Sometimes we dance. Sometimes we rest, reflect & recharge: www.mixcloud.com/Idiorhythmia... #music #DJ #mixes #ambient

"Cunning chimera, desperate for loneliness, you stacked eucalyptus. Webbed paws slapped dirt into an expectant mound." My poem 'Penelope Escapes the Platypusary' is now up at the wonderful @anthro-poetry.bsky.social 🌊 anthropocenepoetry.org/post/penelop...

On Valentine’s Day #LindaFrance began our #EcoSonnetChain for which 14 poets each wrote a sonnet linked by last & 1st lines. She said, ‘Our chain aims to embody the Amazonian ethic of mutirão – collective action based on the understanding everything is connected to everything else.’ (1/3)

Proud to have my poem Belemnite in this brilliant anthology for the campaign #Givepeatachance get a copy here and raise money! www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social

Thank you Orbis & Pauline Rowe for your review of MINGLE by @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social "Parkin has a gift for glamour, absurdity and danger in the way he approaches poems as ritualized structures about a toxic, changing and endangered world." ninearchespress.com/publications... orbisjournal.co.uk

Issue 84 of The Interpreter's House features the brilliant Poet, DJ, writer & RENEW Early Career Researcher @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social which: 'looks broadly at human-nonhuman communication & 'critterly voices' in contemporary #ecopoetry.' 👇 theinterpretershouse.org/parkin-84 #renewbiodiversity

Excited to teach this eco-techno course in early '26 🖥 🌎🍄🔬🔭📡🧫

Welcome to ‘The Living Library’: a pop-up exhibition of material ecopoetry curated by @royalholloway.bsky.social and the Landmark Arts Centre 🍃🪾🍁🐝🦇 This event forms part of Being Human Festival - the national festival of the humanities 🧡

Morning gorgeous babies. Share some kindness this day if you're able. Good mischief. Love you all 🍂🧡🍂

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

What if we dared to imagine and write towards a technolgy that was a part of, not apart from, our biosphere? I'll be teaching this course starting in January, with @poetryschool.bsky.social poetryschool.com/courses/micr...

Peter Hughes, Iris Colomb, Caleb Parkin (@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social), Natalie Whittaker (@natalie-whittaker.bsky.social), Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese, Suzanne Conway (@suzanneconwaypoet.bsky.social), Steve Komarnyckyj, Hannah Silva.

Rats given a faecal transplant from exuberant toddlers showed more exploratory behaviour, supporting the idea that gut bacteria might affect children’s emotional development

Hi friends - I'm Featured Poet on the new @interpretershouse, with three poems & an introductory essay to them: theinterpretershouse.org/parkin-84 They're PhD work: one of my jay poems & two from my travels last year 🐦 🚢 🐻

Delighted to have a poem in the new issue of The Interpreter's House alongside @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social and @moette.bsky.social! My piece 'Fourpence', narrated by the women of Whitechapel during the time of Jack the Ripper, can be read here: theinterpretershouse.org/hainsworth-84

Cutting support to the motability scheme for disabled people, while we continue to fund Prince Andrew's residences & "lifestyle", should *radicalise anyone* 👑🚫🤬 #CharlesTheLast #TaxTheRich #WealthTaxNow

My absolute favourite critter this week is the wren/s in our garden, hopping about adorably & bellowing their rowdy little songs. How could anyone watch a wren & not feel inspired to bring down capitalism?

Check out this bad boy - a Pale Tussock moth caterpillar (Calliteara pudibunda) - living its best life. That gorgeous on-trend burgundy tail tuft!

In collaboration with @mklitfest.bsky.social in August we held an online masterclass – Digging in the Dirt: adventures in ecopoetry with @clareshawpoet.bsky.social , @betarish.bsky.social , @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/the-magic-of... 1 /3

I'm reading at this on Saturday night - come join, it's online 🙂

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.

Really happy to be being joined on this month's #LastSaturdayPoetry online Zoom by @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social @carmellapoetry.bsky.social @irisannelewis.bsky.social @eoinflannery.bsky.social @dralyal.bsky.social and SueProfitt - free tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur...

