Jeremy Noel-Tod

OK that's it. I'm off.

@gulfstream10 Thanks!

@jntod Alexandra Harris’s brilliant book on West Sussex, The Rising Down, has interesting pages on Cowper and his stay with William Hayley.

@LizC14 Yes, I was looking at them!

@jntod Have you considered Open Book Publishers in Cambridge? openbookpublishers.com/about/our-busi…

@pykelets Exactly! I feel there is a lot of vague magical thinking lingering in the academic publishing business…

responses to this are simultaneously illuminating and baffling if you want to please the REF gods, it seems to boil down to 'OA but not like that'

@GreenBowlerHat Ah! I didn’t know this. I actively favour Open Access, though, so not primarily motivated by REF requirements here.

@ProfThomasDixon And this right here is the problem with the REF as an unserious game that we pretend to take seriously…

@jntod Oh - and if 4* is important to you, I'd aim for a traditional academic press because, for good or ill, consciously or otherwise, REF assessors will take that as a proxy for quality of work.

@ProfThomasDixon Thanks! This puts a finger on what I’m wondering about. Do these things really signify any more? I’m not aiming at a chair at Oxbridge but for internal purposes I want a 4* monograph that’s out in time. And we’ve all had experience of a dodgy peer review from a prestige venue…

@jntod Career/ prestige/ CV reasons? Possibly higher quality peer review process? For REF 2029 is OA essential?

@PWB_writer1 Thanks for this beautiful response to the post! It encourages me to do more on the fine printing of poems. (I'm not on Twitter much any more, partly due to its suppression of Substack links, but check back in every week or so...)

4 of 4/ A contemp. example in Canada is @GaspereauPress. The design; the paper; the typography for titles, headings & body text: so elegant & carefully chosen. What a happy turn for poet @roblucastaylor to have landed Gaspereau to house his correspondingly beautiful new poems.

1 of 4/ There's always so much to admire in @jntod's "Some Flowers Soon" blog on Substack. But today's was a "drop everything" post because it plays to the intersection of two of my greatest fascinations (obsessions?): poetry & typography. Take a look: someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/pinks-17-ice…

@Swaefastide Haha

People who aren’t writers: Telling stories is so important to what it means to be human, it’s what we do Actual writers: So in this book I was interested in trying to do without the usual trappings of narrative

@jon_mcgregor Funny, I did think of you!

@jntod Never before have I felt so SEEN

If Gyles Brandreth told you to stick your head in the fire, would you do it

@joekennedy81 @_SamWM_

@_SamWM_ We did

@Gregchthomas @essencepress @EdMorganTrust @reaktionbooks Great stuff! I'd love to write about this when it comes out. Hope you'll have his anagrams of the Times Literary Supplement... someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/this-element…

Ok, myself and @essencepress have some exciting news: we're currently working towards the first selected edition of Edwin Morgan's (@EdMorganTrust) concrete, visual, & sound poetry. And we're delighted to have just signed a contract with @reaktionbooks to publish the edition 🚀🚀

@ariskindt Yes: perhaps it is the neo-liberal university coding for 'comrade'...

@jntod Oh is that what’s happening , I thought it was me being inept with the link. Well that’s a bit crap, tovarisch! (When did we all start using the c word - I don’t even like it in English)

someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/a-rush-of-th… More brillliant musing from my colleague @jntod , this time on Clark Coolidge and Philip Guston

@charleswhalley Would like to read!

well I'm going to have to finish my essay on the last collection then

@johnhaffenden I keep thinking of writing something about The White Goddess and modern poetry...

With my friend William Graves at Ca n'Alluny, the house that Robert G built, at Deià, Mallorca. William is keen to encourage research on his father's works - RG's output of poetry, fiction, mythography, translation &c was prodigious - & not merely the biographical imbroglios.

@poetrypodcats Big Crisp hushed it up

@jntod Why didn’t I know about this?!

Ten years ago today, the hashtag #crisppoet was trending. Sadly, only a few tweets remain, including this take by @DrMatthewSweet on lines by Philip Larkin (for 'crisps' read 'craps'). Why were people doing this? Well, it all began at a motorway services...

Happy Tyrrell's Apologise for Putting the Poet R.S. Thomas on a Bag of Crisps Day to all who celebrate!

The scandal of the #crisppoet was a funny story (I still have the bag as a souvenir) and a perfect use of Twitter. But there's also a serious conclusion to be drawn about the casual use of the dead for marketing purposes, which I wrote about here: someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/a-fleeting-l…