Do you like poetry? Regardless of the answer I need your help! As part of my doctoral research @lborouniversity.bsky.social @lboroenglish.bsky.social I am collecting responses to poetry. Just click or tap here to start or scan the QR code: forms.office.com/e/cbXmyRCYnU

I don’t often post about politics on social media. Partly because I want my social media use to be professional or near professional. Partly because I don’t think social media is the space for reasoned and mature political debate. However, I feel I need to post about this: (1/5)

It was a pleasure to be at the Loughborough University PhD awards last night with the rest of the Creative Reactions Pint of Science team 2025. We were shortlisted for Team of The Year and it’s fantastic that we could celebrate together.

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Today, and tickets are still available:https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/co-create-gallery-25

What do sustainable jewelry, storybooks, memes and bell foundries have in common? They are all featured at our Co-Create Gallery happening in just 2 weeks today! Tickets still available: pintofscience.co.uk/event/co-cre... @pintofscience.uk, @lborouniversity.bsky.social

There's still time to register for our fabulous hybrid symposium on Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between, Wed 7 May: www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ias... @lboroenglish.bsky.social @jadefrench.bsky.social @culturalcurrents.bsky.social

📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich: ‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’ Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants! #PhD #postgraduate www.gre.ac.uk/__data/asset...

Can you help? We are urgently looking for a GERMAN IMMIGRATION LAWYER If you are or know one you could put us in touch with, please DM or 📧 press[at]outspokenldn.com 🙏

Pint of Science is coming back to Loughborough and I am delighted to be part of the Creative Reactions team again! We have three excellent events planned; Come along; it'll be great!

I’m back from Lancaster for the 20th annual @thebsls.bsky.social Conference! Thank you for the opportunity to present my paper “Don’t Laugh: Maybe a Dog?: Lessons From the Design and Pilot Study of a Survey Analysing Reader Descriptions of Poetry’s Speakers and Addressees” Snappy title, I know.

Final call! Survey closes this Saturday

Update on this: I got a response yesterday, and it was a rejection. I’m pretty sure it was a tiered rejection, though, which always helps. Nevertheless it’s another row of red on my submissions table.

I had the idea to write (& post) some short poems every so often which are inspired by the title of a poetry magazine or press. They probably won’t be my best work, but if I enjoy it I’ll keep going. It’s a show of my appreciation for people who choose to dedicate their time to publishing poems.

In case you missed the news last week, our live literature programme in Exeter, #QuayWords, is seeking a freelance Writer/Practitioner to work with us on developing a programme of activity for young writers aged 16-19. Applications close at 5pm on Wednesday 29th January.

If you like narrative verse, visual poetry, experimental lyric, hybrid fiction, memoir and sound poetry, then check out the Hem Press store! Hempressbooks.com/shop

Dear Santa, For Christmas I would like: - A Dukla Prague away kit - A Hippopotamus - More responses for my reader-response poetry study. People should find it a relaxing way to start their Christmas break, and it's available here: forms.office.com/e/URQkTcNFZ8

Increasingly tempted every day that passes to apply for funding and start producing sick as hell poetry anthologies. If anyone knows a publisher who is seeking someone to run an anthology project please let them know I am dying to pitch. 🤭

THIS STATUS IS JOY I have confused the letters that were in the poem and which you were busily scribbling for a book Forgive me they were a pale view so sad and so exact #anagram

I am waiting to hear back on a poetry journal submission. I should have expected a response by now. I always give some extra leeway before chasing up. I think “they must be seriously considering my work” However, I do keep obsessively checking emails. This happens every few months.

As many of us have been saying for some time #GCSEReform #Edusky #TeamEnglish #PearsonExamBoard www.thetimes.com/article/6507...

A wonderful initiative.

We'll be at Cinema City this Sunday with all the poetic goodness. Come say hello ☺️

Well, now I've settled into bluesky a little, put up my feet, made a cup of tea, and fallen asleep by the fire I suppose I should tell them as don't know about my survey for my PhD: forms.office.com/e/URQkTcNFZ8 Any and all responses welcome, and all you need to do is read poems. Easy.

It has come to my attention that my surname is the German for “word”. Splendid. I love nominative determinism.