TFW a guest pops round without warning and you've not got any nice biscuits in.

As well as the inspection by one estate agent, the landlord is now asking that we have another estate agent round to do a valuation, also saying this is routine and random. Tbf it does feel a bit random, since the other house being valuated is empty, and ours definitely isn't. 🙃

Restricting disability benefits kills disabled people. So if you’re advocating that we make the system harsher, harder, more inaccessible, less “generous”… You’re advocating for killing disabled people.

It's quite the flex to start a war - without warning - that's going to affect the whole world, harm civilians around the globe, a war epitomised by the bombing of schools and hospitals and the ecocidal burning of oil fields, then tell the rest of the world to deal with the fallout themselves.

I’ve updated my little essay about #poets in #Grasmere. My @serenbooks.bsky.social stablemate Rachel Carney reminded me she was a volunteer just before me (which I only found out when we read together at Aberystwyth Poetry Festival 2024). I've filled in more background too. Who else am I missing?

I’ve updated my little essay about #poets in #Grasmere. My @serenbooks.bsky.social stablemate Rachel Carney reminded me she was a volunteer just before me (which I only found out when we read together at Aberystwyth Poetry Festival 2024). I've filled in more background too. Who else am I missing?

1 Just passed through security at La Guardia. ICE entirely doing security! 100% of ID and identity checks done by ICE…Truly icky and dystopian. Some thoughts.

Something here I just wrote on recording creative community, institutional memory and rural creativity as I begin to look back on 20 years of knowing Grasmere and the Wordsworth Trust, and 20 years of thinking about Romantic legacies and contemporary writers -

Out of interest, what exactly *will* happen to trans girls and women who refuse to leave Girl Guiding after 06th September … e.g. they just keep turning up or volunteering ??

Fact! 🎨 @therelatablewall-insta

@pollyrowena.bsky.social gosh you are a breath of fresh air on the BBC’s salt path pod cast talking about living with hEDs etc and the lies about chronic health in these bloody books

There really is only one way that Girl Guiding - which has said it wants to remain inclusive - can resist this and that is from within. If volunteers and leaders don’t want this they need to walk away or refuse to comply. I am not expected that to happen.

Finally found this list of 15th century Italian names for cows I had saved ages ago and lost, but don't remember where I first got it from.

It's never okay to attack healthcare services or healthcare workers. Not in the UK. Not in Lebanon. Not in Gaza. Not anywhere. Ambulances and hospitals and those who work in them should never be the targets of violence, organised or unorganised, state or individual. There is never justification.

It’s me, sneaking a whole Wordsworth poem into my review of The Other Bennet Sister 🖤

It's super worrying sign of failure of literacy that @thetimes.com don't seem to know the difference between an adaptation of a Jane Austen book and an adaptation of a contemporary novel based on a Jane Austen book. Details matter. Arts and culture reporting in this country is hitting a new low.

Robert Jenrick calling Palm Sunday 'Psalm Sunday' reminds us once again that dim witted rage baiting populists never know the slightest thing about what they are purporting to defend.

Our new Young Poets Network anthology, The earth that whispers at my feet, out in the wild! The anthology contains winning poems from a series of eco-poetry challenges we've run with People Need Nature. All the poems were written by young people aged <25. Online version at bit.ly/EarthThatWhispers

The challenges were set by poets Gboyega Odubanjo, Louisa Adjoa Parker @romalynante3.bsky.social & @pollyrowena.bsky.social. Topics include nature on our doorstep, the climate crisis, social prescribing & soundworlds. If reading with children, please be aware two of the poems use strong language.

Can Starmer now be honest for once and tell the public the truth? He has dragged Britain into war without anyone's consent Via @skwawkbox.org

Lovely to hear @pollyrowena.bsky.social talking great good sense on the new BBC Radio Wales show about Sally Walker and the Salt Path.

Ahhh when somewhat drowning in tedious policy documents and then THIS beautiful collection of writing lands in the postbox 🤩 Can’t wait to read these! 🙌 @pollyrowena.bsky.social

Accessible event 😀

Lovely birthday haul from @samreadbookseller.bsky.social Many thanks for the 24hr order turn around for the Dylan book❤️

Mikle is resting and recharging in the spring sun ahead of his first #poetry #BookLaunch tonight. Still time to book a place if you haven't yet, to hear me, @katiescribbles.bsky.social and a host of fabulous open micers - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... - and probably Mikle mewling. #Booksky

A belated HAPPY PUB DAY to the brilliant @pollyrowena.bsky.social! We have a handful of this beauty, signed with special wee frog drawings left, pop in for a copy of #EmergencyDream or order one here: lighthousebookshop.com/book/9781781...

