The State of the Subject 2025-26: online forum Join us to reflect on and respond to the English Association’s State of the Subject Report 2025-26 by Antony Rowland An online forum to hear your thoughts about English Studies in these difficult times. englishassociation.ac.uk/the-state-of...

The State of the Subject 2025-26: online forum Join us to reflect on and respond to the English Association’s State of the Subject Report 2025-26 by Antony Rowland An online forum to hear your thoughts about English Studies in these difficult times. englishassociation.ac.uk/the-state-of...

Have you signed up for the #EnglishCreates summer symposium? This free online event brings together colleagues across Literature, Language & Creative Writing to tackle the challenges facing English - and imagine what comes next. Join us: your view matters. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/englishcre...

Why would we want to learn from our pasts, or ponder the power of the written and spoken word, or explore the deep questions of humanity? According to the University of Hertfordshire, we wouldn't. They've just cut all of our undergrad Humanities programmes

Keeping a straight face while gently dissuading someone from choosing "Come On Baby Light My Fire" as exit music for a funeral. At the crematorium. That's another one to file under 'pastoral skills they don't teach you at theological college'!

What happens when we lose spaces where people sit together& practice thinking collectively?This free event marks the publication of Between the Lines - Julia Bell, Professor of New Writing at Birkbeck talks with Dr Doug Cowie & @BobEaglestone.bluesky.social englishassociation.ac.uk/reading-the-...

Polka dot Cats by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama #Womensart

Polling suggests significant political shifts across English councils in May. Join our webinar on April 21 for practical tips on engaging new administrations and helping incoming councillors understand the role and value of a modern library service: www.librariesconnected.org.uk/events/webin...

A valentine's card for bibliophiles. For @theguardian.com books. Download a printable version here: www.tomgauld.com/valentine

Here's a gift from us to all poetry lovers (or poetry curious). Type the code LOVEPOETRY at our checkout for savings on your #poetry book purchases now: ninearchespress.com/shop 25% off books when you spend £15 or more 🩷

#EnglishCreates: Futures We are thrilled to share today's blog by Caroline Lucas, Britain’s first Green MP: 'Literature is the way we exercise the muscle of the imagination... And unless we can imagine a greener, fairer world, we’ll struggle to achieve it.' universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreat...

Great to speak to The Observer about the moving response we’ve had to our #Minnesota adaptation of the song #SanFrancisco - observer.co.uk/news/nationa... … Trying to get approval to release it. 🤞 #solidarity

The deadline for the first ever Ecocriticsm / Tennyson Conference is Saturday: all details below... @thevicsoc.bsky.social @tennysonsociety.bsky.social @victorianpoetry.bsky.social @poetrysociety.org.uk @profjt.bsky.social @eecocriticism.bsky.social @gothicstudies.bsky.social

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell

We hope the good people of #SanFrancisco will forgive us for adapting a song about their city in 1967 to address the shocking and tragic events in #Minnesota in recent weeks. This is dedicated to Renée Good and Alex Pretti, and in solidarity. Our version is called "Minnesota" ❤️ youtu.be/BRHxXHZmVAM

Huge happy 80th birthday this week to the legendary #DollyParton 🎉- we are marking it with a parody of her 2nd number 1 hit, written by the #BeeGees. Our 🎶 version's called "Donald's Sewage Stream" - since he brought his sick drivel to #Europe #Davos #NATO & our #armedforces: youtu.be/F4nefIN4_LY

"Those 18-year-olds – the first guinea pigs, the class who matriculated in 2012 – are now turning 31. And belatedly, the impact of the loans they were assured were a rock-solid investment in their futures is becoming apparent." Some thoughts on student loans www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Thank you again to @alcs.co.uk for championing authors’ works by collecting money from around the world when someone copies or uses our work. It’s payment day soon thanks to their achievements.

The T.S. Eliot shortlist readings are this Sunday 18th January! Poets will read from their shortlisted collections with MC Ian McMillan as perfect host. At the Royal Festival Hall from 7pm. This event is run by @tseliotprize and @southbankcentre. Book via www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Sarah Andersen, contemporary US cartoonist and illustrator #womensart

📣 Support the development of print magazine culture, resistance literature, and widening access to international contemporary writing across languages this 2026 by filling out our 5-minute readership survey. Leave your email at the end to enter a prize giveaway: buff.ly/E5e3PxX

The Poetry Society is delighted to present the launch readings for the Winter 2025 issue of The Poetry Review, ed. Wayne Holloway-Smith, with guest readers Jean Sprackland, Imogen Cassels, Rachel Long and Eric Yip. In-person has sold out. Only online tickets are available! Book via link in bio

"Battle Hymn of the Republic" is not a song to be taken on lightly ... but in light of this New Year Trumpian news onslaught, we're sharing this adaptation, called "Battle Hymn of the Empire" - as Trump goes marching on, and dragging us all back to the nineteenth century. youtu.be/8saU0WeocP0

UK photographer Shirley Baker, Manchester, 1966 #womensart #Monday

Can someone meme that Bras-on-the-table scene please. Now. #CallTheMidwife

Any bets on which episode someone utters the word LESBIAN in #CallTheMidwife? #WomensLib

I can't watch any more of this Vance press conference, not least because the TV has just thrown itself out of the window.

