@becimay

Lecturer, & author of Granular Modernism (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (forthcoming from OUP, 2025). Email: [email protected].

Joined August 2015
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Book published today & my 1st email of the day 🩷🩵
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The implication here that certain kinds and intensities of sadness may lock a poet into an identification with the first person is super interesting, don’t you think! 🤔
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It’s a crazily lovely thing that I now get to teach this 🥰
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He’s wonderful at this
Cllr Martin Abrams
@Martin_AbramsOct 18
Huge credit to Zack Polanski for an excellent @bbclaurak interview in the face of hostility and constant interruptions. So interesting how Laura Kuensberg's interview style changed from softball with Yvette Cooper to hostile with Zack. #bbclaurak
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Started a new thing ✨
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The best strategy for Burnham would be to do whatever Zack Polanski would do were he in power 🔥💚
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.@ZackPolanski: "Andy Burnham.. needs to explain to communities their bins won't be collected, social services will collapse, libraries will be closed, because he's more worried about defending the genocide he's arming than working with Green councillors" Well said Zack.
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I was, until this morning, a virgin of never having before burnt porridge 🥣🔥
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Collapsed, drunk authored burger with stolen cheese 🧀
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There was once a beautiful princess who was also a lecture at Exeter university with many admirers and beautifully brocaded gowns, who in week 4 of term fell into a deep nap and slept peacefully till Christmas, waking to find she had missed 7 weeks of teaching and no one minded
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Look at the amazing and wonderful thing that’s now in my flat 🥰😍🥰😍🥰🤯
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Glorious amber low-lit sunrise run, written with frozen fingers 🥶
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Teaching on a poem that by now’s more pencil than text 😍
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Quiet autumn jungle walk before my most marathonic teaching day
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Jeremy Treglown responding to my TLS piece in the current issue 👀
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‘Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations …’ by CS Lewis; I quite like this ✨
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I’m getting paid 750 quid to WRITE a thing 💪
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One of my fav passages in Capital: "I demand a working day of normal length, and I demand it without any appeal to your heart, for in money matters sentiment is out of place. You may be a model citizen, perhaps a member of the RSPCA, and you may be in the odour of sanctity.../1
Synekura Audio
@synekura_audioOct 13
David Graeber, Lecture, 2014 [excerpt]
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When in Marie de France a woman asks her husband why he’s away so much
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Stop buying your poetry from genocide-complicit Faber; get it from here by instead … 🤩🔥✨ thelastbooks.org
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(Delete ‘by’)
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