On Viewless Wings
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Writing, reading, running.
Poetry PhD: vital instability in the 2nd generation Romantics.
Am actually writing.
Interested in the amplification of working class voices, northern voices, & kind & talented voices.
Writing, I swear.
Meliorist, still.
Poetry PhD: vital instability in the 2nd generation Romantics.
Am actually writing.
Interested in the amplification of working class voices, northern voices, & kind & talented voices.
Writing, I swear.
Meliorist, still.
This BBC thing reminds me of the time the BBC switched the order of the footage from Orgreave on 18th June 1984 in a way which wrongly incriminated the miners and minimised the horrific police violence and the BBC immediately admitted it and people resigned and apologised and ... oh, hang on ...
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This BBC thing reminds me of the time the BBC switched the order of the footage from Orgreave on 18th June 1984 in a way which wrongly incriminated the miners and minimised the horrific police violence and the BBC immediately admitted it and people resigned and apologised and ... oh, hang on ...
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Michael O'Neill. As my supervisor for my Masters and then for my PhD, which I did part time, it meant that I had the privilege of meeting with him regularly to talk about Shelley, Keats and Byron over the course of the seven years before he died. An important person in my life, and much missed.
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Michael O'Neill. As my supervisor for my Masters and then for my PhD, which I did part time, it meant that I had the privilege of meeting with him regularly to talk about Shelley, Keats and Byron over the course of the seven years before he died. An important person in my life, and much missed.
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Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
In a few weeks I'll begin teaching Frankenstein and The Handmaid's Tale comparatively for the I-don't-know-how-manyth time. It's always interesting teaching texts when they are crossing over into public discourse.
November 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
In a few weeks I'll begin teaching Frankenstein and The Handmaid's Tale comparatively for the I-don't-know-how-manyth time. It's always interesting teaching texts when they are crossing over into public discourse.
'Tis the season of bad takes on Mary Shelley's writing.
November 8, 2025 at 7:49 PM
'Tis the season of bad takes on Mary Shelley's writing.
Slipping away from this place for a while.
November 3, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Slipping away from this place for a while.
To be fair, there are some good choices here. Not sure 'Threads' counts as an 'episode', but blimey, it knocked me for six when I was shown it IN SCHOOL not all that far from Sheffield.
What have they missed?
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
What have they missed?
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘I definitely needed a lie-down after that!’ Your most intense TV episodes ever
Bombs on trains, coke-fuelled gambling sprees and canine barbecues … from Bodyguard to Industry, here are your most horrific, heart-in-mouth TV moments
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 PM
To be fair, there are some good choices here. Not sure 'Threads' counts as an 'episode', but blimey, it knocked me for six when I was shown it IN SCHOOL not all that far from Sheffield.
What have they missed?
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
What have they missed?
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
🧵 Are you able to look back at points in your life where you thought to yourself: yeah, not liking who I am right now, or what circumstances (relationship, work, location, whatever) are making me; need to make a change. And you have, and it has made all the difference, and you struggle to imagine 1/
November 3, 2025 at 5:50 PM
🧵 Are you able to look back at points in your life where you thought to yourself: yeah, not liking who I am right now, or what circumstances (relationship, work, location, whatever) are making me; need to make a change. And you have, and it has made all the difference, and you struggle to imagine 1/
#MartinSheen has a podcast about #poetry and social activism and #literature and hopefully #TheWestWing and poetry and film and politics and poetry and philosophy and poetry and poetry. And while the incidental music is a bit more than is needed, I am very, very much up for this.
#BartletforAmerica
#BartletforAmerica
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
#MartinSheen has a podcast about #poetry and social activism and #literature and hopefully #TheWestWing and poetry and film and politics and poetry and philosophy and poetry and poetry. And while the incidental music is a bit more than is needed, I am very, very much up for this.
#BartletforAmerica
#BartletforAmerica
I've never needed a half term break more than I needed this one, which is really saying something across 24 years of teaching. Feel like I am diving into the deep as I head back to work tomorrow, but I've got 7,000 words written, and given where my head has been at, that's not nothing.
