Spey Source Field Trip Day 2: B&B in Newtonmore’s hand wash is whiskey & honey. I don’t drink anymore but sitting at breakfast smelling like I did all night. #fieldtrip #river #riverwriting #nature #naturewriting #place #placewriting #spey #don #poetry #longpoem #dycp #developyourcurrentpractice

Salmon return to #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity. News just in of the first record of breeding Atlantic Salmon in Sheffield for two centuries - open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...

DNA from deep reveals a hidden ocean “superhighway” Ancient creatures have migrated across planet's seafloor for millions of years, forming a vast evolutionary network from Iceland to Tasmania This fragile life will be obliterated by Deep Sea mining www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Also delighted to discover this study on river ‘rhythmicity’ besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #hydrology #water #river #riverwriting #placewriting #naturewriting #poetry #whatistherhythmofariver #dycp #developyourcurrentpractice

Did I just get so excited testing a hydrophone in the sink I nearly let it flow over? Will I go stick it in the frog bucket now? #hydrology #water #river #riverwriting #placewriting #naturewriting #poetry #whatisthethythmofariver #dycp #developyourcurrentpractice

What a beautiful, moving poem this is: soundcloud.com/longbarrow-p... Just listened to it recorded in situ by @longbarrowpress.bsky.social #poetrybluesky #poetsofbluesky #darkpeak #sheffield #requiem #longpoem #fathersandsons

A big part of the problem with the "Brontë country" conversation is that we've been conditioned to see scenery like the photo below and think "ooh lovely countryside" and not "yikes, an ecological wasteland with almost no plant life left thanks to centuries of relentless livestock farming".

Honestly as if Emily wouldn’t be glueing herself to Tower Bridge right now to protest inaction on climate change. (Charlotte in the crowd ready with the lawyer’s number for when the police get there.)

Somebody in this house just said: Isn’t it unfair to have four hands in tennis?

Note found in phone: Resolve to try out what otters do One of these words is a typo

Neither Jack nor Ted Hughes impressed by the heatwave ☀️🥵. Sporting similar glares. #schnauzer #schnauzermuse #tedhughes #heatwave

Good morning bee on teasel. #bees #garden #joy

Amid the schnauzer barking, badgers chittering! #schnauzers #badgers

MAJOR revelation this morning: what if I’m now Stage 5? A whole new world where people survive after immunotherapy, tho technically still called Stage 4. Stage 5 is freedom. Open. Huge. Dangerous but doable. Like space travel. * * NOT in a M£sk way #melanoma #immunotherapy

Norman Tebitt described all day by the BBC as as colourful, controversial and a character. All the c words but never the right ones. Architect of section 28, breaker of unions and hater of multi cultural Britain. Cruelty is his legacy

Winscar Reservoir. Next ‘step’ up into the watershed source of the Don. What is the rhythm of a place? How can we write it/with/thro it? #river #riverwriting #naturewriting #placewriting #poetry #fieldtrip #phenomenology #dowhatyouvalue #dowhatyoucan #dycp #developyourcurrentpractice #donriver #don

Totally treacle source of the Don (well, where it’s first named on the map). Is it possible to write about this without comparison? Without imposing? #river #riverwriting #fieldtrip #poetry #naturewriting #placewriting #phenomenology #dowhatyouvalue #dycp #developyourcurrentpractice #donriver #don

Please, if you're a poet or a very small press founder, read this @longbarrowpress.bsky.social piece. This is what it's all about. Great work, beautifully published and presented and promoted. And carefully packaged (it takes one to know one, a careful post packer) for delivery.

10 secs of 2 views of ‘the’ source of The Don. Or is it 3? #riverwriting #longpoems #dislocatingtheieye #water #watersheds #hydrology #phenomenology #dycp #developyourcurrentpractice #fieldtrip

Well hello @the-engine-idling.bsky.social ! Great to discover you. #subclub #poetryjournals #poetrymagazines #experimentalpoetry

@johnglenday.bsky.social I enjoyed reading this yesterday. I definitely read poetry books this way too. And have also taken to the slow explore & re-explore, but for the new, backwards first is almost the only way I can get through.

'...these poems convey the sheer joy of being in the world and appreciation of its patterns.' Pam Thompson on Éireann Lorsung, for Everybody's Reviewing: everybodysreviewing.blogspot.com/2025/06/revi... Get the book here: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017485...

Revelation from this week’s exploring the Don river: that man having a pee off Norfolk Bridge was a weeer on a weir. #riverwriting #sheffield #naturewriting #rivers #poetry

I see Wimbledon have replaced line judges with robots, yet they still ignore my suggestion to replace all the ball boys and ball girls with a single Jack Russell terrier.

