'From 'Moor' Kathleen Jamie We bring the past out of the land and bear the land into the future, but at heart of all is the land, contested, exploited and beloved. (The turbines, plantations, the missile-test sites.) www.theguardian.com/books/articl... #poetry

Suspended bubbles of yellow rope distant lanes. The moor smudges. Night. #WestYorkshire

Coming to Oldham at the beginning of January 2026: hla.oldham.gov.uk/event/exhibi... #PutItInTheDiary #Oldham #Papercuts & wishing Charlotte Hodes all the very best.

Bales, full stops, dotting pages of lean green pasture. Black plastic, shadows... #TheCountryside

Fireworks milkshake sky, foaming froths filigree, fizz. A book falls to earth. #Evening #November #PostBonfireNight

#Autumn lunchbreak @mancathedral.bsky.social gardens #Manchester

Do you remember when we built this social network by reposting and following? That was how we found each other. I'm revisiting my follow list and tidying up... and making a concerted effort to find new accounts to follow. I'm thankful to those I follow who've introduced me to new accounts. 🤗

Shelfie 🌱🌵🪴 #PlantSky #Succulents #Houseplants

The intricacies of flock control - holding pen - Working Landscape - Lake District Observations 📷Olympus Pen EE2 🎞️Ilford HP5 🧪DDX #believeinfilm #filmphotography

Thank you to all who attended last night's event, 'A Long Way to Go: Repression, Resistance and Remembrance' at FACT Liverpool. A special thank you also to our panel: Dr Mary Booth, Prof Barry Godfrey, and Prof Sophie Fuggle.

Thrilled to have bought a signed copy of 'Leonard and Hungry Paul' by @ronanhession.bsky.social @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social #IndependentPublisher #HebdenBridge from Waterstones, Deansgate, #Manchester this evening - looking forward to reading.

I'll be signing copies of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners' at the wonderful Waterstones Altrincham on Saturday 22nd November, 5.30-6.30pm. It's the evening when the town's Christmas lights are switched on.

Ratchets of rockets, washboard grates of gunpowder, echo into night… #NovemberFifth

#Fireworks Poster for the opening of the 1979 extension to the Tate Gallery,by John Piper. Photo: Tate

TONIGHT at @portybooks.bsky.social #Edinburgh! Author, journalist & academic @dominicmhinde.bsky.social on his new book, Drifting north, in conversation with Dan Richards. Attend in-person OR online, tickets here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/domin... @edincityoflit.bsky.social #booksky

'Jersey', 2008, Hurvin Anderson @tate.bsky.social Exhibition at Tate Britain 26 March – 23 August 2026 www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat... #Birmingham.

Waterproofs softly sigh, a fire in a grate spits. Lamplight circles plates... #Yorkshire

Ginkgo biloba at RHS Bridgewater 🌱 #SundayYellow #Trees #TreeClub #Autumn #nature #PlantSky

Starlings exploding from a tree at the back of my house this afternoon. #murmuration #ukbirding

The trod diamonds, torch lit, crackles under foot. A leaf tests thermals... #AutumnWalk #WestYorkshire

Chris Allnutt reviews @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social 'Jesus Christ Kinski', this wkend's ed of the Financial Times 'Sometimes they look like poetry, sometimes they verge on prose. Sometimes the letters go completely astray and come out like chunks of vomit on the page.'

'I often tell students how useful it is, to feel that the shaping energy, images and associations come from the poem, not themselves.' Ruth Padel 'The transcendent power of Seamus Heaney' in this weekend's 'Financial Times' #poetry

'Dear Pink Floyd' Simon Armitage, October 2025 #PinkFloyd #poetry www.simonarmitage.com

Simon, you crazy diamond: Armitage poem marks 50 years of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here

Peter Watkins by William Fowler ‘In an age when the media stranglehold on both our lives & the means by which we communicate is ever tightening, his films remain a vital tool for considering new forms of image-making & a vibrant & engaging force in their own right.’ www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...

