Rachel Curzon

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@JennyMitchellGo Fab news! Congrats, Jenny.

Great Poetry News! I've been given an Author's Foundation Grant by the Society of Authors for my work-in-progress! They've also given me a special Arthur Welton Award. I wouldn't be happier!!!!

@victoriamoul @SDiamanka Will have a rummage - thanks!

@Rachel__Curzon @SDiamanka No prob! I’ve written about a few of these at various times on my substack if you search the table of contents. (Also about various older French poets.)

For French speakers, I went to an amazing poetry show by @SDiamanka, one of my very favourite living French poets, last night. Like watching Marot live! Not to be missed and he has one more show in Paris at the end of December.

@victoriamoul @SDiamanka This is so useful - huge, huge thanks. I would have had absolutely no clue or point of entry otherwise. Much appreciated!

@Rachel__Curzon @SDiamanka But I’m not at all an expert. I also quite like several of the v v high profile French poets like Guy Goffette and Céline Coulon, though not as much as the ones I’ve named above.

@IanHumphWriter It's such a gorgeous and surprising book.

@Rachel__Curzon Thank you so much Rachel for this insightful, generous review. Your observation about contributors using the Brontes' work and lives as a 'stepping-off point' for their prose poems is spot on.

I really loved @IanHumphWriter's No Net Ensnares Me anthology, and Brontë Studies kindly let me whang on about it for a bit. tandfonline.com/eprint/MV9TP3D…

@wjneumire Absolutely do not do that. (And nor shall I.)

i'm afraid i've started thinking about how many poems i could've written in place of the papers i've graded

@JamesRoderickB @SteveGone58 🤣 👏

@SteveGone58 Bit of a sausage-fest, isn't it?

TOP 10 Short Prose Writers 1. Raymond Carver 2. Ernest Hemingway 3. Ray Bradbury 4. Roald Dahl 5. Richard Yates 6. Tobias Wolff 7. Richard Matheson 8. Stephen King 9. Thom Jones 10. Philip K. Dick

@LightHealing @tracyurq @ShinyFluffdnd @aliner @AV4APod @mozsab @lizabethswann @LouiseWeebe @lobstergirl666 Love Vincent, love this. 👏👏

@le0nardpoetry Lang may yer lumb reek, etc.

MOVED HOUSE

@wjneumire Blimey.

@TomCook24 Just working from a position of complete ignorance (as usual). I was wondering if there was a standard typeface for three decker novels, whether it varied between presses, whether I could track it down... Thank you so much for replying! 🙏

@Rachel__Curzon Oooh, not a century I know a great deal about typographically. (It’s generally considered a low point aesthetically/creatively: not much changes until Morris et al.) What are you trying to find out?

@TomCook24 Obviously feel free to ignore this, but might you be able to recommend anything I can read to learn about Victorian typesetting? (Specifically, Stewart and Murray's printing of Villette in 1853?) Hugest thanks either way, and sorry to intrude...

Really enjoying Sean Ashton's wry, witty collection, Sampler. Hard to capture the offbeat, endearingly arch tone with a single poem, but I liked this one.

Eating chocolate in the style of I. A. Richards. facebook.com/share/r/1Bcpe8…

@LightHealing Oh, it's bad. It's really bad.

@LightHealing Actually, I applaud your marginally eccentric breakfast choices. I once ate a giant crabstick before 8am, which is just plain nasty.

@LightHealing And yet the biggest enigma is still: WHY ARE YOU EATING PASTA FOR BREAKFAST 😉

@LightHealing Whoop! (No pressure, though)

@bloodsigns Blimey, that's good.

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