Tim Youngs
Interests in literature and in visual art.
- Reposted by Tim YoungsHere’s the recording of the online launch of Hôtel Amour — with Olivia McCannon @oliviamcc.bsky.social Menna Elfyn #mennaelfyn #parch #thelivesofz #hotelamour m.youtube.com/watch?v=LpXk...
- Reposted by Tim Youngs'Creative Medievalisms Now: Writing the Middle Ages Today and Tomorrow', forthcoming symposium at Cambridge. A two-day symposium for writer-researchers working on medieval materials to reflect on craft, research processes, and work in progress. Booking essential: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creative-m...
- Reposted by Tim YoungsOur fantastic @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social collections are all included in the LUP Winter Sale, including preorders of the forthcoming 2026 poetry collections. Use discount code 27WINTER on our website to claim your discount! Sale ends 18th December. www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/imprin...
- Very pleased to now have a copy of Noon: an Anthology of Short Poems (vol. 2), edited by Philip Rowland, and to have a couple of poems in it, one inspired by Cliff Yates (and Gurminder Sikand) and the other inspired by @dradny.bsky.social. Both are among the several contributors.
- Reposted by Tim YoungsHave you taken advantage of our special offer yet? From now until the end of December, you can claim £10 off all orders over £30 with the code Xmas25 when shopping on our website. Browse our books here www.serenbooks.com/books/
- Reposted by Tim YoungsGuest post: Poet Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social reflects on time spent in Paris whilst writing her collection ‘Hôtel Amour’, offering an insight into her writing process & inspirations behind the book www.serenbooks.com/2025/12/gues.... Available now in bookshops & online.
- Invigorated by last week's conference on 'Exploring Bodies and Corporeality in Travel Writing' at the University of Koblenz.
- I was especially pleased to begin my keynote by saying how much my thinking on form and medium was influenced by a quotation from Gurminder Sikand on her artistic practice and by @notjustdancing.bsky.social's brilliant Hôtel Amour (published by @serenbooks.bsky.social)
- Reposted by Tim YoungsWould anyone be interested in being part of a roundtable on Working-Class Victorians in heritage/fiction/public imagination today at next year's BAVS conference? Let me know if you're keen 😁
- Reposted by Tim YoungsThis book (and all others by @edinburghup.bsky.social) are half price this weekend from their website: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-frederi...
- Happy that two of Gurminder Sikand's paintings have entered the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum.
- I'm very much enjoying and learning from @notjustdancing.bsky.social's brilliant 'Hôtel Amour’ from @serenbooks.bsky.social , launched with, and illuminated by, excellent readings and discussion yesterday.
- Reposted by Tim YoungsJoin us for an online book launch on November 18th at 7pm — #mennaelfyn #oliviamccannon #derynrees-jones #HotelAmour www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-boo...
- Reposted by Tim YoungsWe hope you can join us! Register for the Zoom link (free) via Eventbrite if you plan on coming along www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1765466972...
- Looking forward to this @serenbooks.bsky.social online event 18 November 7pm: An evening of poetry celebrating the publication of ‘Hôtel Amour’ by Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social, with readings by Deryn and guests Menna Elfyn and Olivia McCannon. @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tim YoungsThe deadline (15 November) is fast approaching for our annual Peterson Fellowships! Peterson Fellowships support one researcher for four, full-time months of work on a project related to #19thC periodicals. Application guidelines and more can be found on our website: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...
- Reposted by Tim YoungsIn celebration of International Artists' Day today, we're launching a new bundle curated by our Art Editor, Leon Wainwright. These four issues gather some of the strongest art writing from our archive, all for the discounted price of £38. 🎨 buff.ly/0J6TIAi
- Reposted by Tim YoungsIf you're a writer or publisher with a book on travel or place coming out in 2026, please let me know via deskboundtraveller.com so I can include it in a roundup (like this one: deskboundtraveller.com/words-from-the-road-for-2025/). Reposts greatly appreciated.
- Reposted by Tim YoungsLe nouveau groupe de recherche NAVIRE (Narration et analyse des voyages, itinéraires et récits d’écrivains), invite à réfléchir aux définitions du récit de voyage à l’époque moderne. Inscrivez-vous pour assister à distance depuis l'univ. du Val d'Aoste (12-13/12/2025). www.crlv.org/actualites/c...
- Delighted to have been at the opening of the @museumarnhem.bsky.social iteration of the @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social touring show, 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes'. Thanks to all 3 tour venues for including Gurminder Sikand's works www.museumarnhem.nl/en/tentoonst...
- Reposted by Tim YoungsNu te zien: 'Het fantastische landschap'. Ervaar een nieuw perspectief op 100 jaar surrealistische kunst. Ontdek hoe surrealistische kunstenaars, toen en nu, het landschap gebruiken om te reageren op de maatschappij. 'Het fantastische landschap' is te zien t/m 22 februari 2026: bit.ly/439IxMv
- Reposted by Tim Youngs📖 Forthcoming this month, a new book from our colleague, Dr Gareth Roddy (@grod.bsky.social), "Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880-1940." Pre-order your copy now from @uolpress.bsky.social! uolpress.co.uk/book/atlanti...
