Huge congratulations to our MA Forensic Linguistics class of 2024 🎉🥳🥂. What a spectacular achievement, and so nice to see so many of our online students there too!

Come do a FULLY-FUNDED PhD with me and Stephen Pihlaja ! (Jan 2025 start) The project will involve looking at utilising ChatGPT as a strategy for self-regulation among L2 English speakers. Deadline: 9 September 2024 findaphd.com/phds/project/p…

How many books should I take on holiday with me? (For Guardian Books ).

A trip to the beautiful Tate Britain, where even a coffee is a work of art 🖼️

Here's the "cover reveal" for the U.K PAPER BOAT, a new collection of my poems out this October spanning six decades of writing. (Yikes!) Find out more here: waterstones.com/book/paper-boa…

This, from the FB group Terrible Art In Charity Shops, is from a charity shop in Wexford. I think it is fantastic.

Very proud to say that my biggest achievement of the summer so far has been completing an entire cryptic crossword with my dad 🏆

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Delighted to have just accepted an absolutely brilliant monograph proposal for this series. Do get in touch if you have an idea for a book you'd like to talk through. Please RT PALA Literary Semantics English Association University English

Nothing quite beats an unexpected thank you email during an especially busy time💚 A big thank you to all the thank-you-ers! For balancing out the inbox -- &, you know, generally being kind and lovely