Patrick McGuinness
@padrig.bsky.social
Writer, academic, endotic traveller. Books: Blood Feather 2023; Real Oxford 2021. Ghost Stations, CB Editions , Sept 2025. FRSL. Prof of French and Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
Just in case we didn't have enough examples of how appeasement never works...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Katie Razzall: A seismic moment that shows rift at top of BBC
There may be more to this than meets the eye, says the BBC's culture and media editor.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Just in case we didn't have enough examples of how appeasement never works...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nottingham has one of the most vibrant and forward-looking departments of modern languages around. Music too. To cut them like this, leaving no chance for future rebuilding, is educational vandalism.
tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
tinyurl.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Nottingham has one of the most vibrant and forward-looking departments of modern languages around. Music too. To cut them like this, leaving no chance for future rebuilding, is educational vandalism.
tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
The eternal return wrapped around the eternal departure wrapped around the eternal return, etc. Station fractals as I bring the book back, by way of its places, to the people who are in it. Embarquement terminé? I wouldn't be so sure.
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The eternal return wrapped around the eternal departure wrapped around the eternal return, etc. Station fractals as I bring the book back, by way of its places, to the people who are in it. Embarquement terminé? I wouldn't be so sure.
Chimneyscapes of Brussels
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Chimneyscapes of Brussels
Foxes of Brussels , 1 of an occasional series.
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Foxes of Brussels , 1 of an occasional series.
Couple of Oxford-related images, all from Headington. William Kimber's grave, a couple of pubs and a slow-at-first then all-at-once sunset.
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Couple of Oxford-related images, all from Headington. William Kimber's grave, a couple of pubs and a slow-at-first then all-at-once sunset.
Bangor station buffet. Something for everyone
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Bangor station buffet. Something for everyone
This is really good example of a headline that is completely at odds with the article's content. Good local journalism is really important but this isn't it.
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2558076...
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2558076...
Damning verdict by people on day one of Oxford's congestion charge
Confusion, surprise and anger - this is the damming verdict from people coming to Oxford on day one of the city’s new congestion charge.
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This is really good example of a headline that is completely at odds with the article's content. Good local journalism is really important but this isn't it.
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2558076...
www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/2558076...
Great to see this and also to see his later flowering of poetry given its due.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
Where to start with: Paul Bailey
The novelist and poet, who died a year ago, left a huge body of work distinguished by its melancholy wit and warmth. These are some of the highlights
www.theguardian.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Great to see this and also to see his later flowering of poetry given its due.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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‘It is on the border between the ordinary and the peculiar that Parr likes to work. He points out, more than once, that what is commonplace now will one day be remarkable.’
Rosemary Hill on Martin Parr’s people:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill on Martin Parr’s people:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill · Saturdays at the Sewage Works: Martin Parr’s People
It is on the border between the ordinary and the peculiar that Parr likes to work. He points out, more than once, that...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 4:41 PM
‘It is on the border between the ordinary and the peculiar that Parr likes to work. He points out, more than once, that what is commonplace now will one day be remarkable.’
Rosemary Hill on Martin Parr’s people:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill on Martin Parr’s people:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.
October 24, 2025 at 6:51 AM
If Labour is continuing to lose votes, just got 11% in a by-election in a seat they've held for 100 years and in a few recent polls is equal to or just behind the Greens maybe we should stop suggesting they're the only thing that can defeat Reform.
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Democracy cannot survive if people like Jenrick, who is prepared to lie continually and without compunction, can prosper.
Football in the 80s was frequently violent and, especially in the first part of the decade, awash with racism. These were not halcyon days, especially for non-white Britons.
Football in the 80s was frequently violent and, especially in the first part of the decade, awash with racism. These were not halcyon days, especially for non-white Britons.
October 18, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Democracy cannot survive if people like Jenrick, who is prepared to lie continually and without compunction, can prosper.
Football in the 80s was frequently violent and, especially in the first part of the decade, awash with racism. These were not halcyon days, especially for non-white Britons.
Football in the 80s was frequently violent and, especially in the first part of the decade, awash with racism. These were not halcyon days, especially for non-white Britons.
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How long before ICE agents come for Pope Leo?
October 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How long before ICE agents come for Pope Leo?
Oxford sights, in l'an trentiesme de mon eage, or at any rate my 30th Michaelmas Term as a tutor here. Not sure where the years went, somewhere between the purposeful paddleboarder and the skull on the hull.
October 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Oxford sights, in l'an trentiesme de mon eage, or at any rate my 30th Michaelmas Term as a tutor here. Not sure where the years went, somewhere between the purposeful paddleboarder and the skull on the hull.
My start of term inbox
October 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My start of term inbox
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How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
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London-based @cbeditions.bsky.social (founded in 2007 by Charles Boyle) is a publisher of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, including work in translation. Find their books (including 'Ghost Stations' by Patrick McGuinness) at #smallpublishersfair25 on Fri 24 & Sat 25 Oct:
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smallpublishersfair.co.uk
October 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
London-based @cbeditions.bsky.social (founded in 2007 by Charles Boyle) is a publisher of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, including work in translation. Find their books (including 'Ghost Stations' by Patrick McGuinness) at #smallpublishersfair25 on Fri 24 & Sat 25 Oct:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
After the hardware shops I'm at Museum der Dinge/Museum of Things. Enjoyed the way they classify. Very taken with the Remembering and Stimulating shelves and the excellent kitsch trio: jingoistic, devotional, topical
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
After the hardware shops I'm at Museum der Dinge/Museum of Things. Enjoyed the way they classify. Very taken with the Remembering and Stimulating shelves and the excellent kitsch trio: jingoistic, devotional, topical
My great pleasure visiting towns and cities: hardware shops. Not just because they're living museums of use, but bc they're like embassies of past ways of living, defiantly hanging on. Berlin has several superb examples.
October 2, 2025 at 7:18 AM
My great pleasure visiting towns and cities: hardware shops. Not just because they're living museums of use, but bc they're like embassies of past ways of living, defiantly hanging on. Berlin has several superb examples.
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From when Channel 4 was my education, my art school, my university
RIP Tony Harrison
RIP Tony Harrison
Harrison V Part 1
YouTube video by realthedeal33
youtu.be
September 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
From when Channel 4 was my education, my art school, my university
RIP Tony Harrison
RIP Tony Harrison
The latest issue of the Journal of Literary and Intermedial Crossings finds me both frank and reflective. With thanks for Michael Rosenfeld for the interview and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for my time as writer in residence. Dank u wel, het was een genoegen.
September 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The latest issue of the Journal of Literary and Intermedial Crossings finds me both frank and reflective. With thanks for Michael Rosenfeld for the interview and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for my time as writer in residence. Dank u wel, het was een genoegen.
Great to be back at Pordenonelegge to read from my new book Italian translation. Blood Feather became Linea Fissa, Landline. With thanks to Interno Poesia Giorgia Sensi and Filippo Morre
September 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Great to be back at Pordenonelegge to read from my new book Italian translation. Blood Feather became Linea Fissa, Landline. With thanks to Interno Poesia Giorgia Sensi and Filippo Morre
