Patrick McGuinness
@padrig.bsky.social
Writer, academic, endotic traveller. Books: Blood Feather 2023; Real Oxford 2021. Ghost Stations, CB Editions , Sept 2025. FRSL. Prof of French and Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
The eternal return wrapped around the eternal departure wrapped around the eternal return, etc. Station fractals as I bring the book back, by way of its places, to the people who are in it. Embarquement terminé? I wouldn't be so sure.
November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The eternal return wrapped around the eternal departure wrapped around the eternal return, etc. Station fractals as I bring the book back, by way of its places, to the people who are in it. Embarquement terminé? I wouldn't be so sure.
Chimneyscapes of Brussels
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Chimneyscapes of Brussels
Foxes of Brussels , 1 of an occasional series.
November 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Foxes of Brussels , 1 of an occasional series.
And some other autumn sights and colours
November 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
And some other autumn sights and colours
Couple of Oxford-related images, all from Headington. William Kimber's grave, a couple of pubs and a slow-at-first then all-at-once sunset.
November 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Couple of Oxford-related images, all from Headington. William Kimber's grave, a couple of pubs and a slow-at-first then all-at-once sunset.
Bangor station buffet. Something for everyone
October 31, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Bangor station buffet. Something for everyone
Oxford sights, in l'an trentiesme de mon eage, or at any rate my 30th Michaelmas Term as a tutor here. Not sure where the years went, somewhere between the purposeful paddleboarder and the skull on the hull.
October 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Oxford sights, in l'an trentiesme de mon eage, or at any rate my 30th Michaelmas Term as a tutor here. Not sure where the years went, somewhere between the purposeful paddleboarder and the skull on the hull.
My start of term inbox
October 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My start of term inbox
After the hardware shops I'm at Museum der Dinge/Museum of Things. Enjoyed the way they classify. Very taken with the Remembering and Stimulating shelves and the excellent kitsch trio: jingoistic, devotional, topical
October 3, 2025 at 5:18 PM
After the hardware shops I'm at Museum der Dinge/Museum of Things. Enjoyed the way they classify. Very taken with the Remembering and Stimulating shelves and the excellent kitsch trio: jingoistic, devotional, topical
My great pleasure visiting towns and cities: hardware shops. Not just because they're living museums of use, but bc they're like embassies of past ways of living, defiantly hanging on. Berlin has several superb examples.
October 2, 2025 at 7:18 AM
My great pleasure visiting towns and cities: hardware shops. Not just because they're living museums of use, but bc they're like embassies of past ways of living, defiantly hanging on. Berlin has several superb examples.
The latest issue of the Journal of Literary and Intermedial Crossings finds me both frank and reflective. With thanks for Michael Rosenfeld for the interview and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for my time as writer in residence. Dank u wel, het was een genoegen.
September 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The latest issue of the Journal of Literary and Intermedial Crossings finds me both frank and reflective. With thanks for Michael Rosenfeld for the interview and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel for my time as writer in residence. Dank u wel, het was een genoegen.
Great to be back at Pordenonelegge to read from my new book Italian translation. Blood Feather became Linea Fissa, Landline. With thanks to Interno Poesia Giorgia Sensi and Filippo Morre
September 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Great to be back at Pordenonelegge to read from my new book Italian translation. Blood Feather became Linea Fissa, Landline. With thanks to Interno Poesia Giorgia Sensi and Filippo Morre
Thank you! So grateful to @cbeditions.bsky.social for publishing. I didn’t buy that but I was glad to find this.
September 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thank you! So grateful to @cbeditions.bsky.social for publishing. I didn’t buy that but I was glad to find this.
What the future looked like in the past
September 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
What the future looked like in the past
Patrick McGuinness
@padrig.bsky.social
When the dynamite sapped them,
a ripple climbed their flanks: their mouths
were trying to say something difficult
@padrig.bsky.social
When the dynamite sapped them,
a ripple climbed their flanks: their mouths
were trying to say something difficult
September 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Patrick McGuinness
@padrig.bsky.social
When the dynamite sapped them,
a ripple climbed their flanks: their mouths
were trying to say something difficult
@padrig.bsky.social
When the dynamite sapped them,
a ripple climbed their flanks: their mouths
were trying to say something difficult
Happy to be in this fantastic book from @c20society.bsky.social with my elegy for the cooling towers of Didcot. If we know how to look, these structures and their places are full of meaning and stories.
September 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Happy to be in this fantastic book from @c20society.bsky.social with my elegy for the cooling towers of Didcot. If we know how to look, these structures and their places are full of meaning and stories.
2 weeks today @cbeditions.bsky.social: essays on Bouillon, Oxford, Sheerness, Bruges; the monstering of my teacher Chris Jefferies; Shopping Centres; Trains,Stations,Bridges; Mallarmé & Terrorism; Vallotton & Spilliaert; Ears. Plus vexed question of the 'Poet's Novel'. Special thanks to @lrb.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
2 weeks today @cbeditions.bsky.social: essays on Bouillon, Oxford, Sheerness, Bruges; the monstering of my teacher Chris Jefferies; Shopping Centres; Trains,Stations,Bridges; Mallarmé & Terrorism; Vallotton & Spilliaert; Ears. Plus vexed question of the 'Poet's Novel'. Special thanks to @lrb.co.uk
Back in Bouillon after a few months away. Wondering if these trousers at the top of the ruelle are mine, looking to see if the roof is hilding and checking in on the cinema.
July 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Back in Bouillon after a few months away. Wondering if these trousers at the top of the ruelle are mine, looking to see if the roof is hilding and checking in on the cinema.
2 pleonasms in 3 words. A record?
July 12, 2025 at 5:46 PM
2 pleonasms in 3 words. A record?
A history of, and a story about, Oxford, in its pubs, here at Florence Park community centre. Really fascinating talk by Jeremy Smith, adlibbing fantastically from Jeremy Allen's prompts. These monthly talks are brilliant.
July 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
A history of, and a story about, Oxford, in its pubs, here at Florence Park community centre. Really fascinating talk by Jeremy Smith, adlibbing fantastically from Jeremy Allen's prompts. These monthly talks are brilliant.
Birmingham International station. Vignettes of the Great British railway. Especially pleased to catch the Carnation footcare corn cap factory in Sandwell and Dudley.
June 29, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Birmingham International station. Vignettes of the Great British railway. Especially pleased to catch the Carnation footcare corn cap factory in Sandwell and Dudley.
Sivesters hardware shop, Magdalen Rd. It closed after over a century in 2023. I first shopped there in 1991 when I arrived in Oxford. Even when open and thriving, it seemed to be coming to to us from a different era. I wasn't expecting it to be demolished with quite such thoroughness. Flats soon.
June 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Sivesters hardware shop, Magdalen Rd. It closed after over a century in 2023. I first shopped there in 1991 when I arrived in Oxford. Even when open and thriving, it seemed to be coming to to us from a different era. I wasn't expecting it to be demolished with quite such thoroughness. Flats soon.
Super U Dinard. The melancholy angle of that last tin of beans in the English expat food section as it finds itself alone on its shelf.
June 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Super U Dinard. The melancholy angle of that last tin of beans in the English expat food section as it finds itself alone on its shelf.