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Victoria Moul
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Critic, scholar, translator and poet in Paris. Recent reviews in the TLS and The Friday Poem. Most recent books from CUP & Palgrave. Poems in various places. Weekly substack on poetry & translation https://vamoul.substack.com/ https://www.victoriamoul.com .. more

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 23h
My pleasure!

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 1d
Today I have written about Pound's first canto and Homer in Latin.
Ezra Pound and Homer's Latin
Bearing the golden bough of Argicida
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 4d
Thanks Dave!

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 4d
Some readers of my substack might be interested in this interview I did with Greg Allum as part of the launch of his new Ink and Ribbon press:
Bound Voices #001: A Conversation with Victoria Moul
Where Pindar meets the nursery — poetry’s past and present in conversation.
theinkwell.inkandribbon.org

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 4d
A commitment to express the inexpressible from @alinaetc.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @annettemakino.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social 2/4
www.vianegativa.us/2025/11/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 45
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
www.vianegativa.us

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Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social · 7d
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.

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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

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 8d
Today I’ve written more about a fun Gunpowder Plot play from the 1680s. (A day late -- it was Guy Fawkes' in the UK yesterday.) Intrepid adventurer in early modern Latin that I am, I actually read the whole thing this morning and this is my field report. TLDR: surprisingly good.
Beware the moles!
I was going to write today about a series of poems on stealing fruit — a result of free-associating from the particularly delicious pear tart I had at lunch earlier this week.
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 8d
Non-Anglophone content is still much more varied politically, I find. I still use it mostly because all the best French jokes are on there.

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 11d
A book mess, the ancient netherworld & more w/ @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @kathleenjamie.bsky.social @writtenbyallison.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/11/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 44
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
www.vianegativa.us

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 11d
For paid subscribers to my substack (but everyone can read the first few paras) here’s a fairly long review essay about the great but rebarbative American poet Anthony Hecht, which I wrote originally for “The Dark Horse”. There’ll be a free piece as usual on Thursday.
Anthony Hecht: a review essay
Who could have called their slow creation rage?
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 15d
Today I’ve written about poetic harvests in Housman, Virgil, Homer, Marvell, Fisher, Rosenberg and Davies.
Harvesting in time of war
Housman, Virgil, Homer, Marvell, Fisher, Rosenberg and Davies
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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 18d
Fluff under pressure, a man in a shattered house & more with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @dharmabam.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social 2/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 43
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
www.vianegativa.us

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 18d
Today a review of a huge new book on the translation of Virgil - written for the TLS, here on substack available in full to paid subscribers only. (Free subscribers can read the first part.)
Review of Susanna Morton Braund, "Translating Virgil: A Cultural History of the Western Tradition from the Eleventh Century to the Present" (CUP, 2025)
First published in the TLS, October 2025
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 22d
It is indeed very silly. I suppose the monument was pretty silly too.

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 22d
Today I’ve written about the enduring popularity and stimulating ambiguity of a little poem about a naughty monk.
The evergreen obscenity
One rude poem (which no-one quite understands)
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English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social · 25d
Dr @noreenmasud.bsky.social, Associate Professor in Creative and Critical Writing from the Department of English, has been awarded a prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded by the @leverhulme.ac.uk - one of only 30 recipients from across the UK who will receive £100,000.

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 25d
I have belatedly noticed that my review of Susanna Morton Braund’s giant new book on the translation of Virgil was in the TLS last week. Paid substack subscribers will have access to a copy on there fairly soon.
Translating Virgil across continents
Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad, published last year, provoked widespread coverage and passionate discussion: many readers still care about how
www.the-tls.com

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 25d
A covert translation, how to bake a foole & more with @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social 2/3
www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 42
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
www.vianegativa.us

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 25d
I read some of the Greek novels years ago for teaching purposes but have to admit I always found them a bit tedious! Lovely style though I do agree, maybe I should revisit.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 26d
When does eccentricity become dangerous? The Campaign Requiring Obliteration Of Pillboxes (C.R.O.O.P) believe pillboxes are portals to an England invaded by Nazis. Normally this would just be thought of a bit mad, but C.R.O.O.P. also believe in bombs. – Bob Wellings, BBC Nationwide
A type FW3/22 pillbox on a beach. The two slits at the front of the concrete look like eyes, giving the thing a sense of being a malignant watcher.

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 26d
Hardly an earth-shattering observation, but I am very moved by Marcus Aurelius's "Meditations", and the Greek is lovely. (Though text quite messy.) Good option for anyone interested in reading some koine Greek which is a bit more literary/rhetorical in flavour than most of the NT.

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Tube Mapper- Luke Agbaimoni @tubemapper.bsky.social · 26d
Under Over Over - West Hampstead

So it's taken a while, but I've finally found a location where you can clearly see London Underground trains traveling over London Overground trains.

The vantage point is at West Hampstead Overground station at the end of the platform.
London Overground under the underground

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · 29d
Today I’ve written about a poem by Michael Longley and the questions it raises about obscurity, in-jokes and what makes a poem work.
The poet's joke
Does it matter if we don't get it?
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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · Oct 15
'Her singular blend of severity and skittishness is unrivalled in the poetry of her peers.'

Anthony Lane for @newyorker.com on The Miraculous Season, by V. R. Lang, edited by Rosa Campbell.

Read the review:
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Browse the book:
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017337...
V. R. Lang, a Forgotten Queen Bee of Modern Poetry
A débutante, a burlesque dancer, and a poet, the shape-shifting Lang—who died at thirty-two—wrote some of the most aching, entrancing poetry of the twentieth century.
www.newyorker.com

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · Oct 13
This week in the poetry blogs with @jntod.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @willsjack.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @saudaminideo.bsky.social 1/3
www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 41
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
www.vianegativa.us

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Pete Selby @peteselby.bsky.social · Oct 13
One of my mum’s last wishes was that she wasn’t remembered for the way that the cancer had brutalised her. So today, four years gone, I choose to remember:
1) she was accepted into the Royal Ballet
2) she saw The Beatles, twice
3) she loved Higher State of Consciousness by Josh Wink

Love you Mum x

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · Oct 10
And also roasted pumpkin seeds, which are delicious.

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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · Oct 9
This week half the family (including me) are a bit ill, and French politics has gone even madder than usual, so it has been a comfort to remind myself of the vagaries of fortune with one of my oldest and wisest poet friends, Ben Jonson.
When I am down at Hackney Brook
The poetry of friendship
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · Oct 7
In translation, where as you point out there's more of this, Ancient Exchanges prints notes on the poems (which are broadly translations, but some very broadly -- more 'after' or imitation poems and the comments on the process are often quite personal). exchanges.uiowa.edu/ax-beyond
Reviews 1 — Exchanges
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Victoria Moul @victoriamoul.bsky.social · Oct 7
Outside translation as such, the book "The Process of Poetry" prints a draft and the final poem with some commentary by the author. Fascinating! www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page...
The Process of Poetry Edited by Rosanna McGlone | flyonthewallpress
A rare inside look into the creative process of acclaimed poets. Through exclusive interviews, The Process of Poetry offers unprecedented access into the minds of literary greats like Don Paterson and...
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