Arden Boshier
@aboshier.bsky.social
writer, editor of @derwent-press, really into modernism, blogging on substack as Moments of Being
really trying to believe I can have a new life
July 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
really trying to believe I can have a new life
bfi player my beloved <3
July 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
bfi player my beloved <3
so depressed all I can do is listen to old lana on repeat
July 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
so depressed all I can do is listen to old lana on repeat
terrible week. consoling myself with rosewater and honey latte. have never found another coffee shop on this level
July 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
terrible week. consoling myself with rosewater and honey latte. have never found another coffee shop on this level
why is every modernist archive in america
June 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
why is every modernist archive in america
can't help it that i do my best work to taylor swift
June 27, 2025 at 7:59 PM
can't help it that i do my best work to taylor swift
A Case for Ulysses (1922)
Why I can't help loving James Joyce
rheaborden.substack.com
June 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
how did I not know Joan Baez has an album with an excerpt from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in it !! Wild
June 14, 2025 at 11:21 AM
how did I not know Joan Baez has an album with an excerpt from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man in it !! Wild
revising my novel kind of summer
June 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
revising my novel kind of summer
trying to take a more "fuck it, sure" and less "fuck it all" approach to life
June 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
trying to take a more "fuck it, sure" and less "fuck it all" approach to life
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Of course, as soon as a thing has happened it isn’t fantastic any longer, it’s inevitable. The inevitable is what you’re doing or have done. The fantastic is simply what you didn’t do.
June 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Of course, as soon as a thing has happened it isn’t fantastic any longer, it’s inevitable. The inevitable is what you’re doing or have done. The fantastic is simply what you didn’t do.
dreamed last night I was having an interview for a PhD programme lol
June 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
dreamed last night I was having an interview for a PhD programme lol
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The Derwent Press is open for submissions! Send in your art and writing with a midlands theme here:
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June 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Derwent Press is open for submissions! Send in your art and writing with a midlands theme here:
forms.gle/2c7sabjYbd58...
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May 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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'The UK must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and consider suspending it from the UN to meet its “fundamental international legal obligations'"
800+ lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, incl former supreme court justices
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
800+ lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, incl former supreme court justices
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
UK must impose sanctions on Israel to meet legal obligations, say more than 800 lawyers
Exclusive: Letter to PM signed by retired supreme court justices among others says lack of action will imperil international legal system
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
'The UK must impose sanctions on the Israeli government and its ministers and consider suspending it from the UN to meet its “fundamental international legal obligations'"
800+ lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, incl former supreme court justices
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
800+ lawyers, academics and retired senior judges, incl former supreme court justices
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
I love listening to bob dylan because he is simultaneously one of the world's greatest songwriters and one of the world's pettiest people
May 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I love listening to bob dylan because he is simultaneously one of the world's greatest songwriters and one of the world's pettiest people
started Ulysses the other day because I see nothing but lean little books in bookshops and have read lots of short things lately so I have been craving a big, complicated book. This is a great success because in terms of big and complicated it cannot possibly disappoint me
May 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
started Ulysses the other day because I see nothing but lean little books in bookshops and have read lots of short things lately so I have been craving a big, complicated book. This is a great success because in terms of big and complicated it cannot possibly disappoint me
new essay went up on Sunday on the writer who has been obsessing me since december
open.substack.com/pub/rheabord...
open.substack.com/pub/rheabord...
An Introduction to Hilda Doolittle
a mostly-forgotten modernist and a recent favourite of mine
open.substack.com
May 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
new essay went up on Sunday on the writer who has been obsessing me since december
open.substack.com/pub/rheabord...
open.substack.com/pub/rheabord...
just discovered I can get the paris review via my library app !!!
May 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
just discovered I can get the paris review via my library app !!!
I feel like you really don't choose your favourite books, they pick you
May 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
I feel like you really don't choose your favourite books, they pick you
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The shoes Humphrey Bogart used during scenes with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca in 1942
May 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The shoes Humphrey Bogart used during scenes with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca in 1942
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This beautiful new metrical verse translation of the Aeneid, by Scott McGill and Susannah Wright, with introduction by me, will be available in August. You can pre-order now!
May 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This beautiful new metrical verse translation of the Aeneid, by Scott McGill and Susannah Wright, with introduction by me, will be available in August. You can pre-order now!
had never previously understood why ppl in the 80s thought that 80s fashion looked good but I watched an hour of kate bush performances and it makes sense now.
May 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
had never previously understood why ppl in the 80s thought that 80s fashion looked good but I watched an hour of kate bush performances and it makes sense now.
found an artist on spotify (eleri ward) whose catalogue is mostly folk acoustic covers of sondheim's best pieces. I feel so targeted
May 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
found an artist on spotify (eleri ward) whose catalogue is mostly folk acoustic covers of sondheim's best pieces. I feel so targeted