Ash/Ear Read This is on Blue Sky

In-depth critical appreciations of literature from Ovid to Sylvia Plath.

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New book review on my Substack (free!): The Last Decade of Cinema by Scott Ryan.

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My latest podcast on Robert Fergusson's The Daft Day is now on YouTube!

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My latest podcast on Robert Fergusson's The Daft Day is now on YouTube!

https://t.co/mm4bvFTPl3

[Ash/Ear Read This is on Blue Sky @earreadthis]

Iconic Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson is the subject of today's podcast, as I look at his breakthrough poem, 'The Daft Days':

https://t.co/r6TaOCegUt

#edinburgh #LiteraturePosts

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I wrote the second life of an existentialist classic: Mortal Leap by Macdonald Harris, reissued by @bhousepress.

My full review: https://t.co/X3h1h5q87w

#BookReview

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So delighted with reviews in for SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS

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'A thrilling account of one artist’s evolutionary takeoff.'

Over the moon with this fabulous, sensitive, and richly detailed review of SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS @ManchesterUP @YaleRepUK @earreadthis

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@Kali_de_Armas Thank you Kali! Hope you enjoy the book

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As a bird and bard lover, I had a lot to say about Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers by Darren Freebury-Jones @Freeburian. My full review here:

https://t.co/S6TPtcTgrJ

#Shakespeare #bookreviews

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@bmay "inciting a succulent race war?"

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@colone1flanders @courtenaywrites Is gammon a skin colour thing? I thought it just meant fat and salty

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@LeoKearse @PoliticsJOE_UK Only as a clue to our neanderthal past

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@JaneyGodley Oh, I don't know... Sort of agree with throwing that at him

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@Amuns_Ra Courageous and correct

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@ObnoxandAnony @thornewip Thank you! Love your work

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My interview with @thornewip about #TwinPeaks is now on YouTube!

https://t.co/tvfMZrPBQS

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What better way to mark Halloween than with an Ominous Whoosh?

On today's pod I'm talking about Twin Peaks! In a bookish way of course, as I'm joined by writer John Thorne (@thornewip) to discuss his fantastic book on The Return!

Out now wherever you listen to the sounds...

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@sylviaplathinfo @UVicLib Bravo Peter! Can't wait to see it

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@TPgrammar Really, really into it.

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Hospitalised myself last year opening a tuna can. Never seen so much blood

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@RufusTSuperfly Sadly?