Last day of the @asleuki.bsky.social conf in Galway! Thank you to all those who came to Tuesday's panel on poetry and erosion with the fabulous duo of @jrcarpenter.bsky.social and @kate-elspeth.bsky.social (plus zI). May the conversations continue!

Back in Galway in glorious sunshine for the ASLE-UKI Biennial Conference! Come to the LUP table for discounted books or to talk about our book series Liverpool Studies in Literature and Environment: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s... @asleuki.bsky.social

Sorry to burden you with another jaw-dropping scandal. But what the government intends to do to chemicals regulation in the UK is chilling. Its consultation was slipped out so quietly that most of us missed it. When I read it, I saw why. This week's column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm so grateful to Linda France for her brilliant substack article featuring The Lives of Z (in amazingly good company!) 😊🙏 lindafrance.substack.com/p/building-w...

“Nothing undermines climate resilience in this country as much as the private ownership of our water system, and nothing reveals the drought of political ambition like the refusal to renationalise it.” Spot on @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 👇

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." - James Baldwin

Brilliant keynote by Rachael Allen on Poetry of (ecological) epiphany at LABRC ecopoetics conf yesterday - 'what is the power of epiphany and to whom does it belong?' Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Sylvia Legris and 'the distrust of a singular agency in poetry'.... @labrc.bsky.social

I wrote a book about the named winds of Europe. Now the Met Office are inviting the public to name upcoming storms, made likelier by fossil-fuel-driven climate change. A campaign is underway to name the next five BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell. Do so here... www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

In our latest LUP Blog post, poet Olivia McCannon offers a glimpse into her forthcoming collection The Lives of Z, playful and provocative poems asking, how ecological is English? Find out more: bit.ly/LivesofZblog

Soviet-era spacecraft plunges to Earth after 53 years stuck in orbit

"Giving birth in England is not safe. Half of all maternity units are rated either inadequate or requiring improvement." 🖊️ @hannahsbee.bsky.social: The birth trauma taboo

Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊

Powerful stuff from @sashadugdale.bsky.social In the dirty fire of the great poets / there are lines of such naturalness / that when you have torched the source / you too must end in wordlessness.

The book and I travelling to Liverpool for the @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social launch tonight with @munozpoems.bsky.social and Sarah Corbett! @notjustdancing.bsky.social

A copy should be on every desk, not just in the Home Office but throughout government. A bold, brave and hugely timely book 👇

In our latest LUP Blog post, poet Sarah Corbett offers a glimpse into her forthcoming collection The Ishtar Gate, where the poetry of witness and memorial meets the search for connection. Find out more: bit.ly/TIshtarGate

You have to read this article. "The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants." By @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Happy publication day to Don Mee Choi, whose extraordinary National Book Award-winning work DMZ Colony is out today in the UK and Europe 💫 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dmz-...

In our latest LUP Blog post, poet Theresa Muñoz offers a glimpse into her forthcoming collection Archivum, an exploration of what it means to engage with archival artefacts, and how these objects resonate with events in our lives. Find out more here: bit.ly/ArchivumBlog

Today's Rare Earth (on air at noon) is all about concrete. We associate it with solidity and reliability, but also with being the scourge of the natural world. It has a huge environmental cost, so what does the future hold? And what might a concrete-free world look like? www.bbc.co.uk/progra...

In this week’s newsletter, we share a conversation that explores an ongoing effort to gain legal recognition of the Los Cedros cloud forest as co-creator of a song, which if successful, will be a world first. Listen to what true creative reciprocity with the Earth can sound like. buff.ly/SKXbTG9

'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians

Details of the Pavilion Poetry launch for this year's books... I am so excited that The Lives of Z will be part of it! @notjustdancing.bsky.social @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social

I have an essay in the estimable @emergencemagazine.bsky.social about how we harmonise our lives with nature's rhythms, even as they fall out of synchrony. It's part of a chapter in Nature's Genius, out in May! @canongate.co.uk

Coming face to face with lionfish in the waters of the Aegean Sea, James Bridle traces the unfolding of geology, evolution, and empire that not only occasions this meeting, but binds us in relationship with this “invasive” species. Read this week’s essay, “Here Come the Lionfish.” buff.ly/4jyPQDr

My new book The Lives of Z asks "how ecological is English?" Out April 2025 from Pavilion Poetry @livunipress.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... @notjustdancing.bsky.social

Looking forward to this and to having my ears opened. I'm experimenting with soundscapes for the poems from my new book, The Lives of Z, out from Pavilion Poetry in April.