How I learned that it’s good to have an open mind about who the first person narrator is in a poem: acklandandedwardstrust.co.uk/the-dancing-...

Info for marketing people: I’ve unsubscribed from all marketing newsletters that push Mother’s Day sales without giving the option to opt out. I won’t be resubscribing

“The creators picked the wrong woman here” too bloody right! It’s me vs AI slop this Sunday on Radio 4

Upcoming talk: Take a fresh look at the art of the artist's book with Helen Cammock and Jane Rolo at Tate Liverpool, 12 March 2026, 18.30–20.00, tickets £5 | £3. The conversation is related to the ARTIST ROOMS: Ed Ruscha display at Tate Liverpool + RIBA North: www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

“Generative AI is the tech equivalent of high-fructose corn syrup: a possibly useful ingredient that is now being inserted into much of what we consume, without our consent.” Article on machine vs human intelligence. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Six decades of poetry From the earliest issues of the magazine, Resurgence has made space for poetry as a way of listening to the living world, to human experience, and to the quiet truths that sit beneath mainstream headlines > conta.cc/4a2LxfZ #Poetry #Poem #Poet #Writing #Resurgence #Magazine

Shout out to the Waldy and Bendy deep-dive into Holbein’s The Ambassadors. This is not the first time the world has been turned upside down… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

Small Press Publishers are the *best* — but they need more support (and investment): www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont... (Spotted in newsletter by the excellent @cacrampton.bsky.social )

Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new. This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is the information I’ve been looking for!

on the drying grass in the park under falling leaves with Pattern-book by @eireannmor.bsky.social

Acrobat: ✨ This appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary Me: No thanks — I’ll find connections that you, ai assistant, will not Relieved to say that after closing the oh-so-helpful banner in acrobat waaaaay too many times, I finally found a way to switch off ai in preferences

The new call for entries for the Herzog August Bibliothek Artist’s Book Prize 2026 is now open. Create a new work in response to the collection. Prize: €6,000 plus a four-week residency at HAB in Wolfenbüttel, Germany. Application deadline: 31st December 2025. Info at: www.hab.de/en/artists-b...

New blogpost alert: Mary Stella Edwards and “The Immortal Hour”… or my theory on how the Celtic revival gave (imaginative) people in the last century the imagery to rethink their connections to the natural world acklandandedwardstrust.co.uk/mary-stella-...

Small Publishers Fair October 2022 The fair is coming up again soon 24-25 Oct 2025 Conway Hall, Red Lion Square London WC1R 4AL #smallpublishers #artistsbooks #handprinted #smallpublishersfair2025 #screenprinting

I’ve been learning how to make #letterpress ink from #earthpigments and laked botanicals. It’s taken some time! Now working on a concertina artist book with #woodtype and #metaltype. The earth pigments come from my garden and local beaches, & (so far) #lakepigments from onion skins and blackberries

Our World Book Night 2025 Talk to the Trees | Listen to the Trees artworks have been packed, addressed and stamped for 200+ recipients. Two boxes of post are leaving tomorrow. Next year will be mountains, details of the call will be in the September-October Book Arts Newsletter. Will you join us?

Artist commission opp UK: exploring artists’ books held at @britishlibrary.bsky.social alongside works in @leedsmuseums.bsky.social sculpture collection that employ the medium of the book as a sculptural object. Info on link, deadline to apply 29 Aug: museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/collections-...

The submission window for the autumn issue closes on Friday! Last chance to send in your short, minimal & concrete poems for publication in aswirl 🌀🍂

Announcing a conference in London in May 2026, to mark the centenary of Lolly Willowes, Sylvia's first and best-known novel. townsendwarner.com/lolly-willow...

INCREDIBLY excited to share the line up for the Hydropoetry in Practice conference! Join us at Royal Holloway or online on 30th July 🌊🌊🌊 www.eventbrite.com/e/hydropoetr...

Art Crossing Borders with Artists' Books: Bristol Welcoming Brazil. An exhibition of works by São Paulo-based study group “Artists' books, book-objects: among traces and effacement.”. Curated and produced by Fabíola Notari. Bower Ashton Library, for info visit: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/livrosdearti...

Would any of you be interested in a bi-annual visual poetry newspaper? 🤔

Hartland Book Festival Saturday 14 June • 10am-3pm • Hartland Parish Hall, EX39 6BL Join us for a fabulous fun-filled day at #Hartland #Book #Festival — a #FREE community event celebrating local authors and the joy of #reading. Find out more & book workshops > resurgenceevents.org/hartlandbook...

