Happy birthday dear Adorno. Of course you were a Virgo.

'Our politicians like to say that climate is a complex problem and difficult to solve, but this is false. It is, in fact, extremely easy.' Brilliantly clear eyed & important article from @jasonhickel.bsky.social on how we can fix the climate crisis right now. 🌎 tribunemag.co.uk/2025/09/can-...

One day I'll finally write my essay about poets' love for, and obsession with, Houdini.

I suppose it should be some weak comfort that with each ill advised, morally bankrupt lurch to the right, Labour dooms itself more thoroughly.

Another horror story of a Palestinian student with a full scholarship at Glasgow Uni trapped in Gaza because of Home Office Bureaucracy. He has two weeks until his course starts.

🚨 Haia Mohammed on @bbclondon.bsky.social nNews yesterday from Gⓐza on hoping to take up her Goldsmiths scholarship in September & the biometric visa block. 🚨 Please amplify & write your MP to encourage the govt to see sense. Letter template: bit.ly/44SLnX9

Very glad to finally be able to talk about my upcoming creative nonfiction book on seasonal ritual, wild time and our connection with the natural world; to be published w/the wholly brilliant @pushkinpress.com next year! Details in the @thebookseller.com - www.thebookseller.com/rights/one-t...

Was glad to review new poetry collections from Frederick Seidel; Nina Mingya Powles; Jay Wright, David Morley & Rachael Boast (ed) in today's Saturday @theguardian.com ! Some really beautiful & urgent work to explore 🍃 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Literally wrote to my friend yesterday 'why isn't Fanny Howe published in this accursed country,' and now I find out she's dead. The og, the blueprint, the oracle. The hugest loss to poetry and art and life. griffinpoetryprize.com/poem/i-wont-...

The left is/can be fun, sexy, beloved, joyful. Try and watch this without beaming - he makes his constituents so happy! British left - this can be us baby. The only way is up. 🌞

Really excited to teach this online Advanced Poetry course for Faber Academy with Daljit Nagra this Autumn! It begins Sept 29th, and I truly think it will be a unique space for poetic development. I can’t wait to meet the students. ✨✨✨ Details are here - faberacademy.com/product/adva...

PREORDER (31.08.2025): Lucy Hurst’s Gut Feeling is a fiercely intelligent and formally dynamic collection that interrogates illness, vulnerability, and survival through a visceral, unflinching poetics. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

Really looking forward to this magical @edbookfest.bsky.social event on the 21st of August! We'll discuss the @silver-press.bsky.social reissue of 'Spells' as well as the occult potential of poetic language to change the world around us. 🔮✨ Tickets here - www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...

Honoured to see ‘Strangers’ included in this hydrofeminist round up for @literaryhub.bsky.social ! 🌊🌊🌊🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 lithub.com/hot-moist-hy...

Ghazal Mosadeq of @pamenarpress has translated Parnia's "The Extinguished Star" pamenarpress.com/post/parnia-...

If you’ll be at Ledbury Poetry Festival this month, it’d be great to see you at this event! I’ll be discussing ‘Weird England’ on the 28th with brilliant poet Zaffar Kunial and brilliant folklorist and writer Lally MacBeth. 🌝🌿🌝🌿 Tickets here: ledburypoetry.org.uk/home/whats-on/

Wrote this for @grantamag.bsky.social in 2019. Yet the last few weeks alone it's already been 3 book events/literary festivals (some big names in there) who I've had to chase to put the accent on my name. Small scale but frustrating effort. I wonder if it'll ever change? granta.com/the-power-of...

The crew of the Madleen have been abducted by Israel, a ship under a British flag. They are all in danger, and the British government has a responsibility to them. You can email the foreign office to record your concerns at [email protected].

Stunning to imagine a life in which the first time you experience gender-based oppression is when you're old enough to get pregnant! What magical realm was she living in until this point exactly?

If you've been lucky enough to hear a nightingale in the wild, you know you'll never forget it. Keir Starmer should go down to Lodge Hill, and listen, and be changed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Recently finished @biidaasamose.bsky.social’s stunning work of environmental enquiry, thought & philosophy ‘Theory of Water.’ It considers Nishnaabe indigenous approaches to the land, to colonial capitalism & to interconnected, radical being. So many ‘eco-books’ disappoint, but not this one! 🌊🌊

Fascinating essay by Elaine Khan on poetry, shame & parenthood. www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

I remember having a conversation with a friend about what the best art is 'about' and she said 'the human condition - what it means to be human.' I found that really helpful... I'm interested in everything that ISN'T human. @rebeccatamas.bsky.social www.ambientreceiver.org/rebecca-tamas

