'Bats, Poetry and the Pulse of the Park' - a fantastic write-up of my collaborative bat walk with @theroyalparks.bsky.social in early September, featuring a picture from my poetry performance at @batconservation.bsky.social National Bat Conference 🦇🦇🦇 www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/mor...

📷 taken during Saturday night’s Surrey Bat Group members bat walk at @nationaltrust.org.uk Winkworth Arboretum 🌳 Common and Soprano Pips, Daubenton’s, Noctule, and a possible Barbastelle 🦇

🦇 Most UK bat species evolved to use trees as roosts, while many also hunt in woodland. Explore how bats use and rely on woodlands and trees in our 'Bats and woodland' pages: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/lan...

Very excited to welcome new MA students to the Poetry Pathway next week! Here’s a handful of books that have been added to this year’s reading list 📖📚

Lunchtime visit to the trees of the @royalholloway.bsky.social arboretum 🌳🪾🌲🍃🍁

A beautiful parcel arrived in the post today with poetry treats from Little Hirundine 📖

Did I just buy myself a dog toy? YES! Am I embarrassed? NEVER

Thank you to @batconservationtrust for such an energizing weekend at the #NatBatConf 🦇 The collective passion, knowledge, and pure joy at the conference was inspiring!

The preultimate talk of the #NatBatConf is Lucy Morrison from the University of Chester the BATMAN Project. Lucy is looking at Assessing the impact of Anthropogenic disturbance on the welfare of lesser horseshoe bats through non-invasive techniques www.chester.ac.uk/about/news/a...

A quick morning recce to confirm the spot for my ‘Woodland Writer’s Studio’ workshop at the @batconservation.bsky.social National Bat Conference 🪾🌳🦇 #NatBatConf2025

Great start to National Bat Conference last night with a bat walk led by Durham bat group and @batconservation.bsky.social Looking forwards to speaking about some of my PhD research today on bats and mixed farming!

All set up at the National Bat Conference!! 🦇🦇🦇

Tonight at the @batconservation.bsky.social National Bat Conference, I’ll be reading from Speculative Frequencies as part of Durham Bat Group’s bat walk! Want a spoiler? Listen to this field recording with a poetic twist, taken at @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social 🦇 open.spotify.com/episode/3E6a...

Speculative Frequencies is on its way to the @batconservation.bsky.social National Bat Conference in Durham (and so am I!) 🦇🦇🦇

A handful of additional clips and pictures taken by the audience at Friday’s @cubotanicgarden hybrid bat walk 🦇🦇🦇

Performing from Speculative Frequencies lalongside the bats at @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social was the perfect way to end August! Thank you so much to our wonderful bat walk attendees and my nocturnal collaborators 🦇🌙🪾

An afternoon recce at University of Cambridge Botanic Gardens ahead of tonight’s bat walk and poetry performance 🦇

Getting ready for tonight's hybrid bat walk at Cambridge Botanic Gardens🦇 www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/lis...

“Where to begin describing the life of a person who professed not to ‘believe in time as a line’?” Mae Losasso on Alice Notley: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Delighted to discuss Rosie May Jones’ @nationaltrust.org.uk & Surrey Hills Arts residency at Leith Hill Place in the latest Resurgence and Ecologist (@resurgencetrust.bsky.social). Check out her multivocal poem, ‘Along the Old Way’ in the September/October issue 🍃

Gorgeous visit to Les Écréhous to watch Atlantic grey seals, bottlenose dolphins, and terns 🌊

I’ve set up a mini exhibition of visual poetry in my office ahead of the start of term 🧡

Young of year male Brown Long Eared bat 🦇 resident in the swarming site.

There’s a maternity roost of pipistrelles (both species) in the roof and we get the odd interloper that finds its way inside. This one at least was easy to catch and release - next clip.

Good luck to everybody getting their A level results today - I’m one of the academics on the other end of @royalholloway.bsky.social’s clearing hotline!🧡 I’m excited to chat with you about studying English Literature and Creative Writing at university!🎓 www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...

