Tim Youngs
@timyoungs.bsky.social
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Tim Youngs
@timyoungs.bsky.social
· Aug 24
Happy to have received copies of my new chapbook, 'Managed Woodland: Poems for Gurminder Sikand' (Red Ceilings Press, 2024; cover image a detail from Gurminder's painting, 'Clouds, 1993).
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Here’s the recording of the online launch of Hôtel Amour — with Olivia McCannon @oliviamcc.bsky.social
Menna Elfyn #mennaelfyn #parch #thelivesofz #hotelamour
m.youtube.com/watch?v=LpXk...
Menna Elfyn #mennaelfyn #parch #thelivesofz #hotelamour
m.youtube.com/watch?v=LpXk...
Launch of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones
YouTube video by serenbooks
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December 19, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Here’s the recording of the online launch of Hôtel Amour — with Olivia McCannon @oliviamcc.bsky.social
Menna Elfyn #mennaelfyn #parch #thelivesofz #hotelamour
m.youtube.com/watch?v=LpXk...
Menna Elfyn #mennaelfyn #parch #thelivesofz #hotelamour
m.youtube.com/watch?v=LpXk...
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'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow', forthcoming symposium at Cambridge. A two-day symposium for writer-researchers working on medieval materials to reflect on craft, research processes, and work in progress.
Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...
Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...
Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow
A two-day symposium on creative writing, the creative-critical seam, and the Middle Ages
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 17, 2025 at 2:23 PM
'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow', forthcoming symposium at Cambridge. A two-day symposium for writer-researchers working on medieval materials to reflect on craft, research processes, and work in progress.
Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...
Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...
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Our fantastic @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social collections are all included in the LUP Winter Sale, including preorders of the forthcoming 2026 poetry collections. Use discount code 27WINTER on our website to claim your discount! Sale ends 18th December.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/imprin...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Our fantastic @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social collections are all included in the LUP Winter Sale, including preorders of the forthcoming 2026 poetry collections. Use discount code 27WINTER on our website to claim your discount! Sale ends 18th December.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/imprin...
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/imprin...
Very pleased to now have a copy of Noon: an Anthology of Short Poems (vol. 2), edited by Philip Rowland, and to have a couple of poems in it, one inspired by Cliff Yates (and Gurminder Sikand) and the other inspired by @dradny.bsky.social. Both are among the several contributors.
December 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Very pleased to now have a copy of Noon: an Anthology of Short Poems (vol. 2), edited by Philip Rowland, and to have a couple of poems in it, one inspired by Cliff Yates (and Gurminder Sikand) and the other inspired by @dradny.bsky.social. Both are among the several contributors.
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Have you taken advantage of our special offer yet? From now until the end of December, you can claim £10 off all orders over £30 with the code Xmas25 when shopping on our website. Browse our books here www.serenbooks.com/books/
November 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Have you taken advantage of our special offer yet? From now until the end of December, you can claim £10 off all orders over £30 with the code Xmas25 when shopping on our website. Browse our books here www.serenbooks.com/books/
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Guest post: Poet Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social reflects on time spent in Paris whilst writing her collection ‘Hôtel Amour’, offering an insight into her writing process & inspirations behind the book www.serenbooks.com/2025/12/gues.... Available now in bookshops & online.
December 5, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Guest post: Poet Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social reflects on time spent in Paris whilst writing her collection ‘Hôtel Amour’, offering an insight into her writing process & inspirations behind the book www.serenbooks.com/2025/12/gues.... Available now in bookshops & online.
Invigorated by last week's conference on 'Exploring Bodies and Corporeality in Travel Writing' at the University of Koblenz.
December 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Invigorated by last week's conference on 'Exploring Bodies and Corporeality in Travel Writing' at the University of Koblenz.
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Would anyone be interested in being part of a roundtable on Working-Class Victorians in heritage/fiction/public imagination today at next year's BAVS conference?
Let me know if you're keen 😁
Let me know if you're keen 😁
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Would anyone be interested in being part of a roundtable on Working-Class Victorians in heritage/fiction/public imagination today at next year's BAVS conference?
Let me know if you're keen 😁
Let me know if you're keen 😁
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This book (and all others by @edinburghup.bsky.social) are half price this weekend from their website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-frederi...
Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846
Frederick Douglass and Scotland, 1846
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November 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This book (and all others by @edinburghup.bsky.social) are half price this weekend from their website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-frederi...
Happy that two of Gurminder Sikand's paintings have entered the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
November 19, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Happy that two of Gurminder Sikand's paintings have entered the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
I'm very much enjoying and learning from @notjustdancing.bsky.social's brilliant 'Hôtel Amour’ from @serenbooks.bsky.social , launched with, and illuminated by, excellent readings and discussion yesterday.
November 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I'm very much enjoying and learning from @notjustdancing.bsky.social's brilliant 'Hôtel Amour’ from @serenbooks.bsky.social , launched with, and illuminated by, excellent readings and discussion yesterday.
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Join us for an online book launch on November 18th at 7pm — #mennaelfyn #oliviamccannon #derynrees-jones #HotelAmour
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Join us for an online book launch on November 18th at 7pm — #mennaelfyn #oliviamccannon #derynrees-jones #HotelAmour
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...
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We hope you can join us! Register for the Zoom link (free) via Eventbrite if you plan on coming along www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765466972...
Looking forward to this @serenbooks.bsky.social online event 18 November 7pm: An evening of poetry celebrating the publication of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social, with readings by Deryn and guests Menna Elfyn and Olivia McCannon. @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social
Poetry Book Launch | Hôtel Amour by Deryn Rees-Jones
Join us online for an evening of poetry celebrating publication of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We hope you can join us! Register for the Zoom link (free) via Eventbrite if you plan on coming along www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765466972...
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The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...
Peterson Fellowship Guidelines – RSVP
Each year, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) intends to grant one Linda H. Peterson Fellowship (henceforth, “the Peterson Fellowship”) in the amount of $20,000 to a single research...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...
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In celebration of International Artists' Day today, we're launching a new bundle curated by our Art Editor, Leon Wainwright. These four issues gather some of the strongest art writing from our archive, all for the discounted price of £38. 🎨
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October 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In celebration of International Artists' Day today, we're launching a new bundle curated by our Art Editor, Leon Wainwright. These four issues gather some of the strongest art writing from our archive, all for the discounted price of £38. 🎨
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If you're a writer or publisher with a book on travel or place coming out in 2026, please let me know via deskboundtraveller.com so I can include it in a roundup (like this one: deskboundtraveller.com/words-from-the-road-for-2025/). Reposts greatly appreciated.
October 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
If you're a writer or publisher with a book on travel or place coming out in 2026, please let me know via deskboundtraveller.com so I can include it in a roundup (like this one: deskboundtraveller.com/words-from-the-road-for-2025/). Reposts greatly appreciated.
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Le nouveau groupe de recherche NAVIRE (Narration et analyse des voyages, itinéraires et récits d’écrivains), invite à réfléchir aux définitions du récit de voyage à l’époque moderne. Inscrivez-vous pour assister à distance depuis l'univ. du Val d'Aoste (12-13/12/2025).
www.crlv.org/actualites/c...
www.crlv.org/actualites/c...
October 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Le nouveau groupe de recherche NAVIRE (Narration et analyse des voyages, itinéraires et récits d’écrivains), invite à réfléchir aux définitions du récit de voyage à l’époque moderne. Inscrivez-vous pour assister à distance depuis l'univ. du Val d'Aoste (12-13/12/2025).
www.crlv.org/actualites/c...
www.crlv.org/actualites/c...
Delighted to have been at the opening of the @museumarnhem.bsky.social iteration of the @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social touring show, 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes'. Thanks to all 3 tour venues for including Gurminder Sikand's works www.museumarnhem.nl/en/tentoonst...
Forbidden Territories | Museum Arnhem
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October 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Delighted to have been at the opening of the @museumarnhem.bsky.social iteration of the @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social touring show, 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes'. Thanks to all 3 tour venues for including Gurminder Sikand's works www.museumarnhem.nl/en/tentoonst...
