Jeremy Wikeley
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✍ away for @TheLondonMag, @TelegraphBooks, @EngelsbergIdeas &c. Increasingly elsewhere. Newsletter: A Poetry Notebook ⤵️
South London
Joined November 2018
You need an employer and £38,700 pa for a skilled jobs visa, so that rules out most of this lot. Presumably targeted at translators/interpreters, where there probably is a shortage.
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I probably do this most nappy changes. Still picture the pig trotting out the door with a basket.
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Wait, what.
When I was a little kid, I used to think "this little pig went to market," meant it was going shopping!.
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Niche travel advice request. Do you have a favourite German Hanseatic town? We are going from Sassnitz to Hamburg and want to stop on the way. Bonus points for things to do with toddlers.
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RT @SarahFPoetry: 'fish' is a darkly funny novel that explores the disintegration of an East London flatshare when a tadpole moves into one….
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"A poem’s politics can’t be neatly deduced from its formal surface, or a poet’s politics from her chosen verse style.". Thankfully the myth Allen skewers here hasn't completely taken hold in the UK. Yet.
Reupping an @LAReviewofBooks essay by Austin Allen—featuring @ae_stallings (Oxford Professor of Poetry), among others—in the hopes that it will reach @JoyceCarolOates:
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I really love suburban van Gogh.
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Practically maybe, financially definitely. .
Is it practically impossible to be an honest poet-critic today?. A new essay of mine on the decline of reviewing culture, the rise of the poetry prizes, artistic standards and integrity. Over at the @NorthSeaPoets Substack:.
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This Q feels so much more instructive than standard polling given how far out we are from an election. suggests every party has a similar ceiling. odd we don't see it more often. almost as if. .
18% of Britons say they are likely to consider voting for a new left-wing party led by Jeremy Corbyn. However, this is less than would consider voting for the existing major parties and has caveats. 🧵
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There is a long answer to this kind of stuff and a short answer, but regardless I always think it does poetry down. As if the poems themselves weren't enough.
Ezra Pound sees the artist as a direct descendant of the ancient shaman or magician. At the same time, Fernando Pessoa calls himself a mystic poet. In both authors, as well as Yeats and Eliot, poetry is not just a collection of metaphors, but an initiation into the mysteries.
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RT @timabrahams: These are all very good, but the only author to read on holiday is Eric Ambler.
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ChatGPT would have hammed it up. So much better with this sort of story just to stack up the facts.
god, that Salt Path exposé is surely the work of ChatGPT. how can you be an investigate journalist and not have a distinctive voice? how do you write about something that juicy but manage to make it all so bland?.
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As someone once said, autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful (great reporting).
Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with The Salt Path: the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. It became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film. But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth. @chloehadj. Read:
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Adverbs here objectively bad, split infinitives I've never understood the fuss.
I love you but please stop splitting infinitives when posting on style and give some thought to your philosophy of adverbs.
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Lots to look forward to at @WinPoetryFest this October! . Rimbaud, Benson, Arshi, Rich, Edward Thomas, the prophet Jonah and many, many other exciting poets will all be there, in various guises. 👇 . I will also be wandering around trying to be helpful.
💚Winchester Poetry Festival 2025💚. We invite poetry-lovers + poetry-curious to join us:.10-12 Oct @ArcWinchester .2-9 Oct online + fringe. Theme: ‘Revisiting The Classics’. 24 events inc BSL, live-streaming, relaxed, online, free entry.🎟️ @ace_national
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"We often talk about the indignity of being reduced to a number. But we rarely speak of the comfort of being counted up.".
You can read it here: .
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The clips are great and the editing is fun, he really should just leave it at that.
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