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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 16h

BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 19h

Give Trump his Nobel prize but only if he can pronounce László Krasznahorkai correctly with a convincing a Magyar accent.

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 19h

John Clare film "By Our Selves" (2015) is on at 6pm in Munich's filmmuseum tonight, with director Andrew Kötting doing his usual schtick beforehand - part of underdox festival. On Saturday, Andrew's other film with Iain Sinclair, Swandown, is being shown too.

underdox-festival.de/en/programm/...

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 2d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 1d

The Nobel Prize being awarded to László Krasznahorkai is by far the best bit of news I've heard for an age. The opposite of cosy genre writing. A real thinker. An experimentalist. Every sentence on the edge of something new & unsaid. Original, discomforting, brilliant.

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The Point Magazine @thepointmag.bsky.social · 1d

From the archive, Peter Marshall on this year’s recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, László Krasznahorkai, and his artistic evolution from apocalyptic tragicomedy to calm reconciliation:

Beyond Grasping | The Point Magazine

Critics have called Krasznahorkai an apocalyptic writer, but over time the unsettling tragicomedy of his vision has calmed into a sort of reconciliation.

thepointmag.com

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The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · 2d

An important piece written by @sarahmullin.bsky.social
valued member of our Secondary & Further Education Committee, on the seriously short-sighted decision to withdraw bursaries for ITE for English. We need MORE English teachers, not less.

Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 2d

‘English is not just a subject – it is the foundation on which all other subjects are built’: @sarahmullin.bsky.social warns of the wider impact of withdrawing bursaries for teacher training in English

The end of English ITT bursaries sends a worrying message

The withdrawal of teacher training bursaries for English risks undermining more than just the subject itself – and it comes at a critical time, warns Sarah Mullin

www.tes.com

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 2d

Price of everything, value of nothing.

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 2d

Price of everything, value of nothing.

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 3d

This beautiful, honest, tender essay is the best rebuttal of AI infected teaching and learning, by Sean Cho A. The happy accident of the seminar - best when it's a bit of a mess.
therumpus.net/2025/10/02/h...

Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

therumpus.net

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 3d

Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 4d

Let's hope he doesn't run out and have no choice other than to watch his own recent films.

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 4d

Same - I have 5 Pride & Prejudices and more Frankensteins than is medically advisable.

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 8d

I directed Toby Jones when we recorded this series of readings of poems (& a bit of prose) by John Clare. Toby's readings lifted them off the page in ways I'd never experienced. & chief among all of them, is this, his reading of Clare's "Remembrances" (1832):
open.spotify.com/episode/45Ib...

Remembrances

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 8d

This might be my favourite album, ever. John Martyn, One World (1977). Danny Thompson features, of course, & geese. First heard it in 1987 & it's still so thrilling, so easy, so chill, dark & yearning, bursting with love, Martyn's voice an instrument, such a mood.
open.spotify.com/album/1G8gcN...

One World (Deluxe Edition)

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 8d

Bob Logic in Pierce Egan's Life in London (1821) famously wears glasses with green lenses. Finally now I know why. I just thought he was trying to be cool, or covering up his perennial hangover.

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 8d

Tinted, double-hinged spectacles, c.1790. Many opticians believed green or blue glass was easier on the eyes and would reduce glare; while clear glass was too soft and would distort images.

This extraordinary example is from the Wellcome Collection in London.

A pair of blue tinted spectacles with glass hinges on either side.

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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 8d

R. S. Thomas, ‘The Bright Field’, from Laboratories of the Spirit (1975) #NationalPoetryDay

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 8d

I directed Toby Jones when we recorded this series of readings of poems (& a bit of prose) by John Clare. Toby's readings lifted them off the page in ways I'd never experienced. & chief among all of them, is this, his reading of Clare's "Remembrances" (1832):
open.spotify.com/episode/45Ib...

Remembrances

open.spotify.com

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 9d

Grand master, Tony Harrison, discussing V, BBC Bookclub, 2016:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Bookclub - Tony Harrison's Poem v - BBC Sounds

At the Hexham Literature Festival, Tony Harrison talks to James Naughtie about his poem v.

www.bbc.co.uk

Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 10d

Jennifer Egan's "The Keep" is an absolutely brilliant novel. Whatever you think it is shaping up to be, it is suddenly not that, repeatedly. Egan is a masterful writer.

Cover of Jennifer's Egan's novel "THE KEEP" showing a male figure walking towards a brooding castle in the distance.

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 15d

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social.

This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏

'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!'

uolpress.co.uk/book/british...

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press

At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

uolpress.co.uk

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 11d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 11d

Me too! Magic

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John Clare @johnclare.bsky.social · 14d

praisd highly 'Comus' & 'L'Allegro' & 'II Penseroso' are those which I take up oftenest what beautiful description at the shut of evening is this: 'what time the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow came / And the swinkt hedger at his supper sat'

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