Suzie Grogan

'John Keats: Poetry, Life and Landscapes' is out now at bookshops & pen-and-sword.co.uk/John-Keats-Har… 'it's beautiful. Well-written, well-researched an absolute treat to read.' 'A celebratory meld of memoir, biography and travelogue' Foreword by Dr. Lynn Shepherd of @Wordsworthians

I miss the fun I had on here in the early days. As a lefty liberal proud-to-be-woke type it’s feeling an alien sort of place now. Ta ta for now my friends. Hope to see you elsewhere. X

@guineapig66 I’m on 36, exploring classic crime for a year. Not exactly challenging but fun, on the whole

I've finished reading around 40 books so far this year. 2.5 months left of 2024, so I wonder how many by the end. Some books are huge ones that are taking me many months to read. Non-fiction, I must add. Fiction is quicker.

I watched #Threads last night, naively because it’s always hard to conjure the backdrop to my youth (cars, brands etc)Dear goodness save us. I didn’t remember how bleak and brilliant and terrifying it was. Bravo all.

@fugitiveink I’m a bookseller in Framlingham & though we’re primarily secondhand we are approached by many local authors longing for shelf space. Their decision sounds a bit arbitrary as even pro edits miss stuff but multiplied by the number of requests even a 2 hour read is impossible #shame

I'm amused to see that our best local independent bookshop — the Holt Bookshop — apparently won't stock anything that isn't professionally edited. I don't care, particularly, but this doesn't sound like a great tactic for encouraging genuinely local voices.

My Keats book is on offer from my publisher - I’d love to hear what you think of it #keats #johnkeats #poetry

@gillybethstern Great news. What a terrific job. As a fellow ghostwriter and editor I think you’ll be perfect!

Thrilled - a freelance editor and ghostwriter!! - to be judging the Debut Fiction category. Can’t wait to share the joy of discovering new novelists with you.

#RecommendedReading this #NationalPoetryDay: 📖 John Keats – Poetry, Life and Landscapes by @keatsbabe 🔗 buff.ly/3yO9Mey

@guineapig66 Im coming with you. I feel lost.

Most of everything going on baffles me these days; how people can be so stupid, cruel, gullible, selfish. Beam me up, Scotty; this away team needs to come home.

@amjuster @RolandArkell It’s behind a paywall but looks interesting!

@RolandArkell on the #poetry work that awakened the genius of #JohnKeats: antiquestradegazette.com/print-edition/…

@oldmapman Thanks so much Ken, for your continued championing of my book. It means a lot 🥰

Shell Shocked Britain is an amazing book, an enlightening book, please read it.

Well there’s a thing! My first best seller is just 99p on Kindle. Shell Shocked Britain: The First World War's Legacy for Britain's Mental Health eBook #history #WWI #PTSD amazon.co.uk/Shell-Shocked-…

#OTD 1797 Coleridge joins Wordsworth and Dorothy at Alfoxden. The 'annus mirabilis' begins

Today's picture: Keats's copy of Shakespeare, from the collection @KeatsHouse #OTD 1818 Keats wrote "I have great reason to be content, for thank God I can read, and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths"

@agathachristie Towards Zero. Sinister and gripping

What's a lesser-known Christie you think deserves more attention? 🔍

@DrFrond Wow! What a thoughtful pupil 🤩

Frankly I don’t know why anybody of Biden or Trump’s age would *want* to be President. I’m 60 and I don’t even want to go upstairs.

Keats goes on "What astonishes me more than any thing is the tone, the coloring, the slate, the stone, the moss, the rock-weed; or, if I may so say, the intellect, the countenance of such places. ...I shall learn poetry here and shall henceforth write more than ever" 2/2

Today's #pastpost: Stanza to screen: @keatsbabe interviews film-makers inspired by La Belle Dame Sans Merci wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2015/01/1…

Crumbs it seems ages since I wrote this!

I’ve got Covid- probably from a trip to the theatre in Norwich last Wednesday. All jabbed up but nowhere to go. Can’t work in @BooksinFram either 🤧😫 It’s still out there folks.