Hey! Hand warmers in the winter? For today in the UK I give you: slices of frozen bread down your underwear. Who’s with me? Best thing since…

Oh my god what is going on with the algorithms? I was looking up books about Merleau-Ponty & got ‘Jazz Violin Etudes’ instead with a pic of a beaver holding a book. Then insta gave me an ad for a Senior Education Officer for beavers. Ponty is weird, but me a break!

And people say cats get in the way of writing! #schnauzermuse #schnauzerz #schnauzergang

“Poems don't want to be understood. They'd rather be alive.” -- Niall O'Sullivan

Didn’t catch Skin the Rabbit 🐇 launching at Lyra Festival with @thebraag.bsky.social ? Catch up with me reading tonight online /at the Manchester Poetry Library (free). Also from @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed 🐍☀️ #poetry www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/manchester...

Reader, I may have been starting to harrumph around a little about antisocial music out loud on long train journey. Stifling the urge to say that however quiet, it was still OUTRAGEOUS. Reader, it was me.

One of these is having more luck finding their breakfast.

2/3. Susie Wilson's @concordmoose.bsky.social 'Skin the Rabbit' from my own publisher @thebraag.bsky.social

Yes, the rabbits are out of the hat 🐇 ! Skin the Rabbit, a feral mini-chapbook about looking, beautifully designed & hand-printed by Kym Deyne at The Braag will be launching with me @lyrafest.com 5pm today and at the Free Verse Fair - limited edition stuff! Come/go have a 👀 👋 #poetrybluesky #bluesky

Happy Publication Day to Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social! New chapbook, Skin the Rabbit (and Susie), available today at @lyrafest.com. Skin the Rabbit (without Susie) available today at the Free Verse Fair.

On the train from #sheffield to #bristol to read @lyrafest.com supporting Pascale Petit with Fran Lock this afternoon. What a line up (not talking about myself here). Very much looking forward to chilling & chatting & listening tomorrow too. #poetry #poetsofbluesky #weirandwild

Carbon emissions from concrete production, urban heat islands, dredging rivers, estuaries & the sea bed for sand - how can we make cleaner concrete? Use less concrete? Build to last? Recycle concrete & steel? BBC Rare Earth asks how we build a world we want to live in: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Anyone know what this is? On my lavender. #moths #butterflies #insects #cocoon #naturewriting

Train update. Due to overcrowding & lateness did not get to play the piano at Derby. But on the way down, I did. After a young someone playing chords. I played mine. Night Dreamer, Wayne Shorter. We listened to each other. Bit of no need to articulate chat. Bridge of musical connection for 10 mins.

If you listen on earphones to Beebop in the form of Dizzie Gillespie’s ‘Anthology’ on a train platform, someone will be unknowingly jiving with it. Or several someones. Now experimenting with ‘Night in Tunisia’. Will this also be true if I play the piano on the platform bridge at Derby? * no pics *

Saturday plans: 🖼️ DD McInnes

On the eve of official publication day we're at Nine Arches HQ filling the #poetry post bag full of LADY by Laurie Bolger ('Laurie' loads 🚛) Have you ordered yours? ninearchespress.com/publications...

Fan mail for Jack in the post! He is entirely nonchalant about it. #schnauzer #schnauzergang #schnauzerfans

How to read a poem properly

Thread of threads🧵 #ClimateDataThreads Oceans thread: bsky.app/profile/clim... Ice sheets thread: bsky.app/profile/clim... Wildfire thread: bsky.app/profile/clim... Soil thread: bsky.app/profile/clim...

– George Steiner #NorthSeaPoets #CommonplaceBook #PoetryCommunity

Me up a hill, a long time ago. Looking down at a loch that had just appeared when the mist blew away, I remember. #cairngorms #hillwalkingscotland #hills #walking #time

@lyrafest.com runs from 25th April to 4th May featuring readings, workshops, slams, walking tours, open mics, and a poetry retreat. The 2025 theme, Weird and Wild, explores nature, rewilding, and otherness through poetry. www.lyrafest.com

Traditional farewell for a person going off to an event of uncertain attendance: ‘May you have more than five and not as many as fifty!’ Thank you @mackmckenna.bsky.social x #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #subclub

Let’s train an army of nature protectors to speak for nature itself – not for what it can provide for humans.

No matter how nature-friendly you make your garden, it will never benefit wildlife more than leaving peat intact in bogs.