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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 14h

I'm excited to be organising this two-day symposium with @janesamuels.bsky.social - The Nature Within - keynote from @pollyrowena.bsky.social - details at www.thenaturewithin.co.uk

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The Nature Within

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Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social · 15h

Can boxing techniques apply to writing? Plus Ian McMillan, D. Nurkse and a famous telegram from Dorothy Parker. helenmort.substack.com/p/i-cant-loo...

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“I can’t look you in the voice”

or Don’t Telegraph Your Shots

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 15h

We're delighted to announce this call for papers for a 2-day symposium The Nature Within. A free to attend event we are inviting poster presentations & papers on the natural world through the lens of illness & disability and illness & disability as a part of nature #AcademicSky thenaturewithin.co.uk

black and white image - white text reads 'online symposium The Nature Within call for papers Centre for Place Writing Manchester Metropolitan University Deadline 31st December 2026' - against a black and white microscopic image of connective tissue giving the appearance of stars and galaxy systems in space.

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This week from members, affiliates and friends of the Centre for Place Writing includes: Jean Sprackland will be at Ashburton Arts Centre, Devon, as special guest to their open mic poetry evening. ashburtonarts.org.uk/events/moor-...

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Moor Poets presents: An Open Mic Poetry evening • special guest, Jean Sprackland – “One of the best small live music venues in the UK” The Guardian

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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Some ideas, though they contain the makings and the raw ingredients of a story, do not quite amount to one. Here are a few story ideas that have refused to blossom for me. If you write, maybe they might for you?

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Figures of a Butler, or, Stories I Will Not Publish

A short anthology of abandoned fiction

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This month, Lydia Unsworth's latest pamphlet, Houses of Prominent Men, will be published with Red Ceiling Press. @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page...

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Houses of Prominent Men - Lydia Unsworth | Red Ceilings Press

Chapbook RCP127A6 50 Pages40 Copies£10

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Morag Rose and Arifa Akbar are in conversation with The Feminist Politics of Place, at the Birmingham Rep with Birmingham Literature Festival on Friday. @thelrm.bsky.social www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/whats-on/the...

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The Feminist Politics of Place with Arifa Akbar & Morag Rose | Birmingham Rep

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Moor Poets presents: An Open Mic Poetry evening • special guest, Jean Sprackland – “One of the best small live music venues in the UK” The Guardian

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Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Excited about this event on Oct 21st!

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Next week, Jean Sprackland will be with Ashburton Arts for Moor Poets Open Mic Poetry Evening with Jean Sprackland. Running on Thursday 8th October from 7.30-10pm you can find out more and book tickets here: ashburtonarts.org.uk/events/moor-...

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Moor Poets presents: An Open Mic Poetry evening • special guest, Jean Sprackland – “One of the best small live music venues in the UK” The Guardian

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This week we’re exploring Anthony Burgess’s unconventional autobiography, Little Wilson and Big God, a literary event when it was published in 1987. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts by and about Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange): anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/glued-toge...

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Glued Together by Energy

The Confessions of Anthony Burgess

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Coming up later this year @drdavidcooper.bsky.social will be celebrating the publication of his book Reading Place Writing: Geography, Form, Immersion 2010-2020 with a launch event with Jean Sprackland on 3rd December at Manchester Poetry Library. Book your place here: www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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Book Launch: Reading Place Writing by David Cooper, 03 Dec 2026

Book Launch, Manchester Poetry Library

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Michael Pinchbeck has recorded an interview with @intellectbooks.bsky.social about a new series he is co-editing with Frances Babbage. For more information and to watch the recorded interview, see the link below: performanceresearch.mmu.ac.uk/2026/09/28/m...

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Michael Pinchbeck, interview with Intellect - Performance Research

Over the summer, Michael Pinchbeck recorded an interview with Intellect about a new series he is co-editing with Frances Babbage.

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Congratulations to Mcr Cathedral's Writer in Residence Tom Branfoot who will shortly be joining us to start his PhD with a @ukri.org AHRC Doctoral Landscape award. His debut poetry collection, Volatile, launches today with The 87 Press. Happy National Poetry Day! www.the87press.co.uk/shop/p/volat...

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Volatile by Tom Branfoot — the87press

Volatile is a daring debut poetry collection about crisis, habitat destruction, archives, and alcoholism. It asks, how do we love within a system of damage?

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Zara Slattery aka Inksplattery @zaraslattery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

New Patreon post! Character connection. #SweeneysProgress @gregorynorminton.bsky.social www.patreon.com/SweeneysProg...

Sweeney, half human, half raven flies through clouds over a coastal 7th century Cumbrian hillfort.

Alan, 'fool, Tom of the Wood' is a 7th century character from Sweeney's Progress. He is heavily bearded with dreadlocks...he is turning sideways, alarmed by the presence of an intruder.

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Friday 9th October 6pm, Morag Rose @thelrm.bsky.social will be in conversation with Arifa Akbar at The Rep, Birmingham as part of Birmingham Literature Festival discussing The Feminist Politics of Place. www.birmingham-rep.co.uk/whats-on/the...

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The Feminist Politics of Place with Arifa Akbar & Morag Rose | Birmingham Rep

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The third episode of INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS, our new podcast about the writing of the author of A Clockwork Orange, deals with the second part of his ‘confessions’, You’ve Had Your Time. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts or here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/ins...

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Inside Anthony Burgess: You've Had Your Time - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Inside Anthony Burgess is a podcast that explores the writing of the author of A Clockwork Orange. Taking in both his fiction and non-fiction, we feature one of his books in each episode, discussing B...

