John Goodby
@gobygoodby.bsky.social
Pleased to be able to announce I'll be giving my inaugural lecture as Professor of Arts and Culture at Hallam University on 14 May. I'd love to see as many friends who can make it there, in person or virtually. Details and Eventbrite booking link here:
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April 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Pleased to be able to announce I'll be giving my inaugural lecture as Professor of Arts and Culture at Hallam University on 14 May. I'd love to see as many friends who can make it there, in person or virtually. Details and Eventbrite booking link here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-...
Two Swansea launches this week for mine and Chris Wigginton's new Dylan Thomas biog - at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, 6.30 pm, Wednesday 9 April (book at dylanthomasbirthplace.com), and 6.00 pm, Friday 11 April at Event 42, Mumbles. Thanks to Alun and Tim for organising - see you there!
#DylanThomas
#DylanThomas
April 5, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Two Swansea launches this week for mine and Chris Wigginton's new Dylan Thomas biog - at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, 6.30 pm, Wednesday 9 April (book at dylanthomasbirthplace.com), and 6.00 pm, Friday 11 April at Event 42, Mumbles. Thanks to Alun and Tim for organising - see you there!
#DylanThomas
#DylanThomas
Terrific impromptu Northern Lights / Inform experimental poetry on Friday evening in Leeds at the HEART Centre, Headingly. Loads of fine poets and a fun time was had by all. Big thanks to Kimberly Campanello for and Nasser Hussain for organising.
March 30, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Terrific impromptu Northern Lights / Inform experimental poetry on Friday evening in Leeds at the HEART Centre, Headingly. Loads of fine poets and a fun time was had by all. Big thanks to Kimberly Campanello for and Nasser Hussain for organising.
Looking forward to taking part in this quite major poetry minifest on Friday week in Headingley. Big, big thanks to Kimberly Campanello for organising. See you there, Leeds and York friends!
March 17, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Looking forward to taking part in this quite major poetry minifest on Friday week in Headingley. Big, big thanks to Kimberly Campanello for organising. See you there, Leeds and York friends!
Pics of the launch of Arcadian Rustbelt at Xing the Line on Sunday. Big thanks to Iris Colomb and Jeff Hilson for organising, and to all our readers - Harry Gilonis, Frances Presley, Elizabeth James, Simon Smith, David Rees and Khaled Hakim, with guest appearance by the marvellous Tilla Brading.
March 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Pics of the launch of Arcadian Rustbelt at Xing the Line on Sunday. Big thanks to Iris Colomb and Jeff Hilson for organising, and to all our readers - Harry Gilonis, Frances Presley, Elizabeth James, Simon Smith, David Rees and Khaled Hakim, with guest appearance by the marvellous Tilla Brading.
Pics of my talk 'Dylan Thomas: the Life versus the Legend' to a sold out venue yesterday at York Literature Festival. Big thanks to the organisers for the opportunity to contribute, and to Vybarr Cregan Reid, Chloe Hanks and Phillipa of the Little Apple Bookshop for support on the night!
March 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Pics of my talk 'Dylan Thomas: the Life versus the Legend' to a sold out venue yesterday at York Literature Festival. Big thanks to the organisers for the opportunity to contribute, and to Vybarr Cregan Reid, Chloe Hanks and Phillipa of the Little Apple Bookshop for support on the night!
Pleased to be giving mine and Andrew Duncan's new anthology its London launch. Many thanks to Iris Colomb and Jeff Hilson for the invitation. The woods of Arcady are not dead and their antique joy is bang up to date (apologies to Yeats). Sunday, 9 March. Be there.
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February 25, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Pleased to be giving mine and Andrew Duncan's new anthology its London launch. Many thanks to Iris Colomb and Jeff Hilson for the invitation. The woods of Arcady are not dead and their antique joy is bang up to date (apologies to Yeats). Sunday, 9 March. Be there.
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Incredibly chuffed to be part of the York Literature Festival - my thanks to the organisers for the invitation, and here's looking forward to seeing some of you on 6 March. Among other things I'll be talking about the new Dylan biography, published by Reaktion Books at the end of last year.
February 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Incredibly chuffed to be part of the York Literature Festival - my thanks to the organisers for the invitation, and here's looking forward to seeing some of you on 6 March. Among other things I'll be talking about the new Dylan biography, published by Reaktion Books at the end of last year.
Pleased to have a section of my rather tongue-twistingly-titled mini-epic York Walls Walk Work included in the new issue of Black Box Manifold. Many thanks to the editors, Adam Piette and Alex Houen for including it; it's good to be in such fine company!
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January 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Pleased to have a section of my rather tongue-twistingly-titled mini-epic York Walls Walk Work included in the new issue of Black Box Manifold. Many thanks to the editors, Adam Piette and Alex Houen for including it; it's good to be in such fine company!
blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Sunrise, today, North Yorks: 2 exteriors, 2 interiors.
January 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Sunrise, today, North Yorks: 2 exteriors, 2 interiors.
Snow still on the field, mist creeping across from the Nidd ...
#bleakorwhat
#bloodycold
#therebeboggartsoutthere
#bleakorwhat
#bloodycold
#therebeboggartsoutthere
January 12, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Snow still on the field, mist creeping across from the Nidd ...
