Lit Bits Podcast

Bookish Podcast & former Radio Show. Guardian pick for Books Podcast. Literary matters examined from curious angles. Adam Smyth & James Kidd 'host'.

[Lit Bits Podcast @LitBitPod]

Lit Bits: 'an intelligent and irreverent' #Podcast according to the @guardian. We are also enthusiastic dancers. https://t.co/4EJWOXaAsT

[Keats-Shelley House @Keats_Shelley]

In drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy brook,
Thy bubblings ne'er remember
Apollo's summer look

Celebrate another rainy day with John Keats' 'In drear-nighted December' read and analysed on the Keats-Shelley Podcast: https://t.co/dNa3HO4IHw

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Our readers wrestle with Inscription issue one.

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Inscription vol. one!

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Inscription issue one comes with a hole drilled through the middle. Does it mean there's more journal, or less? Not sure. But it's nearly here!

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Contents page for issue one, out late September (with hole drilled through middle, poster, vinyl lp, and poetry supplement).

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Copies selling fast! If you'd like INSCRIPTION vol. 1 'Beginnings' (September 2020) AND vol. 2 'Holes' (September 2021) for £70 (for both: each with 10 articles+artworks+vinyl LP), including delivery anywhere, please [email protected] for details.

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Lockdown delivery.

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Tracking lives of printing presses. Woolfs' Minerva given to V Sackville-West as Sissinghurst house-warming gift, where still stands. Nancy Cunard's Minerva sold to Guy Levis Mano who used it for surrealist publications. Are there other instances of presses-through-time?

[39StepPress @39_press]

Would you like something hand printed, probably with errors? Send ideas, one page max., we’ll pick the best, and our apprentices will be prodded from their hammocks. We can post you a hard copy of result.

[39StepPress @39_press]

Work continues apace. Here are our favourite lines from Paradise Lost layered over writing surfaces to hand: TLS letters page, map of Tasmania, Matt Hancock photo, etc. Allegorical significance uncertain.

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The first issue of Inscription is taking shape & it’s all getting very exciting. We’ve had some brilliant proposals already but there’s still time to contribute. Closing date: 1 June. Please spread our CFP far and wide! #materialtexts #bookhistory #thingstodoinlockdown

[39StepPress @39_press]

Tough times for domestic burglary.

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Happy cut-up end of year! @TLR_tweets spliced with @guardian yields this tale of AN Wilson and Rod Stewart.

[Balliol English @BalliolEnglish]

Balliol’s Adam Smyth on Pericles, Mark Haddon and Ali Smith #LRB: https://t.co/KrGUJmakfT via @LRB

[Lit Bits Podcast @LitBitPod]

“Equestrian sexy”

[Tamara Atkin @Tamarajatkin]

Delighted to see this review of Book Parts in the TLS, and especially thrilled to see my chapter on ‘character lists’ mentioned. It was a treat to be able to bring guilty pleasure Jilly Cooper into my discussion of this paratext!

[Catharine Morris @CatharineMorris]

"Nicholas Dames...writes about the 'half-aloofness' of chapter heads. That turn of phrase is typical of 'Book Parts', which never lets bibliographical legwork get in the way of good writing";
@james_waddell reviews 'Book Parts', edited by @djbduncan and Adam Smyth, for @TheTLS:

[Lit Bits Podcast @LitBitPod]

@djbduncan @TheTLS Here it is, cut loose from its context ..

[Routledge Literature @RoutledgeLit]

The incredible discovery of Milton's annotations upon Shakespeare's work, found by Jason Scott-Warren, was prompted by the work of Claire Bourne in our own 'Early Modern English Marginalia'! Buy your copy here to read the inspiring piece for yourself: https://t.co/Bq1PXotYBb