đBBC New Gen ThinkerâFaber book forthcoming đObserver poetry critic; ex-Commissioning Editor @TheTimes âď¸Viking/detectorist/mudlark đPoetry PhD Cambridge
Cambridge University
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I'm presenting @BBCRadio3's Sunday Feature from the fensâwith a squelch. Interviewing Rob Macfarlane & @carolinedavison, we don our brown-tinted spectacles to show how poets, like Vaughan Williams, see flatness as somewhere fertile for creativity to land bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qqpâŚ
My @ObsNewReview poetry picks are Karl O'Hanlon's Herronâs Dream Diary @ShearsmanBooksâsome say surrealism has had its moment but this wildly imaginative debut proves otherwiseâ& Christopher Reid's slow yet striking Ordinary Morning Sunlight @FaberBooksâď¸observer.co.uk/contributor/jâŚ
On @BBCRadio4 with Simon Armitage discussing his new Gilgamesh & comparably muddy origins behind my @FaberBooks bookâft cuneiform I catalogued & curated as inaugural writer-in-residence at Londonâs new Museum of Writing, 100,000 artefacts on show⨠@tds153
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When the cuneiform was rediscovered in 1872, the British Museum curator was so excited he stripped off his clothesâshouting he was the first person "after more than two thousand years of oblivion" to read it đđ˝ With Tom Sutcliffe & Trevor Cox on BBC Sounds bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00323yâŚ
Enjoyed reading my poetry & discussing historical reenactingâreal-life time-travelâon @BBCRadio4âs What Did the Normans Ever Do for Us?đâ¨âď¸Thanks to fellow contributors Kate Mosse, @alexburghart, @LeviRoach, @ClerkofOxford & @murielzaghađđ˝On @bbcsounds đťbbc.co.uk/programmes/m0030zjâŚ
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John Ironmonger: âI have a profound love for chimpanzeesâ
The zoologist turned author on the magic and horrors of growing up in Kenya, holding trophy hunters to account, and being big in Germany
âď¸ @JadeCuttle
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@jwironmonger: "Iâd always loved writing, but for years it was just a hobby."
Read the full interview as @JadeCuttle speaks to the zoologist turned author on the magic and horrors of growing up in Kenya, holding trophy hunters to account, and being big in Germany.
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In my @ObserverUK column for best poetry books of July I pick Holly Pester's CafĂŠs (@FitzcarraldoEds), one of the most fun books Iâve read all year, & @HelenMort's thoughtful reconsideration of the maligned stepmother archetype @ChattoBooksâ¨@ObsNewReview observer.co.uk/culture/booksâŚ
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Elizabeth-Jane Burnettâs novel of human violence and natural wonder
The poetâs intricate debut, set during the Kenyan Mau Mau uprising, has natureâs beauty at its core
âď¸ @JadeCuttle
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Elizabeth-Jane Burnettâs novel of human violence and natural wonder
The poetâs intricate debut, set during the Kenyan Mau Mau uprising, has natureâs beauty at its core, writes @JadeCuttle
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For my @ObserverUK June column I choose Kim Moore on motherhoodâ"Sometimes we're nowhere to be found or else we stand so close you only see a great expanse of skin, a slow unblinking eye"â& @johndchallis on fatherhoodđđ˝@ObsNewReview @CORSAIR @BloodaxeBooks observer.co.uk/culture/booksâŚ
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Thanks so much to @JadeCuttle for this wonderful review of The Green Parcel in todayâs @ObsNewReview, alongside Kim Mooreâs The House of Broken Things
The Green Parcel is out later in June, but advance copies are available directly from @BloodaxeBooks
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âI was excited by the opportunity to unleash [the objects] from their cage,â says @JadeCuttle
Now on display at the Museum of Writing @SenateHouseLib is a huge private collection of writing-related ephemera spanning more than 5,000 years
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It's 100 years since Virginia Woolf wrote On Being Il. As presenter @KirstyWark & I discuss her legacy on @BBCRadio4 @BBCFrontRow I reach for medicine of my ownâa snuff jar of soilâread my muddy sonnet (soilnet @FaberBooks)& announce my @metoffice collabđ¤ bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w5zâŚ
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Also in Poetry Review @PoetrySociety. @JadeCuttle writes evocatively of her passion for soil, & of 'the bold & beating heart of 'Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority'.
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Jennifer Lee Tsai's first full-length poetry book Melete is reviewed in @ObserverUK of 3 May. With thanks to @JadeCuttle for featuring Melete as a Poetry Book of the Month.
Must poets always be so serious, I ask in @ObserverUK? Might we âshed majesty, for a momentââquery the âroleâ? As balloons turn sentient & aliens steal jobs, fun gains fourth-person presence in @BetaRish's delightfully surreal Cherry Blossom at Nightbreakđ¸observer.co.uk/culture/booksâŚ
Unsafe is not a peaceful readâit sounds blaring sirens & squealing balloons that snag in hedges. Still I pick this brave & unsettling title by @KMcCarthyWoolf for my @ObserverUK February book column reflecting on Nature Matters @FaberBooks @BloomsburyBooks observer.co.uk/culture/booksâŚ
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Thd @ObserverUKâs @JadeCuttle digs up some of the finest lines in @MrRavoonâs âDirt Rich,â one of the finest collections Iâve read in a long while, and identifies what makes these often bleakly funny poems, at bottom, so unexpectedly uplifting. observer.co.uk/culture/booksâŚ
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Very thrilled by this lovely review of my Selected Poems from @ShearsmanBooks in todayâs The Observer @ObsNewReview by the incredibly thoughtful @JadeCuttle.
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