Marc Chamberlain
@marcchamberlain.bsky.social
Poet | Academic | Queer | Published in TLS, Magma, Hudson Review, Bad Lilies, + | 'No idea / should ever be raised to a governing throne' – John Wieners
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Utter Vulnerability
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Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners (eds. Michael Kindellan and Alex/Rose Cocker) now available from PULM, full of wonderful essays from the great and the good of Wieners scholarship, plus one from me on transcendence of the confessional mode.
www.pulm.fr/index.php/EN...
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My Christmas Poetry Quiz is now up! Which poet embroidered a scarf as a Christmas gift? Which poet asked Santa for a chameleon? Which poet loves holly, man? All these and more here:
The Some Flowers Soon Christmas Quiz 2025
Sixteen seasonal poetic puzzles
someflowerssoon.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
My Christmas Poetry Quiz is now up! Which poet embroidered a scarf as a Christmas gift? Which poet asked Santa for a chameleon? Which poet loves holly, man? All these and more here:
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Great tribute. JC's approach to reviewing is an approach I share, and one which poetry needs. If your review only cements a friendship, or solicits a good review in return, or is only written for "the community", it's not doing its job.
December 15, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Great tribute. JC's approach to reviewing is an approach I share, and one which poetry needs. If your review only cements a friendship, or solicits a good review in return, or is only written for "the community", it's not doing its job.
Beautiful. I've always found this one extraordinary. Same book; my translation:
Four Ages
II
I strangled
my brother
because he would not sleep
with the window open.
My sister,
he said before he died,
I have spent entire nights
watching you sleep,
leaning on your reflection in the
glass.
Four Ages
II
I strangled
my brother
because he would not sleep
with the window open.
My sister,
he said before he died,
I have spent entire nights
watching you sleep,
leaning on your reflection in the
glass.
December 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Beautiful. I've always found this one extraordinary. Same book; my translation:
Four Ages
II
I strangled
my brother
because he would not sleep
with the window open.
My sister,
he said before he died,
I have spent entire nights
watching you sleep,
leaning on your reflection in the
glass.
Four Ages
II
I strangled
my brother
because he would not sleep
with the window open.
My sister,
he said before he died,
I have spent entire nights
watching you sleep,
leaning on your reflection in the
glass.
Reposted by Marc Chamberlain
This is good (and links to #REF2029 if that's where your head is at today).
Every academic I know WANTS to publish open access - we want people to read our stuff! It's about creating mechanisms to support that, especially for non grant-funded research.
Every academic I know WANTS to publish open access - we want people to read our stuff! It's about creating mechanisms to support that, especially for non grant-funded research.
[CATCH UP] How to support & encourage authors to publish #OA monographs with no #REF2029 mandate 🤔
@kjsanders.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social share practical advice & advocacy arguments for authors and librarians
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@kjsanders.bsky.social @scholtom.bsky.social share practical advice & advocacy arguments for authors and librarians
👉 buff.ly/2iEJ3YZ
@uksg.bsky.social
Supporting and encouraging authors to publish OA monographs with no REF2029 mandate - UKSG
As I sat through the presentations last December at the UKSG Forum – Our Profession in 2030: publishing, sharing and curating content now and in the future I wondered if the people attending the…
buff.ly
December 10, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is good (and links to #REF2029 if that's where your head is at today).
Every academic I know WANTS to publish open access - we want people to read our stuff! It's about creating mechanisms to support that, especially for non grant-funded research.
Every academic I know WANTS to publish open access - we want people to read our stuff! It's about creating mechanisms to support that, especially for non grant-funded research.
Out in the US already, the reissue of Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike should available in the UK in Jan or Feb.
happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~
feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :)
here’s one by John Wieners, from Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike (an absolute marvel of a book freshly reissued by @thesongcave.bsky.social)~
December 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Out in the US already, the reissue of Behind the State Capitol: Or Cincinnati Pike should available in the UK in Jan or Feb.
If you are a member of a university library, or any other library, please make a purchase request for Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners. Of interest to anyone concerned with New American Poetry, queer poetry and, in Allen Ginsberg's estimation, a "pure poet". bit.ly/3YdRcdn
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
If you are a member of a university library, or any other library, please make a purchase request for Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners. Of interest to anyone concerned with New American Poetry, queer poetry and, in Allen Ginsberg's estimation, a "pure poet". bit.ly/3YdRcdn
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Call for applications!
Poet-in-Residence
Villa Waldberta / Lyrik Kabinett, Munich
Applications open until 20th January 2026
www.lyrik-kabinett.de/aktuelles/ne...
Poet-in-Residence
Villa Waldberta / Lyrik Kabinett, Munich
Applications open until 20th January 2026
www.lyrik-kabinett.de/aktuelles/ne...
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Hier finden Sie aktuelle Informationen aus dem Lyrik-Kabinett.
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December 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Call for applications!
Poet-in-Residence
Villa Waldberta / Lyrik Kabinett, Munich
Applications open until 20th January 2026
www.lyrik-kabinett.de/aktuelles/ne...
Poet-in-Residence
Villa Waldberta / Lyrik Kabinett, Munich
Applications open until 20th January 2026
www.lyrik-kabinett.de/aktuelles/ne...
How lovely to receive a Pushcart nomination for my poem 'Small Town', published in Carmen Et Error by @thebraag.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social. carmenerror.com?page_id=510
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 AM
How lovely to receive a Pushcart nomination for my poem 'Small Town', published in Carmen Et Error by @thebraag.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social. carmenerror.com?page_id=510
Fascinating piece on poetry and AI from Michael Schmidt. I love the idea that Virgil, Horace and Ovid were LLMs guiding Renaissance Latin poets. I wonder if we could argue some much more recent poetry was similarly composed: Homer, Dante and Aimé Césaire as LLMs for Derek Walcott's Omeros?
Read what Carcanet's Managing Director, Michael Schmidt had to say about 'ChatGPT and the modern poet' in a recent article published in BookBrunch:
www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...
www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/free-ar...
ChatGPT and the modern poet
BookBrunch - The publishing trade's daily news magazine
www.bookbrunch.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Fascinating piece on poetry and AI from Michael Schmidt. I love the idea that Virgil, Horace and Ovid were LLMs guiding Renaissance Latin poets. I wonder if we could argue some much more recent poetry was similarly composed: Homer, Dante and Aimé Césaire as LLMs for Derek Walcott's Omeros?
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We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social
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We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social
Pls share!
October 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🎉We're hiring!🎉
We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social
Pls share!
We're looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers to join our exciting, interdisciplinary team. Both are full-time, fixed-term (almost 4 years), based in Edinburgh's @uoe-cahss.bsky.social / @uoe-llc.bsky.social w/ links to @schoolofppls.bsky.social & @morayhouse.bsky.social
Pls share!
Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners (eds. Michael Kindellan and Alex/Rose Cocker) now available from PULM, full of wonderful essays from the great and the good of Wieners scholarship, plus one from me on transcendence of the confessional mode.
www.pulm.fr/index.php/EN...
www.pulm.fr/index.php/EN...
Utter Vulnerability
www.pulm.fr
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Utter Vulnerability: Essays on the Poetry of John Wieners (eds. Michael Kindellan and Alex/Rose Cocker) now available from PULM, full of wonderful essays from the great and the good of Wieners scholarship, plus one from me on transcendence of the confessional mode.
www.pulm.fr/index.php/EN...
www.pulm.fr/index.php/EN...