Dr Christine Plastow
@chrissieplastow.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University | Co-artistic director of Theatre of the @GentleFuries | researching Athenian forensic oratory & theatrical receptions of myth | she/her | catposting
Everything is largely awful, but consider also:
October 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Everything is largely awful, but consider also:
Oh poor girlie. Waffle sends get well headbumps to Pixie ❤️
October 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Oh poor girlie. Waffle sends get well headbumps to Pixie ❤️
October 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Waffle and I are enjoying tuning in online this afternoon to the launch event for Women Creating Classics and Women Re-Creating Classics!
October 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Waffle and I are enjoying tuning in online this afternoon to the launch event for Women Creating Classics and Women Re-Creating Classics!
Waffle sends slow blinks of support!
October 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Waffle sends slow blinks of support!
These are just the ones that are still ripening.
September 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
These are just the ones that are still ripening.
RIP Tony Harrison. My favourite poem of his, which I quote almost every time I open the orators: ay ay! stutterer Demosthenes/gob full of pebbles outshouting seas
![Them &
by Tony Harrison
I
alai , ay, ay! ... stutterer Demosthenes
gob full of pebbles outshouting seas —
4 words only of mi 'art aches and ... " Mine's broken,
you barbarian, T.W.! " He was nicely spoken.
" Can't have our glorious heritage done to death! "
I played the Drunken Porter in Macbeth .
" Poetry's the speech of kings. You're one of those
Shakespeare gives the comic bits to: prose!
All poetry (even Cockney Keats?) you see
's been dubbed by [vs] into RP,
Received Pronunciation, please believe [vs]
your speech is in the hands of the Receivers. "
" We say [vs] not [uz], T.W.! " That shut my trap.
I doffed my flat a's (as in " flat cap " )
my mouth all stuffed with glottals, great
lumps to hawk up and spit out ... E-nun-ci-ate!
II
So right, yer buggers, then! We'll occupy
your lousy leasehold Poetry.
I chewed up Littererchewer and spat the bones
into the lap of dozing Daniel Jones,
dropped the initials I'd been harried as
and used my name and own voice: [uz] [uz] [uz],
ended sentences with by, with, from,
and spoke the language that I spoke at home.
RIP RP, RIP T.W.
I'm Tony Harrison no longer you!
You can tell the Receivers where to go
(and not aspirate it) once you know
Wordsworth's matter / water are full rhymes,
[uz] can be loving as well as funny.
My first mention in the Times
automatically made Tony Anthony!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t4wtiqd3xk3y4q6myw3hp5rr/bafkreidbdvmkkigw75477qqjxvccjyuxn7d4iu3edgjyarfceqzdkv6iwa@jpeg)
September 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
RIP Tony Harrison. My favourite poem of his, which I quote almost every time I open the orators: ay ay! stutterer Demosthenes/gob full of pebbles outshouting seas
Friday feeling.
September 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Friday feeling.
Bought myself an early birthday present. As both a classicist and a @themountaingoats.bsky.social fan, I'm always going back to the text.
September 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bought myself an early birthday present. As both a classicist and a @themountaingoats.bsky.social fan, I'm always going back to the text.
The hunter in question.
September 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
The hunter in question.
If you too are feeling horrified, angry tired and/or miserable as a result of ~everything~, please direct your attention for a moment to sleepy cat face.
September 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
If you too are feeling horrified, angry tired and/or miserable as a result of ~everything~, please direct your attention for a moment to sleepy cat face.
We're doing patio flops and belly rubs for International Cat Day.
August 8, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We're doing patio flops and belly rubs for International Cat Day.
He's revising -mi(aow) verbs.
August 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
He's revising -mi(aow) verbs.
Doomscroll break. I know the hazel tree makes catkins, but this is ridiculous.
July 15, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Doomscroll break. I know the hazel tree makes catkins, but this is ridiculous.
Not sure but found something similar in my garden!
July 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Not sure but found something similar in my garden!
Waffle's helping with the close reading.
July 10, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Waffle's helping with the close reading.
He slept for an hour, then reoriented.
June 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
He slept for an hour, then reoriented.
Meanwhile... I don't have the heart to move him, he's purring so loudly.
June 25, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Meanwhile... I don't have the heart to move him, he's purring so loudly.
Looking at the pinks and purples in my garden, which my Nanny would have loved. She left us five years ago today but I see and feel her all around #TinyJoys
June 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Looking at the pinks and purples in my garden, which my Nanny would have loved. She left us five years ago today but I see and feel her all around #TinyJoys
Spiders and flies hate to see him coming (he's eaten so many)
June 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Spiders and flies hate to see him coming (he's eaten so many)
Then please accept one of my favourite silly images saved on my phone, but sincerely meant:
June 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Then please accept one of my favourite silly images saved on my phone, but sincerely meant:
In a daydream.
June 2, 2025 at 10:14 PM
In a daydream.
Weekend vibes.
June 1, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Weekend vibes.
He's writing his book. It's going better than mine.
May 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
He's writing his book. It's going better than mine.