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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. I would enjoy a wafer-thin pamphlet - "The Unbombastic Belloc" - of his very few poems that are quietly moving - Ha'nacker Mill, My own Country, and a handful of others.

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 3d

I will shout like a lout on the last redoubt
For an xbox

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 3d

"to the moon" replaces "all night" and we're cooking

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 3d

Is it ok to like this poem, and to judge that it narrowly misses the obvious pitfall of the sentimental? I hope so.

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 7d

These are wonderful, Huw.

Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 11d

Tony Harrison RIP. Cracking poet

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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 12d

💥AUTUMN BOOK TOUR💥

#everymonumentwillfall in Oxford, Brighton, Paris, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol, London (x3), Nottingham

dates throughout Oct-Nov 2025

details/tickets >> danhicks.uk/talks

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 14d

Well, that's the world of literary criticism for you.

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you Alex. But fairly wild accusations are being made on here too...

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Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social · 16d

New on the Writer’s Bookshelf: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the brilliant @ravoon.bsky.social - featuring Ted Hughes, John Updike, Penelope Fitzgerald, Zaffar Kunial and much, much more!

The writer's bookshelf: Graeme Richardson

Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…

open.substack.com

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 17d

Ah I remember this all now!

Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 17d

Ha! Who do you mean? Probably at least two. I mostly remember Joe Murray as Jaques...

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 17d

Thanks, Harry. A long time since you cast me in As You Like It. Hope all is well!

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 17d

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 17d

What to do with a book so cynically produced? www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Len Pennie — Scotland’s worst poet since William McGonagall

Poyums annaw, the latest collection by the TikTok-famous poet Len Pennie, deals with serious issues — but it’s hard to take her poems seriously

www.thetimes.com

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · 24d

My little daughter read the name as "gooeyness" which is the only pronunciation I now accept

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sly self-mocking self-assertion in Larkin's 1981 interview with John Haffenden: ‘Poems don’t come from other poems, they come from being oneself, in life. Every man is an island, entire of himself, as Donne said.’

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ah, I can now recognize the tune - St Ethelwald. A shame Auden isn't singing "Earth receive an honoured guest" to "Forty Days and Forty Nights"!

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thank you, David! I will look.

Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · Jul 21

This, from welovestornaway.com is my favourite news item about the Forward Prizes so far... @niallpoetry.bsky.social

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · Jul 18

I've read this: extremely readable, wise about a ljfe in poetry, funny about the biz, humble about failure and rejection, humane about fellow poets - I really enjoyed it.

Renard Press @renardpress.com · Jul 18

Last bit of #bookpost for the weekend, and it’s a real pleasure to see this glorious hybrid book navigating poetry with @greeningpoet.bsky.social in print. ✈️

(Signed copies available in limited supply.)

renardpress.com/books/a-high...

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Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · Jul 6

(quoted in a John Redmond LRB essay)

Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social · Jul 6

Love this - Kurt Vonnegut on his sister Alice, a painter:

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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · Jul 4

OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-One: Long-limbed Darlings badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-1

Issue twenty-one — Bad Lilies

badlilies.uk

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