Peter Stothard

Thanks. Good to see it again.

Thanks to Joseph Epstein for a fascinating review of Horace in @nationalreview - and for putting me in some very exalted company. Auden and Horace? Yes, I think so. And will think more. @YaleBooks @yalepress nationalreview.com/magazine/2025/…

Hats off to @heffersbookshop of Cambridge for Horace's place at the centre of their All Your Summer Reads window today. @YaleBooks @yalepress

Very much enjoyed this one. Suzi chats with Peter Stothard youtu.be/1tYxHZEdnIg?si… via @YouTube

'Dazzling prose', says Long Island book critic, Joan Baum, of my Horace. 'Elegantly written'. So, a great start to day. wshu.org/podcast/baum-o… Makes a writer in an English heatwave not just grateful but a bit nostalgic for Coopers Beach. @yalepress @yalepress

Links: 2025 Summer Reads: aspectsofhistory.com/2025-summer-re…

The Thames, like an old bronze mirror tonight.

Enjoyable, as ever, doing this one. @YaleBooks @yalepress

Horace had no children but was 'in some ways a father to us all', says London Grip, reviewing 'a fascinating and accessible new biography'. londongrip.co.uk/2025/06/horace… @yalepress @YaleBooks

Invitation to The White House. Dec. 15 1938. Churchill has denounced the Munich Agreement. Peace on the precipice. H. L Sweinhart (?) keeps his mementoes in a leather bound Oxford Text of Horace. Useful reminders just now when I’m looking for something else. ⁦@yalepress⁩

To celebrate Horace, Poet on a Volcano last month I bought - maybe superstitiously - some Horace cologne. I’ve tried it and now smell like a Baghdad spice market. Persicos odi, puer, apparatus. Now boy, I hate that Persian stuff! ⁦Odes 1.38 @yalepress⁩ ⁦@YaleBooks⁩

Thanks to @suzyfeay and her wonderful Book Bag show for our talk about Horace, Poet on a Volcano. 'A brilliant job', says Suzy kindly. Plus editing The Times in the Charles and Di days and my shame at never having read Harry Potter. youtube.com/watch?v=1tYxHZ… @YaleBooks @yalepress

'Peter Stothard has written some great books of non-fiction. I loved The Last Assassin. But with Horace: Poet on a Volcano, he really has done a magnificent job. Thanks to fionaforsyth.substack.com/p/how-real-is-… @YaleBooks @yalepress

Good to see at Nevill Holt yesterday that cricket-supporters keen to see Alastair Cook went on to hear Horace. Also with us was Boris Johnson who contributed impressive learning on the influence of Archilochus. Great festival day. @YaleBooks @yalepress

Looking forward to the first festival outing for Horace, Poet on a Volcano, at fabulous Nevill Holt tomorrow. Wine, song and gardens. Horace would have approved. @YaleBooks @yalepress

Gabriel Zuchtriegel is a refreshingly unorthodox director of Pompeii. Horace, maybe an occasional visitor back in the day, is delighted to be beside him in the ⁦@heffersbookshop⁩ window in Cambridge. ⁦@YaleBooks⁩ ⁦@yalepress⁩

The first copy has arrived. If you ever think of buying a magazine of new poetry, buy this one. ⁦⁦@FreeBloodyBird⁩

Horace joins Nigel Farage in @TheSpectator today. He understood authoritarians well. In this 'beautifully written new biography' writes Daisy Dunn, he also 'surprises with his sexiness'. @YaleBooks @yalepress