This week in the poetry blogs with @sbpoet.bsky.social @oyoguhito.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @jannoble.bsky.social @jillpearlman.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/06/poet...

Apologies for the ads but I love this De Profundis Clamavi setting of Tolkien's Namarie. Does anyone know who the singer is? www.bing.com/videos/river...

‘Sarn Rhiw’ - #RSThomas (Destinations, Celandine 1985). This is where RS Thomas and his wife Elsi Eldridge lived in retirement.

This week in the poetry blogs & Substacks with @jannoble.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @mayacpopa.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @jntod.bsky.social @johnsiddique.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/06/poet...

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @wendypratt.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @mayacpopa.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/06/poet...

A few words about Baudelaire's magical L'invitation au voyage: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2937

Well, just written a piece I wanted to post on my Wordpress website and I can’t log in!!!

A little piece on Lewis's magically honed writing in the final chapters of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2933

A little piece on Lewis's magically honed writing in the final chapters of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2933

This week in the poetry blogs with @mcrucefix.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @mayacpopa.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/06/poet...

In the new papal encyclical from Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas, the pontiff quotes Gandalf from The Return of the King within his larger discussion of defending the dignity of humanity in the age of AI. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

This week in the poetry blogs with @pearlpoet.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @mayacpopa.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @iralightman.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/05/poet...

The Strickland Brooch, AD 800s. A fabulous example of Anglo-Saxon creativity and craftsmanship! This large silver disc brooch is inlaid with gold and niello, and decorated in ‘Trewhiddle-style’ with an intricate pattern of puppy-like animals. 📷 British Museum #Archaeology

Reading poems & battling despair with garybarwin.bsky.social webbish6.bsky.social trishhopkinsonpoet.bsky.social thepoetslizard.bsky.social jillpearlman.bsky.social kristybowen.bsky.social oyoguhito.bsky.social roguestrands.bsky.social matthewepaul.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/05/poet...

Weathering grief, running a poetry press & more w/ mayacpopa.bsky.social robmclennan.bsky.social victoriamoul.bsky.social suefinch.bsky.social clareshawpoet.bsky.social jannoble.bsky.social sallythomasnc.bsky.social aempoet.bsky.social shawnalemay.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/05/poet...

This week in the poetry blogs with @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @carolinegillpoetry.bsky.social @loriaustex.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @rmhaines.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/05/poet...

Wow! Truly impressive. Click the link.

For various reasons I've had no time for writing and very little for reading over the last few months but I'd like to repost a link to my review of D. M. Black's translation of Dante's Paradiso because his version is so very much worth reading AS POETRY in itself edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2906

This week in the poetry blogs with @beckyltuch.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social clareshawpoet.bsky.social myheadtheforest.bsky.social @poetclare.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/05/poet...

A little personal response to Gerard de Nerval's magical sonnet "Horus": edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2929

Can reporters stop using the word deal? It’s an agreement, a settlement, a treaty, an understanding, an MOU etc. Using the word deal is accepting his simple-minded TV game-show framing and contributes to the bogus drama he is trying to create.

& Labour wonder why even core supporters are deserting them? That a Labour Government sits in what’s become the defining #Starmer posture of disengaged silence, laissez-faire inaction, & the sloganised misdirection of Tory-blaming—while HE implodes—represents a colossal political failure

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It’s many years since I’ve enjoyed anything by D H Lawrence - the shrilly preaching note just became too much for me. Jean Giono’s novels in contrast give me deep pleasure - their celebrations of peasant instinctualism and fortitude and closeness to nature leave the reader a freedom of response, are

Back from watching a brilliant show by Didsbury and Chorlton's Northern School of Theatre and Dance - congratulations to Adam, Emma and their many, many dedicated students.

Stumbled on Gerard Philipe's magically sensitive reading of the passage in Le petit prince where the aviator meets the prince: www.google.com/search?clien...

All Jamie McKendrick's poetry collections include brilliant reworkings of the sonnet form. Here are my comments on "Alternative Anatomy" from his 2024 collection Drypoint: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2916

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Pincushion Protea - Nadelkissen-Proteen (Leucospermum) 📷Robert Dominy #naturephotography #nature #photography #flickr flic.kr/p/2s6tsEa

Beggars belief that Met Police is in talks with #Palantir about giving them access to highly sensitive data, when there’s already such concern over its links with ICE & Israeli military. Palantir already has UK contracts worth over £500m, incl. with NHS. We should be scrapping them not signing more

For various reasons I've had no time for writing and very little for reading over the last few months but I'd like to repost a link to my review of D. M. Black's translation of Dante's Paradiso because his version is so very much worth reading AS POETRY in itself edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2906

We call it the glade - perhaps 6 yards by 6. O what would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

Thinking of The Charge of the Light Brigade and The Highwayman - both have a driving momentum in the rhythm, but in TCLB the momentum is all about the feelings, attitudes, ideas of the poet as he revolves the event in his mind, in TH it's all about the unfolding of the event itself

This week in the poetry blogs with @robmclennan.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @kathrynanna.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social 1/4 www.vianegativa.us/2026/04/poet...

The way Doisneau captures the instant when that swift, awkward action makes a gracefully mirrored dancelike pattern is brilliant in itself but its human expressiveness is even more wonderful.

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just a reminder that the Cambridge Launch of Galahad and the Grail is this Thursday from 6-7pm. They'll show the beautiful documentary and I'll be there to sign books www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/galahad-an...

Rereading Le Guin’s City of Illusions with immense pleasure. It’s my favourite of her Hainish novels, a beautifully written combination of spare, elegant construction and imaginative richness.

i think it's time for a few words from my favorite poet, Mary Oliver #poems #Despair #ecocide #extinction #politics

Did u know? I first saw this living wall in a shopping centre/car park in Stratford-upon-Avon approx 7 years ago....& it's still going strong to this day. It's an absolutely beautiful sight....Why can't all municipal spaces have these? If you can't plant along, plant up.... 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍

This week in the poetry blogs with @jntod.bsky.social @loriaustex.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @mayacpopa.bsky.social @dominicrivron.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/03/poet...

Rereading Le Guin’s City of Illusions with immense pleasure. It’s my favourite of her Hainish novels, a beautifully written combination of spare, elegant construction and imaginative richness.

The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash. If it goes it down, we’re looking, as complex societies, at a potential termination event. This week's column. Please read it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.

It was great to speak to Malcolm about his new Arthurian project..

I've read all Le Guin's Hainish novels in cheap paperbacks - some several times - and have just treated myself to the Library of America collection. I'd forgotten how good Rocannon's World is!

This week in the poetry blogs with @alinaetc.bsky.social @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social @loriaustex.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/03/poet...

This week in the poetry blogs with @wendypratt.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @angelatopping.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/03/poet...

I’m happy for a squirrel to eat SOME of the bird food I put out but how do I stop such acrobatic thieves grabbing it ALL (I thought that long string would beat them)?

Do you love to write about your garden or perhaps you're interested in writing for gardening magazines? We'll cover a range of styles on this friendly, supportive workshop, incl. creative non-fiction & memoir. Plus writing sessions in the beautiful @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/3wmpuz6d