Graeme Richardson
@ravoon.bsky.social
Writer/critic. All views very much my own.
"They fuck not up as we that are left fuck up"
November 11, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"They fuck not up as we that are left fuck up"
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Some readers of my substack might be interested in this interview I did with Greg Allum as part of the launch of his new Ink and Ribbon press:
Bound Voices #001: A Conversation with Victoria Moul
Where Pindar meets the nursery — poetry’s past and present in conversation.
theinkwell.inkandribbon.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Some readers of my substack might be interested in this interview I did with Greg Allum as part of the launch of his new Ink and Ribbon press:
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My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - Remarkable Coincidences - Rory Waterman - PN Review 286
One of the outstanding poetry journals of our time.
www.pnreview.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
My comment, for @pnreview.bsky.social, on the Len Pennie & Sarah Doyle affair - or Canongagegate, as I like to think of it. Honourable mentions: @naush.bsky.social, @thetimes.com.
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
Feel free to share, to attack me with your little jelly pitchforks, or to ignore.
www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/rema...
On whether or not a harsh review is pointless, I call, as my next witness, Michael Hulse:
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
On whether or not a harsh review is pointless, I call, as my next witness, Michael Hulse:
I'm amused to discover that Peter Porter, reviewing Michael Hofmann's first collection 'Nights in the Iron Hotel' for the Observer, described it as 'glum', 'leaden', 'turgid', and 'a remorseless set of patronising vignettes'.
November 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I'm amused to discover that Peter Porter, reviewing Michael Hofmann's first collection 'Nights in the Iron Hotel' for the Observer, described it as 'glum', 'leaden', 'turgid', and 'a remorseless set of patronising vignettes'.
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Nice to make the cover of the latest Literary Review for my piece on the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney. It's free to read here: literaryreview.co.uk/the-pen-the-...
Jeremy Noel-Tod - The Pen & the Spade
Jeremy Noel-Tod: The Pen & the Spade - The Poems of Seamus Heaney by Rosie Lavan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis (edd.)
literaryreview.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Nice to make the cover of the latest Literary Review for my piece on the enormous new Poems of Seamus Heaney. It's free to read here: literaryreview.co.uk/the-pen-the-...
Among the 5000 German war dead in Cannock Chase Cemetery... History surprising and complex.
November 6, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Among the 5000 German war dead in Cannock Chase Cemetery... History surprising and complex.
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Attend the New Walk Editions online reading with Mark Ford and Sean O'Brien, 7pm on 20 November. It'll be excellent, I assure you.
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: New Walk Editions launch: Sean O'Brien and Mark Ford. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us for the launch of exceptional, surprising pamphlets by two of the finest and most highly acclaimed poets writing today.
MARK FORD, The Morlocks: A Fantasia
SEAN O'BRIEN, A la Carte
The even...
us06web.zoom.us
November 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Attend the New Walk Editions online reading with Mark Ford and Sean O'Brien, 7pm on 20 November. It'll be excellent, I assure you.
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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I love all the @badlilies.bsky.social babies (so to speak!) equally but this sequence by @ravoon.bsky.social is worthy of some attention ahead of his collection coming out next year badlilies.uk/graeme-richardson-1
Graeme Richardson — Bad Lilies
Three poems by Graeme Richardson
badlilies.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I love all the @badlilies.bsky.social babies (so to speak!) equally but this sequence by @ravoon.bsky.social is worthy of some attention ahead of his collection coming out next year badlilies.uk/graeme-richardson-1
A taste of my forthcoming book, thanks to @badlilies.bsky.social - www.badlilies.uk/graeme-richa...
Graeme Richardson — Bad Lilies
Three poems by Graeme Richardson
www.badlilies.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A taste of my forthcoming book, thanks to @badlilies.bsky.social - www.badlilies.uk/graeme-richa...
I like this, by Clare Pollard - the best "lockdown" poem in a very overcrowded field - and now included in her new collection "Lives of the Female Poets". Note the quietly infectious internal rhymes...
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I like this, by Clare Pollard - the best "lockdown" poem in a very overcrowded field - and now included in her new collection "Lives of the Female Poets". Note the quietly infectious internal rhymes...
