Gregory Woods
@woodsgregory
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Six poetry books with Carcanet Press. Three literary/cultural histories with Yale UP. Emeritus Prof of Gay & Lesbian Studies, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Joined January 2011
Left: Sarah Pochin launches Christians for Reform UK Right: Sarah Pochin, "It drives me mad when I see adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of people that are basically anything other than white" Wait till she finds out that Jesus wasn't white 🤷‍♂️
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Three new poems of mine in Chainlink journal... https://t.co/doz1M9hcsx
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Come and see me if you're in Edinburgh on 17 August! https://t.co/IcmtgAxamf
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Google's AI summary told me that Don Paterson was the author of [Thom Gunn's] "The Man with Night Sweats", about which he wrote a negative review. Artificial intelligence is a bit like artificial grass: nothing like the real thing.
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“I would think of poetry as a place where you connect your doubts to the things you don’t doubt. Free-floating doubt wouldn’t trigger the lightning that contradiction does. Because paradox really is deep.” —Fanny Howe (1940-2025)
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Our bijou programmette about the February House went out on BBC Radio 3 yesterday. Here it is for perpetual listening. https://t.co/ho63EpwoKy
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When a house share in Brooklyn became an epicentre of Western music and literature.
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Apparently, this programme of mine goes out on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday evening at 7.15. https://t.co/e0YKFdQRtz
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When a house share in Brooklyn became an epicentre of Western music and literature.
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"Perhaps the most iconic animals ever to have lived." (@BBC on dinosaurs.)
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"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world." (Francis Bacon, "Of Goodness, and Goodness of Nature")
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The weather forecaster on East Midlands Today keeps saying, "If I'm honest". The trouble is, I have no way of telling.
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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers, @Keir_Starmer
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BBC News observe migration shot up after Brexit in 2020 but doesn't explain that ending Free Movement with the EU means we replaced temp workers from the EU with permanent workers from India, Nigeria and elsewhere around the world BBC News DID point out that under Boris Johnson
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On @BBCr4today this morning, the BBC’s pet political scientist Sir John Curtice said, of Reform’s performance in yesterday’s local elections: “We have seen unprecedented success for a Eurosceptic party in an election in Britain.” Oh yeah? Don't tell Boris Johnson!
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These savages will never know what it was like to be contented with sufficiency.
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Yukio Mishima, born 100 years ago today. “His nickname in gay circles was Cinderella, because no matter what he was doing or what kind of sexual episode was going on, he’d check his watch, and he had to be home at midnight to write.” (Paul Schrader) Photo, Eikoh Hosoe.
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My poem "Five Swivel Chairs" has just been published on Anthropocene; with thanks to @charliebaylis6.
Today on Anthropocene new poetry by @woodsgregory 🪑🪑🪑🪑🪑 https://t.co/IeHnfjdVB6
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"When I was growing up in the 1980s there was hardly any queer culture." Goodness! I wonder what I spent all those years in the 1970s writing a PhD about. *
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