January is officially chaos. I am looking forward to February. February is not looking forward to me, it sees me and January together and thinks January is not the problem.

When you start a new year update with 'I - like the metaphysical poets- have...' you can reflect later that you have perhaps lost your way.

U.A. Fanthorpe started thinking about her Christmas card a year before she needed to. This suggests to me that U.A. Fanthorpe did not have ADHD.

I've always wanted to write a play where people just occasionally walk into the room and acknowledge the weather to each other. Does this exist already...? if so my year is made.

aborted novel elevator pitches: 'writing an extended novel about safeguarding is in fact more interesting than you'd think...'

Come see Susie, Kate, and I on Sunday at Blackwell’s!

This Sunday! Last few (free) tickets for Oxford launch of Wastelands here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/susie-camp... Sunday Nov 16th 3pm Blackwell's Books, Broad Street, Oxford. Do come along and say hi!

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

One day I'll get the story about Schopenhauer pushing his landlady down the stairs into a sermon... sadly today is not that day.

Reading some new poems on October 25th in OST in Truro. Come.

Watching my 3 year old nephew running a rock he found along different surfaces to hear the 'good sounds' on his way to nursery while his family hurried him was a vision of myself four hours later navigating London.

Wrote this. May write more. May contain liturgy. May not. open.substack.com/pub/cavepoet...

I think my writing needs to come with the content warning... 'may contain liturgy.'

Guillemot will be at this...

Ugh to all the memes and videos following me around the internet I say, AuDHD is having three degrees and not understanding how forms work.

While marking, I was disappointed to discover that Space Opera has nothing to do with actual opera. It did make me think that I'd like to turn Perseverance Valley into an opera.

pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social ! July 2026, Loughborough University. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

ADHD affirmation of the day: I do not have the concentration to read books I do not enjoy, unless I'm enjoying not enjoying them. It makes for a much more positive literary experience.

A warning for anyone thinking about following me (or socialising with me). I very much inhabit social media like I inhabit a room quietly listening occasionally contributing non sequiturs that nobody asked for. Like this for instance.

“Becca Drake explores the very roots of being ... and how nature proceeds in making connections within us and between us. It’s the special journeys she makes that are exciting.” Daljit Nagra on BBC Poetry Extra. Unstill Landscapes is Book of the Month on Poetry Extra. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Considering my project fieldwork, undertaken on my local landfill site, as a poetic 'waste archaeology', and how this influenced the poetics of my forthcoming poetry collection 'Wastelands' out soon from @guillemotpress.bsky.social Substack post here: open.substack.com/pub/susiecam...

Hot plot point: Where in the lectionary are they?

What happened at Sunday school stays at Sunday school *looks at content for fourth collection*... sort of.

Does anyone else leave themselves negative commentary in the marginalia when they're writing?

My favourite phrase today = 'lived homiletics.'

At a time when I really should be reading theology, I'm reading Barbara Pym novels and obsessing over Adrienne Rich. Thanks ADHD.

typo of the day: 'I think ink'

The play went well. The Hazel players were a success and we weren't closed down by the Master of the Revels!

To resist the urge to begin every scene with a detailed description of the weather or to lean into the urge and fully embody my teenage desire to write like E.M. Forster. I think I'll go for a bit of both.

Writing a play for my Waldorf class and I can't help sporadically hearing the line 'Will, where's my pages?' from Shakespeare in Love.

Apparently I can buy an affordable Christian church from Temu. Presumably it'll get lost in the post and be made by children.

There's always one paper that makes the whole ordeal of marking joyful and life-affirming.

Nice to be lifted to the sky... ty💜

For this round of #LiftToTheSky with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social I'm recommending 'The Book of Yona' by @cavepoet.bsky.social . A nuanced and empathetic exploration of queerness and physicality through biblical allegory. "when shall i be like a swallow, o / swallow salloww sawwallo wallows" #poetry

The Song of Solomon is definitely sexier than Anais Nin.

Thomas Aquinas has entered the chat and wishes to remind you that even if you are smarter and better educated, that yiayia might nonetheless know God a lot better than you do, though

Concrete Liturgies #1 is now up on 'as a cat meows': cavepoet.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/b...

My #LiftToTheSky (@brokenspinearts.bsky.social) shoutout today is the witty, tender, boundary-pushing, and profoundly illuminating poetry of @cavepoet.bsky.social whose Book of Yona (Shearsman) was one of my books of 2024. Also pub by @guillemotpress.bsky.social, @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social & KF&S

I love my little Waldorfians. I wonder how many primary school students regularly listen to 'Mr Ostritch' (the singer formerly known as Ian Bostridge). Lesson planning would not be possible without him.

Typo of the day: blish/blush if only one could blish-blush

A POETRY ANNOUNCEMENT Submissions for Permeable Barrier close in just under a week! Send us poems, video art, essays, anything outside or in between. Connect with us, send us a signal. www.permeablebarrier.com/submissions

Setting anything dramatic in a rural space should realistically take more time, because you've got to drive for an hour or walk through the woods to the train station before you can collide with other characters. No wonder Agatha Christie assembled everyone in country houses and hotels.

Currently wrapping up orders of the new Guillemot bookling and remembering just how funny and profound the poems are

Yona has finally made her way the British Library. She got delayed at Elephant and Castle and took a detour to Mornington Crescent.

I’ve written a column for US magazine The Christian Century for several years. My latest is about what cherishing #trans lives might look like through a theological lens. It’s a passionate, furious piece as such times as these require. Do share: www.christiancentury.org/voices/what-...

The third silent liturgy is a frosty, shoeless compline: cavepoet.wordpress.com/2025/01/11/s...

The third silent liturgy is a frosty, shoeless compline: cavepoet.wordpress.com/2025/01/11/s...

No snow.

Big thing completed, so time to relax. Oh wait, no.

CfP for the annual Society for the Study of Theology conference closes on the 8th January. The conference theme is 'flesh and blood theologies', but you can also submit proposals to seminar streams, including the Philosophy and Theology stream I co-convene: www.theologysociety.org.uk/information/...