I was looking for the fault the tripping switch the place where the signal jumped the tracks To the End of the Land: a text & audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia. Order the pamphlet & CD here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Corn bunting singing in the beets. Another two singing males nearby. Never heard them sing qpmin November before.

The 4th workshop of my online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance & Process' focuses on Vasko Popa's poem-sequence, 'The Worshipping of the Lame Wolf'. Wednesday 12th November, 7.00-9.00. All welcome. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/.../poetry-a....

Farage: epic grifter

'Sylvia Plath's magisterial 'The Swarm' is the poem we'll be focusing on in the third workshop of my online course, Poetry as Performance and Process, 7.00-9.00pm, Wednesday 29th October (UK). Still a few places open. More details and booking details here; www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...

We're not feeding #kakapo on Anchor Island this year: with a big rimu mast predicted, we're expecting them not to need help. It's also part of our plan to reduce management intensity. #conservation #parrots

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Sylvia Plath's magisterial 'The Swarm' is the exemplary poem we'll be looking at on my online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' on Wednesday 29th October, 7.00-9.00. 'How instructive this is!' More information and booking details: www.eventbrite.com/.../poetry-a....

“I was drawn, surely, to the unusual combination of spiritual reach and humour, as well as recognising the poet’s extraordinary gift for characterisation in miniature” — @greeningpoet.bsky.social on discovering George Mackay Brown #poetrysky wildcourt.co.uk/discovering-...

The Burial Ground #otd in 2022 I was wandering around an old burial ground by the edge of an ocean, visualising poetry about this place by @steveeely.bsky.social. This led to exhibitions and a quite unique book.

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. I’m proud to share my poem 'Ada Lovelace' and a sonnet to Caroline Herschel, published in the London Review of Books. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Hi All. My online creative writing workshop based on Jorie Graham's magisterial and magnificent 'To 2040' runs at 7.00 on Wednesday 15th October. Three places left. More information and booking details here. www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...

Evolve the pile it does.

The 2nd workshop of my online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' runs on Wed 15th Oct, 7-9 pm. The workshop is structured around a group reading of Jorie Graham's darkly apocalyptic 'To 2040'. Further information and booking details: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...

Fascist State.

Three places left on this guided walk around Ted Hughes's national service landscape. 11.00-3.00, Saturday 4th October. www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...

Still a few places left on this course. First session on Wednesday 1st October.https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-performance-process-tickets-1574026980069?aff=oddtdtcreator

My fortnightly online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' begins on Wed 1st Oct, 7-9pm. Numbers are capped to allow a small group experience, and there are still a few places left. More information and booking details here. www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...

Still three or four tickets left for this event before I have to declare it full. Ted Hughes's Patrington: a guided walk through the poet's little seminal National Service landscape. Saturday 4th October, 11am-3pm. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...

Sickening capitulation to their true values.

Poetry as Performance & Process is a series of five creative writing workshops. The focus will be on the poem as a work of art—an artefact performing itself; the process embodied within it; and its method and technique. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

They also provided buses to the capitol on January 6 www.businessinsider.com/man-charged-...

Good to see another of the limited edition prints from the cover image of Orasaigh on the way to a new home this week. Some still remain. A ground-breaking collaboration with @steveeely.bsky.social, Orasaigh is "complex, unadorned yet beautiful" - B+W Photography Magazine #orasaigh #photography

My five workshop, creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process', begins on Wednesday October 1st, 7.00-9.00, and runs fortnightly at the same time/day until Wednesday 26th November. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...

My literary walk, 'Ted Hughes's Patrington', exploring the seminal East Yorkshire landscape in which Hughes undertook his National Service takes place on Saturday 4 October. Hope you can join me. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...

Starmer should burn in hell

'" Iwasn’t always like this. I used to wear a suit and tie. I spent 25 years teaching and educated 80,000 students, but Israel took everything from me and killed my students, my children, and my grandchildren,” said teacher Samir Al-Kubriti from Gaza. #Gaza" www.threads.com/@aljarmaq_ne...

Is the BBC now the official mouthpiece for Reform? yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/is-the-...

Fascists=Nonces

Poetry as Performance & Process: an Online Creative Writing Short-Course, led by Steve Ely, fortnightly from Wednesday 1st Oct. Each of the workshops involves a writing activity arising from a close reading of an exemplary poem. More information and tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...

Ted Hughes’s Patrington A Guided Walk through Ted Hughes’s National Service landscape with poet & Hughes expert, Steve Ely 11.00-3.00, Saturday 4th October, 2025 More information and tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...

'In its quiet intensity, Orasaigh feels like holding both place and time in your hands' A review of Orasaigh, my collaboration with poet @steveeely.bsky.social, in a new post on the 'Off The Croft' Substack by Mike Donald #orasaigh #poetry #photography offthecroft.substack.com/p/off-the-cr...

This week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm running a 5 workshop online course, 'Poetry as Performance & Process' in Oct and Nov of this year - 'What is this poem doing?' 'How is it doing it?' - We'll use learning derived from our close readings of exemplary poems to inform our work. More info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...

On Saturday 4th October, I'm running a guided walk around Ted Hughes's formative National Service Landscape at Patrington - It's a leisurely amble around the area, and an insight into a crucially formative but neglected part of Hughes's life. www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...

I'm running a five workshop, online short-course, 'Poetry as Performance & Process' Oct-Nov 2025. We'll focus on 5 exemplary poems - What is the poem doing?' 'How is it doing it?' - and use the learning to inform our own work. More info and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...

I'm running a five workshop online creative writing course - Poetry as Performance and Process - in October/November this year. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...

Daybreak in the wreck of Dogger. Gulls drifting over the slowly rising sea. Seals hauled-out on sandbanks, bleached ribs of stranded whales. Dunlin and knot, swarming the mudflats, armies of silt-spearing godwit and whaup. Last day to order 'Eely' with £2 off longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

“I was a palm-wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age. I had no other work more than to drink palm-wine in my life.” Read from Amos Tutuola’s iconic novel, The Palm-Wine Drinkard.

Books.

Look at me Chalfonts

Delighted that Bill Herbert, Andy Jackson and Linda France have included my poem in their New Boots & Pantisocracies Eco Sonnet chain. Thanks to Helen Mort for passing the baton. newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/e...

Heroes ✊👏

The greatest rap song of all time. The mighty Killah Priest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om6Y...

Piles evolving. A bit.

They're killing people just because they can. apnews.com/article/pale...  US contractors say their colleagues are firing live ammo as Palestinians seek food in Gaza