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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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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Our books are well-constructed, good and useful things, and if you buy one, it will enable us to make more. Recent titles include Matthew Clegg's 'Have You Always Been Here?', Fay Musselwhite's 'The Gleaning', and Steve Ely's 'Eely'. You can order them here: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, spines facing out.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 01/10/2026

Letter to the editor: Why choose between solar power and farming when the same land can provide both? A reader asks why agrivoltaics isn’t getting more attention in water-stressed East Anglia.

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Letter: Why aren’t we considering agrivoltaics?

Letter to the editor

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Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Another reminder about Dial-A-Poem Poems read by the original poets from all over the world. Tap on the phone and see what happens. You never know what you will get.... dial-a-poem.org

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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is horribly true- poverty is exhausting. It takes everything you have. Being hard up for a bit is not the same as being relentlessly poor. I'm not surprised people can't always find the wherewithall to fight back, push on, rise above - all the stuff they can't understand why we don't just do

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Rebel Amulets: a free event at Shakespeares, Sheffield (146-148 Gibraltar Street, S3 8UB), this Saturday (19 September), with an excellent line-up including a set from @petegreensolo.com. Organised by Longbarrow co-founder Karl Hurst, so the set times are anyone's guess. It'll be good. All welcome.

Flyer advertising Rebel Amulets at Shakespeares, Sheffield, Sat 19 September, 2pm, free entry

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Reading this astonishing book about the power of speech and song in poetry for a future edition of The Verb. ‘A mad pinballing scaffolding of rhyme’

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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Todays, noticably smaller, mushroom haul. It has been a very good few wks for field mushrooms. I love them but we've eaten so many recently that even I am thinking...maybe cook/freeze more of them? Then I smell them cooking and it's mushrooms for tea. This lot became a delicious creamy prawny pasta

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is just to say... I have stolen the work that you spent years creating and which you were probably hoping would pay your bills But online sharing doesn't count It's actually a compliment So fuck you BTW, I'm a fan

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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

we spotted this delicate little creature on shed door and thought it was a moth. Then thought it wasn't exactly mothy- 6 legs, propellor blades instead of wings and no descernible antennae- is that a moth? Apparently it is- a common plume moth. I've never seen one

image of small, narrow winged insect on old green door

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Today at Guildhall Art Gallery, London, we will almost certainly have plenty of space for people to join the Hands on History Symposium on mudlarking so if you’d like to drop in to a session, please do! 11am-4pm. The full programme is here: thamesfestivaltrust.org/whats-on/sym...

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Hands on History: Symposium - Mudlarks of the Thames Foreshore @ Totally Thames festival 2026 - Thames Festival Trust

Join the free Hands on History mudlarking symposium at Guildhall, London (Sept 2026). Discover talks blending mudlarking practice and academic research.

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Another bundle of daily Substack sentences. Substack at substack.com/@tomjenks.

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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've got an idea - In UK there's not much rain in S&E + a lot in N&W. I've spotted this before- there's a def pattern. I know this sounds radical but what if WE KEEP RAIN FALLING IN N/W AND SEND IT TO S/E How hard can it be- Greeks Romans Incas Assyrians did it- I think they used pipes and stuff?

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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Morning library stroll soundtrack: this fantastic poetic drama from The Third Programme. I know it’s 4Extra but it would be great to hear more dramas from Radio 3 particularly from the late lamented experimental strand The Wire @bbcsounds.bsky.social

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Leviathan '99 by Ray Bradbury - BBC Sounds

2099. Ships sail toward the stars instead of under them. One is led to its destruction....

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Officially, the water industry in England is regulated. Practically, it's unregulated. There's no difference between what it does under the eye of the Environment Agency and what it would do if the EA did not exist. The EA is completely useless, by design. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Dry weather sewage discharges soar as water companies face scrutiny

Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026

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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A few months ago we had, on out W Cumbrian window box, 2 humming-bird hawk moths! I will never forget seeing them. Since then we've sometimes thought we'd caught sight of one but they're so fast. 2 mins ago my husband spotted one on the same window box! I missed it but i know it was there. Magical.

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

To mark the forthcoming publication of Matthew Clegg‘s Have You Always Been Here? (a series of three pamphlets, available from 7 September), we’ve created a limited three-for-two offer on his three collections: 'West North East', 'The Navigators', and 'Cazique'. longbarrowpress.com/special-offe...

Two copies of 'The Navigators' by Matthew Clegg: one open, one closed.

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Posting this because it came up in conversation. A video that @meatbingo.bsky.social made for Elbow. Starring @govindajeggy.bsky.social with brief appearances from and Nutmeg youtu.be/QmOYRsU-Ex4?...

