Then it's the kumquat fruit expresses best how days have darkness round them like a rind, life has a skin of death that keeps its zest. 'A Kumquat for John Keats' Tony Harrison R.I.P.

Mr Cogito's imagination has the motion of a pendulum it crosses with precision from suffering to suffering there is no place in it for the artificial fires of poetry he would like to remain faithful to uncertain clarity Zbigniew Herbert

Tonight, with foxes! wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/...

This Wednesday at 7.30pm, join David Morley online where he will be reading and discussing his recent publication 'Passion', at an event organised by Wordsworth Grasmere. @profdavidmorley.bsky.social More information here:⬇️ www.carcanet.co.uk/events/passi...

‘Speech thaws into life’ – read Rebecca Tamás on how Passion celebrates Romany language, resilience, and our intimacy with the natural world www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Join David Morley online on Wednesday 10th September at 7.30pm where he will be reading and discussing his recent publication 'Passion', at an event organised by Wordsworth Grasmere. @profdavidmorley.bsky.social More information here:⬇️ www.carcanet.co.uk/events/passi...

Sometimes I need to remind myself.

'When I died, I woke to a skylark song'... 'Passion' is alive with birds (except the shearwater,its 'stomach full of plastic'). Its poems note 'The crowns of trees do not touch each other'. 'I like to think they do this out of love'. @profdavidmorley.bsky.social , 'Passion', @carcanet.bsky.social

A night of poetry in flight—Romani, science, birdsong, and your own bird-poems at the open mic online at Wordsworth Grasmere. wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/... @carcanet.bsky.social

It is a privilege to see Passion acknowledged by @johnclegg37.bsky.social in the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk this week. His choice of ‘The Shyness of the Crown’ as poem of the year (so far!) is genuinely appreciated. Thank you, John and @lrb.co.uk! www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/jo...

A short bird-interrupted film about why passion has a place in poetry. youtu.be/5Y2BRnwNiXA

‘The baby names for birds—jumplings, pufflings, eaglets, owlets, eyas. The dialect spill of names for long-tailed tits— Prinpriddle, Ragamuffin, Billy-featherpoke, Puddneypoke, Bellringer, Nimble Tailor, French Pie, and Miller’s Thumb.’ open.substack.com/pub/carcanet...

Passion joins his new friend FURY @carcanet.bsky.social

Join us to celebrate the launch of my new book Passion, hosted by Sinéad Morrissey. The event will include readings, a lively discussion, and a Q&A with the audience. And yes—I promise flocks of birds. bit.ly/3FVsVU2

This Sat at St Hilda’s Oxford: join me & Steve Ely for a free reading & talk on writing & the climate emergency, plus local eco-poetry. All welcome. Details: www.st-hildas.ox.ac.uk/events/writi...

What if God were Salieri to Nature's Mozart?

I.M. Michael Longley All the wild flowers of the Burren to you: thyme, valerian, loosestrife, Meadowsweet, tway blade, crowfoot, ling, angelica, Herb robert, marjoram, cow parsley, sundew, vetch, Mountain avens, wood sage, ragged robin, stitchwort, Yarrow, lady’s bedstraw, bindweed, bog pimpernel.

George Szirtes has been awarded the King’s Gold Medal for Poetry. A poet of exceptional grace and depth, he has enriched our art with inventive brilliance, political insight, and a fearless command of language. Well done, George. A truly noble achievement.

My pantoum in homage to ‘A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day’ (13 Dec.) by John Donne 'Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's…

As Cavafy knew, tyrants should beware the footsteps of the furies: www.onassis.org/initiatives/...

My new poems about women scientists in The London Review of Books www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/even... Next Wednesday, 7-8 pm. It wold be a great pleasure to have you there!

Greenfinch in the church yard yew tree @rspb.bsky.social @omsystmktm.bsky.social

Congratulations to Andrew Shanks, who has won the 2024 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation (@womenintranslation.bsky.social) with Revelation Freshly Erupting by Nelly Sachs! Well done Andrew! 🎉 www.carcanet.co.uk/np55.shtml

‘Revelation Freshly Erupting’ by Nobel Prize winner Nelly Sachs, translated by Andrew Shanks has won 2024 The Warwick Prize for Women in Translation. The prize launched in 2017 with the aim of addressing the gender imbalance in translated literature. warwick.ac.uk/newsandevent...

Early winter berry palette, for the possible dopamine it might trigger in your brain. The colour of spindle berries (bottom rightish) never seems quite real...

Remembered how much I love this Lyn Hejinian poem in class today.

EASTER WINGS by George Herbert

Absolute fury at this: United Utilities refusing to disclose data about sewage it's releasing into Windermere, because it's "not in the public interest." Ditto data on ammonia checks from a UU Cunsey Beck plant; site of a 2022 mass fish-kill from pollution. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The incomparable Ada Limón in the December issue of Poetry magazine. While Everything Else Was Falling Apart. #poetry

Releasing the flock into blue sky after the cage closed around Twitter. Let's begin with Beethoven's Yellowhammer. www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/o...

'The Kurdish Musician' from Mimi Khalvati's new book, Collected Poems, is the Poem of the Week in The Guardian! Read Carol Rumens's comments on the poem here: www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n... And you can pre-order the book at the link below! www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

L . R . Breadsticks

Strongly the vibe here today

Pure uncut heron

It's such a relief, isn't it, that sky?

Can we do a POET Roll Call to see who's all here? #poetrycommunity Drop a note, reshare, etc.--let's see who's here!

From Mimi Khalvati's blog, 'My Grandmother's Yard', about her new book of Collected Poems, published this month! Follow the link below to read in full. 🌊 carcanetblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/coll...

Finally an opportunity to completely rethink my personality and way of posting!

So wonderful for two of my women scientists sonnets to be in @londonreview.bsky.social Thank you.