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Nu te zien: 'Het fantastische landschap'. Ervaar een nieuw perspectief op 100 jaar surrealistische kunst. Ontdek hoe surrealistische kunstenaars, toen en nu, het landschap gebruiken om te reageren op de maatschappij. 'Het fantastische landschap' is te zien t/m 22 februari 2026: bit.ly/439IxMv
October 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Nu te zien: 'Het fantastische landschap'. Ervaar een nieuw perspectief op 100 jaar surrealistische kunst. Ontdek hoe surrealistische kunstenaars, toen en nu, het landschap gebruiken om te reageren op de maatschappij. 'Het fantastische landschap' is te zien t/m 22 februari 2026: bit.ly/439IxMv
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📖 Forthcoming this month, a new book from our colleague, Dr Gareth Roddy (@grod.bsky.social), "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940." Pre-order your copy now from @uolpress.bsky.social!
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press
The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...
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October 2, 2025 at 11:49 AM
📖 Forthcoming this month, a new book from our colleague, Dr Gareth Roddy (@grod.bsky.social), "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940." Pre-order your copy now from @uolpress.bsky.social!
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
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Deadline to submit proposals is a month away! Don't miss the boat!
✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.
RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP
The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…
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October 1, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Deadline to submit proposals is a month away! Don't miss the boat!
Very grateful to the TG Gallery, Nottingham, for having hosted 'Gurminder Sikand: Paintings and Drawings, 1994-2017'. Delighted to have seen Gurminder's art there again, four years after 'The Weaver of Songs', her exhibition of drawings from 2018-21, which closed just weeks before her passing.
September 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Very grateful to the TG Gallery, Nottingham, for having hosted 'Gurminder Sikand: Paintings and Drawings, 1994-2017'. Delighted to have seen Gurminder's art there again, four years after 'The Weaver of Songs', her exhibition of drawings from 2018-21, which closed just weeks before her passing.
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Curious Travellers are delighted to be partnering with the long-running Liverpool Travel Seminar to host an Early Career Symposium dedicated to ‘Journeys of Curiosity’
Bluecoat, Liverpool, 25/09. Free (including lunch), registration by September 19th
curioustravellers.ac.uk/journeys-of-...
Bluecoat, Liverpool, 25/09. Free (including lunch), registration by September 19th
curioustravellers.ac.uk/journeys-of-...
‘Journeys of Curiosity’ Early Career Symposium – 25/09/2025 | Curious Travellers
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September 10, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Curious Travellers are delighted to be partnering with the long-running Liverpool Travel Seminar to host an Early Career Symposium dedicated to ‘Journeys of Curiosity’
Bluecoat, Liverpool, 25/09. Free (including lunch), registration by September 19th
curioustravellers.ac.uk/journeys-of-...
Bluecoat, Liverpool, 25/09. Free (including lunch), registration by September 19th
curioustravellers.ac.uk/journeys-of-...
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(cont.) ... Davide Vago, Odile Gannier, Pierre Schoentjes, Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Nina Rocipon et Haila Koo. www.fabula.org/actualites/1... Aussi, comptes rendus des livres de Catherine Pinguet, Jean-Jacques Bavoux, Christina Kullberg, Eva Johanna Holmberg et Philippe Antoine - Gilles Louÿs (dirs).
Viatica, HS 8, 2025 : La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique (dir. Yvan Daniel & Alain Romestaing
Viatica, HS 8 | 2025 : La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique Sous la direction de Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing Dossier Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing Introduction [Texte intégral] ...
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September 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
(cont.) ... Davide Vago, Odile Gannier, Pierre Schoentjes, Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Nina Rocipon et Haila Koo. www.fabula.org/actualites/1... Aussi, comptes rendus des livres de Catherine Pinguet, Jean-Jacques Bavoux, Christina Kullberg, Eva Johanna Holmberg et Philippe Antoine - Gilles Louÿs (dirs).
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Vient de paraître: numéro hors-série 8 de la revue Viatica, intitulé "La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique". Dirigé par Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing, articles par Sylvie Requemora, Anne-Gaëlle Weber, Daniel López, Virginie Teller, Pascale Auraix-Jonchière, Philippe Antoine (cont.)
September 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Vient de paraître: numéro hors-série 8 de la revue Viatica, intitulé "La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique". Dirigé par Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing, articles par Sylvie Requemora, Anne-Gaëlle Weber, Daniel López, Virginie Teller, Pascale Auraix-Jonchière, Philippe Antoine (cont.)