becimay
@becimay.bsky.social
Senior lecturer, Cymraes. Author of Granular Modernlsm (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (Forthcoming from OUP, 2025).
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I think it's likely that I look back on the book launch symposium for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century as one of the absolute highlights of my career
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
We are underway. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social delivers opening remarks at a packed “Close Reading For The 21st Centure” book launch symposium.
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I think it's likely that I look back on the book launch symposium for Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century as one of the absolute highlights of my career
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
thanks to @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , our contributors, and all the participants -- this was so incredible
Speaking on Veriry Soott today, among these assorted geniuses 🤩
November 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Speaking on Veriry Soott today, among these assorted geniuses 🤩
‘try to cope with a woman who is not tantalised, who is actually extremely annoyed’ Anna Mendelssohn 🔥🔥🔥
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 AM
‘try to cope with a woman who is not tantalised, who is actually extremely annoyed’ Anna Mendelssohn 🔥🔥🔥
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Just arrived and as orange as can be ❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 !!!!
November 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Just arrived and as orange as can be ❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 !!!!
Just arrived and as orange as can be ❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 !!!!
November 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Just arrived and as orange as can be ❤️🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 !!!!
Writing about because …
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Writing about because …
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today’s #ModWrite is a slow return to a UK time zone, but reflecting on the wonderful papers at MSA 25 @moderniststudies.bsky.social & the joy of presenting strategic incompetencies with @becimay.bsky.social, @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social, @jamesreath.bsky.social, Megan Quigley & Jess Payn
Another Monday, another #ModWrite! Share what you are working on today with us using the hashtag 📚
October 20, 2025 at 1:57 PM
today’s #ModWrite is a slow return to a UK time zone, but reflecting on the wonderful papers at MSA 25 @moderniststudies.bsky.social & the joy of presenting strategic incompetencies with @becimay.bsky.social, @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social, @jamesreath.bsky.social, Megan Quigley & Jess Payn
‘I think, although I have never thought it before writing it here …’ (Lauren Berlant)
October 17, 2025 at 7:02 PM
‘I think, although I have never thought it before writing it here …’ (Lauren Berlant)
Come and hear me talk about Bad Competence this coming Saturday in Boston ❤️✨🖤
October 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Come and hear me talk about Bad Competence this coming Saturday in Boston ❤️✨🖤
I’ve heard and read bits of this and can confirm it’s WONDERFUL 🤩
October 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I’ve heard and read bits of this and can confirm it’s WONDERFUL 🤩
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Keston Sutherland’s newest ❤️🔥🤩💪✨
October 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Keston Sutherland’s newest ❤️🔥🤩💪✨
Keston Sutherland’s newest ❤️🔥🤩💪✨
October 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Keston Sutherland’s newest ❤️🔥🤩💪✨
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For Chicago Review, I got to review the best contemporary poem I’ve ever read ❤️🔥✨
October 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
For Chicago Review, I got to review the best contemporary poem I’ve ever read ❤️🔥✨
For Chicago Review, I got to review the best contemporary poem I’ve ever read ❤️🔥✨
October 4, 2025 at 3:42 PM
For Chicago Review, I got to review the best contemporary poem I’ve ever read ❤️🔥✨
Yay!! Copy just arrived!! ❤️❤️❤️
October 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Yay!! Copy just arrived!! ❤️❤️❤️
Some total excellence in the post ❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥
October 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Some total excellence in the post ❤️❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🔥
‘in the 1920s Louis Aragon
took the alphabet and labelled
it ‘suicide note’. that
was a poem as well.’
(Sean Bonney)
took the alphabet and labelled
it ‘suicide note’. that
was a poem as well.’
(Sean Bonney)
September 23, 2025 at 5:54 PM
‘in the 1920s Louis Aragon
took the alphabet and labelled
it ‘suicide note’. that
was a poem as well.’
(Sean Bonney)
took the alphabet and labelled
it ‘suicide note’. that
was a poem as well.’
(Sean Bonney)
‘If I lick you in a particular spot (bodily or geographically, your choice) you will make a specific noise. That’s how I wrote all my books’ (Sean Bonney)
September 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
‘If I lick you in a particular spot (bodily or geographically, your choice) you will make a specific noise. That’s how I wrote all my books’ (Sean Bonney)
‘The voice of the poem is not your friend’ (Sean Bonney)
September 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
‘The voice of the poem is not your friend’ (Sean Bonney)
My review of Keston Sutherland’s amazingly wonderful Meditations is just out in the Chicago Review ❤️
September 18, 2025 at 7:16 AM
My review of Keston Sutherland’s amazingly wonderful Meditations is just out in the Chicago Review ❤️
Hope you like my essay on Inimitability! Thx to brilliant Lewis Roberts, Jacob Ridley & Roddy Howland Jackson for their edits and help.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
September 11, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Hope you like my essay on Inimitability! Thx to brilliant Lewis Roberts, Jacob Ridley & Roddy Howland Jackson for their edits and help.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....