Nicholas Allen
@dedalusdenaries.bsky.social
‘Somewhere, well out, beyond’
Late Heaney (Oxford University Press, January 26, https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
Archipelagos/ Coasts/ Oceans
Late Heaney (Oxford University Press, January 26, https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
Archipelagos/ Coasts/ Oceans
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BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
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This is going to be great. And you can register for free and join online. Link and details below.
Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is going to be great. And you can register for free and join online. Link and details below.
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#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
21. Aphex Twin - #3 (Rhubarb)
Probably one of the most influential artists of the decade. I could have picked a dozen other songs (Come To Daddy, Windowlicker, etc) but went with my favourite ambient track of all time.
#MusicChallenge
21. Aphex Twin - #3 (Rhubarb)
Probably one of the most influential artists of the decade. I could have picked a dozen other songs (Come To Daddy, Windowlicker, etc) but went with my favourite ambient track of all time.
#3
YouTube video by Aphex Twin - Topic
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November 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
#90sTop30
#MusicChallenge
21. Aphex Twin - #3 (Rhubarb)
Probably one of the most influential artists of the decade. I could have picked a dozen other songs (Come To Daddy, Windowlicker, etc) but went with my favourite ambient track of all time.
#MusicChallenge
21. Aphex Twin - #3 (Rhubarb)
Probably one of the most influential artists of the decade. I could have picked a dozen other songs (Come To Daddy, Windowlicker, etc) but went with my favourite ambient track of all time.
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A little extra teaching money means the budget is there for a final-summer-of-the-PhD research trip to Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland!
I've been there a few times now but always looking for new tips - what are people's recommendations?
I've been there a few times now but always looking for new tips - what are people's recommendations?
November 10, 2025 at 9:03 PM
A little extra teaching money means the budget is there for a final-summer-of-the-PhD research trip to Edinburgh and elsewhere in Scotland!
I've been there a few times now but always looking for new tips - what are people's recommendations?
I've been there a few times now but always looking for new tips - what are people's recommendations?
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Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out!
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97
Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
1/16
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97
Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
1/16
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Our special issue, ‘Liquid Worlds: Historical Geographies and Cartographies of the Sea’ is out!
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97
Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
1/16
sciencedirect.com/special-issue/106NCK35M97
Take a look at the issue’s contents below.
(Special issue: ‘Liquid Worlds’)
1/16
My abiding memory of Michael D is him glaring at me after I beeped the horn at him for blocking the car park exit as he waited for a space in the university in Galway years ago
November 10, 2025 at 8:31 PM
My abiding memory of Michael D is him glaring at me after I beeped the horn at him for blocking the car park exit as he waited for a space in the university in Galway years ago
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Hot off the press release. My second book is a collection of interviews with Irish writers from Alice Taylor in 1991 to Sebastian Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Anna Burns in 2025. Out April from the Lilliput Press
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Hot off the press release. My second book is a collection of interviews with Irish writers from Alice Taylor in 1991 to Sebastian Barry, Wendy Erskine, Colum McCann, Anne Enright, Colm Tóibín, John Banville, Emma Donoghue and Anna Burns in 2025. Out April from the Lilliput Press
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Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Call for Papers: 'Regional Perspectives, Planetary Reach. Themes, Genres, Forms of Narration in Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction', 28-29 May 2026, Università di Napoli L'Orientale. Deadline for proposals: 10 January 2026. sites.google.com/view/irsconf...
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A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect
maps.nls.uk/view/218516888
maps.nls.uk/view/218516888
November 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A reminder to other lochs to abandon the pressure to be perfect
maps.nls.uk/view/218516888
maps.nls.uk/view/218516888
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Yuzora e suto hosoi michi ga aru
Into the evening sky streaks a narrow road
-Seisensui
.
The road being straight lonesome
Massuguna michi de samishii
-Santoka
(tr. Hiroaki Sato)
Into the evening sky streaks a narrow road
-Seisensui
.
The road being straight lonesome
Massuguna michi de samishii
-Santoka
(tr. Hiroaki Sato)
November 9, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Yuzora e suto hosoi michi ga aru
Into the evening sky streaks a narrow road
-Seisensui
.