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I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:
JN-T's substack this week laugh-out-loud funny at points! Highly recommended
I used to have an office between two colleagues called Karen. I only realised when I moved out that I could have been saying 'Karen to right of me / Karen to left of me' the whole time. Just one of the many afterlives of 'The Charge of the Light Brigade': someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/someone-ha...
Someone had Blundered
How Tennyson's "Light Brigade" stanza made history
someflowerssoon.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:40 AM
JN-T's substack this week laugh-out-loud funny at points! Highly recommended
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Sometimes good things do come to those who wait.
I have read a version in ts, and think this will come to be seen as one of the significant debuts of the decade. @carcanet.bsky.social throws another 180.
And yes, the cover looks excellent.
I have read a version in ts, and think this will come to be seen as one of the significant debuts of the decade. @carcanet.bsky.social throws another 180.
And yes, the cover looks excellent.
I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:
October 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Sometimes good things do come to those who wait.
I have read a version in ts, and think this will come to be seen as one of the significant debuts of the decade. @carcanet.bsky.social throws another 180.
And yes, the cover looks excellent.
I have read a version in ts, and think this will come to be seen as one of the significant debuts of the decade. @carcanet.bsky.social throws another 180.
And yes, the cover looks excellent.
This is really fascinating - on rewilding and Wolves in Europe rewilding.org/episode-158-...
Episode 158: Europe’s Big Three - Wolves, Bears, Lynx. Part 1: The Wolf's Uneasy Return to Germany
Happy Wolf Awareness Week! Julius Purcell discovered his interest in audio while training as a journalist in the Middle East. He later worked as a depu
rewilding.org
October 25, 2025 at 6:24 AM
This is really fascinating - on rewilding and Wolves in Europe rewilding.org/episode-158-...
I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:
October 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:
I had the privilege of spending some time with Seamus Heaney over the last week... www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Seamus Heaney kept up a staggeringly high strike rate of good poems
The Poems of Seamus Heaney, collected together in one volume for the first time, is a record of nearly 60 years of excellence
www.thetimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I had the privilege of spending some time with Seamus Heaney over the last week... www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.
October 18, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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'Knowledge' isn't just an infinite raw material, you dopes
Wow. Just wow.
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
'Knowledge' isn't just an infinite raw material, you dopes
Hurrahing in Harvest
October 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Hurrahing in Harvest
Is it ok to like this poem, and to judge that it narrowly misses the obvious pitfall of the sentimental? I hope so.
October 5, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Is it ok to like this poem, and to judge that it narrowly misses the obvious pitfall of the sentimental? I hope so.
Tony Harrison RIP. Cracking poet
September 27, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Tony Harrison RIP. Cracking poet
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💥AUTUMN BOOK TOUR💥
#everymonumentwillfall in Oxford, Brighton, Paris, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol, London (x3), Nottingham
dates throughout Oct-Nov 2025
details/tickets >> danhicks.uk/talks
#everymonumentwillfall in Oxford, Brighton, Paris, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol, London (x3), Nottingham
dates throughout Oct-Nov 2025
details/tickets >> danhicks.uk/talks
September 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
💥AUTUMN BOOK TOUR💥
#everymonumentwillfall in Oxford, Brighton, Paris, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol, London (x3), Nottingham
dates throughout Oct-Nov 2025
details/tickets >> danhicks.uk/talks
#everymonumentwillfall in Oxford, Brighton, Paris, Cork, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Durham, Bristol, London (x3), Nottingham
dates throughout Oct-Nov 2025
details/tickets >> danhicks.uk/talks
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New on the Writer’s Bookshelf: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the brilliant @ravoon.bsky.social - featuring Ted Hughes, John Updike, Penelope Fitzgerald, Zaffar Kunial and much, much more!
The writer's bookshelf: Graeme Richardson
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
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September 22, 2025 at 6:34 AM
New on the Writer’s Bookshelf: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the brilliant @ravoon.bsky.social - featuring Ted Hughes, John Updike, Penelope Fitzgerald, Zaffar Kunial and much, much more!
What to do with a book so cynically produced? www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
Len Pennie — Scotland’s worst poet since William McGonagall
Poyums annaw, the latest collection by the TikTok-famous poet Len Pennie, deals with serious issues — but it’s hard to take her poems seriously
www.thetimes.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:02 AM
What to do with a book so cynically produced? www.thetimes.com/culture/book...