Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 05/10/2026 ... creating expressions in which shape, structure and content are unified in a performance of words, image, music—and maybe even meaning. The course is suitable for poets at all stages of development, including beginners ... 121
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Running fortnightly on Tuesday evenings, beginning on 20th October and running until 15th December, 7.00-9.00, the workshops are designed to help participants experiment with creating their own organic and bespoke forms for poems ... 111
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 29/09/2026(‘form […] is the arrangement of ideas more or less according to a plan’ (W.A. Barratt, ‘Form & Instrumentation’). 010
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Murdered by the Lodge brothers, who were transported to Van Diemen’s Land. All Saints, Frickley. 020
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 19/08/2026'White Pony', my poetry/painting collaboration with Alan Parker is published by Shearsman Books this month. You can buy it here in paperback and hardback, but it is available from all good bookstores, and at least one bad one. www.shearsman.com/.../Steve-El.... See less 282
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Morning, Ian. From the bogs at Lochmaddy ferry terminal. 110
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 21/02/2026Me and Seth found a dead badger in a hedge, several tonnes of farmer-fly-tipped potatoes, and an announcement of the coming of Arza. 130
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Corn bunting singing in the beets. Another two singing males nearby. Never heard them sing qpmin November before. 090
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 02/11/2025The 4th workshop of my online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance & Process' focuses on Vasko Popa's poem-sequence, 'The Worshipping of the Lame Wolf'. Wednesday 12th November, 7.00-9.00. All welcome. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/.../poetry-a.... 020
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 24/10/2025'Sylvia Plath's magisterial 'The Swarm' is the poem we'll be focusing on in the third workshop of my online course, Poetry as Performance and Process, 7.00-9.00pm, Wednesday 29th October (UK). Still a few places open. More details and booking details here; www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-... 020
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Sylvia Plath's magisterial 'The Swarm' is the exemplary poem we'll be looking at on my online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' on Wednesday 29th October, 7.00-9.00. 'How instructive this is!' More information and booking details: www.eventbrite.com/.../poetry-a.... 051
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 06/10/2025The 2nd workshop of my online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' runs on Wed 15th Oct, 7-9 pm. The workshop is structured around a group reading of Jorie Graham's darkly apocalyptic 'To 2040'. Further information and booking details: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-... 010
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Three places left on this guided walk around Ted Hughes's national service landscape. 11.00-3.00, Saturday 4th October. www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes... 031
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Still a few places left on this course. First session on Wednesday 1st October.https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-performance-process-tickets-1574026980069?aff=oddtdtcreator 030
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 21/09/2025My fortnightly online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' begins on Wed 1st Oct, 7-9pm. Numbers are capped to allow a small group experience, and there are still a few places left. More information and booking details here. www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-... 041
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 21/09/2025Still three or four tickets left for this event before I have to declare it full. Ted Hughes's Patrington: a guided walk through the poet's little seminal National Service landscape. Saturday 4th October, 11am-3pm. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes... 010
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 08/09/2025My literary walk, 'Ted Hughes's Patrington', exploring the seminal East Yorkshire landscape in which Hughes undertook his National Service takes place on Saturday 4 October. Hope you can join me. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes... 062
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 01/09/2025The course begins with a focus on Ted Hughes's overlooked Expressionist masterpiece, 'Two Horses'. Earth heaved, splitting. Towers Reared out. I emerged Behind horses, updragging with oaken twists Swaying castles of elastic My fortifications moved on the sky The ploughshare my visor [...] 000
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Poetry as Performance & Process: an Online Creative Writing Short-Course, led by Steve Ely, fortnightly from Wednesday 1st Oct. Each of the workshops involves a writing activity arising from a close reading of an exemplary poem. More information and tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-... 100
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Ted Hughes’s Patrington A Guided Walk through Ted Hughes’s National Service landscape with poet & Hughes expert, Steve Ely 11.00-3.00, Saturday 4th October, 2025 More information and tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes... 011
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 18/08/2025I'm running a 5 workshop online course, 'Poetry as Performance & Process' in Oct and Nov of this year - 'What is this poem doing?' 'How is it doing it?' - We'll use learning derived from our close readings of exemplary poems to inform our work. More info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-... 000
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 13/08/2025On Saturday 4th October, I'm running a guided walk around Ted Hughes's formative National Service Landscape at Patrington - It's a leisurely amble around the area, and an insight into a crucially formative but neglected part of Hughes's life. www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes... 2165
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 13/08/2025I'm running a five workshop, online short-course, 'Poetry as Performance & Process' Oct-Nov 2025. We'll focus on 5 exemplary poems - What is the poem doing?' 'How is it doing it?' - and use the learning to inform our own work. More info and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-... 010
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 19/05/2025The South Uist launch of ‘Orasaigh’, the book I made with photographer Mike Faint, is launched with a reading and talk on Thursday 29th May at Cnoc Soilleir, Daliburgh. You can listen to Duncan McLeod's Ivor Novello nominated 'Acousmatic Soundwalk', based on the poem here: duncanmacleod.org/listen/ 040
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 18/05/2025In which the settler retreat from Sandtoft to Thorney is seen through the eyes of Large Coppers and Swallowtails, in the context of other Royal settlements of the period, and the resistance to them. 110
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Photographer Michael Faint being interviewed about our poetry/photography collaboration 'Orasaigh' in 'Black & White Photography', issue 302. Available from all good newsagents and W.H. Smith from next week. www.blackandwhitephotographymag.co.uk 001
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Where Ely meets Eel and it all goes to fuck in the Fen. 070
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 28/04/2025I'm leading this five-workshop outdoor creative writing course this summer in Yorkshire, first session on Saturday 17th May. If you can't make the whole course, it is possible to book on individual workshops. More details and booking here. www.eventbrite.com/e/anti-pasto... 1106
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 22/04/2025'Anti-Pastoral': Nature Writing on the Frontline' is a short-course of outdoor creative writing workshops. The idea is for the workshops to provide the inspiration for a sequence of poems, or similarly extended artistic response. More information here. www.eventbrite.com/.../anti-pas.... 041
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Another plug for my workshop, ''Thorpe Marsh Apocalypse' (Saturday 19th April, 2025), which will take place at the site of the decommissioned and demolished coal-fired power station at Thorpe Marsh, near Doncaster. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/.../thorpe-m.... 210
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 28/03/2025Duncan Macleod's fabulous 'acousmatic soundwalk' setting of my book-length poem 'Orasaigh' (also called 'Orasaigh'!) is being broadcast on Radiophrenia/Resonance FM on Thursday 10th April. radiophrenia.scot The soundwalk was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for best Sound Art in 2024. 041
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social · 25/03/2025The burbots of Guthlac, biting-out proofs from benthic Huguenot Bibles: 'O smite the land for the water’s sake: the dreaming of the eelish heart is evil from its youth'. 020
