Gareth Prior
@garethprior.bsky.social
Poet. By day, Bursar at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, and trustee at The Poetry Society.
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My essay collection focused on ancient literature and translation will be available for pre-order in the UK in October.
October 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
My essay collection focused on ancient literature and translation will be available for pre-order in the UK in October.
Some quick googling has just confirmed that’s the joint-second worst score in #strictly history (there’s been one other 10 and an 8; the rest of the catastrophes have been 11s or 12s).
September 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Some quick googling has just confirmed that’s the joint-second worst score in #strictly history (there’s been one other 10 and an 8; the rest of the catastrophes have been 11s or 12s).
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Fewer than two days now till wave twenty-three of @iambapoet.com arrives on screens large and small.
There's also only a week left until YOU can audition for your place in the journal in either 2026 or 2027.
Find out what you need to do, and be ready to submit next week. 🤞🏻
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There's also only a week left until YOU can audition for your place in the journal in either 2026 or 2027.
Find out what you need to do, and be ready to submit next week. 🤞🏻
iambapoet.com/audition
Audition for poetry journal iamb in Sept 2025
Audition to be part of quarterly poetry journal iamb between the 20th and 27th of September 2025.
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September 13, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Fewer than two days now till wave twenty-three of @iambapoet.com arrives on screens large and small.
There's also only a week left until YOU can audition for your place in the journal in either 2026 or 2027.
Find out what you need to do, and be ready to submit next week. 🤞🏻
iambapoet.com/audition
There's also only a week left until YOU can audition for your place in the journal in either 2026 or 2027.
Find out what you need to do, and be ready to submit next week. 🤞🏻
iambapoet.com/audition
If it doesn’t already, German should have a l compound-noun for the satisfaction that a middle-aged British man feels in a central Paris restaurant when the bill arrives and he realises his flurry of semi-idiomatic French has headed off the post-Brexit Dance of the Service Charge…
August 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
If it doesn’t already, German should have a l compound-noun for the satisfaction that a middle-aged British man feels in a central Paris restaurant when the bill arrives and he realises his flurry of semi-idiomatic French has headed off the post-Brexit Dance of the Service Charge…
I’ve always been a sucker for a casual memento mori while crossing an international border.
August 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I’ve always been a sucker for a casual memento mori while crossing an international border.
Got bumped onto the earlier Eurostar at Gare du Nord just as it was about to depart (excellent) then had the hilarious experience of (1) the nice woman at the gate saying we didn’t need to run, then (2) the guys on the platform saying: ‘Run!’.
[P.S. we made it]
[P.S. we made it]
August 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Got bumped onto the earlier Eurostar at Gare du Nord just as it was about to depart (excellent) then had the hilarious experience of (1) the nice woman at the gate saying we didn’t need to run, then (2) the guys on the platform saying: ‘Run!’.
[P.S. we made it]
[P.S. we made it]
The ticket inspector on the Rome-Milan train just got excited at this and started talking to us about medieval manuscripts. I love this whole region...
August 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
The ticket inspector on the Rome-Milan train just got excited at this and started talking to us about medieval manuscripts. I love this whole region...
Second iteration of a new invention: “Tagliatelle alla Laura in Trastevere” (slow-cooked aubergine; garlic; Gorgonzola piccante; tuna; basil).
It’s a thing.
It’s a thing.
August 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Second iteration of a new invention: “Tagliatelle alla Laura in Trastevere” (slow-cooked aubergine; garlic; Gorgonzola piccante; tuna; basil).
It’s a thing.
It’s a thing.
Everyone involved in this needs to read David Bentley Hart’s __All Things Are Full of Gods__.
Twice.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Twice.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
www.theguardian.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Everyone involved in this needs to read David Bentley Hart’s __All Things Are Full of Gods__.
Twice.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Twice.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Roman pigeons rocking the moody album-cover vibe…
August 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Roman pigeons rocking the moody album-cover vibe…
Early morning run…
August 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Early morning run…
‘A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead…’
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘A dangerous moment’: the emboldening of Britain’s far right
In a summer of anti-migrant rallies, flags and nationalistic rhetoric, observers warn there is a lack of government voices pushing back
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2025 at 7:39 PM
‘A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead…’
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
In my third year as an undergraduate, I shared a bathroom overlooking the dome of the Radcliffe Camera and assumed that this was the most ridiculous position of unearned privilege in which I would ever have cause to wash my hands. As usual, I was wrong.
August 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
In my third year as an undergraduate, I shared a bathroom overlooking the dome of the Radcliffe Camera and assumed that this was the most ridiculous position of unearned privilege in which I would ever have cause to wash my hands. As usual, I was wrong.
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In further fourteenth-century representations of present day America, we have: armed men arresting someone on the street
Lorenzetti's fresco of the effects of evil government
Lorenzetti's fresco of the effects of evil government
August 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
In further fourteenth-century representations of present day America, we have: armed men arresting someone on the street
Lorenzetti's fresco of the effects of evil government
Lorenzetti's fresco of the effects of evil government
A fascinating revelation of staying in old Siena is seeing that the background effect in 13/14th century frescoes where the city looks like a pile-up of houses with no perspective isn’t because the painters hadn’t yet discovered vanishing points, but because that’s what they actually look like.
August 20, 2025 at 10:53 AM
A fascinating revelation of staying in old Siena is seeing that the background effect in 13/14th century frescoes where the city looks like a pile-up of houses with no perspective isn’t because the painters hadn’t yet discovered vanishing points, but because that’s what they actually look like.
The view from our apartment at night looks like a De Chirico painting.
August 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
The view from our apartment at night looks like a De Chirico painting.
Immersing myself in Siena…
August 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Immersing myself in Siena…
“Quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante…”
August 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
“Quel giorno più non vi leggemmo avante…”
Looking back through old photographs I stumbled across these from May 2021 and remembered the days when it felt as though we’d never be able to go to a restaurant again, and home cooking went a bit silly.
August 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Looking back through old photographs I stumbled across these from May 2021 and remembered the days when it felt as though we’d never be able to go to a restaurant again, and home cooking went a bit silly.
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Hugely enjoyed Rose Ruane's tender and deeply thoughtful, hilarious and grim, artful and naked novel, Birding @regretteruane.bsky.social
August 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Hugely enjoyed Rose Ruane's tender and deeply thoughtful, hilarious and grim, artful and naked novel, Birding @regretteruane.bsky.social
I got embarrassingly excited when the specials board at the local pub in Thornham said “scampi tartare”. Then I did a double-take and realised it in fact said “scampi, tartare”…
August 2, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I got embarrassingly excited when the specials board at the local pub in Thornham said “scampi tartare”. Then I did a double-take and realised it in fact said “scampi, tartare”…
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August 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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