Lovely BBC Radio 4 40th birthday feature on @poemsonthetube.bsky.social. With contributions from @imtiazdharker.bsky.social & @georgeszirtes.bsky.social, plus extracts from poems by Grace Nichols & the late Benjamin Zephaniah. A @radiotimes.bsky.social pick of the day. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Let's see if this will cheer you up - Valais Blacknose sheep in the snow. They're from the Valais region of Switzerland. Known for their unique appearance, they have contrasting black patches with a shaggy white coat. Both male & female sheep of this breed grow spiral-shaped horns. #sheep #cute

The snowdrop is a messenger of the seasons, the darkest moment of winter has passed. It is a messenger of hope. #January1st #NewYearsDay Mary Delany, Galanthus Nivalis, Single Snowdrop, 1777 #womensart

"Everything changes, nothing is lost", stone mandala by land artist Katie Griesar #WomensArt #NewYear2026

On the Seventh Day of Christmas we bring you @pennyblackburn.bsky.social , @fionalarkin.bsky.social, @ruthhiggins.bsky.social. Read their work here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/on-the-seven... #InkSweatAndTears #FeaturedPoem #ChristmasPoem #12DaysOf

Mona Caron, contemporary Swiss-born, San Francisco-based artist, known for her large scale murals #WomensArt

One of the great Dickens scholars.

1933 newspaper article on artist Frida Kahlo #WomensArt

My picks of the poetry books of the year (in the UK at least), for @theguardian.com. Usual disclaimers that I have no doubt missed your fave off, not spread my net wide enough etc. But I will say: the Scott is magnificent, magnificent: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Shirley Baker, UK photographer, best known for her street photography and street portraits in working class areas of Greater Manchester in the 1960s #WomensArt

As well as my popular December and January poetry workshops I'm also running "Poetry is Not a Luxury: Manifestos!"-- A six-session course from Tues 20/01 to Tues 24/02/26. Best price at £135 if you book by the end of tomorrow (29/11/25). rosiemilespoet/events for details

"TAKING DOWN THE TREE": Two online poetry workshops in January invite us to embrace the dark of this sometimes challenging month. Taking place on Tuesdays 06/01 & 13/01/26, 7-9pm. Details at rosiemilespoet.com/events 5% off for both. 10% off if you book my December workshops too (see previous post).

I'm running two online poetry workshops for December: "SEASONAL RENEGADES" (Tuesdays 02/12 & 09/12, 7-9pm) will take a slightly left-field route into the Christmas poem. More details at rosiemilespoet.com/events 5% off if you book both. 10% off if you book my January workshops too (see next post).

I'm running two online poetry workshops for December: "SEASONAL RENEGADES" (Tuesdays 02/12 & 09/12, 7-9pm) will take a slightly left-field route into the Christmas poem. More details at rosiemilespoet.com/events 5% off if you book both. 10% off if you book my January workshops too (see next post).

In 2019 composer/choir director Katy Lavinia Cooper set a poem of mine to music-'Inscription'-and it was first performed as part of a service for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (#IDEVAW). It's been recorded by @uofglasgow.bsky.social @chapelchoir.bsky.social

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Hey @bantshireuni.bsky.social! Fancy doing a current HE advent calendar on here?

Cal Lane, Canadian trained welder and metal artist, transforms common tools and also industrial steel products into intricate sculptures #WomensArt

Shocking Pink (1980's) feminist zine by a collective of young women in London, predating riot grrrl era #womensart

JOIN US for the FREE launch of Darling Blue with Worcestershire Poetry Society Stanza Guest Poets at Droitwich Library on Sat, 22 Nov 2025 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/darling-blue-launch-with-worcestershire-poetry-society-stanza-guest-poets-tickets-1832358707219?aff=oddtdtcreator #poetry fun

'#Autumn light' by contemporary painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt

I left the biggest voluntary donation ever at Bristol Cathedral a) because it was voluntary and b) they had the most gorgeous welcome message by the door. I loved my visit there and their whole approach to their slavery connections was just perfect