Professor in Literature, Religion and Aesthetics at Lancaster University.

Joined May 2009
Extraordinary cover of Ordinary World. Russ Taff and that voice.
This one gives me chills. Russ Taff covers Duran Duran's "Ordinary World." Only on Kickstarter (link in bio-last 3 days!)
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Andrew Tate retweeted
‘The most deprived communities …were around four times more likely to lose a library than the richest.’ Cuts always hit the poorest hardest.
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If you’d love to be at #GB24 but can’t make it, then you can sign up here to take part in our free livestreaming 👉 greenbeltfestival.typeform.c…. We can’t stream everything, but we hope these handful of free streams will bring a little bit of our festival fields to your living rooms.
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Drawing: Possible causes of your problems. I've been appalled at the scenes we've witnessed over the last few days. It's utterly unacceptable that people should have to live in fear because of the colour of their skin. [Polite comments only, please.]
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Our posture of hope needs to be shaped by our commitment to work for peace. May we all strive for Shalom, fullness of life, to all.🙏🏾 @churchofengland @dioceseoflondon
It is time to unite against hate and restore our shared humanity Scapegoating particular communities for the ills of wider society is unhelpful and unjust, writes the Bishop of Edmonton in @dioceseoflondon, Dr Anderson Jeremiah (@TheOutsider40) churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2…
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The hardback of our ‘Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies’ is published next month & I’ve just spotted that a slightly more affordable eBook will be available routledge.com/The-Routledge-….
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Well done, @Decjl & Warren Mortimer. I’m honoured to be a small part of this fantastic collection.
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I’m doing a talk for the Friends of Lancaster Library about literary influences on Doctor Who (Thursday 25 July from 12.30, no need to book) #DoctorWho #Dickens #literature #Shakespeare #MaryShelley #AgathaChristie #Gothic
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And the winner of The Zeffirellis Prize for Guides & Places is…. @DrPennyBradshaw …accepting her award with delight and ‘a shout out’ to the students of @CumbriaEnglish she inspires. Published by @ByLakeland and presented by Dorothy Smith
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Dearly Beloveds @RevRichardColes @Beathhigh @jennycolgan @lemnsissay @AndresNOrdorica @valmcdermid @cerysmatthews @JackieKayPoet The Big Scottish Book Club is back! Series Six. And we're welcoming audiences :)
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Looking forward to appearing on Radio 4's Beyond Belief @BradfordLitFest tomorrow eve. To be broadcast live - my deepest fear. Pray for me, and/or book a free ticket here: bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/…
✨ Join BBC Radio 4’s Giles Fraser Fraser and a panel of poets at #BradfordLitFest to delve into the spiritual side of poetry. Don’t miss out – get your tickets today! Book now at: bradfordlitfest.co.uk/event/…
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The current evidence is that football is better under Labour ⚽️
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Wouldn’t it be amazing, we thought, if we could find a way to bring to Greenbelt the best artistry, activism and belief from anywhere on the planet, without also bringing the tonnes of carbon that comes with it? That’s why we’re so thrilled to present... 🧵
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The religious right is not the whole story. A while ago I wrote an essay about the links between faith, utopian activism & literature in American culture. It’s out now in Sheryl Vint’s new Cambridge Companion 🙏 #faith #fiction #jamesbaldwin #tonimorrison #marilynnerobinson
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(It’s not mentioned in this essay for reasons of context but the thinking is inspired by a lifetime of attending @greenbelt )
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We’ve just found out that our 454-page ‘Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies’ is to be published on 9 August. We’d be really grateful if colleagues would consider ordering a copy for their university libraries routledge.com/The-Routledge-….
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All art is political: even, and often especially, art which claims not to be. That doesn’t mean the art speaks directly to a particular politics, simply that it’s made by a person and every person is partly a product of the political climate they became an artist and make art in.
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The #EnglishCreates week of events - co-ordinated by @UnivEnglish - takes place Monday, 3 to Friday, 7 June & is full of brilliant stuff celebrating & promoting the study of literature, language & creative writing universityenglish.ac.uk/even…
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John Burnside RIP - with gratitude.
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We are devastated by the death of our beloved writer John Burnside, one of the most acclaimed of his generation. Hannah Westland, Publishing Director at Jonathan Cape, says: ‘To read him was to feel a lighting up of the darkness.’
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