Ian Duhig
@ianduhig.bsky.social
'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
Honoured to have a couple of poems in the brilliant new @aftershockpoetry with its starry roster. There's some weird old lore about yellowhammers. Swifts were considered 'devil birds' because of their screams but I don't know what grave sin these small birds committed to be regarded in this way.
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Honoured to have a couple of poems in the brilliant new @aftershockpoetry with its starry roster. There's some weird old lore about yellowhammers. Swifts were considered 'devil birds' because of their screams but I don't know what grave sin these small birds committed to be regarded in this way.
In the old days, working-class eating places messed with people's minds by advertising upside-down peas
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 AM
In the old days, working-class eating places messed with people's minds by advertising upside-down peas
Chris Wood and I will be returning to Scarborough to talk about his Grimm paintings and my accompanying poetry. I wrote about them for Goldmark Gallery placing the Grimms in a context including 'Simplius Simplicissimus' of 1668, a guess. Here's proof:
allthatsinteresting.com/brothers-gri...
allthatsinteresting.com/brothers-gri...
Researchers Uncover 27 Long-Lost Books That Belonged To The Brothers Grimm At A College Library In Poland
The Brothers Grimm used the books to research their famous fairy tales.
allthatsinteresting.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Chris Wood and I will be returning to Scarborough to talk about his Grimm paintings and my accompanying poetry. I wrote about them for Goldmark Gallery placing the Grimms in a context including 'Simplius Simplicissimus' of 1668, a guess. Here's proof:
allthatsinteresting.com/brothers-gri...
allthatsinteresting.com/brothers-gri...
When you suddenly realise you've been saying hello to all the villagers without changing back into human form.
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
When you suddenly realise you've been saying hello to all the villagers without changing back into human form.
Extreme Unction is the funniest of the Catholic sacraments
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Extreme Unction is the funniest of the Catholic sacraments
I have a poem about Mick in my last book but in this film am interviewed about my memories. It's on TG4 on next Wednesday, November 26 at 9.30pm. Alas, only my friends living in Ireland will be able to watch it then but we're looking into UK screenings.
www.irishpost.com/entertainmen...
www.irishpost.com/entertainmen...
Why an Irishman living in London buried himself alive | The Irish Post
A NEW documentary tells the fascinating story of an Irishman living in London who buried himself ...
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November 7, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I have a poem about Mick in my last book but in this film am interviewed about my memories. It's on TG4 on next Wednesday, November 26 at 9.30pm. Alas, only my friends living in Ireland will be able to watch it then but we're looking into UK screenings.
www.irishpost.com/entertainmen...
www.irishpost.com/entertainmen...
he Poets' Version of Beckett: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail worse. No matter. Try again. Fail far worse still. Try again. Fail beyond your imagination's ability to comprehend the scale of possible failures open to you . . .' (contd p.94)
November 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
he Poets' Version of Beckett: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail worse. No matter. Try again. Fail far worse still. Try again. Fail beyond your imagination's ability to comprehend the scale of possible failures open to you . . .' (contd p.94)
Happy Birthday Tristram Shandy!
Here's his meme about choosing the punctuation for his 'Life & Opinions'.
Here's his meme about choosing the punctuation for his 'Life & Opinions'.
November 5, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Happy Birthday Tristram Shandy!
Here's his meme about choosing the punctuation for his 'Life & Opinions'.
Here's his meme about choosing the punctuation for his 'Life & Opinions'.
"So Sir Geoffrey Luttrell's retainers were racking up for a game of snooker and I was telling them how crap they were at it -- and Jeez; are those boys touchy!"
November 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
"So Sir Geoffrey Luttrell's retainers were racking up for a game of snooker and I was telling them how crap they were at it -- and Jeez; are those boys touchy!"
The Irish version of this sea creature is terrific company and makes great conversation.
It's called the Craicn.
It's called the Craicn.
November 4, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The Irish version of this sea creature is terrific company and makes great conversation.
It's called the Craicn.
It's called the Craicn.