The Huddersfield Narrow Canal for #Stunday Taken between Marsden and Slaithwaite. 📷 #photography #landscapephotography #UKCanals #autumn #autumncolours

From 'All Souls’ Night' W.B.Yeats I have mummy truths to tell Whereat the living mock, Though not for sober ear, For maybe all that hear Should laugh and weep an hour upon the clock. From 'All Souls’ Night' W.B.Yeats poetryfoundation.org/poems/1592274/…#Halloween20252#poetryry 🫤💀👻🎃

Plumps of pumpkin push through carved characteristics. Saucepan, seasoning. #Halloween 🎃

Pub lamplights rainbow onto steamy glass windows. A pint of stout bar-squats. #Evening

The Scales' Yet when she had her say the planet creaked up from its abyss till the bright and the dark pans were dead level. From 'Later That Day' Andrew Greig #poetry published by Birlinn Ltd. #Edinburgh

Caught between coffee and lunch, halloween parkin bridges sugar rush… #October

‘Helen Oxenbury: We're Going on a Bear Hunt and Other Adventures Contemporary exhibition’ 4 October 2025 — 4 January 2026, The Harley Gallery A60 Mansfield Road Welbeck, Worksop Nottinghamshire S80 3LW harleyfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/eve...

Moor side lines dissolve shouldering shovels of rain. Heat, inside, orange. #Autumn #WestYorkshire

Damp autumn walk near Greenfield, Saddleworth.

At 15:00 today on BBC Radio 4,‘The Castle of Otranto’ by Horace Walpole - an adaptation by Katherine Tozer with specially composed music by John Chambers. #Gothic #RadioDrama🎭 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

time stalls as clocks re wind. Light leans in on itself. Fires splinter and spit… #GreenwichMeanTimex

Lighting Up, painting by Sue Atkinson (1949-2021). Daughter of a Bradford wool merchant, worked in the Wakefield area. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

Autumn sunshine @mancathedral.bsky.social this morning. #Manchester 🐝🐝🐝

Enjoying 'Jesus Christ Kinski' a crusty scab of brilliance that's unpicking me!! ( with shedloads of respect @benjaminmyers76.bsky.social 🫣) #JesusChristKinski @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

We are sad to report that The Very Revd Ken Riley, Dean of Manchester from 1993 to 2005 has died You can read a statement by our current Dean, The Very Revd Rogers Govender, and an obituary written by Jane Riley, on our website: manchestercathedral.org/news-events/...

Made in Manchester: John Rylands, devout Christian and philanthropist, was Manchester’s greatest merchant-manufacturer during cotton’s golden age. His Cuban-born widow Enriqueta created the neo-Gothic John Rylands Library on Deansgate in his memory. 1/7

Here again today, 11am-7pm

Morning all. Photographer John Bulmer. A woman walking down a wet street of terraced houses in the north of England in 1963. The street is paved with setts.

We'll be at the Bound Art Book Fair at Manchester's Whitworth Gallery, with over 90 artist publishers, all weekend. Come and see. the-modernist.org/blogs/news/b...

‘My Leddy, gaird o ivry unco airt! Ye’ve gaithered the airts, ye’ve held them in yir haun, Ye’ve braided the airts, smooricht thaim tae yir breist.’ From Robert Crawford’s Scots version of ‘Enheduanna’s Song’, a Sumerian hymn: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Tonight! Do come.

The brilliant Paul Morley is on the radio at 20:00 today with ‘Aleister Crowley - Master of the Dark Arts’ #Blondie #Edwardians #HeavyRock www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 🐝🐝🐝

If any of the big publishers disappeared the others would just swallow and churn, so no loss. But imagine what the world of books would be without independent publishers? Doesn’t bear thinking about. Congratulations Kevin and Hetha, so glad you dared.

The Royal Exchange, #Manchester 🎃👻 #Halloween

#Autumn lunchtime at #Manchester Cathedral