Judith Palmer
@WasThatThunder
Poetry etc. Here on behalf of the etc. Views my own. Community gardening. Wild things. Islington in Europe.
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Take part in this year’s Keats conference this May at @KeatsHouse London. Deadline for proposals is Friday 21 February, 12 noon UK time. We just need a 200-250 outline. More info here: keatsfoundation.com/conference/
Ah, bitter chill it was! Get ready for the Eve of St Agnes - Monday 20 January. We have a special online event featuring poet Helen Farish @BloodaxeBooks, Prof Nicholas Roe and a relay reading of Keats’s chilliest poem. Free tickets here: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/visions-…
‘Brain Rot’ is OED’s word of the year 2024 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Another Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree has been lit and feted with a new poem. Thank you Valerie Bloom and the children of St Vincent’s primary. It may have been the WETTEST event in living memory but we had great fun. @PoetrySociety @TrafalgarsTree
It’s Christmas Tree day in London! The Norwegian Trafalgar Square tree will be lit at 6pm this evening. Looking forward to the brass band, the drummers, the choir and ⭐️the new poem⭐️ commissioned for the ceremony. (rain please delay your arrival). See you later @TrafalgarsTree
Fàilte! Congratulations to @PadraigMacaoidh (Peter Mackay) appointed the new Scots Makar, National Poet for Scotland.
Poetry in the sister languages of Gaelic and Irish from Pàdraig MacAoidh and Eoin P. Ó Murchú at @ScotGovLondon. Interesting discussion mourning the loss of the cultural connections and networks with the other minoritised languages of Europe since Brexit.
'Enshittification' selected as word of the year by Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary. “We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening” Cory Doctorow canberratimes.com.au/story/8830766/…
Poetry in the sister languages of Gaelic and Irish from Pàdraig MacAoidh and Eoin P. Ó Murchú at @ScotGovLondon. Interesting discussion mourning the loss of the cultural connections and networks with the other minoritised languages of Europe since Brexit.
Westminster Abbey today for annual Keats commemoration. “If I should die, said I to myself, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory”
Mapping the Future mapped, Complete Works community celebrated @RSLiterature - wonderful readings and inspiring intros @BernardineEvari @Natteitler @arshi_mona @KMcCarthyWoolf @NickMakoha @YomiSode @soshunetwork @BloodaxeBooks
Thanks for a stimulating day of eco-poetic discussions and readings @poetryschool today at Leeds University.
At the Laurel Prize for nature and environmental poetry at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. John Burnside awarded the main prize with prizes to @shevchenkonight and @HCopley
Extra time, extra points
LEOOOOOO! Trossard slots in our second just ahead of the interval 2️⃣ 🔴 2-0 🔵 (45+1)
Up to Liverpool tomorrow night to see Martin Crimp’s Play House at the @LivEveryPlay directed by Eira Murphy. Have cleaned my fridge in anticipation. everymanplayhouse.com/whats-on/yep-d…
Great interview with @TonyJuniper Good to see him offering strong support for #Wildbelt, as proposed by the @WildlifeTrusts and many others... theguardian.com/environment/20…
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‘It’s a warning’: UK nature chief sounds alarm over ecosystem collapse as butterfly numbers halve
In a Guardian interview, Tony Juniper says housebuilding plans could be an opportunity to create ‘wild belts’ around cities to help habitat and species recovery
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