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Three poems by @ravoon.bsky.social badlilies.uk/graeme-richardson-1
November 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Three poems by @ravoon.bsky.social badlilies.uk/graeme-richardson-1
Reposted by Ian Duhig
Fired after one day on the building site. My brick glue was ‘runny’ and ‘not called that’ and my wall icing ‘uneven’ and ‘not called that’.
November 3, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Fired after one day on the building site. My brick glue was ‘runny’ and ‘not called that’ and my wall icing ‘uneven’ and ‘not called that’.
Reposted by Ian Duhig
A School for Gifted Horses...a post about recent readings and mainly about an excellent poem by @ianduhig.bsky.social
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matriches76.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/a...
A School for Gifted Horses
We’ll do the poem first…I think I’ve mentioned that I’ve been reading The Lost Folk by Lally MacBeth recently. I’ll let you look it up to see more about it, but I recommend it to you all…I found it…
matriches76.wordpress.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
A School for Gifted Horses...a post about recent readings and mainly about an excellent poem by @ianduhig.bsky.social
matriches76.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/a...
matriches76.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/a...
The Reverse of a Framed Painting(1670)
Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrecht
Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrecht
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The Reverse of a Framed Painting(1670)
Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrecht
Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrecht
I had a poem in my first book called 'An Ontological Proof for the Existence of Ern Malley', which wasn't very good but does suggest an effort to say that if existence is not a predicate, that doesn't rule out other interesting qualities being possessed by the subject:
www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p...
Ern Malley: The influential Australian poet who never lived - BBC Reel
www.bbc.co.uk
November 2, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I had a poem in my first book called 'An Ontological Proof for the Existence of Ern Malley', which wasn't very good but does suggest an effort to say that if existence is not a predicate, that doesn't rule out other interesting qualities being possessed by the subject:
www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p...
www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p...
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'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
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A taste of my forthcoming book, thanks to @badlilies.bsky.social - www.badlilies.uk/graeme-richa...
Graeme Richardson — Bad Lilies
Three poems by Graeme Richardson
www.badlilies.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A taste of my forthcoming book, thanks to @badlilies.bsky.social - www.badlilies.uk/graeme-richa...
This is the quotation from David Jones' 'In Parenthesis' that I always felt cried out loudest for its own stele.
Pic from Graeme Rigby
Pic from Graeme Rigby
October 31, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This is the quotation from David Jones' 'In Parenthesis' that I always felt cried out loudest for its own stele.
Pic from Graeme Rigby
Pic from Graeme Rigby
Reposted by Ian Duhig
October 31, 2025 at 8:13 AM
It is Halloween. Turnip Head
Will soon be given his face,
A slit, two triangles, a hole.
His brains litter the table top.
A candle stub will be his soul.
Michael Longley, 'Halloween'
Will soon be given his face,
A slit, two triangles, a hole.
His brains litter the table top.
A candle stub will be his soul.
Michael Longley, 'Halloween'
October 31, 2025 at 5:46 AM
It is Halloween. Turnip Head
Will soon be given his face,
A slit, two triangles, a hole.
His brains litter the table top.
A candle stub will be his soul.
Michael Longley, 'Halloween'
Will soon be given his face,
A slit, two triangles, a hole.
His brains litter the table top.
A candle stub will be his soul.
Michael Longley, 'Halloween'
Reposted by Ian Duhig
A one-day North Sea Poets workshop with myself, if you fancy it? Details at www.northseapoets.com/studios1dayw...
October 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
A one-day North Sea Poets workshop with myself, if you fancy it? Details at www.northseapoets.com/studios1dayw...
When I was young, I remember being excited by Breuer's design for the Wassily Chair: at my age now, this by an unknown designer excites me more.
October 30, 2025 at 8:55 AM
When I was young, I remember being excited by Breuer's design for the Wassily Chair: at my age now, this by an unknown designer excites me more.
You have to read the small print in Hull road signs. Smartarse codheads.
October 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
You have to read the small print in Hull road signs. Smartarse codheads.
Inversnecky Cafe pun injurious in its own right
October 28, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Inversnecky Cafe pun injurious in its own right