Alex Jenkins
@alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social
Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
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as a topic for journalism, moral philosophy appears meek - but what if we add a collegiate social movement, billionaires, and a healthy dose of scandal? I reviewed David Edmonds' new book on the Effective Altruists and Peter Singer, for @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/drow...
Opinion | How a Thought Experiment Changed the World
Peter Singer and the roots of effective altruism.
www.chronicle.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
as a topic for journalism, moral philosophy appears meek - but what if we add a collegiate social movement, billionaires, and a healthy dose of scandal? I reviewed David Edmonds' new book on the Effective Altruists and Peter Singer, for @chronicle.com: www.chronicle.com/article/drow...
My subconscious is clearly not playing around this evening, because it has just offered up The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
It has always struck me as odd that Mott the Hoople occupies such a small but insistent place in my subconscious.
November 18, 2025 at 8:08 PM
My subconscious is clearly not playing around this evening, because it has just offered up The Sensational Alex Harvey Band.
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wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
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Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book
Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...
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Question for people who've received payments from French unis:
A French university owes me money. How do I get paid as someone who pays taxes in the UK? I used to be able to get paid as a French tax-payer (micro-entrepreneur status) but obv not an option now. Anyone with experience with this?
A French university owes me money. How do I get paid as someone who pays taxes in the UK? I used to be able to get paid as a French tax-payer (micro-entrepreneur status) but obv not an option now. Anyone with experience with this?
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Question for people who've received payments from French unis:
A French university owes me money. How do I get paid as someone who pays taxes in the UK? I used to be able to get paid as a French tax-payer (micro-entrepreneur status) but obv not an option now. Anyone with experience with this?
A French university owes me money. How do I get paid as someone who pays taxes in the UK? I used to be able to get paid as a French tax-payer (micro-entrepreneur status) but obv not an option now. Anyone with experience with this?
Seems I also wrote: "I have seen Chris Martin dance like a crash-test dummy impaled on a kebab skewer."
Last night, while a bit drunk, I was convinced I had a great idea for an essay. I've checked my notes, and I apparently wrote:
Basically you can't suspend the ethical (Super Hans)
Basically you can't suspend the ethical (Super Hans)
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Seems I also wrote: "I have seen Chris Martin dance like a crash-test dummy impaled on a kebab skewer."
Last night, while a bit drunk, I was convinced I had a great idea for an essay. I've checked my notes, and I apparently wrote:
Basically you can't suspend the ethical (Super Hans)
Basically you can't suspend the ethical (Super Hans)
November 17, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Last night, while a bit drunk, I was convinced I had a great idea for an essay. I've checked my notes, and I apparently wrote:
Basically you can't suspend the ethical (Super Hans)
Basically you can't suspend the ethical (Super Hans)
Since this format is doing the rounds again:
My favourite genres are:
5. Wow this shark is big *and* angry
4. We genetically modified some sharks and never thought it could get out of hand
3. Sharks? Under the city?
2. How could this tornado get any worse?
1. Everyone knows this prehistoric shark is extinct (except Jason Statham)
5. Wow this shark is big *and* angry
4. We genetically modified some sharks and never thought it could get out of hand
3. Sharks? Under the city?
2. How could this tornado get any worse?
1. Everyone knows this prehistoric shark is extinct (except Jason Statham)
My favourite genres are
5. Families, eh? But French!
4. It's great to be gay
3. Say hello to my little friend
2. I am so depressed, let me just wander around in the world's most gorgeous scenery while I regret everything
1. Underappreciated woman gets justice at last (sexually)
5. Families, eh? But French!
4. It's great to be gay
3. Say hello to my little friend
2. I am so depressed, let me just wander around in the world's most gorgeous scenery while I regret everything
1. Underappreciated woman gets justice at last (sexually)
November 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Since this format is doing the rounds again:
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Save the date! Submissions open for HOWL New Irish Writing 26 in February 2026 🐺 🖤
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Save the date! Submissions open for HOWL New Irish Writing 26 in February 2026 🐺 🖤
Because saw beats *checks notes* fire.
November 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Because saw beats *checks notes* fire.
Practised my own version of the Verfremdungseffekt by reading Brecht and Method at a soft-play party rather than talk to the other parents.
November 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Practised my own version of the Verfremdungseffekt by reading Brecht and Method at a soft-play party rather than talk to the other parents.
Oh cool, it looks a bit like a skeleton breakdancing. That's fun, right?
A Washington resident has been hospitalized with bird flu, according to the Washington State Health Department, and they’re infected with a strain of the virus that hasn’t been seen in humans before. https://cnn.it/4oIRswI
November 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Oh cool, it looks a bit like a skeleton breakdancing. That's fun, right?
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We're launching a really exciting new MSt in Creative Translation - details here. Oxford has a wealth of brilliant translator energy and I am excited to see what will come out of this. Please forward to likely sorts! www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
MSt in Creative Translation
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages is delighted to announce the launch of a new course, the MSt in Creative Translation.
www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We're launching a really exciting new MSt in Creative Translation - details here. Oxford has a wealth of brilliant translator energy and I am excited to see what will come out of this. Please forward to likely sorts! www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/news/2025/11...
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I’m delighted to announce that my debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, will be published by The Emma Press in the Spring. Available to pre-order now!
📣 NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT📣 We are delighted to announce the acquisition of THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME by @catherineredford.bsky.social, a heart-wrenching debut about young widowhood
THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME is available to pre-order now
Publishing March 2026 ~ Pre-order here: buff.ly/i1HAi3Y
THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME is available to pre-order now
Publishing March 2026 ~ Pre-order here: buff.ly/i1HAi3Y
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I’m delighted to announce that my debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, will be published by The Emma Press in the Spring. Available to pre-order now!
