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Ian Duhig

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'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 1d

I've got new poems I've been working on for five French prime ministers

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 1d

I've carved them myself and your mother is absolutely right: they're rock solid. A trebuchet filled with these could knock out a garrison.

Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 1d

Sleipnir, Odin's eight-legged horse, being spavined now he has to get about the best he can like the rest of us.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 1d

What's clever about the old Irish carved turnip heads is they capture perfectly the makers' disgust at the commercialisation of Halloween.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 2d

"I'm not sure Batman is going to see the signal if we only shine it over our mantle piece."

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 3d

Enjoyed reading with Chris Wood at Scarborough Art Gallery from our Grimms' project yesterday, returning with a gift of Brian Catling's 'The Stumbling Block, Its Index', an attempt to write sculpture. 'Pens are too light / Take a chisel to write' -- Bunting, 'Briggflatts'

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 3d

Archaic Greek Gold Plaque of Gorgon Flossing Her teeth, 7th century BC. Parco Archeologico di Himera, Palermo

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 4d

Spotted in Kildare and reported by the Irish Examiner, concerned to explain the reasoning behind the decision and why you'll make an eejit of yourself if you can't accept the fact of closure immediately

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 5d

Personally, I would try potatoes first for most uses before human blood.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 6d

for #NationalPoetryDay one of my all-time favourites.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 6d

"The poet is like a mouse in an enormous cheese excited by how much cheese there is to eat."
-- Czeslaw Milosz.

Happy #nationalpoetryday

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 7d

This is an outrageous slur: folk singers don't need to be drunk to pick a fight, especially about the origins of folk songs!

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 8d

RIP Brian Patten

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 8d

The poet and a first draft of their new poem arrive at the workplace.

Their working relationship quickly develops strains.

Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 9d

The poem's relationship to its ostensible subject is not always straightforward

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 10d

In the ROMA drugs hostel I worked in after leaving university, we were supposed to confront residents we suspected of drug use beyond their maintenance prescriptions.

In reality, those confrontations often went like this . . .

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 10d

Me in York explaining that my eyes are too bad for me to read from my phone

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Jonathan Potts @uccellolirico.bsky.social · 11d

I have long loved and often return to this Harrison-Hockney collaboration one May day in Bridlington, this clip h/t Alan Burnett - I also saved the Guardian cutting, back then!

newsfromnowhere1948.blogspot.com/2009/09/york...

Yorkssshhhire

I clipped the following out of the Guardian twelve years ago. I am probably infringing a dozen copyright laws by reprinting it here, but wha...

newsfromnowhere1948.blogspot.com

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 10d

"And that was how the Wittgensteinian dynastic wars began!"

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 10d

Thank you, Steve, again!

Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 11d

RIP Tony Harrison. What came to mind when I heard the news was Gail Earnshaw telling me what a wonderful letter she had from him when her husband died. They weren't close friends and nobody would know about Harrison's kind gesture, except Gail, making it the sort of gesture I respect most.

Pic: BBC

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you for this and pass on my best wishes to your students as well -- I hope they do well in their exams and have great lives

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 11d

Yorkshire Times Art Review: The Imp of Surrealism - Anthony Earnshaw at Halifax @ianduhig.bsky.social
yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/The-...

The Imp Of Surrealism: Anthony Earnshaw At Dean Clough

It comes as no surprise to learn that the surrealist artist, Anthony Earnshaw, was a great admirer of Charlie Chaplin, or more particularly, the Chaplin of Modern Times.

yorkshiretimes.co.uk

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks Steve, from Gail as well as me

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks Laura