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Patrick McGuinness
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Writer, academic, endotic traveller. Books: Blood Feather 2023; Real Oxford 2021. Ghost Stations, CB Editions , Sept 2025. FRSL. Prof of French and Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
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Such a great shortlist - was at the ceremony last year when the winner was the brilliant Nelly Sachs translated by Andrew Shanks @carcanet.bsky.social . Great to see another poet, Krisztina Tóth @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social, in the running this year.
We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation in 2025! "Each of these books arrives in English in expert and accessible translations that honour the art and voice of their original authors."
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Nottingham has one of the most vibrant and forward-looking departments of modern languages around. Music too. To cut them like this, leaving no chance for future rebuilding, is educational vandalism.

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Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
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The eternal return wrapped around the eternal departure wrapped around the eternal return, etc. Station fractals as I bring the book back, by way of its places, to the people who are in it. Embarquement terminé? I wouldn't be so sure.
True - I dont remember seeing many if any in the past...
Foxes of Brussels , 1 of an occasional series.
And some other autumn sights and colours
Couple of Oxford-related images, all from Headington. William Kimber's grave, a couple of pubs and a slow-at-first then all-at-once sunset.
Bangor station buffet. Something for everyone
Thinking of opening a hardware store myself and retiring early.
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‘It is on the border between the ordinary and the peculiar that Parr likes to work. He points out, more than once, that what is commonplace now will one day be remarkable.’

Rosemary Hill on Martin Parr’s people:

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Rosemary Hill · Saturdays at the Sewage Works: Martin Parr’s People
It is on the border between the ordinary and the peculiar that Parr likes to work. He points out, more than once, that...
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If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.
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Democracy cannot survive if people like Jenrick, who is prepared to lie continually and without compunction, can prosper.

Football in the 80s was frequently violent and, especially in the first part of the decade, awash with racism. These were not halcyon days, especially for non-white Britons.
How long before ICE agents come for Pope Leo?
Oxford sights, in l'an trentiesme de mon eage, or at any rate my 30th Michaelmas Term as a tutor here. Not sure where the years went, somewhere between the purposeful paddleboarder and the skull on the hull.