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Philip Womack
@philipwomack.bsky.social
Author: Ghostlord and Wildlord 12+, The Arrow of Apollo, The Double Axe, 10+, How to Teach Classics to Your Dog, for adults.
Writes for many papers, mostly about books. Shakespearean, Classicist, etc

Ghostlord - Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week
Classics Teachers! If you'd like to book a creative writing workshop for your students, aged 8-13, based on Greek myth, and combine it with an author visit, then do get in touch! My book, #thearrowofapollo is newly republished by Wilton Square Books, and is a great introduction to myth.
December 1, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Some hyphens surprise – have you looked recently at the title page of Moby-Dick?

✍️ Philip Womack
www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-...
How the hyphen turned political
When Buckingham Palace announced that its errant prince, Andrew, would be known as boring old Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, some surprise arose at the initial omission of the hyphen from his surname.…
www.spectator.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I loved doing this interview for Mathew
November 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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‘Only in a very few cases has the journey back to sound that Kennedy writes about in relation to Hermann’s cello been possible. Most of these stories end in silence and rupture.’

Thomas Laqueur on Kate Kennedy’s ‘Cello’ and the instruments stolen by the Nazis: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thomas Laqueur · A Different Life: Can cellos remember?
Cellists and violinists in particular are haunted by the musicians who played their instruments before them and those...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I very much enjoyed Chris Laoutaris' account of the making of the First Folio.
September 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I had a lovely message from someone who'd attended a talk which I gave at a school, in 2018. It's really true: school visits are so important. Authors, of all stripes: keep doing them! You never know what will hit home.
September 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about
good video hands-on with meta's smart glasses. i've been skeptical on smart glasses for a while, but it looks like the hardware side of this is finally becoming feasible? plus, in a world where kids list "creator" as their dream job, POV video recording is v attractive youtu.be/5cVGKvl7Oek?...
Meta Ray-Ban Display hands-on: best smart glasses I’ve ever tried
YouTube video by The Verge
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September 18, 2025 at 8:22 AM
The new Pullman has landed. THE ROSE FIELD, here we go...
September 16, 2025 at 12:26 PM
September 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
September 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
This week's Substack, on Richard Burbage open.substack.com/pub/philipwo...
Shakespeare in Context: The Burbages
A theatrical family
open.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 10:30 AM
95 per cent of AI pilots are failing. NINETY FIVE PERCENT. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Why You Should Never Use AI Under Any Circumstances for Any Reason No Matter What
Maybe that's a BIT of an exaggeration, but not much.
substack.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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there's a phrase in this piece — "murdered child influencer" — that hits like a cold wind blowing in from some blasted future

bsky.app/profile/cwar...
Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it
AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event
Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
www.theatlantic.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I enjoyed this piece on Hamlet by Barbara Everett in the @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Barbara Everett · An East Wind behind it: Farewell to ‘Hamlet’
For many years, if asked about Hamlet’s poetic quality, I would have quoted not ‘To be, or not to be’ (which...
www.lrb.co.uk
August 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM