Dr Dickon Edwards
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Can someone tell the Sunday Times news desk that Curb Your Enthusiasm is not a documentary?
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Today I was walking on Liverpool Road when a woman suddenly stopped me to say: “I just want to say I think you look fabulous”
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In 1988 my father was so moved by the film Distant Voices Still Lives that he wrote a fan letter to Terence Davies. TD replied by *phoning* my dad to talk about growing up in the 40s and early 50s. RIP.
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Room 101, Hotel Continental, Tangier. Early December 2005. Reading Finnegans Wake. Also in his travel bag: Plato, Burroughs, Kerouac, Dorothy Parker, and James Ellroy's LA Confidential trilogy.
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“One of the most rigorous and challenging vivas I’ve ever witnessed” - the exam chair. Thankfully I emerged with a Pass With Minor Corrections.
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Birkbeck admitted me for a BA despite my LACK of A-Levels (had a crisis at 17). Got the BA, stayed on for an MA, now doing a fully-funded PhD, all at Birkbeck. Still no A levels.
At Birkbeck, we’re proud to offer our students the chance to change their lives through education and make admissions decisions based on students’ future potential, not just their past attainment.
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Delighted to announce that I got this job.
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Happy to announce: I won this. £2000 for my research on Tender Buttons.
I'm wondering if my research on Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons (1914) might count as a work from the long nineteenth century. It certainly has C19th affinities, not least with its Wildean flourishes and its canary yellow cover...
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One of the joys of second hand books. This is a Bukowski poem.
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Perhaps a good moment to announce that I will be an Associate Research Fellow at
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in October. Unpaid role, but I get uni staff ID, email address, library access, and a sense of usefulness after all.
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Probably naive of me, but if you can't decide between two books in a prize set up to raise the profile of literary fiction, why not give it to the one that *hasn't* already had an absolute ton of hype?
#BookerPrize2019
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News! My application for full time PhD funding was... successful. Third time lucky indeed. Starts in October.
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Corrections approved. I am officially a Doctor of Camp Modernism in Literature.
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Reader, I got the job.
Thanks to the kind friends (plural!) who pointed out this job to me. Isherwood is in my PhD thesis, after all. ...
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How sad to discover that the band EMF were not named after E. M. Forster.
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I have finished my PhD thesis. Not submitting until 30 Sept, but it's all pretty much done.
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One of the less trumpeted joys of
@TheLondonLib
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Going through old photos. I’m quite glad that I looked like this, once.
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PhD graduation ceremony today. All things are indeed possible. @ Birkbeck, University of London
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I’m going to apply. I presume candidates need to know which Ronald Firbank novel Jarman considered adapting, and which Orange Juice single he did the video for.
We're looking for a Custodian for Prospect Cottage!
£21,149 per year, full time, based at Prospect Cottage, Dungeness
Get your application in by Wed 18 May 2022, 5pm and help us continue the inspiring legacy of Derek Jarman.
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Man on Hoxton High Street just muttered ‘freak’ at me as I passed. Still got it!
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It was indeed upsetting on the tube today. Aggressive groups of men, all without masks, shouting at the top of their voices on trains. To coin a phrase, why does football get a free pass?
Maybe I should be able to laugh at it, but I’m finding all the videos of drunk football fans genuinely upsetting. My boyfriend is in hospital, I now struggle to walk to the park, people have lost jobs, health or loved ones - all because of Covid. Yet this is ok because: football?
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Personal good news. My work on the PhD has been deemed good enough to pass the mid-point upgrade. Very pleased.
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The fact that London has suddenly come alive with tourists again has made me think of doing a Queer Bloomsbury walking tour. Woolf, Jarman, Wilde, Forster, Keynes, Strachey, Gays the Word, and of course Kenneth Williams.
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Looking for a seat on a train today, I walk past a young couple. She bursts into a manic giggle, he says ‘What da f— was that?’ Still got it!
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Had my thesis bound in the style of Firbank’s first editions. Black cloth, gold lettering. A reminder that I write books now. And that I can.
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Happy New Year to all those seeing it in in isolation. Whether that’s enforced or, as in my case, purely because I like it that way.
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Happy Birthday to my dear brother, Tom Edwards (1975-2017).
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My favourite comment received by a stranger on the street remains: “Oy! The Eighties!”
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RIP Raymond Briggs. At school I had a Fungus the Bogeyman pencil case, decorated with this particular panel from the book. My English teacher saw it and reeled off the authors of the various books being spoofed. Literary entryism!
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My mother is in hospital after surgery on her hip. She's on the mend. The important detail is that this happened at a quilters' conference while line dancing.
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I actually have a paid job today, if a temporary one! Two weeks to compile an index for a new book. Very much my sort of thing.
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Altering my Twitter bio to mention that I live in a rented room. More writer biogs should declare this, I think. "Divides their time between London and Florence" makes me hate them from the start, frankly.
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My PhD thesis is now available to read online. Free.
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Happy birthday to my brother Tom Edwards (1975-2017). Seen here in 2012 playing guitar for Adam Ant.
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It feels like the nation is in one massive BDSM relationship where no one can remember the safeword.
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Alan Hollinghurst has now read my thesis and said nice things about it, so I must have some abiding value after all.
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Less energy on what one dislikes or finds offensive, more on what one likes and finds beautiful.
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RIP Joan Didion. Who believed in the importance of Actually Making An Effort for the Author’s Photo.
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Every PhD hits a point where you start to research your own past self, the one whose idea it was.
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A gang of teenage boys picked on me in Sainsbury’s earlier. Circling me, pretending to hit me, laughing. Had that sort of thing all my life, but it still hurts.
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Author photos should be more like this, and less 'Clean Person Notices Something To One Side'.
Eimear McBride still with the undisputed best author photo.
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I'm now including my musical past in my potted biography when sending out book proposals. Previously I thought it was irrelevant. Now I realise that it makes me more interesting. These days, every bloody person is a writer. Not everyone has made records too.
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On Gray’s Inn Road today, a group of sunglasses-wearing lads in a sports car pass me. One sticks out his head to shout: ‘HELLO, GAY BOY!’. Still got it!
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I'm grateful that in 2011
@birkbeck_ETC
let me do a BA in English despite not having any A-levels. I just gave a good interview, coming across as intelligent and bookish enough to go straight into a degree. Let people be themselves in person, beyond CVs and statements.
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COVID day 14, including the first day of symptoms. Negative at last!
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Should add that Sue Pollard complimented me on *my* strong look in the grocers today.
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I’ve been saying it for years but especially now:
@BirkbeckUoL
really look after their students.
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Hollinghurst's Line of Beauty in one tweet.
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A friend re my purple braces & white shirt: “You appear to be dressed as a packet of Silk Cut”
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Anyway, just want to say how grateful I am for those who do follow me here, and who like what I do. I know it can’t be easy!
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Non-binary in my case means finding Paperchase too femme and Ryman too butch.
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Timed tickets for the reopening of the British Library have just been released. Predictably the servers crashed at once. It's Glastonbury for researchers.
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A useful retort: 'I'm afraid I don't have the budget for any more unpaid work'.
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Wish gentle self awareness and consideration was coming home.
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My supervisors have looked at my thesis and think I can finish it in 6 weeks! Good news I suppose, though I'm rather anxious (as ever).
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Phd (minor) corrections submitted. Fingers crossed the examiners approve. It was a tough viva, after all. Like a camper version of Line of Duty.
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Merry Christmas to all my Twitter friends. All good health and happiness to you. x
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In summer I walk the streets of London looking like an extra from Death on the Nile and frankly somebody has to.
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End the anachronism of 1st editions as hardbacks. Make HBs limited editions for collectors & libraries; provide paperbacks for actual readers.
What one thing would you change about book publishing? Big or small?
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I applied after all. Hopes at ground level!
I'd quite like to work for the LRB, but I suspect I'm too old to be an intern now.
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This was Rushdie’s appearance as a version of himself, delivering lines scripted by Larry David and his writing team.
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Positive thoughts: evidence of Spring from my mother's garden. As Larkin said, 'Afresh, afresh, afresh'.
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And here's one he took of me, on the Hotel Continental's terrace. Early Dec 2005.
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“View from 46 Gordon Square by Dickon Edwards, 7 December 2021. Phone and anxiety”
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I end the year as a fully-funded PhD candidate. Something I thought only happened to other people. Will be doing lots of paying it forward in 2020.
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Have now applied to be an Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck. It's an unpaid affiliation role, but it will hopefully help with getting an income.
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Not sure what best to do about turning 52. Except to finally, finally embrace jazz.
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Absolute beauty
Moroccan design is all about colour, texture & fluid lines. It is a unique blend of North African, Mediterranean & Islamic styles, creating a distinctive look which has inspired artists & designers all over the world.
A thread on the art of Moroccan design aesthetics...
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The little memorial tree to Dad and Tom. Bildeston churchyard.
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If children are the least at risk, and there are no schools, perhaps they can just run things. I've seen Bugsy Malone.
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Oh, and Death on the Nile (1978) is always worth watching for Angela Lansbury out-camping Maggie Smith AND Bette Davis.
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I spent my New Year’s Eve tipsily shopping on Abebooks for old Evelyn Waugh paperbacks and I’m not sorry.
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When this Covid bout is over, I’m looking forward to reinventing myself! Get some new photos done, restart the web diary, generally try at Life again.
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And yes that did really happen, you “didn’t happen” Twitter gits.
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If people have a problem with the name Dickon, I’m now going to say, ‘Fine. It’s Dr. Edwards to you.’
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So I’m now researching how to set up as a professional London walking tour guide, albeit an alternative style one. Themes: Literary / LGBT+ / both. Access-friendly too.
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My viva took place on the first floor of 46 Gordon Square, once home to V Woolf and Vanessa Bell. Bell painted the view circa 1909:
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I have now found a room to rent in St Leonards-on-Sea! All being well I will move there in June. Looking forward to being a regular at places like Black Gull Books,
@KinoTeatrArts
and
@Electric_palace
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Merry Christmas from Bildeston Market Square, Suffolk, UK. And from its wonderful yarnbombers. 🧶🎄📮🇬🇧
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Job ads using the phrase 'can-do attitude' fill me with a won't-bother attitude.
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Today's catcall. Older man on bike, Russell Square: 'Stop dyeing your hair, you poof!' Still. Got. It.
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Harry Styles may be the latest king of camp, but has he just received funding for doing a PhD on the subject? I think not.
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Possibly my strangest cat-call yet today, from a grey man in Covent Garden: 'You're in Britain, not France!'
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Job advice: ‘Define your skill set’. Me: All kinds of things, but especially an aversion to phrases like ‘skill set’.
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'April is the cruellest month' - T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (1922). 'Mr Eliot was thinking about his income taxes' - Quentin Crisp, Resident Alien (1996)
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Camp Modernism Advent Calendar. Behind window number 1 is... Orlando: A Biography (1928), by Virginia Woolf. Here’s Tilda Swinton as the title character, shot by Sally Potter in a 1988 photo shoot.
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The last time I bought a packet of cigarettes it would have been Sobranie Cocktails.
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I use the Barbican cafes so often that today they assumed I was a resident and gave me a discount. It’s always been a fantasy of mine to live there, so perhaps this is a good omen…
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80% of men in London today have the same look. Beard and beanie hat. If nothing else, I like to think I supply punctuation.
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Of course! The year of the V&A’s major Aubrey Beardsley exhibition!
My husband said if you forgotten the code to access a construction site always try 1966
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