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Caleb Parkin

@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social
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Poet 💡 PhDing, Exeter RENEW Biodiversity 🌿 'Mingle' - Nine Arches ☣️ 'The Coin' - Broken Sleep 🪙 Bristol City Poet, '20-22 🦄 Ecopoetry, queer ecologies 🐙 Music, dancing, DJing 🎶 Say hello 👋🏼 linktr.ee/CalebParkin

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Sidekick Books @sidekickbooks.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Next weekend, we're off to Wilderness Festival in Oxfordshire with three of the Ten Poets stars: Helen Bowell, @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social and Kevin Reinhardt! Thank you to Phlox Books for inviting us!
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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Good news from Hungary. Elections in the U.S. are coming soon... www.newsweek.com/maga-europe-...
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In blow to MAGA, Europe’s "Trump before Trump" loses in Hungary
Trump had thrown his weight behind Viktor Orbán, calling the Hungarian prime minister a "true friend."
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Gloria is here! @gloriasin.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Woah JD Vance did it again! Congratulations Hungary! You guys are giving us hope🙏
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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 12/04/2026
It's day 12 of #NaPoWriMo, and we're almost at the halfway point! If you're looking to develop the writing you've done this April, take a look at our feedback services. We offer a range of options to help you hone your skills, whatever your experience level. Find out more via the link in our bio.
A bright blue square with an image of a red bus in the bottom left hand corner, and an image of some palm tress at the beach in the bottom right hand corner. Above the trees is a spiky yellow circle with the words Prompt 12 overlaid in black. The text along the left hand side of the square reads 'Think of a place you haven’t visited for a long time. Make a list of details you remember, and a second list of details about the room you’re currently in. Can you write a poem about this merged place, half present and half memory? Is your office now underwater, or your morning bus stuck up the arms of a tree outside your childhood home?' The image has a title along the top reading NaPoWriMo 2026.
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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Join Isabel Galleymore, Caleb Parkin and Jean Sprackland at 'Poetry for the Planet', an evening of eco-poetry and solar-inspired art. Wednesday April 15th, 18:00 The Exchange #Birmingham www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/poetr... @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social is the author of This Fruiting Body and Mingle
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Dr. Skylar Grayson @skylargrayson.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 04/04/2026
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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This World Earth Day, join Jean Sprackland with Isabel Galleymore and Caleb Parkin, at The Exchange, 3 Centenary Square, Birmingham for an evening of eco-poetry - 15th April. #poetrysky @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/poetr...
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Poetry for the Planet - University of Birmingham
Award-winning University of Birmingham poet Isabel Galleymore leads this evening of eco-poetry and solar-inspired art.
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Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Looking forward to this event in #Birmingham on 15th April! There'll be a collective poem, lots of light / dark chat & for me, reflections on nightlife, human & more-than...
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June @junelalonde.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I started singing more because someone said they liked my voice. I started studying poetry because someone said they liked my lyrics. I started practicing guitar more because someone said they liked my playing. Positive feedback isn't useless. It's highlighting potential strengths.
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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Saw your boyfriend in Hobbycraft
Some kind of purple plastic crafting device for texturising paper called distressing tool
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Over the last few years, American tech oligarchs have become the greatest argument against their own existence. The sheer scale of their erratic behavior and political interference proves that extreme wealth concentration is a structural threat to society
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Neil Lewis @neil-lewis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
One of the delights of last week's Finished Creatures issue 9 in-person launch was that those of us who could make it each read a poem by a contributor who couldn't. I chose "The Escaped Jay" by @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social, a blazing light in the already shining constellation of this issue.
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Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Sometimes we dance. Sometimes we rest, reflect & recharge: www.mixcloud.com/Idiorhythmia... #music #DJ #mixes #ambient
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Not Dancing
But resting, reflecting, recharging. Listen when you're working, walking, wandering (especially in winter).
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Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"Cunning chimera, desperate for loneliness, you stacked eucalyptus. Webbed paws slapped dirt into an expectant mound." My poem 'Penelope Escapes the Platypusary' is now up at the wonderful @anthro-poetry.bsky.social 🌊 anthropocenepoetry.org/post/penelop...
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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
On Valentine’s Day #LindaFrance began our #EcoSonnetChain for which 14 poets each wrote a sonnet linked by last & 1st lines. She said, ‘Our chain aims to embody the Amazonian ethic of mutirão – collective action based on the understanding everything is connected to everything else.’ (1/3)
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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Proud to have my poem Belemnite in this brilliant anthology for the campaign #Givepeatachance get a copy here and raise money! www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
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Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry - The Anthology | MK Lit Fest 2025
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry is an anthology of original ecopoetry written in response to prompts set by Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Jess Mookherjee and Rishi Dastidar during an online e...
