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Jeremy Noel-Tod
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Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 1d
I chose seven poems from new books I’ve been enjoying recently. They’re quite wintry and Welsh substack.com/home/post/p-...
Pinks #38: A Crop of Frost
A week of poems from books I'm enjoying
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2/3 @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @jntod.bsky.social @annettemakino.bsky.social @writtenbyallison.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @kelliagodon.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 47
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
www.vianegativa.us
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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jntod.bsky.social
I chose seven poems from new books I’ve been enjoying recently. They’re quite wintry and Welsh substack.com/home/post/p-...
Pinks #38: A Crop of Frost
A week of poems from books I'm enjoying
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago
November 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
jntod.bsky.social
I chose seven poems from new books I’ve been enjoying recently. They’re quite wintry and Welsh substack.com/home/post/p-...
Pinks #38: A Crop of Frost
A week of poems from books I'm enjoying
substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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luaz.bsky.social
For #SmallPoemSunday, here's "Daily Riffs", collected in *Becoming Altar*, available from asterismbooks.com

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DAILY RIFFS in the limited realm of the candle there are few choices, and who makes them? burn, melt, drip, or don't. I woke just as it started to rain so listened to that for a little while. exactitude sits on the day like a thick heavy hat, one that's a size too large and keeps falling down to cover the eyes. oh season! how long are you going to be? the game board is getting dusty but does anyone care? no. let's go outside. it's raining or isn't. animals are waking up. a bird has something to say.
November 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
jntod.bsky.social
I'm pretty sure it is her voice and, yes, it's quite arresting!
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Today marks 100 years since the first publication of T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Hollow Men’
November 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
jntod.bsky.social
In honour of Delia Derbyshire Day, a little post about her collaboration at the BBC with the poet Rosemary Tonks @deliaderbyshireday.bsky.social someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/i-stop-bei...
"I Stop Being Human"
Rosemary Tonks, Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
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November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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🎛️🥳 Happy Delia Derbyshire 🥳🎛️ lots of stuff on our website! deliaderbyshireday.com/dd-day-2025-...
DD Day 2025 worldwide!
DD Day 2025 worldwide!
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November 23, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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okwonga.bsky.social
People know exactly what‘s going on.
yougov.co.uk YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 4d
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?

White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%

Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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tedmccormick.bsky.social
Oxford Handbook to the End of Academia
November 22, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray!
www.bl.uk/stories/news...
Restoring our services – November 2025 update
In the coming weeks and months we will be restoring a number of key functions.
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November 22, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Imagine hearing this, 500 or a thousand years ago?
twigtechnology.bsky.social Michael Haslam @twigtechnology.bsky.social · 3d
Seals singing in a sea cave

#Orkney 🦭🎧
November 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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bbolander.bsky.social
big bugs bunny getting elmer fudd to marry him vibes in the white house currently i see
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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samjoiner.bsky.social
New: Major UK retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they endure beatings, gruelling hours and inadequate food. Some spend years at sea without visiting port.

Our latest visual investigation by @upyorkshire.ft.com, Dan Clark and @inari-ta.bsky.social

👉 ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:25 AM
jntod.bsky.social
Ah, thanks
November 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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sarahmay1.bsky.social
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
Screenshot of a report on the BBC News website (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0y07959djo) original headline reads: Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance I have scrubbed out the word Trans The headline is above an image of a sign for toilets from Getty images The BBC staff are: Alison Holt Social affairs editor @AlisonHoltBBC Ewan Somerville Kate Whannel Political reporter
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
jntod.bsky.social
'Those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War' (Peter Cook)
November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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9 years ago I got retweeted by everyone with a drama degree
Tweet from @jntod which says: 'We're gonna build a fourth wall, folks, and make the Brechtians pay for it'. The tweet quoted is Donald Trump on 19th November 2016 which says: 'The Theater must always be a safe and special place. The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!'
November 20, 2025 at 8:43 PM
jntod.bsky.social
This basically vindicates Wordsworth in the Preface to Lyrical Ballads when he wrote of 'the tendency of metre to divest language, in a certain degree, of its reality, and thus to throw a sort of half-consciousness of unsubstantial existence over the whole composition'
mellymeldubs.bsky.social Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 4d
This study show that using poems to jailbreak LLMs is... super effective? What the heck.
November 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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“Adversarial poetry.”

Love this. Obvs.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
jntod.bsky.social
Tagging @jwikeley.bsky.social here, as someone interested in doing such things
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
jntod.bsky.social
'Our central hypothesis is that poetic form operates as a general-purpose jailbreak operator' huh
cstross.bsky.social Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 4d
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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tambourine.bsky.social
but i think the work by Oswell and Max is the best in here. here’s a couple more
IN SECRET Honey bird lures on the hunters and Tricks them to tree of a snake, So that the bees busy may build wax Chapel for bow of the God: Bow stringed with taut line of bees For that His arrow may sting less Sweet. SLIGHT TORSO See how the flesh is blown Like silent morning snow across the crevices of bone. Then see below the gull-wing bone Shoulder to shoulder flown A boy's landscape. His belly is a gently drifted dune Which, under some passing moon, A spirit dented With a single footstep printed, That no wind has deleted. Or see it as a manuscript under-scored Pure gold or gold that tarnish mellows, Haloes.
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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W. S. Merwin (1954)
On the Subject of Poetry I do not understand the world, Father. By the millpond at the end of the garden There is a man who slouches listening To the wheel revolving in the stream, only There is no wheel there to revolve. He sits in the end of March, but he sits also In the end of the garden; his hands are in His pockets. It is not expectation On which he is intent, nor yesterday To which he listens. It is a wheel turning. When I speak, Father, it is the world That I must mention. He does not move His feet nor so much as raise his head For fear he should disturb the sound he hears Like a pain without a cry, where he listens. I do not think I am fond, Father, Of the way in which always before he listens He prepares himself by listening. It is Unequal, Father, like the reason For which the wheel turns, though there is no wheel. I speak of him, Father, because he is There with his hands in his pockets, in the end Of the garden listening to the turning Wheel that is not there, but it is the world, Father, that I do not understand.
November 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM