Over here. Only Peter Case.

'Its bittersweet beauty lies in the wounded souls at the heart of it — broken by loss but woken by imagination.' medium.com/@martinwroe/...

‘It felt like the poem fell into my life at the point when I needed it…’ The brilliant Anthony Wilson opening this lovely programme about Poems On The Underground. He recalls how Carol Ann Duffy’s poem Words, Wide Night, met him on the Jubilee line. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

'Its bittersweet beauty lies in the wounded souls at the heart of it — broken by loss but woken by imagination.' medium.com/@martinwroe/...

'Neoliberalism tells us that humans are selfish, self-centred individuals, and we can only survive by stepping on each other. Whereas I am saying exactly the opposite: we can only survive by seeing beauty in each other, and creating beauty together.' observer.co.uk/culture/book...

'We are four people who have walked a long way together and now mostly walk apart. But a few times a year, we shoulder our packs, step on to a trail and remember how to move forward in the same direction.' www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...

'This is the God shaped hole. A triangular connection. The deep connection to ourselves & our living bodies, to each other in a social & creative way, & perhaps something larger outside of us (the trees, the stars, the bigness of life), that singing in a group creates.' substack.com/home/post/p-...

“I’m voting for yourself because you took the last croissant at breakfast” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Pakistanis have put up so many solar panels that the Pakistani government last month cancelled 27 cargoloads full of liquefied natural gas from Qatar. It was cheaper to pay the penalty than import this gas they didn’t need, now they have solar panels.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Southgrove Road Carol Singing' by Beth Davies was a winner in the Winter Poems challenge on Young Poets Network (YPN) in 2016. 🎄

'Only when you have the language for it can you imagine it. Only when you can imagine it can you know that it is real: the angel alight with glory walking among the shepherds half asleep in their watching...' www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...

'I’m glad that the churches have stood up to show that the story of Christmas doesn’t belong to the far right, but the Christian Christmas they are protecting isn’t shared by very many these days...' Thanks @lzsl.bsky.social www.absurdintelligence.com/love-vs-the-...

'In some way the handwriter becomes incarnate in her letter — not least because she has taken so much longer over it...' On handwriting and Christmas cards, for BBC Radio 4. medium.com/@martinwroe/...

'In some way the handwriter becomes incarnate in her letter — not least because she has taken so much longer over it...' On handwriting and Christmas cards, for BBC Radio 4. medium.com/@martinwroe/...

An interview with American poet Marie Howe featured in the @churchtimes.bsky.social. She was talking to @martinwroe.bsky.social about her poetry, including her @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social winning retrospective What the Earth Seemed to Say: New & Selected Poems. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

'Britain’s 47 operational offshore windfarms now supply nearly a fifth (17%) of its electricity generation – making it the second-biggest power source after gas – with the sector employing about 40,000 people...' www.theguardian.com/business/202...

'In all of these days that we call our life Waiting in case we might be surprised All of us waiting to be looked in the eye Waiting to be seen, to be recognized ...' On waiting and healing, an advent poem. gohealth.org.uk/day-7-so-man...

'She can’t be doing with church. “I don’t want to hear a dogma.” She prefers another company, a silently connected community of readers and writers, including John Donne and Emily Dickinson and Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks....' www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

'She can’t be doing with church. “I don’t want to hear a dogma.” She prefers another company, a silently connected community of readers and writers, including John Donne and Emily Dickinson and Lucille Clifton and Gwendolyn Brooks....' www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

'In all of these days that we call our life Waiting in case we might be surprised All of us waiting to be looked in the eye Waiting to be seen, to be recognized ...' On waiting and healing, an advent poem. gohealth.org.uk/day-7-so-man...

'Britain’s 47 operational offshore windfarms now supply nearly a fifth (17%) of its electricity generation – making it the second-biggest power source after gas – with the sector employing about 40,000 people...' www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"I’m obsessed with the metaphysical, the spiritual dimensions of life as they present themselves in this world" Marie Howe, winner of this year’s @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social for #poetry, talks to @martinwroe.bsky.social about #saints and the #spiritual

'What would be different about a world powered by care and freedom? Well, everything. The need to be productive is so deeply ingrained in our culture, it’s hard to imagine a world in which the quality of our relationships comes before getting things done.' www.absurdintelligence.com/love-is-the-...

'To do the work of love that might just help us all cross over. To let the old die and new be born. The work that doesn’t shy away from pain, hurt and tears, because none of us have been born without all those things, and we won’t die free of them either.' www.absurdintelligence.com/the-work-is-...

'Sitting there I couldn’t quantify the feeling I had. Peace? Tranquillity? Serenity? Yes, all of that, but something more, something that finally made me understand what people get out of churches...' www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/...