The road being straight lonesome
Massuguna michi de samishii
-Santoka
(tr. Hiroaki Sato)
Into the evening sky streaks a narrow road
-Seisensui
.
The road being straight lonesome
Massuguna michi de samishii
-Santoka
(tr. Hiroaki Sato)
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Arlen House & Books Upstairs invite you to enjoy readings from 5 stunning works of Irish literature:
Deirdre Cartmill *Under the Blue Seraphim*
Rosemary Jenkinson *Laganside Lights*
Luke Morgan *Blood Atlas*
Francis O'Hare *A Different Light*
Csilla Toldy *Firebird*
Sun 9 Nov 2pm, Books Upstairs
Deirdre Cartmill *Under the Blue Seraphim*
Rosemary Jenkinson *Laganside Lights*
Luke Morgan *Blood Atlas*
Francis O'Hare *A Different Light*
Csilla Toldy *Firebird*
Sun 9 Nov 2pm, Books Upstairs
November 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Arlen House & Books Upstairs invite you to enjoy readings from 5 stunning works of Irish literature:
Deirdre Cartmill *Under the Blue Seraphim*
Rosemary Jenkinson *Laganside Lights*
Luke Morgan *Blood Atlas*
Francis O'Hare *A Different Light*
Csilla Toldy *Firebird*
Sun 9 Nov 2pm, Books Upstairs
Deirdre Cartmill *Under the Blue Seraphim*
Rosemary Jenkinson *Laganside Lights*
Luke Morgan *Blood Atlas*
Francis O'Hare *A Different Light*
Csilla Toldy *Firebird*
Sun 9 Nov 2pm, Books Upstairs
Pre-orders for the new Archipelago are now available. Not sure of the general contents yet, but I have a little essay on Heaney and Jutland, ‘Tollund, Grauballe, Nebelgard’.
www.clutagpress.com/product/arch...
www.clutagpress.com/product/arch...
Archipelago 2:5 - Clutag Press
Pre-publication orders now being accepted for delivery Spring 2026
www.clutagpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Pre-orders for the new Archipelago are now available. Not sure of the general contents yet, but I have a little essay on Heaney and Jutland, ‘Tollund, Grauballe, Nebelgard’.
www.clutagpress.com/product/arch...
www.clutagpress.com/product/arch...
With a little time looking out the window I checked the old shows on the Fugazi website and saw the flyer for the band I played in, Sunday 16th September 1990 at the Belfast Art College. Those were the days. The joke was we should have been called Unsigned.
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
With a little time looking out the window I checked the old shows on the Fugazi website and saw the flyer for the band I played in, Sunday 16th September 1990 at the Belfast Art College. Those were the days. The joke was we should have been called Unsigned.
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Chimneyscapes of Brussels
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Chimneyscapes of Brussels
Blackwell’s have been kind enough to host a book launch at 5.30pm on Thursday 5 March for Late Heaney. I’ll be having a conversation with my friend Fiona Stafford and tickets are below, with an option to include the book. I’d be glad to see you.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nicholas-a...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nicholas-a...
Nicholas Allen LATE HEANEY
Heaney's later life was a time of transformative change and achievement, finding light in the dark, and company among the shades.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Blackwell’s have been kind enough to host a book launch at 5.30pm on Thursday 5 March for Late Heaney. I’ll be having a conversation with my friend Fiona Stafford and tickets are below, with an option to include the book. I’d be glad to see you.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nicholas-a...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nicholas-a...
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Herbert List, Liguria, Italy, 1936
October 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Herbert List, Liguria, Italy, 1936
The heavens call and wheel about you, showing
you their eternal beauties, and your eye still gazes
on the earth
Dante
you their eternal beauties, and your eye still gazes
on the earth
Dante
October 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The heavens call and wheel about you, showing
you their eternal beauties, and your eye still gazes
on the earth
Dante
you their eternal beauties, and your eye still gazes
on the earth
Dante
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I cannot see into the bird’s mouth,
nor do I know what the wind says
to the water.
-Whit Griffin
nor do I know what the wind says
to the water.
-Whit Griffin
October 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I cannot see into the bird’s mouth,
nor do I know what the wind says
to the water.
-Whit Griffin
nor do I know what the wind says
to the water.
-Whit Griffin