Denis James Flannery

theconversation.com/david-bowie-fi… This -- on Bowie-items at the new 2025 V&A space -- has just been published ...

I have a bluesky account: @denisflannery25.bsky.social

@seventydys I don't actually, David! Many thanks for sharing this with me ...

@DenisFlannery You surely know this wonderful recording of MM reading it: youtube.com/watch?v=YfFvBT…

All are naked, none is safe. Marianne Moore, What Are Years

@seventydys _Bastard ..._ is a fantastic novel ...

I’d loved the late Dorothy Allison’s stories in ‘Trash’, so in 1992 I imported a few copies of her novel ‘Bastard Out of Carolina’ for the bookshop I worked in. Word got round about this book’s exceptional beauty & raw power, & I ended up putting it in the hands of many readers.

@DannyJBarton Try this, Danny: youtube.com/watch?v=ixAeBF… ... it's amazing. The video was made in the early 2000s (but don't let that put you off) but it has been amazing for me. best wishes

@nemoloris A stunning poem! Lucky you!

Should keep me busy for a while (21,000 lines).

@smartgiles It's stunnning, Giles ... I am totally with you on this ...

Am rereading Derek Jarman’s MODERN NATURE for what might be at least the tenth time, it’s one of my sacred texts.

Unbelievably sad news ... I love Edna O'Brien's writing ... theguardian.com/books/article/…

#EnglishCreates new Environment Secretary @UnivEnglish

'a lift into brighter air' -- Henry James, _The Tragic Muse_ (1890)

I'm honoured and delighted that my review-essay, published today, about Hanya Yanagiahra's 2022 novel _To Paradise_ finds itself mingling in fine company as part of the Spring 2024 issue of _The Henry James Review_. It feels so great to be writing about James again ...

@jmarkcornwall Thank you so much, Mark! :)

I'm honoured and delighted that my essay, 'Alan Hollinghurst, Derek Jarman, and the Lesson of Racine' finds itself mingling in fine company as part of Nicholas Hammond's and Paul Hammond's new book _Racine's Tragedies of Tyranny_, published today: brill.com/display/title/…

@CourtneyROI Thanks, David! You're really kind ...

@DenisFlannery Great stuff Denis. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@RobertAllenPoet 'The Aspern Papers' by Henry James ....

I’m in the mood for a novella, something short. Something magical. Something full of surprises. Any recommendations?

@TravisMFoster katedanielspoetryandprose.com/in-the-months-…

@huwgriffiths I have learnt, Hugh, (sometimes the hard way), that they way to give a good 20-minute paper is to give a 17-minute paper ...😃

I was honoured to be asked by The Conversation to write something about Sinead O'Connor's outrageous gifts: theconversation.com/sinead-oconnor…

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… On BBC Radio Leeds this morning, talking with the wonderful Gayle Lofthouse about the poetry of Aladdin Sane .... (about 1 hour and 19 minutes into the programme)

"What he loved in horses was what he loved in men, the blood and the heat of the blood that ran them. " Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023), _All the Pretty Horses_, 1992.