My son had been tasked with writing a poem for school, so we had sat down and written together. It is a poem against cynicism and the mess we are in. It is about love (and doughnuts in ice cream).

For Christmas I got a puzzle where I had to move a cube around until it formed a cheeky fat baby. It was a Cherubic’s Cube.

Devotional for a Hill - From 55 Devotionals (Against Erasure), Broken Sleep Books www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Today’s fave bit of lit: Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au. Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough. A Malcolm Bradbury bursary of 7.5k is available for an applicant living in a PE postcode. www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ #Clearing 2025

Thomas Lytch from the poem Village by Alice Oswald in Falling Awake (Jonathan Cape) Clearing open at University Centre Peterborough for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing degree: www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough #clearing #poetry #Alevelresults

Farewell Loch Thom by WS Graham Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature and Creative Writing degree at University Centre Peterborough: www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough #poetry #books #clearing #poems

At The Parrot Sanctuary - from The Silence Living in Houses by Esther Morgan (Bloodaxe) Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough: www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough #creativewriting #poetry #clearing

The imperious De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill.

Mt Ventoux! what a stage!

Hear me talk about why Creative Writing is for everyone and how to develop your craft on BBC Radio Cambs (starts at 14:40 after Bowie) and the free two-day course I’m running this week at University Centre Peterborough: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

There’s hope for me yet…

Pizza, chips and portal for Cthulu in Lidl.

Day one of the Fenland Literature symposium at UEA today organised by Rebecca Pinner and it was Fen female saints, kings and hermits plus how the fens are inspiring poems, novels and radio plays. Tomorrow I am presenting on the Fens as an uncanny space in literature:

First year Creative Writing student & Malcolm Bradbury Trust bursary recipient Helen Cross recounts her action packed year at University Centre Peterborough. Read about how the bursary has supported her. helencrosswriting.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/m... My first year at University – Helen Cross

First year Creative Writing student and Malcolm Bradbury Trust bursary recipient Helen Cross recounts her action packed year at University Centre Peterborough (UCP). Read about how the bursary has supported her. 👇 lnkd.in/duVpQ98A My first year at University – Helen Cross Writing

Poetry relegated from the premier league:

Meanwhile, in #Norwich:

Francesca Gardner said British poets were "very interested" in the lawn www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

‘You know the rain comes down, the sun shines, grass grows. Children grow old and die. That’s the holy all of it. We know it full well, but can’t even whisper it.’ Give this haunting & elegiac film, an adaptation of a John Gahern novel, a few hours of your life: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Sutton Hoo

Black Shuck land. (Blythburgh Church)

‘Brexit benefits’

Blobby blobby blobby, as spotted in #norwich

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

What does the mythical hellhound, Black Shuck have in common with the wetlands of East Anglia? Find out at this free poetry event, 23/04 at University Centre Peterborough - Matt Howard and Cat Woodward with Alex Tyler on compere duties, plus ten open mic slots: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/university...

My nine year old wrote a speech as Boudicca and it’s the sweetest call to arms I have ever read.

This, and this again.

@robinince.bsky.social Hi Robin, I know you have done a show on simulation theory, but any chance of an IMS with Nick Vopson on Information Physics? Would love to hear a show about linguistics and creative writing too. The cognitive world building writers and readers create is more simulation!

Remembering my late father who died eight years ago today. Here he is on a heritage line in 2011.

Why do all the #Canadianelection favourites look like AI generated images of business executives?

St Mary’s, East Somerton

Roudham Church, Breckland

Greater Anglia roll out their state of the art rail replacement service:

Peterborough from the top deck

#Peterborough Plays! Poetry! Art! Film! Two days of events at Key Theatre brought to you by students of University Centre Peterborough - Live in Peterborough? Lucky you! Live in Norwich? London? Leicester? Lincoln? Get on a train. Tickets are hot cakes - selling fast, so book yours today!

A wonderful World Book Day to everyone. Here are my top three books that I have loved reading with my children over the years: #WorldBookDay

Lighthouse issue #30 open for submissions: storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/li...

Sometimes it’s all just a bit too much:

Perfect light in Norwich Cathedral