- Reposted by Tim YoungsDeadline to submit proposals is a month away! Don't miss the boat!
- ✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.
- Very grateful to the TG Gallery, Nottingham, for having hosted 'Gurminder Sikand: Paintings and Drawings, 1994-2017'. Delighted to have seen Gurminder's art there again, four years after 'The Weaver of Songs', her exhibition of drawings from 2018-21, which closed just weeks before her passing.
- Reposted by Tim YoungsCurious Travellers are delighted to be partnering with the long-running Liverpool Travel Seminar to host an Early Career Symposium dedicated to ‘Journeys of Curiosity’ Bluecoat, Liverpool, 25/09. Free (including lunch), registration by September 19th curioustravellers.ac.uk/journeys-of-...
- Reposted by Tim Youngs(cont.) ... Davide Vago, Odile Gannier, Pierre Schoentjes, Jean-Baptiste Bernard, Nina Rocipon et Haila Koo. www.fabula.org/actualites/1... Aussi, comptes rendus des livres de Catherine Pinguet, Jean-Jacques Bavoux, Christina Kullberg, Eva Johanna Holmberg et Philippe Antoine - Gilles Louÿs (dirs).
- Reposted by Tim YoungsVient de paraître: numéro hors-série 8 de la revue Viatica, intitulé "La littérature de voyage au prisme de l'écopoétique". Dirigé par Yvan Daniel et Alain Romestaing, articles par Sylvie Requemora, Anne-Gaëlle Weber, Daniel López, Virginie Teller, Pascale Auraix-Jonchière, Philippe Antoine (cont.)
- Reposted by Tim YoungsOn the extraordinary Balkan quartet by Kapka Kassabova: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Tim YoungsFunded by a Leverhulme Research Project Grant, Rosemary Sweet and @richardjansell.bsky.social's new book explores a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to Europe. Read now: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun...
- Congratulations to Rosemary Sweet and @RichardJAnsell! Their #OpenAccess book No Country for Travellers? published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4kJYgIl #TravelWriting #EighteenthCentury #Spain #Portugal
- Reposted by Tim YoungsGoing Places: Travel in the Middle Ages to Open at @gettymuseum.bsky.social www.medievalists.net/2025/08/goin... #medievalmanuscripts #travel #getty
- Reposted by Tim YoungsWe are delighted to announce the longlist for our Michael Murphy Poetry Prize! englishassociation.ac.uk/michael-murp... @carcanet.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social @picadorbooks.bsky.social @prototypepubs.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tim YoungsAn overnight walk from Kirk Sandall to Goole, via the River Don Navigation, the New Junction Canal, the Aire and Calder Navigation and the Dutch River, 6.30pm Friday 25 July to 5.30am Saturday 26 July. An improvised, illustrated thread of uncertain length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/
- Reposted by Tim YoungsBook your place for the FREE symposium, Challenging Maps & Exploration, @rgsibg.bsky.social 30 Oct! Sponsored by The Sunderland Collection, the event is hybrid & features experts talking about #maps and 'exploration (historic & contemporary), Indigeneity, empire, & more. #skystorians 🗃️
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- I very much enjoyed the preview at the Box, Plymouth, UK, last night of the @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social touring exhibition 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes'. It's on at the Box until 7th Sept. 2025 and I'm delighted that 3 paintings by Gurminder Sikand remain part of it.
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- Reposted by Tim YoungsMy review of Andrew Taylor's There’s Everything to Play For: The Poetry of Peter Finch now live. Thanks to @serenbooks.bsky.social for sending it my way. ellipticalmovements.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/t...
- Very much enjoyed the Ken Kiff exhibition at the Hales Gallery, London (on until 24th May 2025). Kiff was one of Gurminder Sikand's favourite artists.
- Reposted by Tim YoungsComing soon: We’re excited to reveal the stunning cover for ‘Hôtel Amour’, Deryn Rees-Jones’, highly anticipated follow up to her T.S. Eliot shortlisted collection ‘Erato’. Publishing on 7 July 2025. Pre-order at www.serenbooks.com/book/hotel-a... @notjustdancing.bsky.social
- So pleased that Gurminder Sikand's painting, 'Planting' (AKA 'Among Trees C'), 1994, has entered the collection of @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social
- Gurminder Sikand's painting, 'Planting' (AKA 'Among Trees C'), 1994, recently acquired by @hepworthwakefield.bsky.social, is reproduced in the book Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscape edited by Eleanor Clayton (Thames & Hudson, 2024)
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- Reposted by Tim YoungsCFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026, University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social) Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)
- Very pleased to have two poems in issue 27 of Noon: Journal of the Short Poem, and to follow two by @dradny.bsky.social, whose launch of his collection 'European Hymns' inspired the first of mine.
- Had a very enjoyable evening giving a talk on Gurminder Sikand's artwork. Great questions and observations.
- Delighted to receive today my copy of Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies, eds Samia Ounoughi, Emmanuelle Peraldo, @afquaireau.bsky.social (Routledge, 2025). Very grateful for the keynote invitation that allowed me to be part of it.
