Jeremy Noel-Tod
@jntod
Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here:
My close reading of Andy Burnham's letter to the Guardian in 1991, defending Philip Larkin as a great poet
As background for this piece, I did a deep dive for the term "Larkin" in the digital archives of the Guardian in 1991
Just listened to a poetry podcast where I got a mention, prompting the host to quote this tweet from 10 years ago, so I guess I know what I'll be remembered for
So apparently best-selling novelist ‘Donna Tartt’ has written, as a 'fellow author', to say how moved she is by a reference work about poetry that I revised 13 years ago… Is this just a phase of AI, or are we going to have to live with this drivel forever now?
These are not tough questions, and each could be answered better by looking at one or two books, news websites or magazine articles
Seems unfortunate that 'chiselled', 'hammered' and 'forged' all have well known negative meanings in politics
David Hockney, in 2021, explaining that his love of the poetry of George Herbert began when he noticed how glass is described in ‘The Elixir’ as something that you can look *on* as well as through
What shall we call our new skincare product, boss? I don’t know… something that rhymes with charity shops? Sure thing, boss
Just received an update about a school trip and apparently the kids are doing well in the 1950s
Pretty hyperbolic from the Times Higher here: ‘all students to go out on placement’ is the publicity-grabbing headline, but here’s the small print: all students *won’t* go out on placement, but will have the opportunity to etc etc
Here, from a lovely tribute by Luke Roberts, is a J.H. Prynne opinion I wholeheartedly share www.littlemirrormag.com/luke-roberts...