Callum Robert Forbes Irvine
@crfirvine.bsky.social
Poet, Academic, former President at St Andrews School of English, Oxford Faculty of English, and St Leonard’s College at St Andrews. Interested in Late Style, and Modern Irish and Scottish Literature. Sins my own, unless footnoted.
Two books arrived on the same day, waiting for me at home having forgotten I’d ordered either of them a long while back: the posthumous books of Heaney and John— sad in themselves, but full of hope and beauty in their pages
August 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Two books arrived on the same day, waiting for me at home having forgotten I’d ordered either of them a long while back: the posthumous books of Heaney and John— sad in themselves, but full of hope and beauty in their pages
If there’s another cure for this last week other than buying books, then I don’t know of it 📚
February 12, 2024 at 3:35 PM
If there’s another cure for this last week other than buying books, then I don’t know of it 📚
The morning was spent working on Dante, and I wish more epics were collaboratively translated by modern and contemporary poets like this. Imagine an Aeneid with Heaney’s Book VI, combined with some Carson, Paterson, Oswald, and so on adapting a book each?
February 2, 2024 at 1:23 PM
The morning was spent working on Dante, and I wish more epics were collaboratively translated by modern and contemporary poets like this. Imagine an Aeneid with Heaney’s Book VI, combined with some Carson, Paterson, Oswald, and so on adapting a book each?