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

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The Feminist Politics of Place with Arifa Akbar & Morag Rose | Birmingham Rep

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Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The one in which I walk to London. New collection coming April 2027 with Knives Forks and Spoons press.

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Lydia Unsworth @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New pamphlet with Red Ceilings. www.theredceilingspress.co.uk

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 27/09/2026

Some cheery news amid the general gloom of university life: I’m delighted to be speaking at the Hay Festival, Arequipa, in November www.hayfestival.com/arequipa/home

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tomorrow, Friday 25th September, BBC's Contains Strong Language Festival celebrates The Laurel Prize shortlisted poets, chaired by @helenmort.bsky.social - 7pm Fri 25 Sep MediaCity Studios, BBC Philharmonic Studio in Salford. Book your FREE tickets now: bbc.co.uk/containsstronglanguage

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Contains Strong Language 2026

The 10th anniversary of the UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival comes to Salford, 24th to 27th September 2026.

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 25/09/2026

I had fun consulting on this new card game - out this week. Play as a historic royal court - but don't lose your head.

Box of cards with double-headed design of a king and queen, labelled OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!

Booklet open to page showing illustration of Mary Tudor and text about her life.

Pack of cards cut at one showing a lavish feast including a peacock and the words "Honours himself eoth a feast"

Card showing image of King's Executioner with a large sword and the words "Behead any played character"

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 25/09/2026

Had some fun writing this - lots of thoughts on how the Spanish royal experience set them up to respond particularly badly to Henry's reasons for his divorce from Catherine of Aragon

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This week’s newsletter returns to the Odyssey. Find out Anthony Burgess’s opinions on the impossibility of translating the poem into English verse and the poets who have given it a worthy stab. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/a-very-mac...

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A Very Macho Book

Anthony Burgess on Homer’s Odyssey

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Congratulations @drdavidcooper.bsky.social! Reading Place Writing: Geography, Form, Immersion, 2010-2020 was published by @livunipress.bsky.social - The ebook will be available to libraries exclusively as part of the JSTOR Path to Open initiative www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Reading Place Writing | Home

David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is the founding co-director of the Centre for Place Writing.

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Reading Place Writing | Home

David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is the founding co-director of the Centre for Place Writing.

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

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Contains Strong Language 2026

The 10th anniversary of the UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival comes to Salford, 24th to 27th September 2026.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Episode 2 of our new podcast series INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS is out now! In the first of a two-parter, we look at Little Wilson and Big God, volume one of Burgess's autobiography. Find INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS at your favourite place to get podcasts or here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/ins...

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Inside Anthony Burgess: Little Wilson and Big God - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This week, why quoting Anthony Burgess’s work may be more difficult than it seems, and why even the dictionaries of quotation often get it wrong. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-art-of...

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The Art of Quotation

The aphorisms and epigrams of Anthony Burgess

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 12/08/2026

My university (Manchester Met) is inviting expressions of interest for Leverhulme postdocs. If you have an innovative early modern European and/or public history project to put forward, please get in touch. Deadline for completed EOIs is 9 October.

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Early Career Fellowships | The Leverhulme Trust

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Jane Samuels @janesamuels.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Cockpit stone circle is a scheduled monument. There is archaeology under the surface, and there is peat that doesn't need disturbing. I'm never one to follow a pointless rule. Whatever your belief system, this is illegal for really good reasons.

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Jane Samuels @janesamuels.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Hello, John Holmes. I came to see you, today. Not at your grave, deep in Shap loam, but here, at your home as the waters shrank. I stood on the cobbles of the path you walked. Stopped at the midden and tried to find a sherd that felt like yours. I watched the sun set with you, over Harter Fell.

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 02/09/2026

a portion of this was the image on my first book cover, fourteen years ago

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

To commemorate the film director Jean-Paul Rappeneau, who died this week, our latest newsletter explores how Anthony Burgess’s came to write the subtitles to Rappeneau’s film version of Cyrano de Bergerac. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/a-nose-by-...

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A Nose By Any Other Name

On Anthony Burgess’s translation of Cyrano de Bergerac

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 13/09/2026

Spent today in Orvieto, where underneath the famous frescoes I saw the basement where they dump bits that have fallen off the cathedral. Thread:

Bits of stone and leafy decorative bits of columns in a heap

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This year marks the 70th anniversary of Anthony Burgess’s debut novel, Time for a Tiger. To celebrate, we’re launching a new podcast series: INSIDE ANTHONY BURGESS. The first episode is about The Malayan Trilogy. Listen at your favourite pod-app or here: www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/i...

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Inside Anthony Burgess: The Malayan Trilogy - The International Anthony Burgess Foundation

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On this week’s newsletter, we’re celebrating the 70th anniversary of Anthony Burgess’s debut novel, Time for a Tiger. In an article originally published in 1981, Burgess himself reminisces about how it came to be. Subscribe for FREE: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/time-for-a...

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Time for a Tiger at 70

Anthony Burgess looks back at the publication of his debut novel

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 20/09/2026

Lovely to be in the company of @rhigarthjones.bsky.social at the Villa Giulia/Etruscan Museum shop

Books in a museum gift shop, including among others All Roads Leas To Rome and The Roads To Rome.

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

New poetry from @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social's upcoming Red Ceilings Press pamphlet (Houses of Prominent Men) available to read in the Anthropocene Poetry Journal. www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/3-poems...

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3 poems by Lydia Unsworth

______________Lydia Unsworth is a poet based in Greater Manchester. She is the author of This Now Extends to My Daughter (Blue Diode), Stay Awhile and YIELD (Knives Forks and Spoons Press), Arthropod ...

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