In a dark time, the eye begins to see, I meet my shadow in the deepening shade; I hear my echo in the echoing wood— Theodore Roethke, In a Dark Time

Part of the 30ish strong flock of Common Cranes near Denwick, Northumberland, this morning. They showed well from a lay-by on A1, though part of the flock was obscured by trees. #NEbirding #BirdsSeenIn2026

Duet with a cardinal

Ireland Not satisfied with destroying native forests wetlands hedges rivers and uplands Its now time for Seaweed off the ocean coast to be obliterated too Please sign and share

Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat in The Brookfield Conservation Park in South Australia.

The rain finally cleared for a while, leaving some lovely cloud colour. #SussexCoast

Layers of history. The C14th crypt of Holy Trinity, Bosham (birth town of Harold Godwinson) has rib vaults made of Caen stone. Now a chapel it may have originally been a charnel house.

Storm clouds and sunbeams over Loch Arkaig, Scotland for the #BlueSkyArtShow theme #Sunlight #EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #landscape

This is indeed one of the great waterland beginnings

Cardinal singing in the sun

What a beautiful morning

Join Mei Chin and I at @gutterbookshop.bsky.social on 19th February as we'll be talking about some of our favourite Chinese literature. It's free! Do come and celebrate the Lunar New Year with us – the Year of the Horse.

Watched the match back and this fella was the highlight

Electric light

'Pilot Boat, Moelfre, Anglesey.' (c1970) Writing about why he started to paint, Kyffin Williams said it was record the land, the people and natural history. I never intended to produce works of art but if this did happen by chance, it was all to the good.'

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Hawk and crow

#Hunstanton 3/2

Champagne rugby but it's being methodically beaten about the head with a bottle of Veuve Clicquot for 50 mins #FravIre

My daughter shared this from one of the Dublin Dart stations, wild

If I‘d be a bird, I’d be

I posted elsewhere about a lady in one of my Leeds Irish Health and Homes workshops who wrote 'I've had dementia / for as long as I can remember'. It came back to me reading @ravoon.bsky.social's tremendous debut 'Dirt Rich', full of technically brilliant, emotionally-devastating work like this:

And for Dublin friends I’ll be having a launch for Late Heaney in conversation with John Brannigan on Tuesday 3 March at 6pm in Hodges Figgis. It would be good to see you, discounts for Bohs fans.

Looking to reading at the launch of PIR next week.

This mugshot of 19-year-old Kurt Cobain is an iconic piece of music history (1986) www.reddit.com/r/Historical...

Terrible news from Dublin, thinking of everyone affected

I'M WRITING THIS FAIRLY BIG BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE HARD OF HEARING.

Very pleased to share details of a new permanent academic job opportunity in Creative & Cultural Industries at University College Dublin. We are seeking candidates with a PhD whose work engages with the commercial creative industries. Deadline: 6 March 2026 universityvacancies.com/university-c....

Green Party councillors in Belfast are calling for a review of the Freedom of the City honour, in light of further information from the newly released Epstein files. We are seeking it to be removed from George Mitchell and Bill Clinton given what is now known about their behaviour towards women.

Our submission window for WP 12 opened today - great to see the work coming in. (Window closes midnight 18th Feb) Do encourage interested parties to submit winterpapers.com/submissions

Check out our new website! (Here’s the page for my project: liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/projects/... )

@manchesterup.bsky.social are celebrating LGBTQ+ history month with related books at a 30% discount. Delighted to see that Eva Gore-Booth: Irish radical poet, rebel and reformer is available for preorder at this discount. In print on 3 March!

Interested in doing a PhD, with some lovely people, in a lovely School of English, in a lovely city? 👇😎 www.dcu.ie/english/doct...

Each Whour of carillon music at the abbey near my house. Here, a brief snippet from a true Flemish classic, 'Mia' by Gorki (the band around the late lamentedednesday there's an Luc De Vos) (1/2)

We measure our snow by Narnia. ✨

Sparrows in Winter, Shozo Ozaki.

> @governor.ny.gov

One of several scholarships for Palestinian students available at the University of Liverpool. This one is for the MRes in Irish Studies. Please share to relevant circles. www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Man sells books. Becomes billionaire. Buys newspaper. Closes books section of newspaper.

Louise Kennedy

This is such exciting news for the prehistory & early history of western Britain & the wider European seaways, providing further firm evidence for the tin trade documented by classical authors 👇

RIP John Virgo. He's with the angles now.

Sebald ‘signs and characters from the type-case of forgotten things‘