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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Thank you Orbis & Pauline Rowe for your review of MINGLE by @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social "Parkin has a gift for glamour, absurdity and danger in the way he approaches poems as ritualized structures about a toxic, changing and endangered world." ninearchespress.com/publications... orbisjournal.co.uk
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RENEWBiodiversity.bsky.social @renewbiodiversity.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Issue 84 of The Interpreter's House features the brilliant Poet, DJ, writer & RENEW Early Career Researcher @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social which: 'looks broadly at human-nonhuman communication & 'critterly voices' in contemporary #ecopoetry.' 👇 theinterpretershouse.org/parkin-84 #renewbiodiversity
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Issue 84 — The Interpreter's House
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Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Excited to teach this eco-techno course in early '26 🖥 🌎🍄🔬🔭📡🧫
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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Welcome to ‘The Living Library’: a pop-up exhibition of material ecopoetry curated by @royalholloway.bsky.social and the Landmark Arts Centre 🍃🪾🍁🐝🦇 This event forms part of Being Human Festival - the national festival of the humanities 🧡
A large gothic church - image taken from high up looking down at an exhibition. There are temporary walls displayed throughout featuring text art and table covered in books Woman stood in front of an exhibition area where Susie Campbell’s wound is positioned - framed images of torn fabrics are on the wall and a Concertina books on a mirror table reflecting the ceiling of a church
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Ginger Cat Dusty @gingercatdusty.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Morning gorgeous babies. Share some kindness this day if you're able. Good mischief. Love you all 🍂🧡🍂
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
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Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
What if we dared to imagine and write towards a technolgy that was a part of, not apart from, our biosphere? I'll be teaching this course starting in January, with @poetryschool.bsky.social poetryschool.com/courses/micr...
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Microscope, Telescope, Periscope: An Ecopoetics of Technology • Poetry School
On this new course you will have the opportunity to tap into the special appeal of cartographies with tutor Peter Hughes.
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The Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Peter Hughes, Iris Colomb, Caleb Parkin (@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social), Natalie Whittaker (@natalie-whittaker.bsky.social), Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese, Suzanne Conway (@suzanneconwaypoet.bsky.social), Steve Komarnyckyj, Hannah Silva.
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 03/11/2025
Rats given a faecal transplant from exuberant toddlers showed more exploratory behaviour, supporting the idea that gut bacteria might affect children’s emotional development
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The gut microbiome may play a role in shaping our personality
Rats given a faecal transplant from exuberant toddlers showed more exploratory behaviour, supporting the idea that gut bacteria might affect children’s emotional development
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Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Hi friends - I'm Featured Poet on the new @interpretershouse, with three poems & an introductory essay to them: theinterpretershouse.org/parkin-84 They're PhD work: one of my jay poems & two from my travels last year 🐦 🚢 🐻
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Parkin 84 — The Interpreter's House
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Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Delighted to have a poem in the new issue of The Interpreter's House alongside @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social and @moette.bsky.social! My piece 'Fourpence', narrated by the women of Whitechapel during the time of Jack the Ripper, can be read here: theinterpretershouse.org/hainsworth-84
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Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Cutting support to the motability scheme for disabled people, while we continue to fund Prince Andrew's residences & "lifestyle", should *radicalise anyone* 👑🚫🤬 #CharlesTheLast #TaxTheRich #WealthTaxNow
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Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
My absolute favourite critter this week is the wren/s in our garden, hopping about adorably & bellowing their rowdy little songs. How could anyone watch a wren & not feel inspired to bring down capitalism?
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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Check out this bad boy - a Pale Tussock moth caterpillar (Calliteara pudibunda) - living its best life. That gorgeous on-trend burgundy tail tuft!
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
In collaboration with @mklitfest.bsky.social in August we held an online masterclass – Digging in the Dirt: adventures in ecopoetry with @clareshawpoet.bsky.social , @betarish.bsky.social , @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/the-magic-of... 1 /3
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The Magic of Bogs – Poets for the Planet
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Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
I'm reading at this on Saturday night - come join, it's online 🙂
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Bill Herbert @billherbert.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Many thanks to the poets who took part in the #EcoSonnetChain: #LindaFrance, #EmmaMust, @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social, #AnnSophieBalzer, @janeburn.bsky.social, #TishaniDoshi, #JemmaBorg, @jsaphra.bsky.social, #JacobPolley, @sophieherx.bsky.social, @helenmort.bsky.social, #SteveEly, & #GlynMaxwell.
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Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Look what I picked up in Stratford-Upon-Avon last week! The Anne-thology from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social is a beautiful collection of poems, with a tour de force sestina from @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social and a hilarious film review/poem from @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social 🪶💀
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.
Poem title: At the Intersection
 
