In his new book, 'The poetry of suicide', poet and author @jtwelsch.bsky.social weaves stories of poets who took their own lives with the history of suicide in his family, searching for a new way of understanding these difficult deaths.
Pre-order from your local bookshop or online today. #booksky
Yeah, it's something I only realised after posting that. Because I'm a lousy typist I copy and pasted from a pdf I have of the Faber 75, which is normally a good printing. BUT they have that spurious comma – it's unequivocally a typo, and one I didn't know about until recently.
The School of English at Trinity College Dublin is looking to hire an 18th century specialist: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...
Louis Hay, 1926–2026; may his memory be an exogenetic blessing
www.item.ens.fr/hay/
4-week reading group on “Circe” beginning February 10! Our facilitators will be Lizzie Belnap, Quinn Gruber, Casey Lawrence, Sam Slote, and Robert Spoo.
joycesociety.com/readinggroups
#jamesjoyce #ulysses @jamesjoycegazette.bsky.social @myexplodingpen.bsky.social @samslote.bsky.social
Joyce's grave in Fluntern cemetery, Zürich
As the lion, in our teargarten remembers the nenuphars of his Nile …, the besieged bedreamt him stil and solely of those lililiths undeveiled which had undone him, gone for age, and knew not the watchful treachers at his wake, and theirs to stay.
I recommend people watch WALKER by Alex Cox. Forgive the trailer, they had to market it somehow, but it’s a minor miracle that Universal Pictures even theatrically released such a strong indictment of US foreign policy in Latin America at all. It’s on Internet Archive
youtu.be/XImi7fT7-J0
The watchful eye of the Skibbereen Eagle
Where are the watchful eyes of the Skibbereen Eagle when they are most needed: ‘We hope that Ireland will hold Russia accountable’, Zelenskiy tells Oireachtas. www.e-pages.dk/irishtimes/5...
Amazingly, even though Finnegans Wake is, fundamentally, fanfic about Lord Mayors of Dublin, there are no references to NYC mayors. Although, to be fair, the only ones who might have conceivably caught Joyce's attention would be Fiorello LaGuardia and 'Beau' Jimmy Walker.
New York Post headline: Nearly a million New Yorkers ready to flee NYC if Mamdani becomes mayor - possibly igniting largest exododus in history: poll
You laugh, but this is how the exododus went extinct
A reminder that pg researchers and ECRs working in Romantic Studies in the UK are invited to apply for a Stephen Copley Research Award (valued up to £500)
The late Stephen Copley supervised my PhD and I appreciate seeing his name live on like this
#Romanticism
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I’m only the series editor, the volume’s editors came to us with the book more-or-less fully formed. Something on online resources would make for an excellent, albeit different volume
No: its focus is on classroom pedagogy, but not just university classrooms: it also cover high school, non-traditional spaces, and teaching Joyce in prison.
An annotator's work is never done
It's been ages since I read V. My memory is that it's (only) intermittently great.
Roland McHugh at the Finnegans Wake at 80 symposium, TCD, 2019
RIP Roland McHugh
Myself triumphantly holding my just-acquired copy of Pynchon's Shadow Ticket
Finally!
Congrong Dai: Doodles family
Sun chieh Liang: doodles family
No and it's likewise unmodified in Sun chieh Liang's translation from earlier this year
Congrong Dai’s three volume translation of Finnegans Wake
Just landed: Congrong Dai’s complete translation of Finnegans Wake
Hey look, Donald Trump — the leaders of three countries of 3 billion people got together just to laugh at you! Just imagine the fun they had discussing in detail what an idiot you are. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/w...
Amazing story about the political lunatic fringe in Ireland, so far, mercifully, on the fringes: www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
Robert Wilson, Provocative Playwright and Director, Is Dead at 83 www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/t...
Oh dear, I got my wires crossed! It’s actually September 2026!! Sorry about that folks, and please, those of you holding your breath, stop holding!
Latest arrival from the University of Florida Press’s James Joyce series: Sensational Joyce by John Gordon
Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the Nineteenth Century cover
Weighing in at 827 pages and 2 1/4 inches, our Oxford Handbook of American and British Women Philosophers in the 19th Century is HERE! Huge thanks to @oupphilosophy.bsky.social and our 50+ authors. Restoring women to the philosophical canon is a matter of justice, but it is also better scholarship!
The James Joyce Society has an excellent programme of events lined up for the next year joycesociety.com/events
Yes I do! I retraced Bloom’s trajectory on Bloomsday 6 years ago (there are some suppositions involved): 22,203 steps
A merry Bloomsday to all
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The cover of Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century
Teaching James Joyce in the Twenty-First Century,
edited by Barry Devine and Ellen Scheible, coming soon from @floridapress upf.com/book.asp?id=...
