This should be excellent: I like the three part structure of background (examples and theory) / direct experience / creation, spaced over three weeks - feels like that should work really well.

I reckon this will be marvellous

Explore how poetry can us reconnect to nature, to attention, and to ourselves. www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...

Time for summer clothes it won't cost me much to look all right ~Yosa Buson

Is it neoliberalism that's capturing people and making us lonely? www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDel...

Even the smallest bridge becomes a place for folklore to live. Its underside crowded with spirits and half-there things. It is beyond the easy metaphor of threshold, easy label of cultural feedback loop. The bridge is a special place. – Dr. M. Benn, Dodgesonian Professor of Folklore

An important conversation between 5 women around deepfakes. I was honoured to be part of it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wELx...

Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing 29th July, 5th August & 26th August 2026 Cavendish Building, Agard Street, Derby www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...

Anxiety and self-sabotage in the neoliberal university February 23, 2023 maxhaiven.com/self-sabotage/

idyll (I) the dark grasses bend as far as they can 16.VI.26

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:— We murder to dissect. Enough of Science and of Art; Close up those barren leaves; Come forth, and bring with you a heart That watches and receives. ~ William Wordsworth

Three hours of rehearsals, in fact. This is a Longbarrow Press event. Don't expect to hear the dismaying questions 'How are we doing for time?' or 'What shall I read next?'

New post! 📰 In the Shade of Les Murray – Lisa Brockwell on her changing opinion of Les Murray Read in full: buff.ly/Bi18q1c #NorthSeaPoets #PoetrySky

Join us later this month for the launch of 'The Gleaning', the second poetry collection by Fay Musselwhite. Wednesday 24 June Upstairs at The Shakespeare, 146-148 Gibraltar Street, Sheffield S3 8UB Free entry, all welcome. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fay-mussel...

Haiku by ISSA (1763-1828) ~ Translated by Sam Hamill This world of dew is only a world of dew – and yet From the Great Buddha’s great nose, a swallow comes gliding out A world of trials, and if the cherry blossoms, it simply blossoms

By Jim Benton

Haiku by BASHO (1644-1694) ~ Translated by Sam Hamill At the ancient pond a frog plunges into the sound of water Nothing in the cry of the cicadas suggests they are about to die How reluctantly the bee emerges from deep within the peony

The problems that Microsoft, Google, Meta & Amazon solve are those related to its shareholders. How do we keep growing? How do we keep people engaged with our products? How do we convince our customers to pay more? And how do we keep people buying our stock? www.google.com/url?q=https:...

From where then is love to come—love for your enemy that is the way of liberty? From forgiveness. Forgiven, they go free of you, and you of them... From Enemies, Wendell Berry www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/58187/...

I was 16 when I discovered Edward Thomas. An older woman on whom I had a crush introduced me to him. I once stood in a corridor in Oxford's JR Hospital and searched a map of Oxfordshire that was on the wall until I located Adlestrop while I waited for news of my landlady's potential heart attack.

Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain By Li Po / Li Bai The birds have vanished from the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. ~Translated by Sam Hamill

Father's Father's Father: Dane Holt Dane Holt on poetry, the film Kes, and the 'wrong kind of bird' carcanet.substack.com/p/fathers-fa...

The opening lines of Wonders of Obligation, a long poem by my favourite poet Roy Fisher, published in a beautiful edition by Braad Editions. ‘…and the afternoon/comes on steely and still/under the heat,’

The spring sea — all day long, rising, falling, rising. — Yosa Buson (Edo, 18th c.), a painter-poet of the haiku revival.

The Weather Station - Humanhood (Official Audio) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZGW...

The Iliad and the Odyssey: composition, performance and setting www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

#poetrymonth Congratulations Issa! . . . You have survived to feed This year's mosquitoes --Issa (a sentiment I especially appreciate in Minnesota!) being April 30th, this will be the final poem (mostly haiku) for poetry month

'When reluctant warriors roll their trashed homes onto our street to lick their welted wounds we shudder at the babble of a beanfield battle' Wearing the Trousers Contraflow Longbarrow Press 2016 @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

The Waterfall at Lu Shan by Li Bai In sunshine, Censer Peak breathes purple mist. A jutting stream, the cataract hangs in spray Far off, then plunges down three thousand feet - As if the sky had dropped the Milky Way. #China #poetry For analysis & #Daoist themes: www.cn-poetry.com/libai-poetry...

The coming of a tool is not just a cultural event; it is also a historical crossroad – a point at which people must choose between two possibilities: to become more intensive or more extensive; to use the tool for quality or for quantity, for care or for speed. Wendel Berry

While forest furs the earth, a subterrain shrugged from shrubbery and trees mulches over land’s rock-bones, our lungs unpleat and iron streams our veins. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite A new collection Published today by Longbarrow Press: longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...

You can also pick up a 'pre-sale' copy of 'The Gleaning' from the Longbarrow Press stall at the @poetrysociety.bsky.social's Free Verse Poetry Book Fair this Saturday (25 April). St Columba’s Hall, Pont Street, London, SW1X 0BD (near Knightsbridge & South Kensington tubes). 12pm-6.30pm. Free entry

Can't wait to get hold of this:

Brilliant, inspiring poetry volume:

While forest furs the earth, a subterrain shrugged from shrubbery and trees mulches over land’s rock-bones, our lungs unpleat and iron streams our veins. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite A new collection Published by Longbarrow Press Publication date: 30 April 2026 Pre-orders from 22 April

Habitation: a collective reading with Angelina D’Roza, Steve Ely, Pete Green, Rob Hindle, Chris Jones, and Fay Musselwhite. The Harlequin, 108 Nursery St, Sheffield S3 8GG Tuesday 21 April (7pm doors, 7.30pm start) Admission free, all welcome. Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/habitation...

There will be a Longbarrow poets reading in Sheffield on April 21st at The Harlequin from 7.30pm-9pm featuring @steveeely.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com Fay Musselwhite, Angelina D’Roza, Rob Hindle and myself. Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/habitation... @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

In the final programme of series three of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast I talk to Stephen Sawyer about Jorie Graham’s poem ‘Time Frame’ in relation to and in conversation with his own poem ‘Running Thin’. @lrb.co.uk @carcanet.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social www.podbean.com/eas/pb-guui6...

Brilliant to see our upcoming October release 'thrums' by Thomas A Clark included in a review of the best recent poetry by the Guardian! Read what Philip Terry had to say here: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o... Browse 'thrums': www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017520...

better than knowledge than understanding is lightness access or ease retreat of a glacier removal of a weight

If successful, the project has the potential to reshape how policymakers, educators and researchers understand the role of creativity in building healthier, more reflective societies. www.francisgilbert.co.uk/2026/03/why-...

oh thank god. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Yes. I remember Adlestrop."

Hope you can pre-order this wherever you buy your books. Pre-ordering really helps publishers of poetry in particular. Thank you @publisherswkly.bsky.social !

Clara Mattei: capitalism is not natural - it’s enforced www.youtube.com/watch?v=9M_d...

A compellingly wise, insightful and creative book.