The poem is divided into two overlapping circles.
 
The left-hand circle is titled ‘me’ and the text reads:
the day we
went out to have
an ice-cream, we said nothing
just let our silence melt in
the air as we walked across the common
our love never tiring at all
 
The right-hand circle is titled ‘you’ and the text reads:
we should
have talked it over but
nothing ever seems to get
in your fat head. You are so
common that I wish we’d never met
at all and I’d married Tim instead
 
In the intersection of the poem (where the two circles overlap), the text reads:
we
have
nothing
in
common
at all
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Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project and for Give Peat A Chance. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
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Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 22/07/2025
Writing for #PoemsAbout #Glamour? Friday’s the moment. Polish the surface, cut to the truth. Tag your post + tag us: @alanparry83.bsky.social @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Then: Read. Repost. Reply. Keep it real, even when it sparkles. Prompts: shorturl.at/oEXAM
A person strikes a dramatic pose under green and red lighting, wearing a leopard-print top. Their makeup is bold, with dark glittering eye accents trailing like tears or stars. They have short, tousled hair and dangle earrings, contributing to a look that mixes defiance with allure. The lighting and posture evoke a cabaret or glam-rock aesthetic. In the top right corner, white text reads: "@BrokenSpineArts.bsky.social" and "@AlanParry83.bsky.social." Bottom right text says: "Read Repost Reply #PoemsAbout #Glamour." The Broken Spine logo, a stylised fountain pen nib, is in the top left corner.
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Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project and for Give Peat A Chance. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
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chiller @chiller.eurosky.social · 16/07/2025
I'd rather see wind farms spring up, than watch the landscapes everyone is passionate about die because we didn't save them - because we were so keen on keeping them pretty. These places aren't just a vista. They are a fragile living cloak upon the land. They will not survive climate change.
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Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Pride birthday is great & all, but it's essentially like having it on Gay Christmas 🌈🎁😅
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Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project and for Give Peat A Chance. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
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Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
After puzzling over it for some time, I've realised the little electronic trill our local blackbirds have incorporated into their call is...the start-up noise of Dott scooters 🤣 This makes sense, them both being outdoors & across the city.
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Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Hi pals! It's been brought to my attention I'm the feline mascot for a brand of banana suckies (!) 🍌 😬 However: I'm much older than five, esp in cat years (are they a thing?); I do not like fish; reading, yes, jigsaws, no (crossword pls); I don't love crowded places, but it depends on the vibes.
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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan An adult pleasure zone decree
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Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
We had a buzzing symposium yesterday to round off Lyra Fest / Brigstock Inst AI & Poetry project. We talked creative potential, ethics, methods, risks & really got into it, in a really convivial way. Looking forward to reflecting on next steps to explore 🤖 🌎 🖊
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Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
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