Here is something I didn’t know: while I was writing about Caitlin Thomas writing about Etna erupting, Etna was erupting!

THE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE IS LIVE‼️ We are so looking forward to the very fascinating, very international panels at “Poetry Off the Page, Around the Globe” Conference. Check out the complete schedule at popconf2025.univie.ac.at. Wish to attend? Register at tinyurl.com/popglobe. #PoPAroundtheGlobe

Sometimes I do things, then forget I've done them. This is one of those things: katherinecollinspoet.com/2022/12/02/a...

Maybe you get a ice cube as a souvenir too?

It's done. Just about ready to be completely redone. Probably.

We're excited to see that @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social & @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social's research on 'more-than-human stories of Antarctica' is one of the exhibits at the @britishacademy.bsky.social Summer Showcase. Visitors will be able to craft their own 'more-than-human' story via a story cube.

It's possible I might have almost finished my Caitlin Thomas novel. Almost. Like, in the realm of 10 more pages or so to write.

My book, Conceiving Histories, has begun to reach readers. Here is @lucyallengoss.bsky.social 's thoughtful response to its chapter about #WilliamHarvey 👏🏾👏🏾 Lucy. open.substack.com/pub/lucyalle...

Was lucky to see this being carved into the wall.

Giving my southern hemisphere linguistic determinism real world heft! @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social theconversation.com/africas-slee...

shout out to the medievalists. they’d have a paleography system for alien comms quicker than you can say STOP DEFUNDING THE GODDAMN HUMANITIES

Lovely to receive my author’s copy of this brilliant collection, which looks especially beautiful in the winter sun. Congrats @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social & @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

'More-than-human' story-making symposium at @OxLifeWriting 'establishing theoretical, methodological, and ethical sources of inspiration; interrogating issues of practice, aesthetic, and interpretation' #CFP deadline 28 Feb. antarcticstories.web.ox.ac.uk/event/more-h...

Do you want to know the best thing about neutrinos, which I have just learned from my son's physics paper? It's that the different types are called 'flavours'. Sometimes, physics is poetry.

Our book is out! Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere. @bloomsburybooks.bsky.social @aliceisapoetish.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/perverse... << banging edition of @perversemag.bsky.social this week

“The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. . . . Getting started, keeping going, getting started again in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm." - Seamus Heaney

@lucyallengoss.bsky.social well do you?

And also: oclw.web.ox.ac.uk/event/book-l... with @ellekeboehmer.bsky.social First of two Oxford celebrations of our new book, out Dec 2024 with @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social This event is 14 Jan at OCLW @wolfsonoxford.bsky.social The next is 23 Jan at the PoCo Seminar @engfac.bsky.social

I have got out of the habit of posting. But this is my new stuff, check it out if you are interested in Antarctica and/or creative practice research. antarcticstories.web.ox.ac.uk If you're in Oxford in April 2025, you might fancy our workshop.

What Kermit (the frog) is called in ten different countries... 10. Kermit (Denmark) 9. Kermit (France) 8. Kermit (Romania) 7. Kermit (Slovakia) 6. Kermit (Italy) 5. Kermit (Canada) 4. Kermit (Iceland) 3. Kermit (the Netherlands) 2. Kermit (Poland) 1. Gustavo (Spain)

How lovely.

Poetry performance researchers! We proudly announce the launch of a new international blog with a focus on theory and methodology: poetryoffthepage.univie.ac.at/blog/ Guest contributions cordially invited. Please spread the word! #spokenword

@oliviasmith.bsky.social does this ring a bell (or perhaps a coo)?

Probably a long shot. A few years ago I read a short story about the essence or soul a bird (pigeon I think) jumping into the body of a girl just before she died. Told from bird's pov. Anyone recognise this? Please share.

Ilya Kaminsky on the question of poetry as political witness and resistance from “Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (Garth Greenwell, Poets & Writers March/April 2019)

Heard about this exhibition, 'The Weight of Words' on R4 this morning. Made me want to a) visit and b) dash out and join an artist's collective. henry-moore.org/whats-on/the....

Having fun tracking down old friends and new! @lucyallengoss.bsky.social look at you all blue and skyish.

Looking forward to supporting the launch of my friend Cherry Doyle's new collection The Taste of Rain today. offaspress.co.uk/events/ I'll be reading from my MFA manuscript, a long poem in the form of a screenplay. Here it is with some of the works that inspired me.

Yes I know them, we went to Twitter together.

Today I have written <pause for dramatic music to reach its climax> a paragraph.

Will use this new space to showcase other people’s work more than my own. Only linking now to my free Substack project for aspiring life writers to invite you to write for it & explore hundreds of stunning short true stories by others who are finding their voice… open.substack.com/pub/tanyasha...

I have developed a sudden interest in the difference between maps and nautical charts. I'd like to know if there's a good source on these differences, the correct terminology, etc.

So <looks around> This is nice.