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English teacher @ Harris Westminster, blogger, music nut, gourmand, dad.

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@CarolAtherton8 @Lit_liverbird I think we need to see this vegetable. Will aid distraction.

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@BBC6Music Leftfield @ Brixton Academy (as it was then), c.1997. Left me with permanent tinnitus.

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@Runrober It’s great. Might need a bit of editing to be usable today… princes and dukes 😹

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@RobGMacfarlane Here’s a good ‘un. Bit low on grief, perhaps.

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No job cuts in English at Birkbeck, University of London! - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/qXaJzFc93D via @UKChange

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@BarbaraBleiman @EngSharedFuture Yes your feed is super useful 👍👍 It gives us reading recommendations, teaching ideas and handy sense-checks amidst whatever latest issues are creating waves. You’re the wise owl of #edutwitter

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@gm181 @EngSharedFuture Still thinking about Katy Shaw’s challenge: What is the future story for English? Needs answering. Pronto.

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@Runrober The threatening sight of a woman using her brain…

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@LNS_MissJ Just read it. Immediately bought an extra copy to lend to my students. It’s tantalisingly on the cusp of naturalism and modernism, filled with powerful silences. Can be paired with so many iconic novels, from Gatsby to NW.

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@BarbaraBleiman @EngSharedFuture @Runrober You said a lot. I scribbled two pages of ‘notes to self’ while you were talking. So much to be said for the spontaneous conversation instead of the formal preso.

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@FreyaMariaO Nathaniel Hawthorne’s descriptions of London and Liverpool in ‘Our Old Home’. Melville’s descriptions of Liverpool in ‘Redburn’.

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Loving @McrPoetryLib - the colour, the hand-bound books, the vinyl… 🌈

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@gladlib Without being OTT, he is the living embodiment of Gladstonian values. Incredibly well-read, always open to new ideas, and passionately committed to dialogue, inclusion, healing of our wounded social fabric. We need more folk like him.

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@BarbaraBleiman I know it’s contentious, but I find the social satire much funnier in Deronda as it is so much the sharper in historical/ political terms. The characters and plot are not as harmoniously balanced, but the vision is more piercing. It’s woefully underrated in comparison to MM.

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@BarbaraBleiman It gets better each time as she was so ferociously mature, experienced and well-read when she wrote it. It wasted on me at 30, I thought I got it at 40, but in truth it was only reading it for the third time in my 50s that I appreciated the subtlety - the nods and winks.

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@richard_king I’m reading this at the moment, enjoying the way it is written - largely derived from transcripts of conversations. So it’s chatty as well as incisive. Very stimulating stuff.

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@giantmolecular A sad day

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@BarbaraBleiman @EngMediaCentre A masterclass in close reading and structured thinking. And so informative - I learnt so much more from this than the original report.

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@JamesHandscombe In turn I have to pass the blame onto my wonderful English teacher, ‘Mad’ Jack Byron, who taught me e.e.cummings, Bellow and ‘Hamlet’. There was method in his madness.

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@ProfSJJames It’s on the Cambridge Pre-U syllabus this year (Bks IX & X). My students responded well to it, especially the constant interpretative drama. It’s fun to teach, but demands a lot of preparation to be able to explain that syntax.