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Elbow - Lost Worker Bee

YouTube video by ElbowVEVO

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Tom Jenks @tomjenksuk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Some weak men, some very weak men. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

the name Lake Ontario comes from Wyandot/Huron: Ontarí'io/Oniatarí:io. for Mohawk/Haudenosaunee it’s: Kanadario. for Anishinaabemowin/Ojibwe: Niigaani-gichigami. water is sacred in Indigenous cultures across the planet. it’s a conscious agent with spirit, a lifeblood of the Earth sustaining creation

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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Yesterdays morning's swim- water noticably colder than Sunday but wonderful all the same. You can see some of the windmills off the coast- they were far away- possibly situated in Egypt or Estonia. Some days they're so close i could swim there and back no problem.

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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Well, that was another horrible, sleepless, nerve pain kinda night and I'm tired and grumply. Just saw this 🔽. It's hilarious and i feel so much better for the laugh.

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Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

My short story ‘Celia’ will be performed by actor, Gary Kemp, in the ‘Brilliant British’ show at the Crazy Coq’s theatre in London on September 14th. See below for details.

Montage of three actors and saxophone player.

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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just watched Jolyon Maughan of @goodlawproject.org shredding Christian Wotsit on BBC TV News for reporting some social media gossip as if it were fact. The BBC really does need a lot more of this.

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

One more reminder. Yes, Reform are a deeply unserious party, and have no intention or ability to bring their plans into action, but there’s a very serious side to this. It’s about embedding the narrative that disabled people are dishonest, undeserving scroungers. That does need to be opposed.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The first forensic account of how the Post Office, the British government and a global IT company ruined the lives of thousands of innocent people. Post Mortem by Richard Brooks ➡️ www.private-eye.co.uk/books/post-m...

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Richard Sambrook @sambrook.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026

BBC’s coverage of Reform’s welfare plans is frankly bizarre. Headlines in Ten, leading on some radio networks. Reform are not even the official opposition and the plans have less credibility than Count Binface. Will BBC News do the same for Lib Dem and Greens policy two years out from an election?

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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Just been downstairs and saw my new made deconstructed sonnet hanging on the fire-place, shining bright orange in the morning light and decided I rather like it. Now i need a space to put it. And a means of holding it there. #poetry #blueskypoets #poem #WritingCommunity

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Ruth @ruthr1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Appalling headline from BBC .. not “ they claim it would “ just a statement accepted and repeated as fact ! Bias, what bias ??? @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social please challenge this !

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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Found a bit of wire mesh ans some guy-rope and deconstructed a sonnet

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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thur's tide was flat,calm, clear...beautiful! my husband tells me. I missed it. Friday's tide was rough, rolling and sea-weedy - I like it better when it's rolling just enough to make me a bit scared.

Image of pebble beach and tideline with seaweed and rolling waves

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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Congratulations to editor Kerri Andrews & other contributors of Women, Walking, published by Batsford on Thursday. A rich collection of diverse essays exploring who, where, why & how we walk. I particularly enjoyed the final two essays by @helenmort.bsky.social & @katedavispoet.bsky.social.

The book cover of Women, Walking, edited by Kerri Andrews, showing a blue sky, green foreground and layers of blue, green and brown between.

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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Sea good for swimming today- the black dot in out of focus pic2 is a seal. It watched us at top end of beach then followed us back. Thrilled to see a flock of noisy oyster catchers flying the tide line & 12 or so beautiful little swallows feeding on the wing over our heads. We're very lucky

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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Went for a swim yesterday but breeze got up and water was just a bit too rough. had a stroll behind top of the shingle bank and say several of these gorgeous little creatures on sea holly starting to do it astonishing irridescent thing

image of small blue butterfly on blue flowering sea holly

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

half of England is officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought for the second summer in a row, but sure, build more water-guzzling data centres, it’s fine www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Half of England officially in ‘exceptionally serious’ drought

Environment Agency names seven regions affected by unusually hot and dry weather and shortage of water

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 31/07/2026

#PoemsAbout #LastTrain is live. Post through Thursday. We favour image-driven poems, emotional honesty, working-class grit, sharp endings, and work that avoids cliché. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage. Read 3+, repost, reply. Use Alt Text.

Rainy train platform at night with a stationary train and two figures walking away under station lights. Overlay text reads: “#PoemsAbout #LastTrain”.

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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) This is a small day-flying migrant from Southern Europe, often seen in gardens, woodland edges, heathland & scrub, hovering like a hummingbird while feeding on nectar. Thanks Paul Green for sharing your photo taken in the UK #HummingbirdHawkMoth #bsky

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Kate Davis @katedavispoet.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I do. And you really don't want it. I caught it months before the vaccine was available. You don't have to - just get vaccinated ppl!

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Big broodfish winter at sea: enter the river each spring to seek their redds—Gironde, Garonne, Dordogne. Everything’s against them: bycatch, gravel works, Golfech’s hydroelectric plant and pressurised water-cooled reactors. 'Eely' Steve Ely £2 off until 24 July longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Three copies of Steve Ely's 'Eely' against an orange background.

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Still time to join a class on Ten Key Shakespeare Sonnets next Saturday … www.northseapoets.com/onlineevents and an essay on sonnets, Shakespeare and the uses of scholarship on the NSP substack, link in reply

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Online Events | North Sea Poets

Explore our upcoming online poetry masterclasses and webinars.

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