On Viewless Wings
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Writing, reading, running.
Poetry PhD: vital instability in the 2nd generation Romantics.
Am actually writing.
Interested in the amplification of working class voices, northern voices, & kind & talented voices.
Writing, I swear.
Meliorist, still.
Poetry PhD: vital instability in the 2nd generation Romantics.
Am actually writing.
Interested in the amplification of working class voices, northern voices, & kind & talented voices.
Writing, I swear.
Meliorist, still.
In an odd serendipity, as it happens I am writing about stained glass in my WIP at the moment.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
In an odd serendipity, as it happens I am writing about stained glass in my WIP at the moment.
Your headline says 'centre-left leaders', but you've used a photo of Keir Starmer.
November 9, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Your headline says 'centre-left leaders', but you've used a photo of Keir Starmer.
The character Bradley Whitford plays in Brooklyn 99 (opposite Jimmy Smitz, as it happens), greets another couple in his home while not wearing trousers, and in the same episode cuts his hand with blood everywhere. So there's that, too.
November 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The character Bradley Whitford plays in Brooklyn 99 (opposite Jimmy Smitz, as it happens), greets another couple in his home while not wearing trousers, and in the same episode cuts his hand with blood everywhere. So there's that, too.
Would love to see Ted Hughes line up for the Superbowl, tbf.
November 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Would love to see Ted Hughes line up for the Superbowl, tbf.
*writes novel which is all epigraph...*
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
*writes novel which is all epigraph...*
I don't think time spent on something like this is ever wasted, no matter what happens in terms of publication etc.
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I don't think time spent on something like this is ever wasted, no matter what happens in terms of publication etc.
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Michael O'Neill. As my supervisor for my Masters and then for my PhD, which I did part time, it meant that I had the privilege of meeting with him regularly to talk about Shelley, Keats and Byron over the course of the seven years before he died. An important person in my life, and much missed.
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Michael O'Neill. As my supervisor for my Masters and then for my PhD, which I did part time, it meant that I had the privilege of meeting with him regularly to talk about Shelley, Keats and Byron over the course of the seven years before he died. An important person in my life, and much missed.
Michael O'Neill. As my supervisor for my Masters and then for my PhD, which I did part time, it meant that I had the privilege of meeting with him regularly to talk about Shelley, Keats and Byron over the course of the seven years before he died. An important person in my life, and much missed.
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Michael O'Neill. As my supervisor for my Masters and then for my PhD, which I did part time, it meant that I had the privilege of meeting with him regularly to talk about Shelley, Keats and Byron over the course of the seven years before he died. An important person in my life, and much missed.
He supervised me on Milton around the same time.
November 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
He supervised me on Milton around the same time.
Thymely reminder.
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Thymely reminder.
It's not that he's old. It's that he's a prick. That cognitive function has declined to levels which make him unfit, in addition to his being-a-prickness, doesn't mean that that would be the case for others of that age. I think we just need to collectively decide not to elect pricks.
November 8, 2025 at 10:52 PM
It's not that he's old. It's that he's a prick. That cognitive function has declined to levels which make him unfit, in addition to his being-a-prickness, doesn't mean that that would be the case for others of that age. I think we just need to collectively decide not to elect pricks.
'S'all fucking annoyingly good man...
November 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
'S'all fucking annoyingly good man...
It is fair to say that that was not a marriage made in heaven.
November 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
It is fair to say that that was not a marriage made in heaven.
Safie is the most interesting female character in the novel, I would say. Most passive and agencyless is the female creature; second most passive and agencyless, Margaret Saville.
November 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Safie is the most interesting female character in the novel, I would say. Most passive and agencyless is the female creature; second most passive and agencyless, Margaret Saville.
No he doesn't.
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
No he doesn't.
No, not really.
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
No, not really.
Mrs Dalloway said she would bring the existential angst and intimations of encroaching mortality herself...
November 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Mrs Dalloway said she would bring the existential angst and intimations of encroaching mortality herself...
Great as ever. The difficulty is that the real MPs include many that are beyond parody.
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Great as ever. The difficulty is that the real MPs include many that are beyond parody.
It says the features were selected as beautiful, which isn't the same.
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
It says the features were selected as beautiful, which isn't the same.