The Fifth Day

A publication exploring literature's intersections with culture, posting articles every Friday.

[The Romanticism blog @Wordsworthians]

Wonderful portrait of Byron, who died #OTD 1824, on display at @WordsworthTrust Grasmere

[The Vinyl Factory @TheVinylFactory]

Radical poets: The story of the Beat generation in 10 rare records. #WorldPoetryDay https://t.co/dnFF9m5bKy

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Armenian photographer Lucie Khahoutian is influenced by superstitions and traditional folk tales: https://t.co/KtlYkcnUV6

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A selection of neo-surrealist poems by Russ Khomutoff: https://t.co/z5MfBSyUhl

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Telephone Bones is a London-based photographer exploring the way that individuals interact with the city: https://t.co/Lp3mBXFpiW

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Author Austin Collings narrates the stifling ambivalence of Northern life – here he meets @AtrocityBoy: https://t.co/Y7CnAsEAzx

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Too many inspirational female writers to mention this #InternationalWomensDay – who are you reading today? We're reading Mary E. Braddon

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This Friday we feature a selection of poems by the poet and musician Jamie Lee from @MoneyBand https://t.co/5HGVXLvw4z

[Penguin Classics UK @classicpenguins]

‘Reading a book is like rewriting it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world’ –Angela Carter

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We spoke to Professor Malcolm Quinn about psychoanalysis and creative practice: https://t.co/omqMC4Ym0Q

[Penguin Books UK @PenguinUKBooks]

‘A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.’

Susan Sontag, born #onthisday in 1933.

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A defence of Austen's oft-forgotten heroine... https://t.co/Ru99QVFOSH

[Literary Hub @lithub]

How art can defeat loneliness and boredom: On looking inward to preserve the need for wonder. https://t.co/Fmz2dcyKtY

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"I think Freud was a féministe. He was the first one who let the hysteric woman talk her troubles out" @petitemeller https://t.co/KRxoPHjngH

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Nina Leen – a Russian-born American photographer and consistent contributor to @LIFE #forgottencreatives

[Bukowski Quotes @bukowski_quote]

Wine.

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Where are the most wonderful hidden bookstores in the world? https://t.co/jzn2jmOBsV

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Progress is slow today. Anyone got any tips for beating #JanuaryBlues?