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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 2d

It's #ModWrite Monday again! We're curious to learn what you're working on - share with us using the hashtag📚

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The International T. S. Eliot Society @intleliotsociety.bsky.social · 8d

Hi #ModWrite #Modernism peeps! If you've been to an Eliot Society meeting, you know we love our grad students and early career scholars.
We have annual awards to show where our hearts lie! Winners of the 2025 Fathman Awards are: Gabriela Minden and Nicholas Smart

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Jenny Kenyon @jennykenyon.bsky.social · 8d

today's #ModWrite I'm writing about illustrator Eric Fraser & his depiction of telephone trauma for Hamilton's radio play Money with Menaces. Fraser also invented 'Mr Therm' for British Gas: maybe the ultimate example of cute mascot & terrifying tagline?
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A British Gas advert from the 1950s. Mr Therm is a smiling red character, his head (or hair) is made to look like flames. The tag line reads: Mr Therm burns to serve you

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Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · 15d

This #ModWrite, I'm polishing off my essay on The Holdovers. What a fab film!

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Dan Dicks @danieldicks.bsky.social · 9d

Library day- finishing up the final chapter of the thesis on queer objects in Orlando!

British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 9d

It's Monday (again!), and the final #ModWrite of September. Share what you're working on with us using the hashtag.

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 9d

It's Monday (again!), and the final #ModWrite of September. Share what you're working on with us using the hashtag.

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 12d

Today is the Birthday of T.S. Eliot, born on this day in 1888 🎉
Read the featured article from vol.7 of The Annual for free online: bit.ly/TSESA7-blog @intleliotsociety.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @johnhaffenden.bsky.social @johnmorgenstern.bsky.social

'Celebrating the birthday of T.S Eliot' written on a pale green background with the vol.7 of the TSESA journal on the right.

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Jenny Kenyon @jennykenyon.bsky.social · 22d

today's #ModWrite is from the Harry Ransom Center, with quirky drawings and unique turns of phrase that bring me closer than ever to Patrick Hamilton - if only his handwriting didn't turn each letter into a homogeneous scrawl, life would be perfect (but then wouldn't that be boring).

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Jennifer Ashby @jenniferashby.bsky.social · 22d

This #ModWrite I am writing about the founder of Psychosynthesis, Roberto Assagioli (1888-1974), in his personal library in Florence

A small red rose bush on a table in front of a book case. Institute of Psychosynthesis, Florence, Italy.

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 23d

It's Monday once again! Share what you are working on with us using #ModWrite! ☔

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 29d

We're pleased to announce that the CFP for the TMR Virginia Woolf special issue is now open!
📆Important dates:
Expression of interest: September 15th, 2025
Submission due date: October 10th, 2025

Please get in touch with [email protected]. We look forward to hearing from you! 🌻

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 29d

We’re delighted to announce a CFP for a Virginia Woolf special issue of TMR, marking the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf. Please see the details below:

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 29d

The last piece is Yuqi Li's (@ x.com/bareshade_) review of Conjurors: Poems by Julian Orde:
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Book Review: Conjurors: Poems by Julian Orde

9th September 2025 Yuqi Li, Trinity College Dublin Julian Orde, Conjurors: Poems, ed. James Keery (Carcanet, 2024) In ‘From a 1949 Notebook,’ W.S. Graham develops his theory of poetry as follows: p…

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 29d

Ellie McCartney (@ www.instagram.com/elmcc/) examines Harold Jähner’s Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany 1918-1933 (W.H Allen, Ebury Publishing, 2024):
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Book Review: Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany 1918-1933

9th September 2025 Ellie McCartney Harold Jähner, Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany 1918-1933, trans. Shaun Whiteside (W.H Allen, Ebury Publishing, 2024) In the final days of 1918, Germa…

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 29d

Aisik Maiti (@https://www.linkedin.com/in/aisikmaiti/) reviews Sarah Jackson’s Literature and the Telephone (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023):
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Book Review: Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place

9th September 2025 Aisik Maiti, IIT Bombay Sarah Jackson, Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023) Sarah Jackson’s Literature and the T…

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 29d

@bethlcampbell.bsky.social reviews Kerri Andrews’ ambitious edited collection, Nan Shepherd’s Correspondence 1920-1980 (Edinburgh University Press, 2024):
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Book Review: Nan Shepherd’s Correspondence 1920-1980

9th September 2025 Beth Campbell, King’s College, London Nan Shepherd’s Correspondence 1920-1980, ed. Kerri Andrews (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Whilst it is often a reader’s primary pr…

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 29d

Hajar Mahfoodh (@ x.com/HajarAlMahfo...) takes on Gabriel Schwab’s Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times (Columbia University Press, 2023):
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Book Review: Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times

9th September 2025 Hajar Mahfoodh, University of Bahrain Gabriele Schwab, Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End Times (Columbia University Press, 2023) Inspired by the ongoing literature …

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 29d

Next is @woganchris.bsky.social, who reviews Finnegans Wake: Human and Non-Human Histories (Edinburgh University Press, 2024):
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Book Review: Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

9th September 2025 Christopher Wogan, University of York Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories, ed. Richard Barlow and Paul Fagan (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Published in 2024, the t…

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 29d

First, we have @shahirahathout.bsky.social's review of Peter Adkin’s edited collection, Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).
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Book Review: Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene

9th September 2025 Dr. Shahira Hathout, York University, Toronto Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene, ed. Peter Adkins (Edinburgh University Press, 2024) Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene (2024) …

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 29d

We’re excited to share #TheModernistReview57, our first autumn issue! It includes seven reviews on diverse topics in modernist studies. Go check it out! we hope you enjoy reading:
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The Modernist Review Issue #57

8th September 2025 All the months are crude experiments out of which the perfect September is made. (Virginia Woolf, ‘The Lands End’, 1905) September arrives again, and with the beginning of autumn…

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · Sep 8

It’s Monday again! Share with us what you’re working on using the hashtag #ModWrite ☀️🌦️

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Andrew Frayn @afrayn.bsky.social · Sep 5

This year's remembrance lecture at Edinburgh Napier marks, as always, Craiglockhart's First World War links(the meeting place of Owen and Sassoon) and our late colleague Catherine Walker. This year it is also the @fwwsoc.bsky.social Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, given by @juliarsct.bsky.social.

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Jenny Kenyon @jennykenyon.bsky.social · Sep 1

today's #ModWrite is more packing than writing - one week before I arrive at the Harry Ransom Center for a deep dive into Patrick Hamilton's archive. Please send recommendations for Austin (bookshops, coffee, live music, nature, and for surviving what looks like 33 degree heat...)

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Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor @forster1970.bsky.social · Aug 17

And just like that I got to the point when there are 80 translations of Forster's A Passage to India into 36 languages, including Icelandic and Macedonian. The latest discovery: Þorleifsson, Hjalta. Ferð til Indlands. Reykjavík Ugla 2022. You probably know I should be WRITING... #modwrite #emforster

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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · Sep 1

Welcome to September + #ModWrite! What are you working on today? Share with us using the hashtag!

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