November 3, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I've never needed a half term break more than I needed this one, which is really saying something across 24 years of teaching. Feel like I am diving into the deep as I head back to work tomorrow, but I've got 7,000 words written, and given where my head has been at, that's not nothing.
Kris Kristofferson has always been very important to me. This song is my 'in case of emergency, break glass' song for when the world is telling me that writing/creative work is pointless &/or untenable. Posting it here for any creative folks who need it today.
share.google/6ZHNvpjqf0JA...
share.google/6ZHNvpjqf0JA...
November 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Kris Kristofferson has always been very important to me. This song is my 'in case of emergency, break glass' song for when the world is telling me that writing/creative work is pointless &/or untenable. Posting it here for any creative folks who need it today.
share.google/6ZHNvpjqf0JA...
share.google/6ZHNvpjqf0JA...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Inconceivable
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
November 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Inconceivable
Snippet of Shakespeare's first draft of Hamlet I,ii has just been unearthed...
November 2, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Snippet of Shakespeare's first draft of Hamlet I,ii has just been unearthed...
Teaching goals.
my undergraduates walk into my classrooms on the first day of each semester reciting Gordon Gekko's speech from memory, and they march out on the last day of class singing the Internationale
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Teaching goals.
Christ. Not sure what is going on here but hoping those I know in the Cambridge area, and everyone else, are safe.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'Multiple people' stabbed on train in Huntington
British Transport Police is currently responding to the incident on a train to Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Christ. Not sure what is going on here but hoping those I know in the Cambridge area, and everyone else, are safe.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Big 'let them eat urinal cake' vibes from the dayglo demagogue...
JFC! Kids are losing meals, parents are losing sleep, and Trump’s flexing about marble and mirrors.
November 1, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Big 'let them eat urinal cake' vibes from the dayglo demagogue...
Swap out Steve for Samuel, and I think a new alternative title for Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey just dropped...
#Romanticism
#Wordsworth
#Coleridge
#Romanticism
#Wordsworth
#Coleridge
"You know what, Steve? F*** you, and your family, and your uptight friends, I'm feeling good, I'm going for a 15 mile hike near the River Wye, and I will wear whatever kind of f***ing footwear I want to."
November 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Swap out Steve for Samuel, and I think a new alternative title for Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey just dropped...
#Romanticism
#Wordsworth
#Coleridge
#Romanticism
#Wordsworth
#Coleridge
Hear me out. The Gruffalo but with the gruffalo swapped with the Hulk, and we call it The Ruffalo.
November 1, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Hear me out. The Gruffalo but with the gruffalo swapped with the Hulk, and we call it The Ruffalo.
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Write something. Write it today. Write your heart out. Write something weird that only you would think of. Your enemies will not topple to your silence. Write your future and live it.
November 1, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Write something. Write it today. Write your heart out. Write something weird that only you would think of. Your enemies will not topple to your silence. Write your future and live it.
There's a lot of disingenuous bullshit here from Phillipson. Unions resisting a mandatory reading test doesn't mean they're standing in the way of addressing class inequality or the raising of standards. Teachers just know that bullshit tests are not the answer.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Bridget Phillipson ‘ready to take on unions’ over year 8 reading tests
Education secretary says mandatory test needed to tackle ‘shocking outcomes’ for many working-class children
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
There's a lot of disingenuous bullshit here from Phillipson. Unions resisting a mandatory reading test doesn't mean they're standing in the way of addressing class inequality or the raising of standards. Teachers just know that bullshit tests are not the answer.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
In terms of arbitrary points of new beginning, I've never been a fan of New Year. But I do like me a good first-of-the-month, particularly those with a nice crisp 30 days.
November 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
In terms of arbitrary points of new beginning, I've never been a fan of New Year. But I do like me a good first-of-the-month, particularly those with a nice crisp 30 days.
