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My Shadow by RLS | ERT's Poem of the Day #5
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November 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Poem of the Day | 9th November 2025
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November 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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If it’s not called And Another Thing don’t bother
John Carpenter says he's working on a sequel to 'The Thing'
"We'll see"
"We'll see"
November 7, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If it’s not called And Another Thing don’t bother
What's Growing Under the Bandages?
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November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Major Iris Murdoch News!
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November 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Continuing my reading series on Wind in the Willows, this time its Chapter 2: The Open Road, on which we encounter Rat poetry, unchanging metamorphs and complaining horses.
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#booktube #windinthewillows
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#booktube #windinthewillows
5 Talking Points | Chapter 2 of The Wind in the Willows
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October 29, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Continuing my reading series on Wind in the Willows, this time its Chapter 2: The Open Road, on which we encounter Rat poetry, unchanging metamorphs and complaining horses.
youtu.be/44yy7PyWLk8
#booktube #windinthewillows
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#booktube #windinthewillows
Today I'm starting a new series sharing a handful of highlights, observations and curiosities from each chapter of The Wind in the Willows. We start in the gloom of Mole End, with a pot of whitewash...
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5 Talking Points | Chapter 1 of The Wind in the Willows
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October 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Today I'm starting a new series sharing a handful of highlights, observations and curiosities from each chapter of The Wind in the Willows. We start in the gloom of Mole End, with a pot of whitewash...
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Went to see The Smashing Machine tonight; still can’t stop myself mentally adding “Gromit” to the end of the title
October 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Went to see The Smashing Machine tonight; still can’t stop myself mentally adding “Gromit” to the end of the title
Recent Reading in the Bookshop!
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan
Fleshmarket by Nicola Morgan
Haunted by E. Jay Gilbert
Paranormal America by Bader, Baker & Mencken
A Monstrous Commotion by Gareth Williams
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Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan
Fleshmarket by Nicola Morgan
Haunted by E. Jay Gilbert
Paranormal America by Bader, Baker & Mencken
A Monstrous Commotion by Gareth Williams
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October 1, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Recent Reading in the Bookshop!
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan
Fleshmarket by Nicola Morgan
Haunted by E. Jay Gilbert
Paranormal America by Bader, Baker & Mencken
A Monstrous Commotion by Gareth Williams
youtu.be/cvImG_ppAYo
Luckenbooth by Jenni Fagan
Fleshmarket by Nicola Morgan
Haunted by E. Jay Gilbert
Paranormal America by Bader, Baker & Mencken
A Monstrous Commotion by Gareth Williams
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Today's video looks at two pieces from the collection Poems for Palestine:
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#booktube #freepalestine
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#booktube #freepalestine
"Suddenly a Kite": A Tale of Two Poets from Palestine
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September 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Today's video looks at two pieces from the collection Poems for Palestine:
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#booktube #freepalestine
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#booktube #freepalestine
Serious book critic wishes you may live long, prosper, and read his reviews. I'm making the most of this because there aren't many bits of writing I have matching sweaters for.
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#startrek #bookreview
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#startrek #bookreview
September 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Serious book critic wishes you may live long, prosper, and read his reviews. I'm making the most of this because there aren't many bits of writing I have matching sweaters for.
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#startrek #bookreview
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#startrek #bookreview
Looking forward to seeing this in print next month: a new collection of poems in tribute to Robert Fergusson including one of my own in Scots!
Available to pre order now from Taproot's website: taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
#edinburgh #literature #scotland #poet
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Available to pre order now from Taproot's website: taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
#edinburgh #literature #scotland #poet
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'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson (9781739207762) - Taproot Press UK
Marking two hundred and fifty years since the death of Robert Fergusson, this collection of poems in Scottish, English and Gaelic from Scotland's most celebrated writers and emerging poets alike evoke...
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August 21, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Looking forward to seeing this in print next month: a new collection of poems in tribute to Robert Fergusson including one of my own in Scots!
Available to pre order now from Taproot's website: taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
#edinburgh #literature #scotland #poet
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Available to pre order now from Taproot's website: taprootpressuk.co.uk/product/oer-...
#edinburgh #literature #scotland #poet
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You may recall that I was caught up in the collapse of publishers Unbound.
I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of.
So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027.
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I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of.
So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027.
levparikian.com/index.php/pr...
July 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
You may recall that I was caught up in the collapse of publishers Unbound.
I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of.
So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027.
levparikian.com/index.php/pr...
I now have the rights to my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? And I have a lot of them to get rid of.
So if you felt like buying one I might see my office floor again before 2027.
levparikian.com/index.php/pr...