I used actual 15th-century dog names from Scott-McNab’s edition of “Names of All Manners of Hounds” for this print using some of the dog letterpress blocks I’ve collected. “Beste-of-all” uses the tol Maple (my “good freend”) I lasercut, of course. + #DHmakes

I’m printing lines 4 and 5 today and tomorrow…. Getting there!

This is phenomenal. Sea surface temperatures are >5C above average to the west of the UK and around Iceland. It's the strongest area of anomalous warmth on the planet at the moment. It's the warmest in recorded history for northwest Europe.

Brilliant job here for poet in residence over the summer. Details in link. Please share :)

Best analysis I’ve seen so far on Labour’s latest turn to the right…

A great account from the Cautionary Tales podcast of the beauty and ugliness of The Doves Press: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

Everything you need to know about the trans Supreme Court case: What it said, what it didn't, and what happens next iandunt.substack.com/p/everything...

✂️ Saturday 10th May 2025 will be World Collage Day! ✂️ Roelof Bakker and I invite you to join us online for an informal talk about our recent collage | mail art project. 10/05/25 from 12.30 – 1.30 BST on Zoom, email me for the link to join - contact info at: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/news/#WCD25

so they're mycoblogging

Film on the development of #mycorrhizal fungal partnerships & the evolution of life on land. By SPUN and FFungi, narration Merlin Sheldrake, music Cosmo Sheldrake. Kinda magical. First spotted at the Somerset House SOIL exhibition youtu.be/0-hS4HoW5fM?...

New exhibitions at Bower Ashton Library: Tina Dempsey - Conversations With The Sea. Marian Kilpatrick - Quiet Books. @semplepress.bsky.social - Voyaging in Immensity: What did Mary Stella Edwards find at Bucks Mills? The Augment Project by Sharon Hall Shipp: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/exhibitions/

Making a lake pigment from daffodils went pretty wild this afternoon — reminded me of sherbet lemons. Followed it up with a slow but fine grind of oak galls to make a new batch of brown drawing ink

World Book Night 2025 - Tell The Trees (Listen to the Trees) is now installed here at Bower Ashton Library until 30th July. 200+ pieces from many countries, a free download zine by @gracialouise.bsky.social and a short by Nancy Campbell can be found on the WBN page: www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/wbn2025/

New blogpost: Mary Stella Edwards and Judith Ackland: a love story… plus who would play them in a film of their lives… and introducing Lichenism acklandandedwardstrust.co.uk/mary-stella-...

This is bad.

Three poems on birds in the latest issue of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine: Futaba the Shoebill, Cassowary and White Ibis #futaba #shoebill #cassowary #whiteibis #nature #birds @brihughespoet.bsky.social @resurgencetrust.bsky.social

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

This is what a coup looks like in 2025. A terrifying read from Carole Cadwalladr — and she’s not the only one saying this: open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

I made a blank book, buried the book in the woods, and am looking forward to seeing what the soil and microorganisms write in the book over the next few weeks… Maybe it will just disintegrate?

Excited to have my new chapbook, "Fabrication" published by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & Nightjar Press. I'm delighted that it's been paired with @arthurmandal.bsky.social's"Old Tutor, New Tutor". Now available to order online here: nightjarpress.weebly.com/fabrication.... pic.x.com/Smq9DtGXU7

Essence Press will launch several new items with poets and artists at @smallpublishers.bsky.social #smallpublishersfair24 One of which is this new piece: In Memory of Bob Cobbing by derek beaulieu juliejohnstone.com/essence-press/

My collection The Colour of Extinction is Poetry Book of the Month in the Observer. With a great review. Stuart #poetry @howfashionating.bsky.social

“A lament for murdered trees and a curse on evil men”: A t-shirt slogan or a cry from the heart of an eco-activist? Actually the name of a poem by Mary Stella Edwards in 1924. No one understood then, but 100 years on I think more of us get it…. #trees acklandandedwardstrust.co.uk/lament-for-m...

I’ve started blogging about my findings from the Ackland and Edwards archive: acklandandedwardstrust.co.uk/t... 
The website is full of information about Judith Ackland and Mary Stella Edwards and there’s a 360 of the Cabin in Bucks Mills too

Words from the Wild: a sneak peek! This exhibition brings together a range of UK and international eco-poets questioning and reimagining human relationships with our earth and its fellow inhabitants🦋🐝🌿🍊