Francis Ittenbach
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Born in the Garden, died in the Flames,
Cain’s spree-kill, carbon-offset Endtime.
Ninety million years of life, two hundred years of death,
coming down every year to a single fear:
will this be the spring that none return?
'Eely'
Steve Ely
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Cain’s spree-kill, carbon-offset Endtime.
Ninety million years of life, two hundred years of death,
coming down every year to a single fear:
will this be the spring that none return?
'Eely'
Steve Ely
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
February 13, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Born in the Garden, died in the Flames,
Cain’s spree-kill, carbon-offset Endtime.
Ninety million years of life, two hundred years of death,
coming down every year to a single fear:
will this be the spring that none return?
'Eely'
Steve Ely
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Cain’s spree-kill, carbon-offset Endtime.
Ninety million years of life, two hundred years of death,
coming down every year to a single fear:
will this be the spring that none return?
'Eely'
Steve Ely
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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Published on this day 1939
May 4, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Published on this day 1939
Thrilled that my Academy of American Poets Prize-winning poem “In Dreams” is now published!
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2025 Academy of American Poets Prize
In Dreams by Francis Ittenbach
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February 2, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Thrilled that my Academy of American Poets Prize-winning poem “In Dreams” is now published!
poets.org/2025-emory-u...
poets.org/2025-emory-u...
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My fortnightly online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' begins on Wed 1st Oct, 7-9pm.
Numbers are capped to allow a small group experience, and there are still a few places left. More information and booking details here.
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Numbers are capped to allow a small group experience, and there are still a few places left. More information and booking details here.
www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
September 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My fortnightly online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' begins on Wed 1st Oct, 7-9pm.
Numbers are capped to allow a small group experience, and there are still a few places left. More information and booking details here.
www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
Numbers are capped to allow a small group experience, and there are still a few places left. More information and booking details here.
www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
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"The Sorrow of Love," written by W.B. Yeats in 1893 and first published in his collection "The Rose."
Support the mission of the International Yeats Society by becoming a member today! internationalyeatssociety.org/members/
#poetry #yeats #irishliterature #supportthearts
Support the mission of the International Yeats Society by becoming a member today! internationalyeatssociety.org/members/
#poetry #yeats #irishliterature #supportthearts
September 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
"The Sorrow of Love," written by W.B. Yeats in 1893 and first published in his collection "The Rose."
Support the mission of the International Yeats Society by becoming a member today! internationalyeatssociety.org/members/
#poetry #yeats #irishliterature #supportthearts
Support the mission of the International Yeats Society by becoming a member today! internationalyeatssociety.org/members/
#poetry #yeats #irishliterature #supportthearts
Absolutely worth a follow, support, and read. Wonderful writer.
I deleted my Substack: a decision which might well fuck up my financial security/book sales/various other things but I've decided it's the right decision & I'm sticking with it. My newsletter now goes out via Ghost & you can subscribe to it for as little as as £10 a year: the-villager.ghost.io
September 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Absolutely worth a follow, support, and read. Wonderful writer.
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"You can’t make taro edible without a little work. Look how lovely this pestle with the bird’s head handle, its wings in the wind. How much like today with its worn-smooth stone. You touch me without purpose as I walk by. The bird in its extraneousness."
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September 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"You can’t make taro edible without a little work. Look how lovely this pestle with the bird’s head handle, its wings in the wind. How much like today with its worn-smooth stone. You touch me without purpose as I walk by. The bird in its extraneousness."
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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Absolutely brilliant! So looking forward to this book.
July 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Absolutely brilliant! So looking forward to this book.
Yesterday I officially submitted my PhD dissertation — I am now Dr. Ittenbach!
July 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Yesterday I officially submitted my PhD dissertation — I am now Dr. Ittenbach!
Submitted a full draft of my doctoral dissertation to my committee today. Feels absolutely wild. Celebrated with BBQ, just like my dad back in the day when he did the same.
May 17, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Submitted a full draft of my doctoral dissertation to my committee today. Feels absolutely wild. Celebrated with BBQ, just like my dad back in the day when he did the same.
A truly fantastic book by an exceptional poet (and Press!)
Sky darkens bright with ancient light from uncountable
pinprick galaxies, where ‘Oumuamua is lost in space,
swept blind in the Big Bang’s current. A little eel
slips off, begins to make her way downstream.