Songs and poems if you're near London N7 tonight. A few tickets left. #lyrical

'For the first time in a while, I felt anchored to something greater than myself.... I sometimes say that I have a quiet faith – not because it’s timid, but because it was found in the silence.' www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

'Often, belief is wielded like a weapon rather than a flashlight. Sometimes questions lead the way and sometimes they block it...' granta.com/doubting-tho...

'If enough countries move away from fossil fuels, money will follow. Today investment in renewables is twice that of fossil fuels; a quarter of new vehicles are electric; half the power-generating capacity of China & India is low-carbon... change is happening.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Maybe my husband is right, after all. Maybe the simple fact that I can reproduce myself is enough of a legacy for me. I just hope that I raise men who can give and take what they, and the world they live in, needs.' murmuration.substack.com/p/small-men-...

'Could I remember again my vocation and commit to being dedicated? I gazed out of the window. This was not Canada, but Plymouth, in the rain. It turns out I could.' anthonywilsonpoetry.com/2025/11/22/t...

'From a planetary perspective, restoring small parcels of land might feel insignificant, but this is the way a global nature restoration movement starts: one field, one sapling, one nightingale at a time.' www.theguardian.com/environment/...

'Does anybody want to be entirely understood? Don’t we have to keep a little mystery about ourselves, for our own sake? Go on, please: misunderstand me.' What a wise and wonderful tribute. observer.co.uk/style/featur...

☄️Out of this world. 🔆A bit of warmth and light for the darker days. The medieval St. Thomas Becket, Fairfield, Romney Marsh—once part of a thriving village, now isolated by time and circumstance.

'There’s this lovely comic illustration of a doctor with an ill looking Earth in front of them on the doctor’s chair,” Jerram says. “The Earth is saying: ‘I’m afraid we’ve got a nasty infection of humans.’ The doctor says: ‘Don’t worry, it’ll soon pass.’ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Sadly , post lockdown - live shows are becoming less and less viable for so many performers - I have many friends , critically revered and fabulous , who are seeing huge drops in their ability to sell - the mainstream dominates - the arenas lap up money and numbers

'In many parts of the world now solar power generates electricity far more cheaply than fossil fuels. The clean economy is cheaper than the dirty economy ... Action on climate change is an investment with high returns.' observer.co.uk/news/busines...

The German mind cannot comprehend this. In Denmark, 150,000 petrol cars and 250,000 diesel cars have disappeared from the roads, while 475,000 EVs and 106,000 PHEVs have been added. By early 2026, there will be more EVs than diesel cars in Denmark.

'The spring onions will cost what they cost. But people who care about feeding others well keep finding new ways to do it. That’s what resilience looks like....' www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oc...

'One year, we were taken out to the field & taught the mechanics of peaceful protest—a core Quaker practice—spending an hour learning how to resist being moved by police by locking arms together & lying limply on the ground. I loved these gatherings...' www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/71397/...

‘Some bright morning when this life is over I'll fly away To that home on God's celestial shore I'll fly away…’ The mesmerizing power of two guitars and two voices that is Gillian Welsh and David Rawlings lighting up the London Palladium.

'These books will last - their fierce & uncompromising challenge to a spiritually divided & diseased model of existence – whether associated with decadent religion or exploitative capitalism – make them a necessary voice in the debate about who we think we are.' observer.co.uk/culture/book...

'These books will last - their fierce & uncompromising challenge to a spiritually divided & diseased model of existence – whether associated with decadent religion or exploitative capitalism – make them a necessary voice in the debate about who we think we are.' observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Places still available for free workshops for young people in and around Islington to create protest posters on equal rights inspired by Union Chapel's 200+ year archive of social justice legacy and local London history. Choose from the themes and apply now at unionchapel.org.uk/projects/eve...

‘Some bright morning when this life is over I'll fly away To that home on God's celestial shore I'll fly away…’ The mesmerizing power of two guitars and two voices that is Gillian Welsh and David Rawlings lighting up the London Palladium.

'One year, we were taken out to the field & taught the mechanics of peaceful protest—a core Quaker practice—spending an hour learning how to resist being moved by police by locking arms together & lying limply on the ground. I loved these gatherings...' www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/71397/...

The future of solar power is bright, finds @tinymaddie.bsky.social *Solar panels are cheap, and getting cheaper *Batteries are good, and getting better *Economic case for solar will overwhelm political apathy In short, we're going to run the world on sunshine www.newscientist.com/article/2500...

This is great Ron. 💥

“It’s nice to have good human beings who stand up for those who don’t have a voice, who don’t have any power. When everyone seems against them, someone needs to step up. Kenny did that again and again...” www.theguardian.com/football/202...

'Love and acorns. That’s my life right now. Love is a four-season thing, but autumn is for acorn-gathering, winter for acorn-eating. This time of the year is all about planning for the future: if you think that’s beyond the wit of a mere bird you underestimate us....' observer.co.uk/news/columni...