Nicholas Hogg
@nicholas_hogg
Author of A Sacrifice, inspiration for the Ridley Scott film starring Eric Bana and Sadie Sink. Gregory O'Donoghue/Poetry London/Liverpool poetry prizes.
Thanks to @alexfarber and @RosamundUrwin at @thetimes for running this today. Quotes on novels *and* house moves available.
Another remarkable poem by Marianne Boruch, this one demonstrating Robert Pinsky's observation that "[h]er poems often give fresh examples of how rare and thrilling it can be to notice."
Students in the Waterstones poetry section today - 'Look. Ted Hughes.' *Points at Collected Poems* 'Ted Hughes can die.' 'What did he do?' 'He made Sylvia Plath kill herself.' 'I love Sylvia Plath.' 'Do we have to study T.S. Eliot?'
'The lesser-spotted male novelist is still out there somewhere, albeit in greatly reduced numbers, and there are still brilliant books being published by them, the kind each of us might benefit from reading.' @indybooks independent.co.uk/arts-entertain…
I did five good things while bowling in a @BarkbyUnitedCC win today, which means I got to keep the match ball. Bonus.
We lived like kings in the 80s
Should have kept all my Polos from the 1980s. Could've bought a house.
Should have kept all my Polos from the 1980s. Could've bought a house.
'A treatise of love and loss, the terror of the modern world and the sprung, high-tech trap humanity has set for itself.' High praise for @MrEwanMorrison's For Emma from @IrvineWelsh. Looking forward to this...
Votes for 16-year-olds is a terrible idea. When I was young I didn't know anything about energy policy or the tax system. Now, as a grown man, I have vague second-hand prejudices about them.
Intrigued by the contents of today's 11am AntiSocial @BBCRadio4. Must address the decimation of working class men reading and writing (publishing) novels.
'We are talking about a potentially devastating crisis in which our society will express nostalgia for events that have yet to occur.'
'I was brought up in a close community. I left school with practically no qualifications. I tended towards the interesting kids, the troublemakers... I was always a writer: I just didn’t know it.' @IrvineWelsh @GuardianBooks theguardian.com/books/2025/jul…
Am excited to have received proofs for the poem-novel, SEE YOU THROUGH, that Geoffrey Gilbert and I wrote together. It dances on the crack between unlived life & what happens 👻🐙🐠🌋🍸, and will be published by Broken Sleep Books @brokensleep in September.