Hello — Johnny Flynn & I start our ten-day “River Calls” tour tomorrow in Leeds; a song-story-journey-gig-show, with an amazing band.
Artist Jon Mackay has made this radiant screen-printed poster for the tour.
See you on the road!

‘The metering conducted by Nelly’s semicolons is also a rhythm, a musical measure. Brontë, after all, was a talented pianist. She wouldn’t have been the first to think musically about punctuation.’

David Trotter on Wuthering Heights:
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‘His early success as a poet gave him a visibility at odds with the solitude and simplicity he craved.’

John Kerrigan on Seamus Heaney’s letters:
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

My friend Nadia performed some brilliant new poetry at the Fitzwilliam Museum tonight as part of their Love Art After Dark event tie-in with the current William Blake exhibit. A very atmospheric & interesting evening
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⚡️TODAY! ⚡️👇

Lance: I am in LOVE; Crab the dog: [???] (3.1.259-265) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare english.cam.ac.uk/research/slow-…

Ambassador Fraser last night welcomed author Clair Wills to the Embassy as she launched her new book 'Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets'.

Martina Evans moderated a discussion with Clair discussing some of the important themes explored in the book 📕

The event, presented by the Crambridge Group for Irish Studies, will take place on the 2nd of May 2024, from 5-7pm at the Old Divinity School, St. John's College, Cambridge. Reception to follow. All are welcome, and there is no need to register attendance beforehand.

THIS WEEK:

'An Explosion of Words: Writing the Troubles After the Troubles'. 

The event will showcase readings of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction by Martin Doyle, Louise Kennedy, and Scott McKendry, with discussion chaired by Susan McKay.

'Non-fiction': #WellBeings in Totnes Dartington Trust bookshop. What a great selection! Good to see the Zizek nudging into shot... My thanks to Connor Stait for the sighting... Icon Books, Girton College, Faculty of English, Donald Winchester

Honoured to be part of this wonderful prize! Our chalk streams need YOU!

New article, in which I try my hand at philology. If you're interested in what Augustine thought about enjambment, and what Hopkins thought about what he thought, this is the place for you!

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'The Geopolitics of Eurovision', Saturday 11 May, 5pm-6.30pm, Faculty of English english.cam.ac.uk/news/archives/…

Dr Danny Shanahan awarded funding by the Irish Research Council english.cam.ac.uk/news/archives/…

'Secondariness': A Roundtable of the Cambridge Neo-Latin Seminar, Faculty of English, 31 May 2024 english.cam.ac.uk/news/archives/…

I’m celebrating my new Collected Poems, reading on 8 May in Cambridge. (More readings to follow…)

Feeling very sad for you all that you will have to wait four more months to read Helen Charman's book, which I get to read today 😌

You can write to Silvia! but right now you need to GO (3.1.243-253) #2Dudes1Dog #SlowShakespeare english.cam.ac.uk/research/slow-…

Hugely looking forward to Anthony Downey's talk at Cambridge University Future Intelligence CRASSH, Cambridge this Friday, 3 May, 4-5:30pm UK time. All very welcome. The talk will be followed by a reception. (You can also attend remotely via Zoom). Sign up below:

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Cambridge friends and colleagues - I’m giving a paper at the 19C seminar tomorrow @ 5pm. What is a violent emotion? Come and find out! Faculty of English