Bill Tinley

My elder sister worked in Selfridges many years ago and once Frank Ifield got into the lift with her. Clearly a bit narked that she didn't respond to him, he said to her, "Do you know who I am?" My sister replied, "No. What floor do you work on?"

The poem takes possession of the poet

"François Barraud(1899–1934)was a Swiss painter celebrated for his precise technique,serene compositions&refined realism.Associated w the New Objectivity,he transformed everyday objects&intimate domestic scenes into timeless works of quiet elegance and understated beauty."

I completed my ‘Booker decades’ overview by writing about ten of the best long- and shortlisted novels from the 2010s - featuring memories from shortlisted authors and judges from the decade, inc Tan Twan Eng, Sunjeev Sahota and Robin Robertson:

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a short poem name like when we meet a bovine and we say 'hi coo' #NationalPoetryDay #Haiku

Friends, come and talk to me about Irish poetry in Aberdeen and we can catch up over a single malt or two. www.abdn.ac.uk/riiss/news-e...

Today is International Translation Day - this poem is about language, inheritance, & the emotional labour of a poet writing in English for a mother whose language is Spanish Translation is not a technical exercise but a metaphor for a child’s role to interpret for the parent #poetry #poemoftheday

Léiriú haiku amuigh faoin aer i nGaeilge agus i mBéarla agus rannpháirtíocht an phobail ann. Join us for a haiku reading in Irish and English with Liam Carson – featuring a gingko, or haiku walk, in which the audience will be invited to compose their own haiku.

I have to confess I can't get past the sans serif. Why would you want your novel to look like a washing-machine instruction manual? I'm curious about Cusk but this piece wouldn't encourage me to bump her up the TBR list. @john-self.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

9yo boy gets the essence of the Scottish Play

Want to hear about some of the amazing rewilding projects happening across Ireland, and what we can learn from overseas, especially Scotland and Costa Rica? My new book 'Setting the Land Free - Visions of a Rewilded Ireland' launches tomorrow (Wednesday) in @waterstones.bsky.social Cork at 6.30.

A Bach prelude for your morning ☀️ The way this flows and maintains its rhythmic structure almost feels like a meditation. Be well my friends 🎹 Prelude in C, BWV 846 - J.S. Bach

RIP Wendell Berry. I've thought about this poem. 'Our Real Work', a lot since starting on Confluence with @julietgutch It reminds me of Paul Valéry : “Une difficulté est une lumière. Une difficulté insurmontable est un soleil." : “A difficulty is a light. An insurmountable difficulty is a sun”.

Light as a living, dancing, entity. And just listen to the rhythmic sounds...

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Thanks Matthew Lyons for this invitation to join The Writer's Bookshelf and think aloud (on paper) and talk about my new project among other things.

The Game of Thrones theme was composed by Ramin Djawadi, who is of Iranian descent. Hearing this melody played with Persian instruments and the daf drum is absolutely beautiful. Original post

70yr old FRED ASTAIRE — that's SEVENTY — gets his stylish groove on at the 1970 Academy Awards.

Couldn’t make it up if we tried

Every time I see one of his works, I cannot help walking around it again and again. I saw this one today. 🇺🇦 Nazar Bilyk The Space Around Us 2018 Bronze Watch till the end.

Australian signage. #signage

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London, today

Discovered this creature on a walk in Donadea Forest this morning. Apparently it's a hazel dormouse. It might be of interest to @chrisgpackham.bsky.social. I have a few video clips but they won't load here.

I'm the Guest Poetry Editor for the October issue of The Madrid Review. Subs are now open and I look forward to reading your poems...! themadridreview.substack.com/p/submission...

Having breakfast outside this morning, I turned on Merlin to verify if that was a bullfinch I could hear. (It was - I'm learning!) But when the recording ended, it had picked up a long-eared owl. In Maynooth. Is that possible? Maybe @birdwatchireland.bsky.social might know?

“Don’t worry Ringo. We can edit him out later”

David Pakman: #SenileSatan woudn't leave. #WorldCup #Spain

Very grateful to Steve Whitaker at The Yorkshire Times for this look at my poem 'Marky'. The Irish proverb epigraph translates as 'It is often a man's mouth broke his nose'.

The things people choose to protest against.

Completely agree. What are they on now - the 21st package of sanctions? Death by a thousand bureaucratic cuts. Every day of failure is counted in lost lives.

Startling bird population decline figures. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Global warming is real .... just slow

Spotted in the wild. @jamesgwriter.bsky.social

Early women pioneers of climbing such as Lucy Walker, the first woman to summit the notorious Matterhorn mountain in 1871 all wore skirts on their climbs..... #WomensArt

Freedom 250 sounds fun www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

During russia's attack on Kyiv on June 2, Veronika, a mother of two was killed while running with her children to a shelter. Her sons, aged 2 and 4, were taken to Okhmatdyt children's hospital. The mother did everything she could to save her children. She did not survive. 💔 Source: Suspilne, TSN.

While we are being warned of a possible night attack, I want to turn to Ukrainian poetry. Poems by Ukrainian poet and servicewoman Yaryna Chornohuz will be published in the US by Arrowsmith Press this autumn.

Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak, Birds from the Sea (1960) #WomensArt

Love this book, and Armitage's is one of the best in it. Geoff Dyer's is great too, where he complains about not being asked to contribute to the book. "I could turn it around quite quickly and would not require a fee."

Immigration make Britain brilliant