Look what I picked up in Stratford-Upon-Avon last week! The Anne-thology from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social is a beautiful collection of poems, with a tour de force sestina from @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social and a hilarious film review/poem from @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social 🪶💀

The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.

A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project and for Give Peat A Chance. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Writing for #PoemsAbout #Glamour? Friday’s the moment. Polish the surface, cut to the truth. Tag your post + tag us: @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Then: Read. Repost. Reply. Keep it real, even when it sparkles. Prompts: shorturl.at/oEXAM

A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project and for Give Peat A Chance. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

I'd rather see wind farms spring up, than watch the landscapes everyone is passionate about die because we didn't save them - because we were so keen on keeping them pretty. These places aren't just a vista. They are a fragile living cloak upon the land. They will not survive climate change.

Pride birthday is great & all, but it's essentially like having it on Gay Christmas 🌈🎁😅

A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project and for Give Peat A Chance. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

After puzzling over it for some time, I've realised the little electronic trill our local blackbirds have incorporated into their call is...the start-up noise of Dott scooters 🤣 This makes sense, them both being outdoors & across the city.

Hi pals! It's been brought to my attention I'm the feline mascot for a brand of banana suckies (!) 🍌 😬 However: I'm much older than five, esp in cat years (are they a thing?); I do not like fish; reading, yes, jigsaws, no (crossword pls); I don't love crowded places, but it depends on the vibes.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan An adult pleasure zone decree

We had a buzzing symposium yesterday to round off Lyra Fest / Brigstock Inst AI & Poetry project. We talked creative potential, ethics, methods, risks & really got into it, in a really convivial way. Looking forward to reflecting on next steps to explore 🤖 🌎 🖊

A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Heartfelt thanks to @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social for choosing a gorgeous array of Nine Arches poets to fill the pages of these beautiful anthologies, with poems by @isobeldixon.bsky.social @olgapoet.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @tomsastry.bsky.social & others 🧡

Looking forward to the #NoKings marches in the UK now... 👑 🚫 #CharlesTheLast

If you joined #NBNconf24, you'll have heard @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social create & recite "Worm's Eye View". Thanks Caleb for reproducing it bit.ly/CalebParkin ....Leading nicely into our announcement that #NBNconf25 will be on 20 November at the SS Great Britain in Bristol - bit.ly/NBNconf25

`The Land Speaks: From Stone Walls to Stakeholders on #Dartmoor.’ Read RENEW PhD student Emma Squire’s blog, with poetry from @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social inspired by the RENEW Programme’s Early Career Researcher #biodiversity retreat. renewbiodiversity.org.uk/the-land-spe...

#HappyPrideMonth b!tches 🐕 💩 🌈

Today's gender & vibe:

Poets: ready for an adventure in #ecopoetry? Online 90 min masterclass on 5 August with #PoetsforthePlanet and four brilliant poets, as we dig in the dirt to explore writing that captures place and location. Tickets: www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... #WritingMasterclass #writingworkshop #poetry

Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

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Absolutely this. Starmer is a flimsy weather vane with no spine, simply appeasing Reform & driving the country towards fascism. The benefit of the doubt I gave Labour is most definitely over.

As a new one emerges, throwback to last year when we got embroiled in the last #Pope 's motorcade - in a Marseillaise ambulance... buildstories.slowways.org/walking-and-...

Interested in the potential, pitfalls & peculiarities of the rel'ship between AI & poetry? Join this @lyrafest.com symposium on 27th June... www.lyrafest.com#e127080 A friendly, playful opportunity to think through complex, controversial subject as creative practitioners & critical thinkers.

Our latest curated book bundle is themed on Earth, Nature & Place. A trio of #poetry titles featuring writing from @isobeldixon.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social and @wendypratt.bsky.social together at a celebratory price of £17.99. ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Earth...

Delighted to see this review of 'Mingle' in Alchemy Spoon, which met the poems in the brimming-over spirit they were intended! The collection is on sale now for £7.99, so grab it direct from @ninearchespress.bsky.social while you can...