'In the cherry blossom's shade, there is no such thing as a stranger'
(Kobayashi Issa)
I love that Japanese has a different word for looking at the cherry blossom during the day (hanami) and at night (yozakura)🌸
Japanese cherry blossom in #Oxford 🌸

C'mon down to Literary Leicester 2024 today - Wed 20 Mar 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM: British-Latin American Literature: Writing Ourselves Visible tickettailor.com/events/literar…

So many congratulations both Dr. Adam Neikirk - Immersia Poetry Journal and Rebecca Ferrier - what lovely news

So excited to be running the Charles Lamb sessions at BARS beside Felicity James. I'll also be presenting on Charles Lamb and the ethics of debt--always a hot topic for young academics. #BARS2024

My inaugural lecture is coming up: 'John Donne, Rising', Wednesday 28th Feb at 5.30pm, University of Leicester campus. You can join the guest list here.
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Today! Happy birthday Charles!

This is coming up soon! I’ll be running the online portion, so I hope to see your name in the waiting room!

🗓️ 7 Feb, 5.15pm, Attenborough 1707, University of Leicester - Mathew Winterbottom's talk
⏳ 18 Feb - Final Day: ashmolean.org/exhibition/col…
From Queen Victoria's wedding dress to Millais, Ruskin, Rossetti, Turner, and Whistler, the exhibition features objects from around the world!

Great to have a brand new special issue of the Friends of Coleridge Bulletin in the mail today, following up on last year’s ‘De Quincey’s Confessions at 200’ conference. Articles by Brecht de Groote, Matthew Sangster, Robert Morrison, Felicity James, Nick Dodd, Daniel Cook and more. 🤩

The Midlands Romantic Seminar is back! We have put together a great programme (to follow). Our first 2024 speaker is Dr Madeleine Callaghan (Sheffield) on 14th March, who will be speaking on ‘‘’The Magic Circle There’’: Inner & Outer Worlds in Shelley’s Lyrics’. All are welcome!

Romanticists! Elians! Session call for BARS 2024 now up. Do consider submitting a paper on Charles and/ or Mary Lamb… £100 bursary for PGRs/ECRs bars.ac.uk/conference2024…

For the #BARS2024 British Association for Romantic Studies conference I've put out a session call for a panel on 'Extractive Arts' - which will be the first UK outing of my The Leverhulme Trust project!! Please send me your abstracts. More details here: bars.ac.uk/conference2024…

We've just submitted ours! The Charles Lamb Society invites proposals for 20-minute papers on the writings of Charles and Mary Lamb and their circle. We would be especially interested in paper topics that deal with the conference theme of ‘Romantic making and unmaking’

Christmas News from staff & students in the Centre for New Writing University of Leicester …eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2023/12/christ… Future Students Office at Leicester Jonathan Taylor Everybody'sReviewing Literary Leicester 2024 @[email protected] Leicester Writes Writing East Midlands NAWE Library & Learning Services UoL Press Office College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities

Things are pretty grim for Modern Languages in Aberdeen. We have a petition (that anyone can sign) with a lot of links and additional information; we'd really appreciate your support. change.org/p/save-languag…

I’m delighted that The Economist has included In Her Nature in their list of the best books of 2023.

If you’re looking for a Christmas present for an outdoorsy woman in your life, may I humbly suggest that you consider In Her Nature?

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We’re 90% there in raising our target of £500 for Shelter, to help the homeless. So I’m hoping that one or two kind Twitter friends might help us get there.

I’m at the funeral today of much-loved colleague Michael Alexander. A scholar & a gentleman.

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Thanks new followers! Elian greetings to all!

Just a friendly reminder to follow The Charles Lamb Society, our new CLS Twitter account, if you haven't already!