilment and security. But woah woah woah, I’m *maybe* losing out an essentially theoretical £8-9k? Deals off Keir!
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I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
USAID cuts may cause over 14 million additional deaths by 2030, study says
Deep funding cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development and its potential dismantling could result in more than 14 million additional deaths by 2030, according to research published in The ...
www.reuters.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
I regularly post updates on this story because it's an atrocity on an incomprehensible scale but people don't really talk about it
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Now this is what I call an honest-to-goodness proper old-fashioned committed-to-the-bit thread
Legs & Co. was established as a partnership in 1869, when John James Legs and his wife Mary Ann opened a shop at 173 Drury Lane in Covent Garden, London #TOTP
February 13, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Now this is what I call an honest-to-goodness proper old-fashioned committed-to-the-bit thread
Loved his mountain railways, didn’t know about this side of him
Braden Peters, known as Clavicular, has emerged as a beacon for a group of narcissistic, status-obsessed young men. He wants to take his fixation with “looksmaxxing” mainstream.
Looks Aren’t Everything? Clavicular Begs to Differ.
Braden Peters, known as Clavicular, has emerged as a beacon for a group of narcissistic, status-obsessed young men. He wants to take his fixation with “looksmaxxing” mainstream.
nyti.ms
February 13, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Loved his mountain railways, didn’t know about this side of him
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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
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.
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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...