Happy Publication Day to @pollyrowena.bsky.social whose new collection ‘Emergency Dream’ is available from today! Exploring the inextricability of Climate Justice & Disability Justice, these poems seek light in dark times, fuelled equally by joy, despair & rage www.serenbooks.com/book/emergen...

Published today! #EmergencyDream out now. Catch it at your local bookshop or there are unlimited signed copies through @samreadbookseller.bsky.social or I believe there are a few @lighthousebks.bsky.social.

Congratulations to @pollyrowena.bsky.social on the release today of her new @serenbooks.bsky.social collection, 'Emergency Dream'. Looking forward to hearing Polly read from the book tomorrow evening at the online launch event – and to being among the readers in the open mic portion! bit.ly/4lt1PDT

“Loved the variety of art styles especially the watercolour poem of fog personified as a cat and Wordsworth’s I floated lonely as a cloud. I can't wait to use some of these in my classroom...” —Ashley Epp Get a copy of *Nature Poems to See By* by Julian Peters: www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

Wegovy users have five times greater risk of sudden sight loss than Ozempic users, study finds

Is it reasonable for your landlord to try and control what you say about them in public? Asking for a friend 👀

So lovely to see this review of #TheCompanyOfOwls by @grousehollow.bsky.social for @summerbrennan.bsky.social's Book Supplement. Owl visitations cannot be guaranteed with every purchase or borrow of TCOO but research shows it is statistically significantly more likely with reading than without. 🦉🦉🦉

Here is the first issue of The Book Supplement 💗📚

Owl our bookshop neighbours making some noise after hours last night as we moved some stock around. #Owls #TawnyOwls #TheCompanyOfOwls

Tfw a review is so lovely & thoughtful you start to doubt whether you really wrote the book or whether someone cleverer sneakily did it for you 😂🥰

I'll post a few of my poems this year. As @carcanet.bsky.social published my 1st collection 45 years ago - in spring! - time for some old friends. (I do have MANY new poems, but I'm finishing those after 5 years on my prose book, 'Village'!) Here's 'Lapwings' from 'Gallop', my Carcanet 'Selected!

We're delighted to share two special recordings by poets Jessica Mookherjee and Kayo Chingonyi of our primary and secondary calendar poems for March - 'The Door' by Miroslav Holub and 'Humming-Bird' by D. H. Lawrence 🗓️❤️ poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/hummin... poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/the-do...

Disability Day of Mourning, Disability Day of Rage, Disability Day of Hoping for a Better World ♥️

Friend in Dubai got a text from the gov to “seek immediate shelter” due to “potential missile threats”

🌍 It’s #RareDiseaseDay 2026! 💜 Today we stand with the 300 million people living with a rare disease. Together, we’re showing our colours, raising awareness, and inspiring change by talking about what equity means to us. 👉 Read more: https://go.rarediseaseday.org/NEWS

This is appalling in many ways. She has full legal capacity but was moved to a care home against her will. A shocking example of overbearing medical power. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

underappreciated but very funny gorton and denton sideplot: the conservatives nominating literal sex matters (uk terf group) trustee charlotte cadden, only for her to get the worst result for the conservatives in by-election history and lose her deposit

Mine is that all the bad stuff that’s happened since 2019 is because a great and ancient evil was released when a huge slab of slate was lifted at the back of the Wordsworth Museum in renovations. It was stuck for a reason. Insisting on raising it not only broke the museum, but the timeline.

“If Covid is quietly accelerating cognitive aging… in working-age adults, the consequences will ripple through workplaces & health systems for years.” “The incidence & prevalence of Alzheimer’s is going to just escalate,” he says. “It’s a huge public-health problem.” #LongCovid

Writing a novel like this?: “The text is built from two or more narratives, alternating or just one after the other.” Novels like these can be so powerful, but they’re harder to get right, and ask more of the reader. Have you stress-tested how yours is working? Help here: buff.ly/g18cb8S

Emergency Dream by @pollyrowena.bsky.social is so, so good. The book I needed to read, the book that held me ❤️