#bleakorwhat
#bloodycold
#therebeboggartsoutthere
#bleakorwhat
#bloodycold
#therebeboggartsoutthere
Some proper snow up in Kirk Hammerton, so time to do the proper Yorkshire thing and go out for a stroll wearing a T-shirt.
#dontbesobloodynesh #whatstproblem #tekitontchin #itsnowtbutabitosnow
#dontbesobloodynesh #whatstproblem #tekitontchin #itsnowtbutabitosnow
January 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Some proper snow up in Kirk Hammerton, so time to do the proper Yorkshire thing and go out for a stroll wearing a T-shirt.
#dontbesobloodynesh #whatstproblem #tekitontchin #itsnowtbutabitosnow
#dontbesobloodynesh #whatstproblem #tekitontchin #itsnowtbutabitosnow
Tfw you finally complete the 1000-piece jigsaw the family gave you to keep you quiet over Twixtmas ...
January 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Tfw you finally complete the 1000-piece jigsaw the family gave you to keep you quiet over Twixtmas ...
A Dickinsonian Hardyesque Ahead of 2025
A Swerve in the local Lane -
It seems Prophetic enough
Of blind Futurity - & were I
Either that She or He, I might
Write you a Ream of such Stuff.
A Swerve in the local Lane -
It seems Prophetic enough
Of blind Futurity - & were I
Either that She or He, I might
Write you a Ream of such Stuff.
December 31, 2024 at 9:03 PM
A Dickinsonian Hardyesque Ahead of 2025
A Swerve in the local Lane -
It seems Prophetic enough
Of blind Futurity - & were I
Either that She or He, I might
Write you a Ream of such Stuff.
A Swerve in the local Lane -
It seems Prophetic enough
Of blind Futurity - & were I
Either that She or He, I might
Write you a Ream of such Stuff.
This evening's view from the office window.
#shepherdsdelight
#shepherdsdelight
December 30, 2024 at 4:10 PM
This evening's view from the office window.
#shepherdsdelight
#shepherdsdelight
The Mutant Pannetone Strikes Again! #breadmakerblues
December 26, 2024 at 6:17 PM
The Mutant Pannetone Strikes Again! #breadmakerblues
Banishing the Boxing Day lethargy - out with fellow Goodby-Watermans at Hackfall forest earlier today. Torrents, follies, gulphs, ferns, gullies, grandfather moss and vistas. #greatnorthernforest
December 26, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Banishing the Boxing Day lethargy - out with fellow Goodby-Watermans at Hackfall forest earlier today. Torrents, follies, gulphs, ferns, gullies, grandfather moss and vistas. #greatnorthernforest
Fountains Abbey carol concert with York Musical Society choir this afternoon - freezing cold, and dogs and children occasionally chipping in, but Nicola Goodby to the fore, as ever, holding those sopranos together!
December 22, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Fountains Abbey carol concert with York Musical Society choir this afternoon - freezing cold, and dogs and children occasionally chipping in, but Nicola Goodby to the fore, as ever, holding those sopranos together!
A Christmas derive through the streets of York, beginning with a fat rascal in Betty's and ending with the glowing merry-go-round ...
December 22, 2024 at 5:31 PM
A Christmas derive through the streets of York, beginning with a fat rascal in Betty's and ending with the glowing merry-go-round ...
Happy solstice, friends - and here's some blue north Yorkshire sky on Bluesky!
December 21, 2024 at 11:45 AM
Happy solstice, friends - and here's some blue north Yorkshire sky on Bluesky!
Great to see that Michael Sheen, on Poetry Please recently, made the Dylan Thomas poem 'A Dream of Winter' - long forgotten before it appeared in my edition of the poems - one of his choices (his brief preamble to the reading kicks in at 3'55" in the link - here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...)
December 20, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Great to see that Michael Sheen, on Poetry Please recently, made the Dylan Thomas poem 'A Dream of Winter' - long forgotten before it appeared in my edition of the poems - one of his choices (his brief preamble to the reading kicks in at 3'55" in the link - here:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...)
Poetry lovers, Waterloo Press have at last put mine and Andrew Duncan's anthology up on their website to buy. Arcadian Rustbelt is a generational landmark, 300 creamy dreamy pages bearing the work of 28 fab 80s underground bards. Go on, you know you want it...
waterloopress.co.uk/books/arcadi...
waterloopress.co.uk/books/arcadi...
December 18, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Poetry lovers, Waterloo Press have at last put mine and Andrew Duncan's anthology up on their website to buy. Arcadian Rustbelt is a generational landmark, 300 creamy dreamy pages bearing the work of 28 fab 80s underground bards. Go on, you know you want it...
waterloopress.co.uk/books/arcadi...
waterloopress.co.uk/books/arcadi...
A lovely traipse in beautiful weather up the Nidd gorge above Knaresborough, with a couple of visitors from Swansea, last week. Never got lost (well, for more than ten minutes, anyway) - and yes, that is an Easter Island-style face on the rock in the last photo!
December 4, 2024 at 11:59 AM
A lovely traipse in beautiful weather up the Nidd gorge above Knaresborough, with a couple of visitors from Swansea, last week. Never got lost (well, for more than ten minutes, anyway) - and yes, that is an Easter Island-style face on the rock in the last photo!