Just in time to share Anne Brontë’s ‘Music on Christmas Morning’ 🎵👼🤜👿🎶

Realizing I've got like a decade of creative writing about Coleridge just sort of sitting in a digital desk drawer. Maybe I should just put it all into an omnibus and make it available somehow...

Excited to be contributing an essay on Byron and Shelley, human potentiality, and the politics of the ocean to this edited collection! 📖🌊

This looks so cool. Can't wait to read!

Have you interacted with someone on Romanticist Bluesky whose TBR you want to shamelessly peruse? We are continuing the "What Are You Reading?" #KSAABlog series soon! If you'd like to be featured or have someone in mind, DM us! In the meantime, read past features here: www.k-saa.org/blog/tag/Wha...

Happening tomorrow! Don't forget to register!

Peter Cheyne's list of ways to get out of a slump as a graduate student sounds like a poem that hasn't been written yet too...

Following on from our Roundtable, join us for our BARS Digital Event: Romantic Creativity Workshop! Mon Dec 15, 4pm-5:30pm GMT This creative writing workshop will reflect critically on key ideas delivered by the speakers from the previous session. Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bars-digit...

This event is starting in just a couple of hours! Please join us for *checks notes* 21 ideas in a trenchcoat... an academic roundtable on "Romantic creativity"!!!

In 1 week! We now have SEVEN speakers, so come along!

In 1 week! We now have SEVEN speakers, so come along!

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

Final reminder before we stop spamming your Bluesky feed: THE DEADLINE IS TODAY!

The greatest damage done by the advent of AI is that everyone now uses the phrase “at scale” whenever they need some quick and dirty credibility

Got the cutest niece around!

I have a lot of "I'm annoyed by something but can't remember what it is" moods these days. I guess there are benefits to getting older

🎉 Upcoming BARS Digital Event: Romantic Creativity Roundtable 8th Dec, 1-2:30pm GMT 6 speakers reflect on the relationship between Romanticism & creativity as it permeates writing, teaching and research. Chaired by @adamneikirk.bsky.social More details & free tickets: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6228

Holy moly I just realised every paper on the "Creative-Critical Writing and Romanticism" panel is about Coleridge... Quickly changing the session title/theme to reflect this. I'm doing it at the very last moment, in the spur of the moment.

5 days to submit! Scribble down those ideas! ✍️

🌲'Passing through [pine and fir groves], I have been struck with a mystic kind of reverence', Wollstonecraft, 'Letters from Norway'🌲 Excited to have my article on 'Shelley's Palimpsestic Pines', included in the 'British Romanticism and Europe' special issue of ERR 🍃 doi.org/10.1080/1050...

And it’s followed by a poetry workshop on the 15th - come write with us! ☄️

A question that has come up during my book that I can’t easily answer: Does anyone ever describe contemporary poetry as “sweet” or is this mostly an anachronism now? Would you read a new volume of poetry that was praised for its “sweetness”?

I finished my abstract today and the creative-critical session is firing... 😄

I am starting a new job today. Unfortunately, it is not an academic job. But it *is* a job. And I still have time in the morning to work on my book, so what's not to love?

Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple-tree, while the nigh thatch Smokes in the sun-thaw; whether the eve-drops fall Heard only in the trances of the blast, . . .

Just a reminder that the deadline for #BARS2026 is approaching for papers, and we are just *one* panelist away from having a full creative-critical panel! Also a reminder to myself to write my abstract for my own creative-critical paper...

preparing a class on animal histories

Forced myself to socialize yesterday by going to a paint night fundraiser.

Don’t forget: you can do it!

Sending out an endless flurry of Romantic Poets in the Wild emails today. But always looking for more people to feature! Please get in touch with me if you are a creative writer or artist inspired by Romanticism or working Romanticism-adjacent... or even an academic! I want to make lots of episodes!

The K-SAA is excited to share about an exciting digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more info on the #KSAABlog: www.k-saa.org/blog/jhu4-ev...

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

I didn't create this conference poster but I wish I had

Call for Contributors: Volcanic Materiality: Cultural Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene, edited by Dewey H. Hall. Abstracts of 2-300 words due by 30th November 2025. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6205

And there I felt thee! – on that sea-cliff’s verge, Whose pines, scarce travelled by the breeze above, Had made one murmur with the distant surge! Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples bare, And shot my being through earth, sea, and air, Possessing all things with intensest love

Circled around to the beginning of the book today to fill some things in. Sometimes it feels like any given topic can be infinitely subdivided. No wonder Coleridge never finished any of his!

So many cool Keats House events coming up that I can't go to :(

Just a spooooky reminder that this panel session call is up on the BARS 2026 conference website--get in touch if you'd like to take part! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6199

This is TONIGHT!!! 7pm GMT!! Come talk Romantic climate and catastrophe with us 🌋🌪️🌧️🌩️⛅️

Looking forward to delivering the Annual Dr Williams's Lecture tomorrow at Senate House, London: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Dissenting Hymns 🗣️🗣️🗣️

I looked upon the sea, it was to be my grave – Mary Shelley, Frankenstein #gothic #spooktober

The main stream to be aware of this week is Friday, when I'll read The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1900 GMT/UTC).

29 miles this week - and that takes me over the #nhs1000miles goal (the earliest in the year I've ever met it)! My YTD is now 1021 boots-on hiking miles. Pics are from mid-week in Martindale with the Skiddaw U3A Roamers. The ethereal blue is Angle Tarn. @kitzingercelia.bsky.social

Just arrived:

Volcanic Romanticism!! 🌋On a Thursday evening with @bars.bsky.social ! What could be more thrilling? Please join me, @dilarakalkan.bsky.social Chloe Melvin, Katerina Liontou and @davidhiggins.bsky.social on 30th October at 7.30pm to discuss the weather of 1816, the Diodati Circle, and more!