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by Victoria Moul

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In translation, where as you point out there's more of this, Ancient Exchanges prints notes on the poems (which are broadly translations, but some very broadly -- more 'after' or imitation poems and the comments on the process are often quite personal). exchanges.uiowa.edu/ax-beyond
Reviews 1 — Exchanges
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by Victoria Moul

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Outside translation as such, the book "The Process of Poetry" prints a draft and the final poem with some commentary by the author. Fascinating! www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...
The Process of Poetry Edited by Rosanna McGlone | flyonthewallpress
A rare inside look into the creative process of acclaimed poets. Through exclusive interviews, The Process of Poetry offers unprecedented access into the minds of literary greats like Don Paterson and...
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by Victoria Moul

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Oh we did (play it I mean). Always found it a bit dull myself but it was definitely a family staple.
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by Victoria Moul

victoriamoul.bsky.social
It's not just him though is it, there's at least one cameraman up there too. What about his equipment?!
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by Victoria Moul

victoriamoul.bsky.social
My mother remembers doing turnips. She says they were jolly hard work.
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by Victoria Moul

victoriamoul.bsky.social
Hilarious total lack of any kind of safety equipment in this classic clip. You have to wonder about the insurance situation.
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Marie Phillips @mariephillips.bsky.social · 1d
Having just watched this for the first time, OH MY FUCKING GOD and also I now have a massive crush on John Noakes, is that OK?

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1977: JOHN NOAKES scaling Nelson's Column is TERRIFYING | Blue Peter | Classic clips | BBC Archive
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Having just watched this for the first time, OH MY FUCKING GOD and also I now have a massive crush on John Noakes, is that OK?

youtu.be/tMrB_3wq2ak?...
1977: JOHN NOAKES scaling Nelson's Column is TERRIFYING | Blue Peter | Classic clips | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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A gun utters a death wish; a spare poem spares us nothing— @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @dharmabam.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social 2/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 40
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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by Victoria Moul

victoriamoul.bsky.social
Ah the distant (but not that distant) scent of yet another French election. I've been French for about six years and it has been really excellent value, electorally speaking.
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by Victoria Moul

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Haha, I'm not sure if anyone else will empathise with you Francis but I do -- I have a couple of scholarly articles that I wrote like that plus honestly pretty much the whole of my enormous last monograph. Truly a flow state!
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I was once hungover at Heathrow, after an unplanned night of excess that included inexplicably watching the World Darts Championship. In the horrible pub in departures at 7am was the guy who came second, chain-downing pints of lager. I wanted to sympathize but I know nothing at all about darts so
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by Victoria Moul

victoriamoul.bsky.social
Today I have written about some of the many poetry books people have sent me over the last year (plus one fabulous one that I bought myself). Featuring James Appleby, David Bleiman, Graeme Richardson, Suzannah V. Evans, Reagan Upshaw, Alex Wylie, Henry Gould and Souleymane Diamanka (pictured).
On confidence and self-consciousness in poetry
A review of books people have sent me
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by Victoria Moul

victoriamoul.bsky.social
Up on the substack today is an essay I wrote for PNR on translation, grace and (according to me) one of the great unexpected love poems to the English language.
Bad Latin, Barbarous Inglishe and Broken French: Translation, Grace, and the Stone of Stumbling
This is a copy of a slightly unusual essay that was commissioned for PN Review’s special issues on ‘living between languages’; it was published in PNR 283 (May-June 2025—subscribers to PNR can of cour...
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The modern world in old Ladybird books.

"Carriages get very dirty inside from all the tobacco ash"

(On the Railways, 1972)
Artist: John Berry
A photo realistic illustration of a woman in overalls, hoovering and deep cleaning the fabric seats of a railway carriage
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by Victoria Moul

victoriamoul.bsky.social
Today I’ve written about some of my favourite mid-length poems, responding to @jwikeley.bsky.social's piece from last week. vamoul.substack.com/p/middle-dis...
Middle-distance death
Last week Jeremy Wikeley (Jem) wrote an excellent, thought-provoking piece on the near-disappearance of what he calls the ‘middle-distance poem’ — the sort of thing exemplified by Larkin’s ‘Whitsun We...
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This week in the poetry blogs with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 38
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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I hope Melvin Bragg's retirement will not end In Our Times. He has a lovely voice and manner but it's the people he invites that hold the show. I'll take this chance to post a thread of some of the more memorable episodes for me. Starting with Schaffer, Worrall, and @michelamassimi.bsky.social
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Scientific Method
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Scientific Method.
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The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT!

Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
Book here:
Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper
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by Victoria Moul

victoriamoul.bsky.social
I enjoyed writing this piece so much that it is absolutely bound to be my least-popular essay ever and prompt a flood of de-subscribers. Go on, prove me wrong! (NB, those are mules, not horses; at least, they’re supposed to be.)
Finding the door of words: on originality
One day last week I saw a circular announcing a small academic conference or colloquium at Cambridge in December on the Pindaric fragments.
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by Victoria Moul

victoriamoul.bsky.social
I've just read Bernard Noël, "Le poème des morts", which I found pretty extraordinary. Has anyone else read it?

Je viens de lire Bernard Noël, "Le poème des morts", que j'ai trouvé assez extraordinaire. Quelqun d'autre l'a-t-il lu?
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Poetry as the darkness grows @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @jntod.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @jillpearlman.bsky.social 2/2
www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 37
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
www.vianegativa.us
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by Victoria Moul

victoriamoul.bsky.social
One for the #classicists -- what's the best thing you've ever read on Euripides, Alcestis?

by Victoria Moul

victoriamoul.bsky.social
One of my readers asked for something about Dante in early modern England and I’ve written about this fun (and evergreen) bit of invective from the 1550s against corrupt bankers who charge too much interest.
Now buried in hell with Dante
Some lively anti-banker invective from the 1550s
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1776: Stoparolae still remain. Young swallows continue to come forth. Much corn housed.
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by Victoria Moul

victoriamoul.bsky.social
Gosh it's just like that bit in Iliad 6 -- the message in "baleful signs", i.e. writing from the perspective of the non-literate.
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Absolutely insane gold thrymsa from Norfolk in the latest @currentarchaeology.bsky.social. Never seen anything like this, wtf is going on
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by Victoria Moul

victoriamoul.bsky.social
My local pool is completely free for anyone today because the till is broken. [Insert joke here about the state of the French public finances.]

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It’s wild that Britten’s ‘Ceremony of Carols’ was essentially the product of boredom; when returning to England in 1942 the only book he could find when the ship docked in Halifax, Nova Scotia was a book of medieval carols, so he spent the Atlantic crossing setting them to music
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doesn't LaSEUG just roll off the tongue, though? it's got that anguished groan of today's university zeitgeist baked right in
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by Victoria Moul

victoriamoul.bsky.social
I agree but also have to admit that I ended up using a mid-career fellowship to have a last baby and leave academia. (Not a cynical plan, just how things turned out.)
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