Jeremy Noel-Tod
@jntod.bsky.social
Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
The last piece of toast on the toast rack is experiencing the Rapture
November 9, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The last piece of toast on the toast rack is experiencing the Rapture
A Thomas Hardy poem for Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
A Thomas Hardy poem for Halloween
Musk was attempting to pull this erudite reactionary shit back in 2018, but then he knew to hide his own confusion and ignorance under cover of obscurity
October 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Musk was attempting to pull this erudite reactionary shit back in 2018, but then he knew to hide his own confusion and ignorance under cover of obscurity
So the new Apple TV thriller takes it title from... Philip Larkin's 'Toads'?
October 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
So the new Apple TV thriller takes it title from... Philip Larkin's 'Toads'?
Congratulations to Vidyan Ravinthiran, who has jointly won (with Karen Solie) the Forward Prize for Best Collection with Avidyā (Bloodaxe). Its brilliant final poem, "as a child", describes how an early speech impediment led him to be "a scrutineer of sound" with a love of "the avid void of English"
October 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Congratulations to Vidyan Ravinthiran, who has jointly won (with Karen Solie) the Forward Prize for Best Collection with Avidyā (Bloodaxe). Its brilliant final poem, "as a child", describes how an early speech impediment led him to be "a scrutineer of sound" with a love of "the avid void of English"
‘You’ll never believe it, but I got *straight through* to the Wallet Inspector’
October 16, 2025 at 7:01 PM
‘You’ll never believe it, but I got *straight through* to the Wallet Inspector’
My nomination for the Mercury Music Prize? I’d have to say
October 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
My nomination for the Mercury Music Prize? I’d have to say
When T.S. Eliot founded highbrow literary magazine The Criterion in 1922, do we think he knew an ice cream had beaten him to the punch?
October 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
When T.S. Eliot founded highbrow literary magazine The Criterion in 1922, do we think he knew an ice cream had beaten him to the punch?
Who says that poetry makes nothing happen
October 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Who says that poetry makes nothing happen
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
October 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
September 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Delighted that the new @stephencollins.bsky.social cartoon for the Guardian pays tribute to the great autumn hymn of British school assemblies, with its jewelled grass and refuelling jet planes. I did a deep dive into its history here: someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/jet-planes...
September 19, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Delighted that the new @stephencollins.bsky.social cartoon for the Guardian pays tribute to the great autumn hymn of British school assemblies, with its jewelled grass and refuelling jet planes. I did a deep dive into its history here: someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/jet-planes...
Pet Shop Boys are showing their age
September 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Pet Shop Boys are showing their age
I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased
September 13, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased
Dare I say that he has form on this...
September 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Dare I say that he has form on this...
Stop all the clocks
September 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Stop all the clocks
Go into academia, they said
September 6, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Go into academia, they said
Me, returning to work
September 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Me, returning to work
The UK has been held to ransom by a right-wing press for years. At this point, I don't know why a left-leaning government tries to appease them at all
September 2, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The UK has been held to ransom by a right-wing press for years. At this point, I don't know why a left-leaning government tries to appease them at all
Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?
August 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?
How your email left you
August 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
How your email left you
How your email finds me
August 9, 2025 at 11:05 AM
How your email finds me
