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sick poet / library mole
london
sick poet / library mole
london
do you think anyone else has attempted to read the twentieth century poet kenneth hopkins’s poetry in the last thirty years. me neither. don’t recommend it. some of it is making me laugh though.
November 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
do you think anyone else has attempted to read the twentieth century poet kenneth hopkins’s poetry in the last thirty years. me neither. don’t recommend it. some of it is making me laugh though.
again, not sure i recommend it - extremely brutal and grim. the writing is very good.
November 23, 2025 at 5:08 PM
again, not sure i recommend it - extremely brutal and grim. the writing is very good.
letter from dylan thomas to oswell blakeston, published in ambit in 1966
![Dylan Thomas
Letters to Oswell Blakeston
DEAREST mouse my dear, You're awfully lucky, you and the little whisker friends, all smug and slimy. listening to Cocteau and Burns & Allen and Naylor* behind the skirting-board. Nobody ever heard of a Mouse Menace, you are not a national danger, and people write poems about you and call you slinkie and nice and velvet. You'd be safe even in Chicago, where they'd give me a fifth leg. Every year sixteen thousand London brothers and sisters cornered caged and killed. They brought out an act to destroy me in nineteen nineteen, when I was only five years old. But they gave me a Week!
I haven't seen you for so long, not since we spent an evening in not going to the Queen's Hall, and not since I left you, outside the Cafe Rat, very rudely for a sillie. I'm coming back, travelling under the seat all the way, nibbling brown paper, at the beginning of next month. Will you meet me? And this time I'll promise not to be bad: I'll powder my snout and not run after hen-rats. And will you send me some of my fan mail sometimes?
I'm so unpopular these days. Whenever I switch on the wireless, it's an interval. I was abominable about the B.B.C. But I'll get what's coming to me: when I die I'll go to hell, and it's be Rat Week always.
Much love to you, very much, Oswell.
From,
[NOTES: The signature was a drawing of Dylan by himself - drinking and smoking and with his hair running out either side in long wavy lines.
*The records referred to: Cocteau reciting his poetry to jazz, Naylor giving astrological predictions, and Burns and Allen singing "Do you believe me". (Dylan particularly loved the soft shoe dance in this when Gracie said: "We're dancing now, and you can't see the best bit.")]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5e5lpnlksq7xi6myieqt2wjk/bafkreidce3ajveckm63v3q66cgozs5hewhdmfr6guve4jnbmbuvf3bcv5e@jpeg)
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 AM
letter from dylan thomas to oswell blakeston, published in ambit in 1966
managed to track down a copy of the Visual Editions version of Tristram Shandy for £15. not bad! condition isn’t perfect but it’s pretty damn good apracticeforeverydaylife.com/projects/the...
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
managed to track down a copy of the Visual Editions version of Tristram Shandy for £15. not bad! condition isn’t perfect but it’s pretty damn good apracticeforeverydaylife.com/projects/the...
time to sleep, but in spring 1951 max chapman and oswell blakeston published a poem each in poetry quarterly, and they shared a page. oswell’s poem is dedicated to max.
November 21, 2025 at 1:32 AM
time to sleep, but in spring 1951 max chapman and oswell blakeston published a poem each in poetry quarterly, and they shared a page. oswell’s poem is dedicated to max.
here’s another by Silvia Dobson. think a lot of this poetry is pretty fine. someone could do worse than finding out who is the executor of these writers’ estates (i know at least Oswell must have someone, he’s had stories reprinted recently) and republishing some of their poetry.
November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
here’s another by Silvia Dobson. think a lot of this poetry is pretty fine. someone could do worse than finding out who is the executor of these writers’ estates (i know at least Oswell must have someone, he’s had stories reprinted recently) and republishing some of their poetry.
also some poems in here by Silvia Dobson, lesbian poet and sometime lover of HD.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
also some poems in here by Silvia Dobson, lesbian poet and sometime lover of HD.
but i think the work by Oswell and Max is the best in here. here’s a couple more
November 20, 2025 at 5:21 PM
but i think the work by Oswell and Max is the best in here. here’s a couple more
looking at a poetry anthology from 1947 at the British Library, obscure enough that I had to ask them to cut some of the pages (!)
here’s a poem by Oswell Blakeston and Max Chapman, artists and writers who were pretty much a lifelong couple
here’s a poem by Oswell Blakeston and Max Chapman, artists and writers who were pretty much a lifelong couple
November 20, 2025 at 5:10 PM
looking at a poetry anthology from 1947 at the British Library, obscure enough that I had to ask them to cut some of the pages (!)
here’s a poem by Oswell Blakeston and Max Chapman, artists and writers who were pretty much a lifelong couple
here’s a poem by Oswell Blakeston and Max Chapman, artists and writers who were pretty much a lifelong couple
that second one uploaded with weird sound so here it is again, hopefully silent this time. wait for it…
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
that second one uploaded with weird sound so here it is again, hopefully silent this time. wait for it…
anyway who wants to see the cat’s favourite game
November 18, 2025 at 10:38 PM
anyway who wants to see the cat’s favourite game
very excited to finally have my hands on this @kellylink.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
very excited to finally have my hands on this @kellylink.bsky.social
i am something like 5’6-5’7 depending on who’s measuring me and am not used to ordering short sizes but? maybe that’s the way forward? anyway, jumpsuit with a tassel rope thing from a dress rather than the terrible belt
November 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
i am something like 5’6-5’7 depending on who’s measuring me and am not used to ordering short sizes but? maybe that’s the way forward? anyway, jumpsuit with a tassel rope thing from a dress rather than the terrible belt
found this astonishing bag in a charity shop for £5
November 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
found this astonishing bag in a charity shop for £5
slowly reading this
November 15, 2025 at 11:44 PM
slowly reading this
I’m lying on the sofa. the cat is lying on my back
November 15, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I’m lying on the sofa. the cat is lying on my back
this Helene Funke painting is up for auction in December. estimate of about 10k-20k euros, which seems very low, but what do I know. she should be better known.
November 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
this Helene Funke painting is up for auction in December. estimate of about 10k-20k euros, which seems very low, but what do I know. she should be better known.
swimming in her sea of toys
November 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
swimming in her sea of toys
@regretteruane.bsky.social you’ve got my spending my downtime trawling the internet archive etc for lovely children’s illustrations — one of the best ways of spending time :). barbara swiderska is one I can’t find much about anywhere but the couple of books online are beautiful
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
@regretteruane.bsky.social you’ve got my spending my downtime trawling the internet archive etc for lovely children’s illustrations — one of the best ways of spending time :). barbara swiderska is one I can’t find much about anywhere but the couple of books online are beautiful
realising that she’s been with us for a month as of yesterday 🥰
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
realising that she’s been with us for a month as of yesterday 🥰
here we go! god what a joyful magazine
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
here we go! god what a joyful magazine
best/most unwell premise to a new christmas movie out this year is about a single mother who puts on loads of prosthetics to get a job as a hotel santa … so she can get her daughter cheap snowboarding lessons? but she falls for the hotel manager and has to keep her identity a secret???
November 10, 2025 at 12:22 AM
best/most unwell premise to a new christmas movie out this year is about a single mother who puts on loads of prosthetics to get a job as a hotel santa … so she can get her daughter cheap snowboarding lessons? but she falls for the hotel manager and has to keep her identity a secret???