- Reposted by Tim YoungsNew travel-writing prize for women writers! Deadline is end of the month... www.ilseschwepckeprize.co.uk
- I learned from and very much enjoyed the conference on W. Somerset Maugham at Le Mans Université and am grateful for the keynote invitation that allowed me to attend.
- Pleased to have received my copy of 'Moving Identities Constructing the Self and the Other in Travel Writing, eds Winfried Eckel and Sandra Vlasta (Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg) (UWH), for which I'm happy to have supplied the preface.
- Glad now to have seen the Tate's touring show 'Women in Revolt!' in all three of its venues, most recently (and until 1st June 2025) at the Whitworth in Manchester, and Gurminder Sikand represented in each. A real pleasure also to have been in the company of the other artists and of curators.
- Reposted by Tim YoungsTHE LITHIC GATHERING: SHIFTING TEMPORALITIES & MYTHOLOGIES OF RITUAL STONE STRUCTURES - CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline: Friday 28th March Response by: Saturday 5th April Symposium: Friday 16th May @manmetuni.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social #academicsky #folklore #stone #myth
- CALL FOR PAPERS This one-day symposium invites Arts and Humanities scholars working in relation to Neolithic or other ancient stone structures to submit an abstract for a short presentation (15 min) or a longer presentation/paper (25 min) on the themes of materiality, mythology, aDect & temporality.
- Reposted by Tim YoungsMoving Identities: Constructing the Self and the Other in Travel Writing, ed. Winfried Eckel and Sandra Vlasta. Essays on travel writing in English, French, German, Polish, and Spanish from the 18th to 21st century. New from Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg.
- Reposted by Tim YoungsOur next research seminar is on 11 March (4.30pm)! Please join us to welcome Alison O’Byrne who will present a paper titled ‘Strangers to the City: Travel and Tourism in Eighteenth-Century London’. 📍KG/07 More info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...
- Reposted by Tim YoungsMy review of Charles Forsdick, Zoë Kinsley and Kathryn Walchester eds., Microtravel: Confinement, Deceleration, Microspection (Anthem Press,2024) for Viatica is now online. journals.openedition.org/viatica/5098
- Reposted by Tim YoungsI'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c... @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social @mmodernity.bsky.social @fwwsoc.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tim YoungsWe've just published a new paperback edition of Anne Holt's 'Taking a Walk: A History of Recreational Walking in Britain'. We're offering 20% off paperback copies from now through 7th Feb using code 'walkerpb2025' on our site: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #walking #britain
- Reposted by Tim YoungsMy latest for @theguardian.com; I interviewed the winner of this year's TS Eliot prize, Peter Gizzi: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
- Reposted by Tim YoungsIn 1846 Frederick Douglass addressed over 70 meetings in Scotland. From 15 January we will begin once more posting about each one on their anniversary, with links to the full texts of newspaper reports of them.
- Reposted by Tim Youngs📢📢📢 Hakluyt Society ECR Essay Prize 2025 📢📢📢 Essays (6k-8k) are invited by ECRs on the history of travel, exploration, cultural encounter or their effects, or that critically engage with the work of the Society. 1st prize £1250 & 2nd prize £250. * Enter by 1/3/25 * www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...
- Reposted by Tim YoungsWhen they left they raised the stretcher over the piano in the narrow hallway The work of mourning captured in thirty-one miniatures. Tim Youngs, Managed Woodland. 3/5 www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page...
- Reposted by Tim YoungsMy thanks to Billy for a thoughtful and kind review of ‘European Hymns’ Billy’s a poet and critic I’ve long admired.
- My shiny new December review is now up at Elliptical Movements: Go on, have a read. You know you want to. #poetry #bookreview @dradny.bsky.social @disruptedblue.bsky.social
- Reposted by Tim YoungsPlease share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...
- Reposted by Tim YoungsHere’s the Research Institute for Literature and Cultural History at LJMU - we run events and seminars in Liverpool and we’ll be posting here about anything we’re up to.
- Reposted by Tim YoungsMany thanks to Ian Brinton for his kind words about ‘European Hymns.’ ⬇️
- "Hymns are songs of praise and ‘sound travels readily’" Ian Brinton reviews "European Hymns" by Andrew Taylor: www.littermagazine.com/2024/12/revi...
- Enjoyed visiting the exhibition 'Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes' at the Hepworth Wakefield (on until 21 April 2025 and then touring), and very happy to see the three paintings by Gurminder Sikand that were selected for it.
- Reposted by Tim YoungsMy forthcoming book, *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North,* now has a page on @ubcpress.bsky.social's website! Very excited to see it appear next June 1st -- and more motivated now to finish reviewing these copyedits 💪 #cdnhist www.ubcpress.ca/a-cold-colon...
- Reposted by Tim YoungsSince I didn't yet see one, I made a starter pack for scholars with interests in POETICS & POETRY, LYRIC THEORY, VERSE GENRES, etc. Please share, suggest friends, and/or reply to be added. The more the merrier! go.bsky.app/4fxbKvRat://did:plc:qeuvotj5io46bvahm5hvjfj4/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lb6aksy2ml2g