We join 20 orgs in a letter to PM Keir Starmer to urgently raise concerns about the ongoing detention of British-Egyptian writer Alaa Abd el-Fattah, as well as the rapidly deteriorating health of his mother, Laila Soueif. #FreeAlaa Read the letter ⤵️ www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

'In opposition, Labour committed to a Scottish-style right to roam ... However, the party U-turned after pressure from countryside groups.' When will Labour recognise that they are at huge risk from the Greens, if they keep treating nature like an afterthought?! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It would be SO easy for @teamlabouruk.bsky.social to help nature in the UK in this small way, but they choose not to. Each morning I watch the sky fill with swifts, and wonder how much longer I have to get a glimpse into their world. Infuriating and wrong. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'The problem of Orbánism does not stop at the borders of the country ... it is a matter for the whole of Europe.' If we accept Orbán's destruction of the final vestiges of free press in Hungary, then we accept a slide towards totalitarianism across the whole continent. 444.hu/2025/05/22/v...

Thank you to the brilliant Moya Lothian-McLean for fully recognising the destruction of public space taking place in Brockwell park. The NIMBY accusations are a deliberate distraction from the transfer of public good to private profit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Alice Notley got it. She GOT it.

Alice, Alice, Alice. A seer, a true poet, a poet’s poet, an inspiration, a light.

Very much enjoyed speaking to Ambient Receiver for this interview, where we discussed, poetry, ecology, and the radical difference of the nonhuman! 🍃🔥🐍 www.ambientreceiver.org/rebecca-tamas

How is it possible that I, a non-politician with no special expertise, can see the future of the current Labour government so clearly - but they can’t?!

Absolutely MINDBLOWING win for people power, nature & community!!! 🔥🔥🔥 This absolutely isn't the end of the fight, but I'm so proud of this incredible team and what they've achieved. We don't have sit there & take the privatisation of public space - we can push back! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Beautiful to see resistance to the privatisation of public space in Brockwell Park spreading! 🔥

Beautiful to see resistance to the privatisation of public space in Brockwell Park spreading! 🔥

Exciting poetry collections being published in the UK in July/August?! 🌿🌿🌿🌿🌿

Ok so this is what I can't get my head around. You never, ever beat the right by 'out-righting' them, it isn't possible. So why the FUCK do labour think it's going to be different for them somehow???

Happy May Day, happy Beltane, happy International Workers Day! Liberation for all, with hoof, and wing, and claw and foot! 🍃🍃🍃

Would love to read your poems for 2025’s @oxfordpoetry.bsky.social prize! Looking forward to it.

A surprisingly strong, compelling article here from The Times on the current Save Brockwell Park campaign! I really hope that the tide is turning, & that people are realising that the environment, and public spaces for all, mean more than profit! 🍃🍃 www.thetimes.com/article/fef4...

Looking forward to celebrating this deeply special rebirth of 'Spells' with the Sarah Shin, @silver-press.bsky.social, & some wonderful poets & artists. Join us in the Barbican conservatory to share the magic. 🍃

If you're interested in studying Creative Writing at MA/MFA level in cool n trendy Clerkenwell then please come along to this free online taster session next THURSDAY 24th April 5-6pm, in which I'll be discussing Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts: @citystgeorges.bsky.social @rebeccatamas.bsky.social

If you're interested in studying Creative Writing at MA/MFA level in cool n trendy Clerkenwell then please come along to this free online taster session next Weds 23 April 5-6pm, in which I'll be discussing Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts: @citystgeorges.bsky.social @rebeccatamas.bsky.social

''If we could get the larger public really excited about how nature can be made to clean up, then people would say, ‘we can do it. We’ve got a future.’” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Plant identification apps that actually work & are specific?!

It's important to recognise that Degrowth WILL happen - either horribly & suddenly, like now; or equitably, radically & fairly in ways we define. Degrowth can look like economic collapse, or it can look like a society with enough for everyone, on a safe & healthy planet. Those are the choices!

Just a reminder that I'll be chairing this event with the wonderful @roisinmcd.bsky.social on Wednesday at Phlox Books, to launch her stunningly original novel into the world! Featuring time travel, very old friendships, and climate futures. www.phloxbooks.com/events/p/an-...

Re-reading The Wasteland for the start of April, and no one, no one was doing it like it him. Every time I read it there’s more there - the only poem that gives me genuine pangs of jealousy that I didn’t write it.

touched down in hartford and immediately understand all that stuff wallace stevens was saying about jars

Shameful that Labour is cutting disability support whilst spending billions on Rosebank & defence. The simple message for the government is - don’t cut PIP, tax the rich!