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In one of life's odd coincidences I was researching 18th / 19th Century LGBTQ women poets for a Poetry School course and decided to write a poem for Amy Levy who I had only then stumbled across for the first time.
November 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
In one of life's odd coincidences I was researching 18th / 19th Century LGBTQ women poets for a Poetry School course and decided to write a poem for Amy Levy who I had only then stumbled across for the first time.
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For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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Sociology and Allegory
The question of the relationship between internal and external analysis of literature remains open across disciplinary inquiries. Although Pierre Bourdieu claims to offer a definitive answer to the qu...
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November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
For the haters who say Big Fiction over-relies on allegory, my most explicit, spirited defense of allegorical interpretation. "Sociology and Allegory," published as part of a series on the sociology of literature in IASL. Lemme know if you want a PDF
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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This is the writing workshop I have run with three friends since 2018; we are always open to new members and if you're scribbling away in isolation in southeast London knock that off and come scribble away with us!
But all that is to say success is an elusive goal and the friends you make along the way are more important (sick-making, but true). We work hard to be an inclusive, welcoming and supportive group and we're really proud of our positive little community and we think you'd like it too
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
This is the writing workshop I have run with three friends since 2018; we are always open to new members and if you're scribbling away in isolation in southeast London knock that off and come scribble away with us!
Which averages out to more than one per member.
NEW: 942 amendments have been laid down in the House of Lords ahead of the Assisted Dying Bill's committee stage in the chamber, which starts tomorrow.
This is believed to be a record for a bill at committee stage. It's going to be an intense debate.
This is believed to be a record for a bill at committee stage. It's going to be an intense debate.
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Which averages out to more than one per member.
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“The Brothers Karamazov” asks what we are living for, and it “seeks the answer in the little life, among the small people, in the frail, the fragile, the fallible, the failed,” Karl Ove Knausgaard writes. http://nyer.cm/za7cz5U
The Light of “The Brothers Karamazov”
Although Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote with wildness and urgency, he patiently insisted on asking an essential question: What are we living for?
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November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
“The Brothers Karamazov” asks what we are living for, and it “seeks the answer in the little life, among the small people, in the frail, the fragile, the fallible, the failed,” Karl Ove Knausgaard writes. http://nyer.cm/za7cz5U
Ah, so OPC actually stands for Office of the Pet Counsel
Entertaining myself with the definition of 'pet' being inserted by the Renters Rights Act 2025.
Probably should add:
'(e) Fear of retribution from the animal if otherwise'
to cover most cats
Probably should add:
'(e) Fear of retribution from the animal if otherwise'
to cover most cats
November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Ah, so OPC actually stands for Office of the Pet Counsel
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Submission Call now open! Poetry Required!
We're pleased to present the Abridged 0 -108: Adrenochrome Submission Call. See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info! Image by Mark Tamer: www.marktamer.co.uk #poetry #irishmagazine
November 12, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Submission Call now open! Poetry Required!
Good morning, mystery garden cat.
November 12, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Good morning, mystery garden cat.
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The Disturbing Profane: Hip-Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred
Hip-hop isn’t a threat to holiness — it’s a witness to survival. Joseph R. Winters’ "The Disturbing Profane" reframes the sacred through Black art and expression. Jordan Burton offers a review.
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Hip-hop isn’t a threat to holiness — it’s a witness to survival. Joseph R. Winters’ "The Disturbing Profane" reframes the sacred through Black art and expression. Jordan Burton offers a review.
@dukepress.bsky.social
The Disturbing Profane: Hip-Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred
In "The Disturbing Profane: Hip Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred," Winters shows hip-hop’s sacred power, disrupting the sacred/profane divide.
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November 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The Disturbing Profane: Hip-Hop, Blackness, and the Sacred
Hip-hop isn’t a threat to holiness — it’s a witness to survival. Joseph R. Winters’ "The Disturbing Profane" reframes the sacred through Black art and expression. Jordan Burton offers a review.
@dukepress.bsky.social
Hip-hop isn’t a threat to holiness — it’s a witness to survival. Joseph R. Winters’ "The Disturbing Profane" reframes the sacred through Black art and expression. Jordan Burton offers a review.
@dukepress.bsky.social
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Are you an early career humanities scholar looking for next year's plans? Have you dreamed of having an office only a few doors down from mine?
Great news - the Whitney Humanities Center is hiring a postdoc working within the broader theme of 'Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration'
Great news - the Whitney Humanities Center is hiring a postdoc working within the broader theme of 'Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration'
November 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Are you an early career humanities scholar looking for next year's plans? Have you dreamed of having an office only a few doors down from mine?
Great news - the Whitney Humanities Center is hiring a postdoc working within the broader theme of 'Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration'
Great news - the Whitney Humanities Center is hiring a postdoc working within the broader theme of 'Rot: Politics, Aesthetics, Regeneration'
"Bond" is actually a composite of formulae composed and sung by middle-aged aoidoi. An illusion of coherence may emerge, but only long after the original sources are lost.
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
"Bond" is actually a composite of formulae composed and sung by middle-aged aoidoi. An illusion of coherence may emerge, but only long after the original sources are lost.
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Imagine praising a book in 2025 for being "sparse"? Look I enjoy sparse prose as much as the next, but we've been in a decades long Sparse Race of prose that you can increasingly just inhale like a delicate mousse and at some stage we will have to start making adjectives cool again
November 11, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Imagine praising a book in 2025 for being "sparse"? Look I enjoy sparse prose as much as the next, but we've been in a decades long Sparse Race of prose that you can increasingly just inhale like a delicate mousse and at some stage we will have to start making adjectives cool again