My poetry was once described as 'Auden-ary'.

I've been thinking lately about attention. The internet rewards what captures it. But very little helps us cultivate it. I wonder if, somewhere along the way, we've forgotten that attention is also something we can give - that noticing is a practice.

It's too hot for anything other than a camisole at the park. My dog isn't a fan of the weather and demanded to be carried. 🐶☀️😂

"Creativity and chronic illness" from Chronic Living Therapy @chronicliving123.bsky.social chroniclivingtherapy.com/creativity-c... Screenshot from AMMES May 2026 Newsletter #chronicillness #MEcfs #LongCovid @anilvanderzee.bsky.social @drjogreer.bsky.social @jeremy-jeffs.bsky.social

It’s a wonderful day here, so I took a short trip to the park with my dog. 🐶

My chapbook is now available for pre-order on the Pinhole Poetry website! pinholepoetry.ca/shoppoetry/

My dog took me on a little neighbourhood adventure! 🐶#chihuahua #park

Some April '26, also sincerely's project page is live again but might get more reworking later. www.liamdiefenbach.com/sincerely #film #photography #35mm #alternativeprocess #sincerely #kodak #nikon #analog #filmphotography #nature #flower #art #frog #bees #spring

Really old Polaroid film😎#polaroid, #polaroid669film, #instantfilm, #peelapartfilm, #polaroid103landcamera, #polaroidcamera, #vintagecamera, #expiredfilm, #summerflowers🌸

two feathers for Grace oil on canvas

Here is one of the images from the series (taken on Polaroid 669 film). #polaroid #peelapartfilm #vintagefilm #analoguephotography

My recent Polaroid series reflecting on material and bodily fragility is out now in Corporeal Lit Magazine 📸: www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xxiii... #polaroid #peelapartfilm #vintagefilm #vintagepjotography

Got a new yellow headband and spent some time with my best furry friend. 🐶

I just saw a short film that made me reflect on the relationship between imagination and grief. We often think of imagination as forward-facing - a way of creating possibilities, or anticipating what might be. But grief suggests that imagination also works in another direction.

A photograph I had published recently in MoonLit Getaway. It's part of a larger series titled 'Brine.’ #vintagephotography #photography #ocean #seascape #artphotography

A photograph of peel-apart film cameras, captured on 35mm film. Their clunky design is part of their appeal for me. #analogue #vintagephotography #vintagefilm #filmcameras #peelapartfilm

Spring sunlight and green spaces make everything a little lighter.

After a challenging stretch with creative submissions, I’m really pleased to have a photography series accepted for publication. 📸

From the first year of university. #nostalgia

Royal Mail lost a handmade clay item I posted via recorded delivery, spent two months investigating, then compensated me with £13 worth of stamps and a letter saying, “I hope you are happy with the outcome.” Reader, I was not. 📮

Philomena Famulok

Aquarium 📷 #MobilePhotography

I made this little resin turtle with shell fragments and semi-precious stones, and I’m quite pleased with how it turned out. I also made a sea-themed coaster using resin and black sand. I’ve been finding crafting really helpful for unwinding lately. #crafting #resin

I think I was around 20 here. #nostalgia

Happy New Year all! 💫

Just incredible. youtu.be/zedfSOSQZcY

Marc Chagall ~ Soleil d'Hiver (M. 716), Winter Sun (coloured lithograph) #MarcChagall

Got a new cat hat for the holiday period. #festivecat 😹🎅

I have been having some fun making these animal-themed Christmas decorations from air-dry clay over the past couple of weeks! 🎄#crafting #christmas #handmade

I’ve been thinking recently about how poetry can function as an aesthetic act of survival. I don’t have any firm conclusions about what it means to take this idea seriously as yet but I’d be grateful for any thoughts or resources others might want to share.

The Christmas decorations are up!🎄 #Christmas

He is ready.

Picked up a copy of Recalibrating Stigma after a fantastic launch event in Edinburgh last week. Very much looking forward to reading the chapters and drawing on the analysis in my own work. Great work @gmthomas.bsky.social, @oliwilliams.bsky.social, Tanisha Spratt and @amychandler.bsky.social.

ME and ME-like symptoms affect approximately 1.35 million people in the UK. Find out how @kacheston.bsky.social, from our Department of Sociology and @durhamimh.bsky.social, is collaborating with @actionforme.bsky.social to understand the impact of this condition: www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...

Actual footage of my dog bravely surviving his nail-clipping appointment. 💅👀 (Painting by Sano di Pietro).

Another line of theory/evidence on this: MOHO influenced in part by Drew Leder’s The Absent Body, who was influenced in turn by Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception. He construed the body as an “I can”, when things are going smoothly, in absence of illness or disability. Goes back to Husserl.

I’m wondering whether anyone uses Twitter or Bluesky for social connection and community rather than primarily for networking.

This is Melissa - wondering if there are any fellow dog and/or pet lovers in the #epistemicfamily and #poetry community who'd be interested in collaborating with me on a volume of poems about pets with the proceeds being donated to the rescue I volunteer with? Inspired by @1dgrn.bsky.social

The feeling of striving for progress in the humanities, as captured by Fiona Apple in 1998.

Had the absolute pleasure today of going to New York University's London Campus to deliver two guest lectures to Dr. Alexandra Lee's students on Medicine, Health and Disability in Ancient Egypt. I've been fortunate enough to come back and lecture for multiple years now. Always a pleasure. :)

So excited tomorrow I will finally announce my book! However, using the word "announce" feels slightly inaccurate since I pretty much have no fans except my dog. So, basically I'm announcing it to my dog

Two #histmed CFPs with deadline for abstracts Jan 2026! Life Histories in Mind: Mental Ill Health and Learning Disability in Context (Manchester) & Blood is the price of coal: Coal communities, health and welfare in Britain and beyond from the 19th century to the present (Warwick) For more details 👇

I submitted a poetry chapbook yesterday. I’m not particularly optimistic about the outcome, but submitting my work regularly encourages me to keep refining and strengthening my writing.

Today's mood is all glittering frost and iced-over mud.