Paul Robichaud
@pjrobichaud.bsky.social
Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany (Reaktion, 2026) • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Poems in NewPoetry.ca, The South Shore Review, and The Ekphrastic Review • Professor of English
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Paul Robichaud
@pjrobichaud.bsky.social
· Sep 28
If you live in the UK, you can now pre-order 'Stories of the Stones' directly from Reaktion Books or your favourite bookseller. Publication date is 1 February, 2026!
Pre-order here: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/stories...
Pre-order here: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/stories...
An offering of grasses at West Kennett Long Barrow, July 2023. #TombTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
An offering of grasses at West Kennett Long Barrow, July 2023. #TombTuesday
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A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
November 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
A hugely popular and internationally recognised symbol of Britishness, associated with time travel & outlandish speculative fictions. And the TARDIS.
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Tove Jansson
🖼️ Tove Jansson
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Goodnight.
🖼️ Tove Jansson
🖼️ Tove Jansson
Thrilled to see this advance review for ‘Stories of the Stones’ from @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social!
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Thrilled to see this advance review for ‘Stories of the Stones’ from @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social!
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Those solitary stones that keep silent watch, that persist across the rise and fall of our own petty kingdoms, are storytellers. When we learn the language of the Long Neolithic they speak across time. It is beholden on us to listen. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Those solitary stones that keep silent watch, that persist across the rise and fall of our own petty kingdoms, are storytellers. When we learn the language of the Long Neolithic they speak across time. It is beholden on us to listen. – Dr. K. Brophy #StandingStoneSunday
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Megaliths, Colonsay, Scotland #StandingStoneSunday
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Megaliths, Colonsay, Scotland #StandingStoneSunday
Happy #DoctorWhoDay to all who celebrate!
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Happy #DoctorWhoDay to all who celebrate!
Standing stones at Erdeven in Brittany, June 2023. The alignments are a bit messy, but you can still walk amongst the stones. #StandingStoneSunday
November 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Standing stones at Erdeven in Brittany, June 2023. The alignments are a bit messy, but you can still walk amongst the stones. #StandingStoneSunday
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“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
- Doris Lessing
- Doris Lessing
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
- Doris Lessing
- Doris Lessing
My current non-fiction reading, Kate Kennedy’s excellent 2021 biography of composer and poet Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), who spent his last 15 years in a mental asylum.
November 22, 2025 at 8:25 PM
My current non-fiction reading, Kate Kennedy’s excellent 2021 biography of composer and poet Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), who spent his last 15 years in a mental asylum.
I rewatch this every year, most recently the excellent restoration included in the Severin boxed set ‘All the Haunts Be Ours’ (2021).
Penda’s Fen reinvents Mercia for the modern age
How an experimental British 1970s television play pioneered a folk horror revival
www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I rewatch this every year, most recently the excellent restoration included in the Severin boxed set ‘All the Haunts Be Ours’ (2021).
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Old Oak Tree, Valerie Greeley.
November 22, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Old Oak Tree, Valerie Greeley.
‘In the hushed recesses of Hurley backwater, where the canoe may be paddled almost under the tumbling comb of the weir, he is to be looked for; there the god pipes with freest abandonment.’ — Kenneth Grahame, ‘The Rural Pan’ (1894) #BookwormSat
🎨Norman Price
🎨Norman Price
November 22, 2025 at 11:55 AM
‘In the hushed recesses of Hurley backwater, where the canoe may be paddled almost under the tumbling comb of the weir, he is to be looked for; there the god pipes with freest abandonment.’ — Kenneth Grahame, ‘The Rural Pan’ (1894) #BookwormSat
🎨Norman Price
🎨Norman Price
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Sunset at the Waen Oer (cold moor) stone row
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Sunset at the Waen Oer (cold moor) stone row
Weekend reading!
November 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Weekend reading!
American academic job ads are getting truly ridiculous. I saw one today for a position in Religious Studies, Literature, and Creative Writing, calling for someone who had both an MFA and a national reputation in a specific denominational field of religious studies.
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
American academic job ads are getting truly ridiculous. I saw one today for a position in Religious Studies, Literature, and Creative Writing, calling for someone who had both an MFA and a national reputation in a specific denominational field of religious studies.
If your working week has felt like a visit to the Mad Hatter’s tea party, you might enjoy Jonny Miller’s 1966 adaptation of ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ For me, this version captures the weirdness of Carroll’s vision better than any other, with a mind-blowing soundtrack by Ravi Shankar.
Alice in Wonderland 1966
YouTube video by Peculiar Pictures
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November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
If your working week has felt like a visit to the Mad Hatter’s tea party, you might enjoy Jonny Miller’s 1966 adaptation of ‘Alice in Wonderland.’ For me, this version captures the weirdness of Carroll’s vision better than any other, with a mind-blowing soundtrack by Ravi Shankar.
'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn' episode from Cosgrove Hall's wonderful 1983 adaptation of 'The Wind in the Willows.'
The Wind In The Willows - S1E12 - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
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November 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
'The Piper at the Gates of Dawn' episode from Cosgrove Hall's wonderful 1983 adaptation of 'The Wind in the Willows.'
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Richard Texier, The Philosopher’s Secret (bronze with green patina, 2000)
November 19, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Richard Texier, The Philosopher’s Secret (bronze with green patina, 2000)
In Scottish Gaelic folklore, the cat-sìth was a faery being in the form of a black cat with a white patch on its chest. The cat-sìth would attempt to steal the soul of a laid-out corpse, but on Samhain would bless a house if given a saucer of milk. #WyrdWednesday
🎨Aedsu
🎨Aedsu
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
In Scottish Gaelic folklore, the cat-sìth was a faery being in the form of a black cat with a white patch on its chest. The cat-sìth would attempt to steal the soul of a laid-out corpse, but on Samhain would bless a house if given a saucer of milk. #WyrdWednesday
🎨Aedsu
🎨Aedsu
Looking out from the Table des Marchands tumulus in Locmariaquer, Brittany, June 2023. #TombTuesday
November 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Looking out from the Table des Marchands tumulus in Locmariaquer, Brittany, June 2023. #TombTuesday
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A sign of how bad are relations between academics and their universities. When I joined Twitter in 2016 it was widespread practice to include one's university in your biog to promote your institution/dept. Now it's non existent on here (& Twitter). For good reason.
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
A sign of how bad are relations between academics and their universities. When I joined Twitter in 2016 it was widespread practice to include one's university in your biog to promote your institution/dept. Now it's non existent on here (& Twitter). For good reason.
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'Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past' (Philip Carr-Gomm, "Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century") 🌳
November 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
'Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past' (Philip Carr-Gomm, "Druid Mysteries: Ancient Wisdom for the 21st Century") 🌳
‘It is a good face by any standards, strong and kind, but you are sure it could be very stern if the occasion demanded it. The head is covered with strong, curly brown hair that is tinged with red and gold at the ends.’ — Leo Vinci, ‘Pan: God of Nature’ (1994)
🎨Thalia Took
🎨Thalia Took
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
‘It is a good face by any standards, strong and kind, but you are sure it could be very stern if the occasion demanded it. The head is covered with strong, curly brown hair that is tinged with red and gold at the ends.’ — Leo Vinci, ‘Pan: God of Nature’ (1994)
🎨Thalia Took
🎨Thalia Took
I think one of the reasons I like ironing is that it brings back the childhood feeling I had watching ‘Coronation Street’ with my mother while she ironed my father’s shirts.
November 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I think one of the reasons I like ironing is that it brings back the childhood feeling I had watching ‘Coronation Street’ with my mother while she ironed my father’s shirts.