Jeremy Noel-Tod
@jntod.bsky.social
Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
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Green Changed to White
Ernest Dowson and the English prose poem
someflowerssoon.substack.com
I wrote about Ernest Dowson, the finest English prose poet of the nineteenth century, who sadly died with it, in February 1900 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/green-chan...
I always found this an unnerving building, growing up near Norwich -- like we'd driven to the moon by mistake
NEWS: C20 has supported an application to list the majestic Norwich Sports Village (1987-88), the only concrete shell structures in the UK designed by pioneering Swiss engineer Heinz Isler, utlising his innovative ‘inverted membrane’ and ‘plumped pillow’ method.
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/c20-lis...
➡️ c20society.org.uk/news/c20-lis...
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I always found this an unnerving building, growing up near Norwich -- like we'd driven to the moon by mistake
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Wonderful BBC archive clip about black magic in Norfolk in 1964 - soot-blackened sheep’s hearts, weird effigies, and isolated fenland villages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
1964: A Curious Case of Black Magic in Norfolk | Tonight | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Wonderful BBC archive clip about black magic in Norfolk in 1964 - soot-blackened sheep’s hearts, weird effigies, and isolated fenland villages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWTw...
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Charles Wright
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Charles Wright
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Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it
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I wrote about Ernest Dowson, the finest English prose poet of the nineteenth century, who sadly died with it, in February 1900 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/green-chan...
Green Changed to White
Ernest Dowson and the English prose poem
someflowerssoon.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I wrote about Ernest Dowson, the finest English prose poet of the nineteenth century, who sadly died with it, in February 1900 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/green-chan...
Looking forward to the BBC making a podcast about the cancellation of Tim Davie
November 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Looking forward to the BBC making a podcast about the cancellation of Tim Davie
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No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
November 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
No more noble British tradition than resigning over some nonsense everyone is only pretending to be angry about rather than all of the actually bad things you've done.
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Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
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This is what Wilfred Owen wrote poetry for 🫡
November 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This is what Wilfred Owen wrote poetry for 🫡
'What is the charge? Imposing a tariff? A succulent Chinese tariff?'
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 PM
'What is the charge? Imposing a tariff? A succulent Chinese tariff?'
The last piece of toast on the toast rack is experiencing the Rapture
November 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The last piece of toast on the toast rack is experiencing the Rapture
I wrote about Ernest Dowson, the finest English prose poet of the nineteenth century, who sadly died with it, in February 1900 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/green-chan...
Green Changed to White
Ernest Dowson and the English prose poem
someflowerssoon.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I wrote about Ernest Dowson, the finest English prose poet of the nineteenth century, who sadly died with it, in February 1900 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/green-chan...
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A sleepover in our house tonight, so there’s a group of 11yo girls in the lounge watching a film and wearing face masks, like a gang of bored bank robbers
November 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A sleepover in our house tonight, so there’s a group of 11yo girls in the lounge watching a film and wearing face masks, like a gang of bored bank robbers
'The right to offend' is such an entitled idea
November 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
'The right to offend' is such an entitled idea
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This is in no way apologism for Google but click Search Tools and select "Verbatim". It makes it work how you expect
November 7, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is in no way apologism for Google but click Search Tools and select "Verbatim". It makes it work how you expect
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This reminded me of this classic post except that everything has gotten far far dumber and more made up
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
This reminded me of this classic post except that everything has gotten far far dumber and more made up
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My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - Remarkable Coincidences - Rory Waterman - PN Review 286
One of the outstanding poetry journals of our time.
www.pnreview.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
Live footage of T.S. Eliot writing a poem
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Live footage of T.S. Eliot writing a poem
Just having this thought again as I listen to two hours of @gidcoe.bsky.social on a Thursday night after work and feel how far Spotify is from ever being able to provide such a satisfyingly wide-ranging soundtrack to the washing up
Algorithms are making everything blander, so hats off to Gideon Coe who in the last half hour has played Fats Domino, Flanders & Swann and Boards of Canada on BBC radio
November 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Just having this thought again as I listen to two hours of @gidcoe.bsky.social on a Thursday night after work and feel how far Spotify is from ever being able to provide such a satisfyingly wide-ranging soundtrack to the washing up
I got nothing but a rye smile
🚨🚨🚨 The jury has reached a verdict. Sean Dunn, aka the DC Sandwich Guy, has been found NOT GUILTY of assault.
November 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
I got nothing but a rye smile
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I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
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This week's Substack: an excerpt from Francesca Brooks' article 'A Quest for the Camaldolese Grail in the footsteps of Lynette Roberts', published in our recent PN Review 285, September - October 2025.
Read here:
open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...
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Read here:
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Subscribe to PNR:
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A Quest for the Camaldolese Grail in the footsteps of Lynette Roberts by Francesa Brooks
PN Review 285, September - October 2025
open.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This week's Substack: an excerpt from Francesca Brooks' article 'A Quest for the Camaldolese Grail in the footsteps of Lynette Roberts', published in our recent PN Review 285, September - October 2025.
Read here:
open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...
Subscribe to PNR:
www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe
Read here:
open.substack.com/pub/pnreview...
Subscribe to PNR:
www.pnreview.co.uk/subscribe
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Locked firmly
by a heavy bar —
this wooden door
under the winter moon.
-Kikaku
(after Nobuyuki Yuasa)
by a heavy bar —
this wooden door
under the winter moon.
-Kikaku
(after Nobuyuki Yuasa)
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Locked firmly
by a heavy bar —
this wooden door
under the winter moon.
-Kikaku
(after Nobuyuki Yuasa)
by a heavy bar —
this wooden door
under the winter moon.
-Kikaku
(after Nobuyuki Yuasa)