Jeremy Noel-Tod

If you’re not aware of the frankly bizarre — but in its own way, poetic — online afterlife of WH Auden’s “Night Mail”, I wrote an explainer

A million year-old fly in amber, Auden as a rapper and more with @roguestrands.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @beckyltuch.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/10/poet...

‘… what were all that about?’

My favourite comment under the YouTube version of Night Mail has to be: ‘This ain’t 50 cent it’s fifty shillings’

The rule against making loud noise in a library is officially known as the Dewey Decibel System.

Two more for you: Wanderland (2011) by Baron Samedi samples Auden's lines (which were delivered by Stuart Legg and John Grierson in the film, not Pat Jackson) baronsamedi.bandcamp.com/album/wander... Hugh Hudson directed this telly ad, narrated by Tom Courtney: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEYQ...

Things I have inadvertently stockpiled: • The plums • Forgive me

24th October 2026 23.54

1777: Hogs are put-up in their fatting pens. Strong wind. The hanging woods are beautifully tinged.

Why did witches pursue the beast from the eight sides of the country -John Ashbery

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

Local Wiki will show you all the interesting things within a 30 minute walk from you. www.neil-scott.com/localwiki By @neilscott.substack.com

All I kept thinking on the coach was 'why me'.

"I had to abandon this book as it contained some truly poetic musings."

I won't waste my time writing.

Chris Mullin on New Labour in 2000/university leadership in 2026

This... doesn't make any sense?

I just learned about this exciting CFP for a conference to be held at Newcastle University in June 2027 -- blogs.ncl.ac.uk/gossipconfer...

Some quiet to see you through the night. 🎧 Episode 301 - Tide turned on the causeway (sleep safe) 62 minutes of peace from beside the sea in Devon.

This looks like a great resource

Calling all poetry cops

For £999 I’d want to be dealing with someone who knew that ‘inner most’ is one word

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

I wrote about the stories people love to tell about the poet J.H. Prynne

One Donna doesn’t make a summer

I wrote about the stories people love to tell about the poet J.H. Prynne

Well, happy ninth birthday to this tweet, I guess

the Lord is my shepherd, He shaves my entire body to make sweaters

Reminded today of this all-timer from the early days of The Internet

The name of that novel? Malone Dies

Every critic has their pet theories, and I was delighted to roll out one of mine this week in honour of Anne Carson. What's the secret of winning a Nobel as a poet? I reckon it's to stray out of the lane of line-breaks into the wide world of prose... www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/the-...

I would take more seriously the people promoting the idea of AI consciousness if they first materially grappled with the (much more obvious) consciousness of animals and how that affects our moral obligations to them.

When William Carlos Williams said 'no ideas but in things' this wasn't what he meant

👻 I do love it when I stumble across the ghost of a house within a house - here at Much Wenlock - time and continuity in wood, bricks and mortar.

I didn't want to detract from the Carson appreciation yesterday, but if you are a lover of poetry, specifically the poetry of Prynne, you are in very good company with me and @ryanruby.bsky.social, who has written about his very last works here: www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/10...

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

‘Death Looking into the Window of One Dying’, by Jaroslav Panuška, c. 1900.

Did someone say Anne Carson

I dunno man, maybe you could concentrate on producing good and interesting things people want to watch rather than trying to out-banal the lowest common denominator crap hosed at us everywhere else? (And make using BBC Sounds a less excruciating experience?) deadline.com/2026/10/bbc-...