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Martin Goodman

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Writer, and Publisher @barbicanpress1. New book on the Bishnois, MY HEAD FOR A TREE, and new fiction. Emeritus professor of creative writing at Hull.

London Santa MonIca Lowestoft Katılım Temmuz 2011
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Hull Libraries
Hull Libraries@hull_libraries·
Good morning, in Lithuania, it's the Day of the Book Smugglers, commemorating the birthday of Jurgis Bielinis, a newspaperman who created a secret distribution network in the late 19th century to smuggle banned Lithuanian books back into the country. mentalfloss.com/article/62554/…
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If anyone would like to see a photo of a particularly pugnacious Puffin, this is your lucky day.
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A pigeon that came close to a photographer trying to shoot the ceiling
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Martin Goodman@MartinGoodman2·
@utterflea Many thanks Manjula. I really enjoyed our conversation, and your questions. Your enthusiasm is lovely, and it was fun to speak about the challenges of writing the book as well.
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manjula narayan@utterflea·
"The Salman Khan story reached the headlines and people thought if the Bishnois can go fr him so effectively, it's not safe to poach here" - @MartinGoodman2, author,My Head for a Tree talks to me abt the Bishnoi whose beliefs hv conservation at their core open.spotify.com/episode/08jA3q…
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manjula narayan@utterflea·
@DrSidMukherjee Also on the page are pointers to this week's Books & Authors podcast with @MartinGoodman2, author, My Head for a Tree; The Extraordinary Story of the Bishnoi, the World's First Eco-Warriors + a review of Inquilab by Khawaja Ahmad Abbas
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Martin Goodman@MartinGoodman2·
This is a happy, free flowing conversation with Manjula, the sparky books editor for the Hindustan Times, who shared a stage with me in Kerala. @ProfileBooks @greystonebooks @NARENDRABISHNOE
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"The Salman Khan story reached the headlines and people thought if the Bishnois can go fr him so effectively, it's not safe to poach here" - @MartinGoodman2, author,My Head for a Tree talks to me abt the Bishnoi whose beliefs hv conservation at their core open.spotify.com/episode/08jA3q…

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Simon Knott@SimoninSuffolk·
The River Hull as it heads towards the Humber, an old barge in the low tide mud. In Philip Larkin's poem 'Here', his hymn of love to his adopted town, he wrote of 'barge-crowded water' both in the docks and here on the River Hull. The barges were used to transfer goods from ships. No longer. Humber Dock is now a marina, Princes Dock, which is in the centre of the city and which Larkin would have known, closed in 1968 and is now home to a shopping centre on stilts. Queens Dock, the first and largest of the city's docks, had been filled in in the 1930s and turned into Queens Gardens. And yet still there are these old barges, lying alone or clustered in twos or threes in the mud along the River Hull. Memories of an older time, still familiar but out of reach. They have slipped their names.
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Lost London@Lost___London·
Whitechapel, London, 1950/60s.
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Britten as a Boy@BrittenAsABoy·
The song ‘What Bliss is Home’ composed by @benparrymusic that will be sung by local schoolchildren at the unveiling of the BRITTEN AS A BOY statue | Download the words and music free from our website (link in biog) and join in on Mon 10th Nov at 2pm 🎶 m.youtube.com/watch?v=2VbBd9…
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PhilipLarkinSociety@PLSoc·
[Hull] was famously described by Philip Larkin, who lived here from 1955 to his death in 1985, as "a frightful dump, chilly and smelling of fish." But don’t let that put you off: He fell for the city’s gritty charms, eventually, and wrote about it often. nationalgeographic.com/travel/best-of…
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Martin Goodman@MartinGoodman2·
He was a fine gentlemen as well as a radically fine poet. It was an honour to host an evening of his readings at Hull. 103. Bravo Maurice and thanks for being with us.
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Larkin’s flip side, Maurice Rutherford has died. They were born within weeks of each other. A son of a ‘town that lets you write’, Maurice is a Hull legend. If you don’t know his poetry, you’re in for a treat. theguardian.com/books/2025/oct…

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