And it is. Jane's Substack has contributed to my own growth. I've not read anybody else's work for months now, but I will read this one and urge you to do the same. Jane made me realise that how I write matters more than trying to emulate anybody else. Thank you <3

I am having a small personal celebration - 19 months of dedicated work has led me to my 100th Substack article - it feels like an achievement to me :-) burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

This workshop is coming up next week if anyone would like to join me there xxx

🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 The stunning cover @candlestickpress.bsky.social ‘Almanac Twelve Poems for 2026’ is the wondrous creation of multi-talented artist & poet @Janeburn.bsky.social & it features poems by Jane and many others brilliant poets. 🤩 Congratulations👏 I’m saving to read in the new year! 💫 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

Join @janeburn.bsky.social 's briliant workshop! #poetsonbluesky www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo...

I painted and donated this watercolour of two Palestinian Sunbirds for @sidhepress.bsky.social and hope that it helps to make a difference to people in need.

I was asked by @candlestickpress.bsky.social if I would like to do the cover for their 'Almanac: Twelve Poems for 2026' I picked up a paintbrush and paper and the flowers kept on coming, coming, coming. Available here: www.candlestickpress.co.uk/pamphlet/alm...

The University of the Self #90 open.substack.com/pub/burnj/p/...

Another portion of my diary typed up, with illustrations. Have finished one notebook and moved onto a new one, which is a very interesting one. burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

Another nature diary update xx burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

I am hosting a writing workshop in October online if anyone would like to join me there :-) www.tickettailor.com/events/thepo...

My next diary installment is here if anyone would like to read it - I will link to it here: burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

I spend time with nature & discuss, a little more each time how health is impacting each of my days, how connecting with nature is something I can do. I worry my articles are dull. They are not about epic journeys, or achieving anything huge. burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

Many thanks to the poets who took part in the #EcoSonnetChain: #LindaFrance, #EmmaMust, @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social, #AnnSophieBalzer, @janeburn.bsky.social, #TishaniDoshi, #JemmaBorg, @jsaphra.bsky.social, #JacobPolley, @sophieherx.bsky.social, @helenmort.bsky.social, #SteveEly, & #GlynMaxwell.

Another nature diary entry here on Substack :-) burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

Another PhD rejection. So I keep on turning to my diary and I work on accepting my place, though my soul strain against it, I work to tamp it down. I write, I paint. I find what love and happiness I can. burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

I have written some more of my nature diary. Lillies, birds, spiders. Nature is incredible. burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

& to our shortlist @deanatta.bsky.social @janeburn.bsky.social @lauraceleste.bsky.social @corrintachibana.bsky.social @fiddes.bsky.social

Thank you so much @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social for shortlisting my poem about my bookmaking for poem of the month. It can be read here. Congratulations too to Kat Dixon, Dean Atta, Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, Laura Stanley, Mark Fiddes vervepoetry.substack.com/p/july-poems...

Super excited to announce that Circulaire, my new pamphlet, is now available to pre-order from Written Off Publishing! writtenoffpublishing.com/shop/p/circu... Blurbed by the phenomenal @janeburn.bsky.social, Circulaire is a love letter to my northern roots, my many mothers, and myself 💛 ☕️

Another Substack article. I watch the birds and flowers. In the same place, every day. So I write about this and I write about some recent mental health difficulties. burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

Thank you so very much @seaninhughes.bsky.social for your incredible review of my @ninearchespress.bsky.social book - I am so moved and grateful xxx

Nature is truly saving me right now - I am so very thankful for it and maybe I will never get anywhere, but here, in nature, is where it is good - I must let go my grip on the rest of life that I will never really understand. burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

Recalling the incredible lightning in the sky, 21st June, 2025. burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

Curlews. Little trees. Learning. I have so much to write about. burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

Apologies for the many posts, but I am writing a lot on Substack at the moment - necessary writing, because I am having to work very hard at keeping on with life right now. burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

Just finished reading 'Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other' by Danielle Dutton from @prototypepubs.bsky.social - what an amazing, exciting, inventive book. Thrilling ideas on ekphrasis. 100% recommend :-)

A wonderful experiece at an art exhibition in a forest and an artwork made using natural inks - burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

I have written another article exploring connecting the self to bridsong - burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

January conversations with dogs - poetry by @dislaney.bsky.social , illustrations by @janeburn.bsky.social ellyfromearth.wordpress.com/2025/06/22/j...

I have a new Substack article today :-) burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

Thank you Candlestick Press for this beautiful new anthology pamphlet Ten Poems About Herbs including poems by @isobeldixon.bsky.social and @janeburn.bsky.social Find their new series of poems straight from the garden: www.candlestickpress.co.uk

I have a Substack post here, about a workshop and a handmade notebook :-) burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

What a pleasure to have poems included in two of the latest Candlestick Press pamphlets. I love these pamphlets & have quite a number of them on my shelf. I've a poem in Ten Poems about Weeds and one in Herbs. Their pamphlet launches are free & always wonderful :-)

I am here, in a place I never thought I would be - a Bloodaxe Books anthology, edited by @rachaelboast.bsky.social Boast - included, and it feels very emotional. www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/...

I have an essay and some poems published here today, with great many thanks to the editors x bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/if-we-rele...

'Crow, Landscape I, II, III & IV' some of my latest pictures made using my crow linocut, tissue and offcuts from the printing process. I dream one day that I might have some artwork in a gallery.

Right. This morning’s #poetry warmup is - a lie - a surprise - after a poem by @janeburn.bsky.social :D internetofwordsat.substack.com/p/twelve-lin...

We posted @janeburn.bsky.social’s elegy for the extinct golden toad, no.5 in our #EcoSonnetChain, on Thursday as usual/ever, but circumstances dictated that we didn’t get round to sharing here till now: newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/e...

I have written a sonnet as part of the eco sonnet chain here. I dedicated mine to the Golden Toad, and what it means to know too many species have vanished newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/04/10/e...

My latest artwork - It is a collage, is A2 sized and its title is 'The History of the Whales'. I feel endless love and sadness toward whales

Can a book help you to forgive your mind? Maybe, a little bit. Lots to consider in this week's Substack, if anyone would like to read it. burnj.substack.com/p/the-univer...

In Edinburgh on April 3rd, I'm reading from my new pamphlet 'Epigone', part of a 3-poet pamphlet collection published by @tapsalteerie.bsky.social The other poets included are Maria Schiza and @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social It's at the Fruitmarket Gallery www.fruitmarket.co.uk/event/book-l...

I have made a new commonplace book - this one is garden/plant themed :-) www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0cH...

Thank you so much @hareontherun.bsky.social - how wonderful to see my book, that I put all of myself into, out in the world xxxxx

I've completed a pair of paintings, A2 size. I've been inspired by a book I've recently read. I'm going to write a Substack about them soon. This book has given me a lot to think about & words were not enough to process it, so art came into the equation too.

A poem from my @ninearchespress.bsky.social collection The Apothecary of Flight. I am a person with autism who also struggles with hypermiobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome & so much of life is diffucult. Poetry helps me to express myself.

I am so pleased to be amongst this wonderful selection on books from @ninearchespress.bsky.social xxx