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Sarah Pyke
@pykelets
Postdoc @ARUEnglish. Associate Research Fellow @IES_London.
Sep 25, 2020 • 23 tweets • 13 min read
"we have an enormous task ahead of us" - Anshuman Mondal introducing the @EnglishAssoc @IES_London @uniofeastanglia @UnivEnglish @PSA_poco Establishing a Decolonising Network seminar online now --> eventbrite.co.uk/e/establishing… First up, Surya Simon and Arzhang Pezhman, UEA, on their work to develop a grassroots decolonising network, which aims "to remain a disruptive force while effecting embedded, sustainable institutional change" #decoloniseenglish
Sep 19, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
crying with laughter at this, again ‘The memories live on’
Jan 20, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
nuclear semiotics ImageImage now obsessed with this appalling, strange poem warning the earth’s inhabitants of the dangers of nuclear waste storage sites, ten thousand years in the future
Jan 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Been emailing a lot of academics I admire with what are probably very silly questions. I’m worried they’ll think I’m an idiot but at the same time university websites do NOT make it EASY to find the information you want, at least not for the right year Also starting to realise quite how much early-careering is about being on the inside of certain institutions and knowledge structures
Apr 2, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Animal: Egg of Grey Linnet.
Vegetable: Back of the Christmas Rose.
Mineral: Porcelain Earth.

Lovely, poetic-taxonomic list of colours Skimmed milk White / White of the Human Eyeballs
Mar 20, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
gorgeously tactile list of the materials of feminist activism the poetical is political
Mar 20, 2019 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
please just revoke the fucking thing petition.parliament.uk/petitions/2415… go Cambridge! petitionmap.unboxedconsulting.com/?petition=2415…
Mar 17, 2019 • 9 tweets • 1 min read
Transfixed by this list of lost (or vanishing) skills: Fore-edge painting has been critically endangered for a while. But hat plaiting is newly endangered. HAT PLAITING.
Feb 27, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
"More than a few books had wads of semen between the pages. The books that were inseminated were not risqué books [...] I have never come across a book as soiled as the ones at the Yale library." "Here are some things I have found: a Seattle traffic ticket for jaywalking, the luggage slip for a first class flight to Paris, to-do lists with some very curious items like “pick up the whip” or “explain cremation.”

(Excellent to do list alert!)
Feb 9, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Thanks to Patricia Lockwood i now know..........about nutscaping..................... Image
Nov 20, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
A Heartbreaking Wok of Staggering Genius

#RemoveALetterSpoilABook Travels With My Ant

#RemoveALetterSpoilABook
Nov 5, 2018 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
*to do list alert*

Wash hair
Black sweater: cleaners
Laundry
Wash hair
Pick up laundry and grey paint
Get black sweater cleaners
Wash hair
NAPPIES
Spaghetti I love the way things to do morph into their next incarnation (laundry/pick up laundry) or reappear, undone
Oct 24, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A lot going on here Love forever? A Valentine’s Day present about the Second World War? Does he like...any book?
Sep 19, 2018 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
I would read a whole book of authors’ and artists’ to do lists Also politicians. Politicians' to do lists (just remembered this excellent example):

Sep 3, 2018 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Peckham, 31/8/18 Image Homerton, 3/9/18 Image
Jun 9, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This, and Kensington going to Labour, made me happier than *almost* anything else in the whole of 2017 Heh.

Jul 20, 2017 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Top facts from tonight's @LRBbookshop event with @philipwhale & @olivialanguage #RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR 1. Every time Byron entered water he vomited
Jul 3, 2017 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
So these two were my treats for finishing a stint of work recently and doing another fairly stressful thing Image And I'm enjoying them both except Conversations With Friends has just lost me in two pretty major ways
Jun 23, 2017 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
OH MY GOD I JUST REMEMBERED MAID MARION AND HER MERRY MEN SO HAPPY Oral history of 80s children's telly, anyone? Somebody fund me to do this, yes?
Jun 11, 2017 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Oh god this is great "I would grow crystals and put them everywhere for children to find"
Apr 22, 2017 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Two girls in Waterstones talking about Tess of the D'Urbervilles & the one who's read it just epically spoiled it for the one who hasn't ow She also just described North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell as 'the shit'.