'John Keats: Poetry, Life and Landscapes' is out now at bookshops & https://t.co/3UqNC5c6Jo 'it's beautiful. Well-written, well-researched an absolute treat to read.' 'A celebratory meld of memoir, biography and travelogue' Foreword by Dr. Lynn Shepherd of @Wordsworthians
I miss the fun I had on here in the early days. As a lefty liberal proud-to-be-woke type it’s feeling an alien sort of place now. Ta ta for now my friends. Hope to see you elsewhere. X
I watched #Threads last night, naively because it’s always hard to conjure the backdrop to my youth (cars, brands etc)Dear goodness save us. I didn’t remember how bleak and brilliant and terrifying it was. Bravo all.
@fugitiveink I’m a bookseller in Framlingham & though we’re primarily secondhand we are approached by many local authors longing for shelf space. Their decision sounds a bit arbitrary as even pro edits miss stuff but multiplied by the number of requests even a 2 hour read is impossible #shame
Well there’s a thing! My first best seller is just 99p on Kindle. Shell Shocked Britain: The First World War's Legacy for Britain's Mental Health eBook #history#WWI#PTSD https://t.co/wsX8Aj78xy
Today's picture: Keats's copy of Shakespeare, from the collection @KeatsHouse#OTD 1818 Keats wrote "I have great reason to be content, for thank God I can read, and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths"
Keats goes on "What astonishes me more than any thing is the tone, the coloring, the slate, the stone, the moss, the rock-weed; or, if I may so say, the intellect, the countenance of such places. ...I shall learn poetry here and shall henceforth write more than ever"
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I’ve got Covid- probably from a trip to the theatre in Norwich last Wednesday. All jabbed up but nowhere to go. Can’t work in @BooksinFram either 🤧😫 It’s still out there folks.