Next week! For all those in Yorkshire, I will be giving a talk for the Royal Meteorological Society alongside @jrcarpenter.bsky.social (who very kindly invited me along). "Towards a Wind Humanities" - on wind as "model, media, and experience" www.rmets.org/event/toward...

I’m reading with Elfie Shiosaki and Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal in this water-themed poetry evening in London 6-9pm 26 November. Free, with food after: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-river-w...

middle daughter piano lesson, curious about these recent Pamenar Press titles by Stephen Collis and J.R. Carpenter, // @pamenarpress.bsky.social @jrcarpenter.bsky.social

meanwhile, in south london. cherry trees are still losing their autumn leaves. and also, already in blossom.

a score for packing for five days of trains, friends, opera, mudlarking, performing at a poetry festival, walking on a beach, and important work meetings. lipstick and a fountain pen. work gloves and a silk scarf. a ring and a loop. implements of magnification. to see both near and far.

on the 4th of November artists around the UK will participate in Remember Nature, a day of environmental art activism www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

glad I managed to catch the last few hours of We Will Sing, Ann Hamilton’s eerie and expansive exhibition at Salts Mill, Saltaire bradford2025.co.uk/event/we-wil...

I have a chapter called “Library of Wind” (after Nancy Campbell’s book Library of Ice) in this wonderful new book from Torque Editions BiblioTech: ReReading the Post-digital Library torquetorque.net/publications...

epic 27 hours in London for Small Publishers Fair. so many favourite people. much buzz. such books. spotted my books on four tables this year: @essencepress.bsky.social @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social @uniformbooks.bsky.social @smallpublishers.bsky.social

night larking #mudlarking

normalise lecturing on weather writing wearing battered wellies with waterproofs and knee pads in rucksack #mudlarking

my contributor’s copy of BiblioTech: ReReading the Post-Digital library arrived today, edited by Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner.

Join Poetry@Leeds in June 2026 for Poetry’s Environments — we invite proposals from poets, critics, translators, archivists, activists, editors, digital specialists, literary professionals, individuals, groups & orgs involved in poetry & its environments conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

great opportunity to get my media meteorology The Gathering Cloud directly from the publisher @uniformbooks.bsky.social at @smallpublishers.bsky.social

It's #smallpublishersfair25 in London this Fri/Sat! Here's a quick link to the PDF of the Fair programme, with details of all 66 UK & international publishers, special exhibition, readings & talks: smallpublishersfair.co.uk/wp-content/u... (Print copies also available at Conway Hall on Fri/Sat)

As well as new book works by Thomas A Clark, Richard Price & @jrcarpenter.bsky.social I will be showing many of my own new works at @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair this coming weekend 24-25 October. A round up of 2025 projects is here www.juliejohnstone.com/2025-2/

One of three new collaborations that Essence Press will be launching @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair this coming Friday and Saturday 24-25 October. #smallpublishersfair25 cobble by J.R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...

sneak peek at “cobble” — a new micro publication launching at @smallpublishers.bsky.social next weekend. very much a rock paper scissors situation. thank you @essencepress.bsky.social for cutting these paper stone poèmes. 2nd image is a cobble of coral fossil from the River Ribble in North Yorkshire

small press peeps. I’m here for this. on the Saturday mostly. see you there!

librarian: have you tried searching the catalog? me: not sure where to find what I’m looking for … the catalog:

The Gathering Cloud collates research into the history and language of meteorology with current thinking about data storage and climate change. With a foreword by Jussi Parikka and an afterword by Lisa Robertson: www.uniformbooks.co.uk/thegathering...

great opportunity to get The Gathering Cloud — my book-length essay on the cloud, from Aristophanes to environmental impact of cloud storage — direct from @uniformbooks.bsky.social ! I’ll also be milling about at @smallpublishers.bsky.social — see you there 📚💥

I am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5. eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/ I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa. This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

Spatula very pleasant to the cool atlas and very comfortable to the canine. — a five star review, translated by Google

join me and fellow wind aficionado @richardacarter.bsky.social for discussion on our recent digital poetry projects exploring wind, sound, flight, and phantom islands as weather phenomena. hosted by @rmets.org in Leeds. Wednesday 19 November 2025 18:00 - 19:30 FREE www.rmets.org/event/toward...

