Nik Gunn
@nikgunn.bsky.social
New post up: a translation of Hallfreðr "troublesome poet" Óttarson's conversion verses.
If genuine, they provide an amazing insight into a Viking Age pagan grappling with a change in religion.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/11/03/p...
If genuine, they provide an amazing insight into a Viking Age pagan grappling with a change in religion.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/11/03/p...
November 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
New post up: a translation of Hallfreðr "troublesome poet" Óttarson's conversion verses.
If genuine, they provide an amazing insight into a Viking Age pagan grappling with a change in religion.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/11/03/p...
If genuine, they provide an amazing insight into a Viking Age pagan grappling with a change in religion.
nikolasgunn.co.uk/2025/11/03/p...
My partner has just launched her new work “Diaphanous” at Wingates Gallery in Market Harborough.
I think they’re really fun and beautiful but unfortunately my suggestion of naming the range “blobs” didn’t win out.
www.instagram.com/p/DQV5KMigST...
I think they’re really fun and beautiful but unfortunately my suggestion of naming the range “blobs” didn’t win out.
www.instagram.com/p/DQV5KMigST...
October 29, 2025 at 8:58 AM
My partner has just launched her new work “Diaphanous” at Wingates Gallery in Market Harborough.
I think they’re really fun and beautiful but unfortunately my suggestion of naming the range “blobs” didn’t win out.
www.instagram.com/p/DQV5KMigST...
I think they’re really fun and beautiful but unfortunately my suggestion of naming the range “blobs” didn’t win out.
www.instagram.com/p/DQV5KMigST...
Let the expensive midlife crisis hobby commence!
October 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Let the expensive midlife crisis hobby commence!
Shades of the Dream of the Rood in Wendell Berry’s The Sycamore.
October 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Shades of the Dream of the Rood in Wendell Berry’s The Sycamore.
One nice thing about getting older is celebrating the successes of all the cool, talented people you know.
September 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
One nice thing about getting older is celebrating the successes of all the cool, talented people you know.
Gorgeous collection 👍
September 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Gorgeous collection 👍
Enjoy - mine just arrived!
September 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Enjoy - mine just arrived!
Just finished Neil Mercer’s book on Oracy. It’s a good manifesto summarising some key arguments about why we should start treating spoken language seriously.
August 28, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Just finished Neil Mercer’s book on Oracy. It’s a good manifesto summarising some key arguments about why we should start treating spoken language seriously.
The interview with Alan Moore is good value, as you might expect from Northampton's literary lodestar.
August 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The interview with Alan Moore is good value, as you might expect from Northampton's literary lodestar.
Really great to wake up this morning and see my first piece of original poetry published in the newly relaunched Northampton Poetry Review.
www.northamptonpoetryreview.org/issue-5-musi...
www.northamptonpoetryreview.org/issue-5-musi...
August 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Really great to wake up this morning and see my first piece of original poetry published in the newly relaunched Northampton Poetry Review.
www.northamptonpoetryreview.org/issue-5-musi...
www.northamptonpoetryreview.org/issue-5-musi...
Been trying to get hold of a copy of this for ages and finally found one in the US.
Looking forward to seeing how Anderson handled this material, as I’m working on something with many overlapping figures.
Looking forward to seeing how Anderson handled this material, as I’m working on something with many overlapping figures.
August 20, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Been trying to get hold of a copy of this for ages and finally found one in the US.
Looking forward to seeing how Anderson handled this material, as I’m working on something with many overlapping figures.
Looking forward to seeing how Anderson handled this material, as I’m working on something with many overlapping figures.
This is the Beowulf passage, where "set yet speaking" ("geseted ond gesǣd" in Old English) refers to the carved rune letters on the sword that Beowulf brings Hrothgar.
I like how it speaks to the mutability of language, even as it takes on a more permanent, physical form.
I like how it speaks to the mutability of language, even as it takes on a more permanent, physical form.
August 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This is the Beowulf passage, where "set yet speaking" ("geseted ond gesǣd" in Old English) refers to the carved rune letters on the sword that Beowulf brings Hrothgar.
I like how it speaks to the mutability of language, even as it takes on a more permanent, physical form.
I like how it speaks to the mutability of language, even as it takes on a more permanent, physical form.
Keller Lager: Braybrooke Brewery’s answer to the question “what if bread was refreshing?”
August 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Keller Lager: Braybrooke Brewery’s answer to the question “what if bread was refreshing?”
Just told my cat that James Austin off the internet thinks cats should be licensed and this was his reaction.
July 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Just told my cat that James Austin off the internet thinks cats should be licensed and this was his reaction.
Great Oakley Wagtail bitter: like a storm-drenched wild garden, ending with thundering rind bitterness. Barmy. Moreish.
July 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Great Oakley Wagtail bitter: like a storm-drenched wild garden, ending with thundering rind bitterness. Barmy. Moreish.
This guy—runt of the litter, the source of multiple panicked calls to the vet, called “Chicken”—is, it turns out, a merciless killing machine now he’s allowed outside.
July 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This guy—runt of the litter, the source of multiple panicked calls to the vet, called “Chicken”—is, it turns out, a merciless killing machine now he’s allowed outside.
This evening, I once again find myself thinking about Neil Postman’s work.
July 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
This evening, I once again find myself thinking about Neil Postman’s work.
Brew York x Northern Monk pale ale. Tastes like biting into a peach while dive bombing into the Ouse.
June 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Brew York x Northern Monk pale ale. Tastes like biting into a peach while dive bombing into the Ouse.
Archaeology, but it’s me just pointing at this image saying “what if it was just a doodle they thought was cool and easy to memorise”
June 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Archaeology, but it’s me just pointing at this image saying “what if it was just a doodle they thought was cool and easy to memorise”
My partner’s work (pictured) is featured in the Mirage Exhibition at London Glassblowing this month.
Get yourself down to Bermondsey Street to see some top British glass talent.
londonglassblowing.co.uk/blogs/exhibi...
Get yourself down to Bermondsey Street to see some top British glass talent.
londonglassblowing.co.uk/blogs/exhibi...
June 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
My partner’s work (pictured) is featured in the Mirage Exhibition at London Glassblowing this month.
Get yourself down to Bermondsey Street to see some top British glass talent.
londonglassblowing.co.uk/blogs/exhibi...
Get yourself down to Bermondsey Street to see some top British glass talent.
londonglassblowing.co.uk/blogs/exhibi...
Dog-eared proof that I was a nerd before it was cool.
Struck that this cover art is much more fun than the bland images we get nowadays.
Struck that this cover art is much more fun than the bland images we get nowadays.
June 4, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Dog-eared proof that I was a nerd before it was cool.
Struck that this cover art is much more fun than the bland images we get nowadays.
Struck that this cover art is much more fun than the bland images we get nowadays.
I find succinctly negging my own writing really helps with the creative process.
May 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I find succinctly negging my own writing really helps with the creative process.
Reminded of the old joke: there’s a reason why they call it the loooooong 18th century
(from Rundell’s Super-Infinite)
(from Rundell’s Super-Infinite)
April 22, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Reminded of the old joke: there’s a reason why they call it the loooooong 18th century
(from Rundell’s Super-Infinite)
(from Rundell’s Super-Infinite)