Discussing some recent reading in the bookshop:
Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Original Sin by Tapper and Thompson
Manic Power by Jeffrey Meyers
Daemonologie by James VI
youtu.be/FseeAkXfHZM
Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Original Sin by Tapper and Thompson
Manic Power by Jeffrey Meyers
Daemonologie by James VI
youtu.be/FseeAkXfHZM
Recent Reads! Careless, Idle, Deranged and Demonic!
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June 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Discussing some recent reading in the bookshop:
Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Original Sin by Tapper and Thompson
Manic Power by Jeffrey Meyers
Daemonologie by James VI
youtu.be/FseeAkXfHZM
Idle Grounds by Krystelle Bamford
Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams
Original Sin by Tapper and Thompson
Manic Power by Jeffrey Meyers
Daemonologie by James VI
youtu.be/FseeAkXfHZM
I recently interviewed author and storyteller Donald Smith as we walked around Edinburgh's Old Town. Here's a video showing the many authors and snippets of literary history we discussed:
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“Our Storied Town”: Donald Smith on Edinburgh’s Explosive Literary Past
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April 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I recently interviewed author and storyteller Donald Smith as we walked around Edinburgh's Old Town. Here's a video showing the many authors and snippets of literary history we discussed:
youtu.be/exs8EyYJcEw?...
youtu.be/exs8EyYJcEw?...
Reading round up from the bookshop!
Books discussed:
Open a Channel by Nana Visitor
The Starling by Stephen Moss
Edinburgh: Our Storied Town by Donald Smith
Rommel? Gunner Who? by Spike Milligan
The Best of Dorothy Parker
youtu.be/tBPa_u9kt-w?...
Books discussed:
Open a Channel by Nana Visitor
The Starling by Stephen Moss
Edinburgh: Our Storied Town by Donald Smith
Rommel? Gunner Who? by Spike Milligan
The Best of Dorothy Parker
youtu.be/tBPa_u9kt-w?...
Recent Reads! Star Trek, Starlings and Storied Edinburgh!
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April 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Reading round up from the bookshop!
Books discussed:
Open a Channel by Nana Visitor
The Starling by Stephen Moss
Edinburgh: Our Storied Town by Donald Smith
Rommel? Gunner Who? by Spike Milligan
The Best of Dorothy Parker
youtu.be/tBPa_u9kt-w?...
Books discussed:
Open a Channel by Nana Visitor
The Starling by Stephen Moss
Edinburgh: Our Storied Town by Donald Smith
Rommel? Gunner Who? by Spike Milligan
The Best of Dorothy Parker
youtu.be/tBPa_u9kt-w?...
The latest podcast on Iris Murdoch's A Year of Birds with Miles Lesson can now be watched on YouTube!
@irismurdoch.bsky.social
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A Year of Birds (1984) by Iris Murdoch | Analysis & Commentary
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April 8, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The latest podcast on Iris Murdoch's A Year of Birds with Miles Lesson can now be watched on YouTube!
@irismurdoch.bsky.social
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@irismurdoch.bsky.social
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New episode of the podcast, looking at the poems of Iris Murdoch! @irismurdoch.bsky.social
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A Year of Birds (1984) by Iris Murdoch
Ear Read This · Episode
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April 7, 2025 at 9:29 AM
New episode of the podcast, looking at the poems of Iris Murdoch! @irismurdoch.bsky.social
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Recent Reads! Gugas, Gruoch and Ghosts!
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March 29, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid
Setting Shakespeare Straight
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March 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
New episode of the podcast out today on the poems Robert Burns wrote in tribute to his 'elder brother in the Muse', Robert Fergusson:
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Epitaph for Robert Fergusson (1789) by Robert Burns | Analysis & Commentary
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March 9, 2025 at 12:56 PM
New episode of the podcast out today on the poems Robert Burns wrote in tribute to his 'elder brother in the Muse', Robert Fergusson:
youtu.be/QH3hupdiHyo?...
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ICYMI, my interview with Edinburgh novelist Alice Thompson, recorded in Portobello Library is now on YouTube!
We talked about AI, Sylvia Plath, Edinburgh and much more...
youtu.be/SzQ1cEiBiGU?...
We talked about AI, Sylvia Plath, Edinburgh and much more...
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“Technology is Hijacking Our Dreams”: Alice Thompson on AI, Edinburgh and Sylvia Plath | INTERVIEW
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February 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
ICYMI, my interview with Edinburgh novelist Alice Thompson, recorded in Portobello Library is now on YouTube!
We talked about AI, Sylvia Plath, Edinburgh and much more...
youtu.be/SzQ1cEiBiGU?...
We talked about AI, Sylvia Plath, Edinburgh and much more...
youtu.be/SzQ1cEiBiGU?...