Wonderful writing by @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social@thetls.bsky.social
What I didn't write in this week's @thetls.bsky.social column: this was the first art exhibition I've been to that was so powerful and devastating at once, I had to sit down and cry in the middle of it. www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...
A few weeks ago I was in Lausanne for a conference when I decided to play hooky for a day and explore the city. A friend directed me to the Collection de
Chris Norris is editing a new section of the Creative Critical website, dedicated to verse criticism. Submissions are open, and more information is at the link! I'm very excited about this. creativecritical.net/verse-critic...
Jolted today to realise that Andrew and Cara, whose work I published in Rumba Under Fire, are no longer here. A melancholy realisation but also a beautiful one, as I imagine us all sitting together at this imaginary table, talking about poetry and food and old countries.
Academic author romantic... I for one am saddened by the recent moves to get rid of place of publication. Would much prefer to simply recognise Aldershot, Woodbridge, Basingstoke etc than names of megacorp publishers.
I’ve just got back from a visit to this exhibition and Reichenau island and this excellent review by @irinadumitrescu.bsky.socialwww.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
There is a simplifying impulse behind these images, an urge to distil historical and biblical events into colour...
... Clare Jackson on Elizabeth I and James I Mark Ford on Wilfred Owen Thomas Jones on Domenico Starnone Ange Mlinko on Camille Ralphs @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social on an eighth-century German monastery...
‘In their own time, minstrels were viewed at best as figures of some social value and at worst as licentious rogues.’ Irina Dumitrescu on medieval minstrels and professional performers: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Minstrels did more than merely play songs. They were natural messengers, spies, diplomats and propagandists...
Vehicle has been selected by Irina Dumitrescu as a summer read in the Times Literary Supplement! The second reprint is now available from Prototype and your local independent bookshop prototypepublishing.co.uk/product/vehi...
