Writer, academic, endotic traveller. FRSL. Prof of French & comp lit at Oxford. Also on padrig.bsky.social Rep'd Peter Straus @rcwlitagency
Joined July 2014
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4 May 2023
Today is the publication of my first book of poems in 13 years. Here seen in its natural habitat, a train. With thanks to @JonathanCape
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RT @WillHayCardiff: I just want to take a moment to thank Reform UK for the best marketing we could ever have asked for…
Appearing in loca…
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25 Dec 2025
Nadolig llawen o dre , merry Christmas from Caernarfon
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3 Dec 2025
Watching this shape up, due out early next year, produced with my colleagues Clément Dessy and Stefano Evangelista. On literature, art and travel, on symbolism, decadence and globalisation, and on the movement of ideas and *people* across borders.
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2 Dec 2025
Great workshop on Working-Class writing in French organised by @Holly_Langstaff and me, @OxfordModLangs and @StAnnesCollege with thanks to @BritishAcademy_ . Watch this space for developments, publications events...
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24 Oct 2025
Thoughts and prayers for Gerwyn Price. Bang goes his Kremlin exhibition match.
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19 Oct 2025
My new book of essays is out from CB Editions and can be ordered here cbeditions.com/mcguinness.ht…
It's about trains, stations open and closed, lots of things that come with the prefix '-post', about haunted art and sidelined towns, old factories and forgotten poets. Etc
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13 Sep 2025
Happy to be in this fantastic book from @C20society with my elegy for the cooling towers of Didcot. If we know how to look, these structures and their places are full of meaning and stories.
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22 Aug 2025
Rumours aren’t facts.
🏠 No one in Liverpool is being evicted to make way for asylum housing. Serco has confirmed this.
👉 Read the facts: lpoolcouncil.info/BeInformed
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23 Aug 2025
For 300 years, Liverpool has been shaped by people from all over the world. 🌍. That’s what makes our city special.
We remain committed to sharing the facts and treating people with dignity and respect. 💙
👉 Read the facts: lpoolcouncil.info/BeInformed
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23 Aug 2025
Liverpool is a city of welcome. There’s no place for hate here.
We treat everyone with kindness, dignity and respect — always. 💙
👉 Stop the rumours. Read the facts: lpoolcouncil.info/BeInformed
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23 Aug 2025
This real life Nazi bastard Nick Tenconi (this is him throwing a sieg heil last week) tried to march through Liverpool today with his Union Jack bearing fascist followers.
We stopped them at every turn though with a big mobilisation of decent Scousers.
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23 Aug 2025
A lot of police time and taxpayer money spent on protecting racists on the streets today
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21 Aug 2025
Out 2 weeks today: with essays on Bouillon, Oxford, Sheerness; my teacher Chris Jefferies; Spilliaert, Vallotton, Orhan Pamuk; Shopping Centres, Bruges, Trains & Stations; Bridges; Mallarmé & Terrorism; & Ears. Plus the vexed question of the 'Poet's Novel'. From @CBeditions
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11 Aug 2025
Wtf country
10 Aug 2025
One of England's very greatest living poets, by the way.
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21 Jul 2025
3 Welsh columnists celebrating the end of up to 33 years writing for the Daily Post. Reach PLC decided not to publish a column about #PalestineGenocide so all 3 resigned. At least 178 journalists have been killed in Gaza in the past 21 months- it's the least we could do for them.
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4 Jul 2025
Submissions for the 2025 R. Gapper book prize are now open. The closing date is 29 August 2025.
For more information about the prize and how publishers can submit an entry, please see the link below:
sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gapper-bo…
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2 Jun 2025
That time of year again: a card from Gilles Ortlieb wishing me a Woippy birthday.
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