Jeremy Noel-Tod

Associate Professor, University of East Anglia. Editor, Penguin Book of the Prose Poem. Poetry newsletter: link in bio. Gone to Bluesky for the foreseeable.

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OK that's it. I'm off.

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@gulfstream10 Thanks!

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@LizC14 Yes, I was looking at them!

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@pykelets Exactly! I feel there is a lot of vague magical thinking lingering in the academic publishing business…

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@GreenBowlerHat Ah! I didn’t know this. I actively favour Open Access, though, so not primarily motivated by REF requirements here.

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@ProfThomasDixon And this right here is the problem with the REF as an unserious game that we pretend to take seriously…

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@ProfThomasDixon Thanks! This puts a finger on what I’m wondering about. Do these things really signify any more? I’m not aiming at a chair at Oxbridge but for internal purposes I want a 4* monograph that’s out in time. And we’ve all had experience of a dodgy peer review from a prestige venue…

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@PWB_writer1 Thanks for this beautiful response to the post! It encourages me to do more on the fine printing of poems. (I'm not on Twitter much any more, partly due to its suppression of Substack links, but check back in every week or so...)

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@Swaefastide Haha

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People who aren’t writers: Telling stories is so important to what it means to be human, it’s what we do

Actual writers: So in this book I was interested in trying to do without the usual trappings of narrative

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@jon_mcgregor Funny, I did think of you!

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If Gyles Brandreth told you to stick your head in the fire, would you do it

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@joekennedy81 @_SamWM_

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@_SamWM_ We did

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@Gregchthomas @essencepress @EdMorganTrust @reaktionbooks Great stuff! I'd love to write about this when it comes out. Hope you'll have his anagrams of the Times Literary Supplement... https://t.co/buKwhM084u

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@ariskindt Yes: perhaps it is the neo-liberal university coding for 'comrade'...

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@charleswhalley Would like to read!

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@johnhaffenden I keep thinking of writing something about The White Goddess and modern poetry...

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@poetrypodcats Big Crisp hushed it up

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Ten years ago today, the hashtag #crisppoet was trending. Sadly, only a few tweets remain, including this take by @DrMatthewSweet on lines by Philip Larkin (for 'crisps' read 'craps'). Why were people doing this? Well, it all began at a motorway services...

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Happy Tyrrell's Apologise for Putting the Poet R.S. Thomas on a Bag of Crisps Day to all who celebrate!

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The scandal of the #crisppoet was a funny story (I still have the bag as a souvenir) and a perfect use of Twitter. But there's also a serious conclusion to be drawn about the casual use of the dead for marketing purposes, which I wrote about here: https://t.co/OcUqnyIGn4