'Eely'
Steve Ely
A symphony in four movements
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
pinprick galaxies, where ‘Oumuamua is lost in space,
swept blind in the Big Bang’s current. A little eel
slips off, begins to make her way downstream.
'Eely'
Steve Ely
A symphony in four movements
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
April 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A truly fantastic book by an exceptional poet (and Press!)
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February 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In case you were looking to backup your kindle books (since Amazon is removing the option to download them on the 26th), this script works quite well in minimizing the click-pain of downloading them individually:
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‘The solace he seeks is to be found not in nature, but in a removal of nature from nature mediated by cultural exchange, by the gathering of information.’
David Trotter on Ken Loach:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter on Ken Loach:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter · Don’t go quietly: Ken Loach’s Fables
It's largely thanks to Loach's example that social realism remains a potent and versatile cultural resource for young...
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February 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
‘The solace he seeks is to be found not in nature, but in a removal of nature from nature mediated by cultural exchange, by the gathering of information.’
David Trotter on Ken Loach:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
David Trotter on Ken Loach:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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My publishers are now seven (!) months overdue paying me. I've been kindly asked by a few readers how they can help.
Best of all is a paid subscription to my Substack: tomcox.substack.com
If you cannot afford that, I've set up this link on my site: tom-cox.com/support-toms...
Thank you!
Tom
Best of all is a paid subscription to my Substack: tomcox.substack.com
If you cannot afford that, I've set up this link on my site: tom-cox.com/support-toms...
Thank you!
Tom
The Villager | Tom Cox | Substack
New writing on landscape, music, books, folklore, psychedelia, the natural world and other misty magical things outside the mainstream. Click to read The Villager, by Tom Cox, a Substack publication w...
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January 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
My publishers are now seven (!) months overdue paying me. I've been kindly asked by a few readers how they can help.
Best of all is a paid subscription to my Substack: tomcox.substack.com
If you cannot afford that, I've set up this link on my site: tom-cox.com/support-toms...
Thank you!
Tom
Best of all is a paid subscription to my Substack: tomcox.substack.com
If you cannot afford that, I've set up this link on my site: tom-cox.com/support-toms...
Thank you!
Tom
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Producer/Director Aoife McArdle is a graduate of The School of English at Trinity. The aesthetic is so Arts Building.
January 17, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Producer/Director Aoife McArdle is a graduate of The School of English at Trinity. The aesthetic is so Arts Building.
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My next book, LIFELINES, will be published this spring, so I thought I'd put together a short post about it. It's a story, in part, about a place where three countries meet around two ancient lakes. And where pelicans, people, borders and bears share the watershed. julian-hoffman.com/2025/01/10/l...
Lifelines: new book announcement!
I’m extremely delighted to announce that I have a new book on the way, which will be published in the UK on May 15th and in a North American edition in Spring 2026. Regular readers of my blog…
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January 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
My next book, LIFELINES, will be published this spring, so I thought I'd put together a short post about it. It's a story, in part, about a place where three countries meet around two ancient lakes. And where pelicans, people, borders and bears share the watershed. julian-hoffman.com/2025/01/10/l...
Wondering what took me so long to read R.S. Thomas
January 8, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Wondering what took me so long to read R.S. Thomas
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Tonight’s New Year. The weatherman
forecasts a bone-cold ten below,
but now you cling to heat and skin
to banish auguries of snow.
'The Last Day of the Year', Chris Jones, in the 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology. You can download the PDF here:
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forecasts a bone-cold ten below,
but now you cling to heat and skin
to banish auguries of snow.
'The Last Day of the Year', Chris Jones, in the 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology. You can download the PDF here:
longbarrowpress.com/wp-content/u...
January 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Tonight’s New Year. The weatherman
forecasts a bone-cold ten below,
but now you cling to heat and skin
to banish auguries of snow.
'The Last Day of the Year', Chris Jones, in the 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology. You can download the PDF here:
longbarrowpress.com/wp-content/u...
forecasts a bone-cold ten below,
but now you cling to heat and skin
to banish auguries of snow.
'The Last Day of the Year', Chris Jones, in the 'Winter Songs' mini-anthology. You can download the PDF here:
longbarrowpress.com/wp-content/u...
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the UK countryside is teeming with interdimensional portals. All you have to do is look hard enough for them.
January 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: the UK countryside is teeming with interdimensional portals. All you have to do is look hard enough for them.
Still absolutely wild to have my poetry in a real, held-in-hand book
January 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Still absolutely wild to have my poetry in a real, held-in-hand book