Tony Trehy
TonyTrehy@mastodonapp.uk
<p>Novelist, Poet, Curator and theorist of New Incoherism. I'm a <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Communist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Communist</span></a>. Previously a Museum Director in Manchester, UK and Director of the International Text Festival; now based in Barcelos, Portugal. I am an <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Everton" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Everton</span></a> supporter,<br /><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/FreePalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreePalestine</span></a>.<br />I also use Upscrolled with the handle <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@TonyTrehy" class="u-url mention">@<span>TonyTrehy</span></a></span></p>
Posts
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Post #2003054
Be more 25 April! #Portugal #Revolution
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Post #1634553
It&#39;s 20 years since my first poetry installation. https://tony-trehy.blogspot.com/2026/04/20-years-after-vertigo.html
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Post #569888
#Holiday #Reading #Books Michel Butor: &#39;Passing Time&#39; and Vasily Grossman: &#39;Stalingrad&#39;. #Portugal
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Post #342564
@workingclasshistory@mastodon.social I think that was the first demo I ever went on. A great feeling on the streets.
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Post #282329
A Merry Dudley Christmas
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Post #282327
Just as the news about the #Maduro &#39;capture&#39; came in, the next thing I read was Walter Benjamin&#39;s retelling of Herodotus&#39;s story of Psammenitus. The Egyptian king was defeated by the Persian King Cambyses. Cambyses humbled his prisoner by forcing him to watch the triumphal procession, which included his daughter condemned to life as a maid, and his son enroute to execution. Psammenitus remained unmoved until he recognised his frail old servant amongst the slaves,...
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Post #282323
&quot;Britain in talks to deploy troops to #Greenland as Trump threatens to seize Artic Island&quot; - If I was Danish or a Greenlander, I wouldn&#39;t trust the UK either.
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Post #282320
&quot;You need to understand what&#39;s at stake.&quot; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBIt8J_Vs1Y&amp;t=3090s
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Post #282319
My latest review - The Crisis of Narration by #Byung-Chul #Han https://tony-trehy.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-crisis-of-narration.html #books #literature
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Post #282316
My latest #blog post about my first experiment in #interactive #poetry https://tony-trehy.blogspot.com/2026/02/fluents-dyslexia.html
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Post #248435
@booksns@channels.im #BookSuggestion You could try "A Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M Miller or "Earth Abides" by George Rippey Stewart. #Scifi
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Post #181033
@booksns@channels.im Sounds like Byung-Chul Han might help: "The philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues that modern society is a burnout society, where people are driven by an imperative to achieve and exploit themselves. He explores the concepts of hyperattention, self-exploitation, and compulsive freedom in his 2015 work Burnout Society."