Apply for this free PhD course on Energy Humanities in Stavanger, Norway! Please pass the opportunity on to students you know. Students from anywhere are welcome. #envhum #envhist

people: hope you’re feeling better soon. me: maybe just a short walk in the park. this slag heap: you’re never going to know if we’re full of upper carboniferous fossils or not unless you climb us. the upper carboniferous: sure, we think 30 metres is a perfectly reasonable height to grow club mosses

Wanderer overlooking the Kirkstall Road, Leeds, circa 1896. Source image from: THE CHARACTER AND EXTENT OF AIR POLLUTION IN LEEDS. A Lecture delivered before the Leeds Philosophical Society, on March 3rd, 1896. en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Cha...

and an early author of electronic literature

worth repeating: reading in the margins: Jordan Abel , another fragment of a longer work-in-progress, / @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social ; robmclennan.substack.com/p/reading-in...

complaining to a colleague about autumn allergies, he says, sounds like Duino Elegies. I think the fourth elegy might actually be about autumn allergies: O trees of life, oh, what when winter comes? / We are not of one mind.

NEW WORKSHOP!! Sabrina Imbler will teach "Writing Alongside the Nonhuman" on Sept 15, online. It is one thing to write about animals, plants, and other non-human beings, but what would it look like to write with them? 🌱🐈🌸 www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

many thanks to the judges of the Forward Prizes — this year’s Forward Book of Poetry is beautiful and I’m very happy to have a poem in it. get your copy here: www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

TODAY

thanks to everyone involved in making the Laurel Prize ceremony at the BBC Contains Strong Language Festival in Bradford last evening such a joyful occasion. congratulations to Katrina Porteous, whose Rhizodont is really something special. we both read poems about fossils. what a night!

Laurel Prize ceremony live-stream starting today at 5.30pm (BST) 💻: poetryschool.com/lau...

JR Carpenter – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍 On Measures of Weather: “Writing is noticing + noting. Rocks, seeds, photos—all count as notes. The space between noticing + noting is where the real writing happens.” 🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau... Winner live Fri 19 Sept, 5.30pm BST

images of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein together projected on to Windsor castle ahead of Trump’s state visit to the UK. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Laurel Prize asked me some questions and @poetryschool.bsky.social published the answers poetryschool.com/laurel-prize...

Submission Open 15th September to 15th of October 2025 Submissions are now open for issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The Editors are looking forward to reading the best of your poetry, fiction, and non fiction.

obsessed with the geology of Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds, built with locally quarried Millstone Grit 1152-1182. the stone contains quartzite pebbles that washed down from huge mountain ranges further north over 300 million years ago #kirkstallabbey #geology #erosion #millstonegrit

there’s a great review of Measures of Weather by Mandy Pannett in the new issue of Tears in the Fence tearsinthefence.com

epic day exhibiting mudlarking finds in the Roman amphitheater at the guildhall Art Gallery in London today chatting about fossils barges ballast coins pipes lead type trade beads roman pottery medieval livery badges alnage seals aglets dress pins wind and colonialism. excellent. 10/10. no notes.

well chuffed to have a poem in the Forward Book of Poetry launching at the BBC’s Contains Strong Language Festival in Bradford 21 September 14:00 www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewbv9...

last few days to submit your work ... Deadlines: Experimental 01/09 Fiction 31/08 Essays 02/09 all details here: oleada.io/publication/...

the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc), a major part of the global climate system, bringing warmed tropical water to Europe and the Arctic, where it sinks to form a deep return current, is at its weakest in 1,600 years as a result of climate crisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🌿 2025 Laurel Prize Finalist 🌿 JR Carpenter: “In light of the climate emergency we must ask new questions of weather & the language we use. I’m grateful to the Laurel Prize judges for bringing the pressing questions in Measures of Weather to wider attention.” #LaurelPrize2025

sorting out #mudlarking finds for an exhibition. here’s a fragment of a Roman Hunt Cup decorated with barbotine slip found on the Thames foreshore. this type of colour-coated slip ware was made from local clay in the lower Nene Valley in England from 150-250AD.

Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...