OPPORTUNITY!! @royalholloway.bsky.social is recruiting a poet to join our Creative Writing team - the role is part-time (0.5), permanent, and encompasses teaching and research! More than happy to chat about department culture and all things RHUL poetry🧡 jobs.royalholloway.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

The roost is in use 🦇

Set up for the evening at my local roost 🦇🦇🦇

Ambushed by a surprise bat in Susan Howe’s The Nonconformist’s Memorial 🦇

I’ve been documenting the poem-sculptures made by the incredible pupils who took part in the June/July Creative Fieldwork trial workshops! A good opportunity to also snap the prototype kit with the collection of poetry that informed the project 🐦‍⬛🪶🦇🌳🪾

What can water teach us about social equity, or multispecies kinship, or the material interconnections of all life? When attentive to water’s motions, tidal movements, condensations, stagnancies, precipitations, meandering and churning, thawing and freezing, might we reach toward a logic of […]

Absolutely obsessed with this illustration by Utkarsh Pathak of today’s event at Orleans House Gallery. It was incredible to perform in collaboration with Ronnie Deelen and discuss dark aesthetics, language, and conservation practice with Nestor Pestana and Stephanie Holt 🦇🦇🦇

ONLY 5 TICKETS LEFT🦇🦇🦇

Current PhD researchers @dcahf-met.bsky.social @centreplacewriting.bsky.social @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social and Anita Slater at RHUL presenting their papers at Hydropoetry in Practice organised by @brihughespoet.bsky.social and Dr Becca Drake.

Next up!

Really excited to discuss bats, dark aesthetics, poetic language, and conservation practice with multimedia artist Nestor Pestana and @nhm.org biodiversity specialist Stephanie Holt! 2pm on Saturday 2nd August at Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham 🦇 www.ticketsource.co.uk/richmond-art...

Kickstarting the adventure with some Juliana Spahr and Alys Fowler

UNDER A WEEK TO GO!

Today the wonderful curators of the @senatehouselib.bsky.social ‘Spineless Wonders’ exhibition discussed the histories and politics of pamphlet publications, broadsheets, and printed ephemera with the MA poetry and poetic practice students. Highly recommend a visit!!

A fantastic recommendation by @strawberrywords.bsky.social

Free event, register for attendance In person: www.eventbrite.com/e/hydropoetr... Online: www.eventbrite.com/e/hydropoetr...

Hydropoetry in Practice is just around the corner - I am so incredibly excited for a day of multidisciplinary performances and oceanic presentations! Sign up for in-person or online attendance via the links below 🌊

Very excited for this at the end of July 🩷

Fanny Howe (1940-2025)

2nd SEPTEMBER: REGENT’S PARK, LONDON🦇 There are still tickets left for my collaborative bat walk and poetry performance with @theroyalparks.bsky.social - I’ll be reading from my latest collection, Speculative Frequencies, which was published in June with Permeable Barrier🦇🦇🦇

I’ve had a fantastic couple of days facilitating additional school ecopoetry workshops with Orleans House Gallery for the Cultural Reforesting series. Today’s groups combined writing and visual art to create a collaborative sculptural poem representing a thriving habitat 🌷🌿🌳

Two wonderful new books containing poems that originally featured in aswirl! ‘Flight’ by Stephen Emmerson on @guillemotpress.bsky.social (issue three) and ‘Speculative Frequencies’ by @brihughespoet.bsky.social on Permeable Barrier (issue eight).📚🌀

Sharing the Eventbrite link for in-person attendees! www.eventbrite.com/e/hydropoetr...

Explainer here on Glacier Loss day "This century, the tipping point has been mid-August, already bad news for the nation's 1,400 glaciers, shrinking at a staggering rate The volume of Swiss glaciers shrank by 38% between 2000 and 2024 Its arrival on July 4 is another alarm call" #GlobalBoling

If you’re at Ledbury Festival, come find us today at 5pm in Burgafe Hall. Poetry Society Director Judith Palmer introduces three fantastic new poets we’ve been working with! Tom Bailey, Freya Bantiff and Maureen Onwunali