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Tom Cook

@TomCook24

poet critic person · typographer @FaberBooks · contributor @theTLS · known birdwatcher · you could hire me to typeset something: [email protected]

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Tom Cook@TomCook24·
My most recent piece for @theTLS is a review of Helen Vendler’s final book of essays on poetry. A truly brilliant collection overall, though she was wrong about Ocean Vuong, who is – as we know – shit. GET IT HERE: the-tls.com/literature/poe…
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@hecubian_devil So glad to see this. I’m currently finishing up a review of it and feel like I’ve been going insane talking to people about it. The first act sets her up as such an astonishing character; then Hamnet dies and she becomes a line-repeater (‘London.’ ‘London?!’) and gawper
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Cassie Pritchard@hecubian_devil·
Still completely baffled by this sequence where Buckley decides to play Agnes—wife of a playwright—as an infant seeing a play for the first time, or perhaps someone raised by wolves being reintroduced to human society. It goes on for what feels like 20 minutes. It’s unbearable.
isha@scriptedcore

tears in my eyes can’t believe this is life

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alistair green@mralistairgreen·
This is how I feel about Twitter vs bluesky
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I’m rereading Geoffrey Hill’s Mercian Hymns (1971) this morning. They’re much parodied, but they really are stunning; proof, however inconvenient, that the prose poem exists. (Does anyone recognize the quote in the second stanza? Is it, knowing him, something from e.g. Ruskin?)
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Dr Bai 『ザ・グレート・アテンプト』発売@doctorbaixue·
Full offense but if as an academic I ever used AI to do any research for me, summarize any readings, or write any of my work, I would be so incredibly humiliated and ashamed of myself.
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(It could equally, of course, be the voice of a schoolmaster? I don’t bloody know)
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(I have tried googling it, but Google is fucked now because of AI, and anyway all the search results lead back to… Geoffrey Hill’s 1971 collection of prose poems, Mercian Hymns)
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Wodehouse Tweets
Wodehouse Tweets@inimitablepgw·
As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.
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Alexander Larman
Alexander Larman@alexlarman·
@inimitablepgw ‘Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.’
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Ray Padgett@rayfp·
Slop Bob’s been busy since I last checked in. (He’s also died like three more times.)
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Tom Cook@TomCook24·
Why is Neil Young always dressed like that
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Tom Cook@TomCook24·
I love both, but Dylan has it for me. Something I’ve observed, though: Simon is an insecure artist – no amount of being told he’s great puts him at ease, and you can feel it in every interview – whereas Dylan *genuinely* doesn’t care what people think of him, and never has
Gene Parmesan@dsonoiki

Why does Bob Dylan occupy a higher cultural tier than Paul Simon? They are at worst, the same level songwriter, and Simon can actually sing Simon’s career also spans Simon & Garfunkel AND his solo work Simon also makes more global music (South Africa / Brazil influences)

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John Attridge
John Attridge@John_Attridge·
It is not enough for a close reading of a work of literature to eschew biographical and contextual details. You should also avoid understanding the text or even reading it, in order to focus purely on its form
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Tom Cook@TomCook24·
@BretVDB Quite right. Astounded to see a number of ‘eminent’ professors on here endorsing its use and peddling the ‘we have to live with it’ narrative
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Bret van den Brink
Bret van den Brink@BretVDB·
Unpopular opinion: AI use should be banned from (or severely regulated in) the Humanities altogether, and departments promoting its use should be rebranded as Artificial Humanities.
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The Bookseller
The Bookseller@thebookseller·
.@JonathanCape has appointed Declan Ryan as its new poetry editor, to take up the role in summer 2026 following the retirement of Robin Robertson 👇 ebx.sh/HKJqDb
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