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From the opening pages of John Clare's prose 'Journey Out of Essex', his account of leaving an asylum in Epping Forest, July of 1841.

From the opening pages of John Clare's prose 'Journey Out of Essex', his account of leaving an asylum in Epping Forest, July of 1841.

This is probably a unique opportunity: a free online session of advice for working-class people in higher education about how to get leadership jobs, and hopefully will cover why it's important, too.
Well done Damien!

I've had this for about an hour, and it's already one of my favourite nature writing books, ever.
Fiona Stafford, Time and Tide: the Long, Long Life of Landscape.
Brilliant.

SUPER CONGRATULATIONS to Jen Hadfield!! For her personally, and to have a Scottish poet recognised in this way. Just brilliant.

Magnificent thread on the value of hedges by John Mitchinson:
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All finished. “Fox in the Willows” painted in watercolour on 640gsm Fabriano Artistico HP paper. #botanicalart

Two PhD studentships at aru. One working with Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery and the other at Gresswnhall Museum. Dr Joe Harley aru.ac.uk/research/postg…

Here's what the John Clare Society Journal did during lockdown, 2020 being 200th anniversary of the publication of Clare's first collection, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life & Scenery: 10 short studies of poems, which we all then read to camera.
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John Clare's 1821 parody of William Wordsworth. Clare hated enjambment (among other things).

AI is filling the internet with utterly crap & stereotypical images of John Clare - alongside other famous dead people of course - & it is dull & meaningless. AI is an idiot - a skip full of detritus & prejudice & random facts - & does not undetstand what human creativity is for.

First lapwing nest found in Gloucestershire (that I know of). Such a barren place to lay 4 delicate eggs. Wishing you all the luck in the world, lapwings. Fly high.

What are your thoughts on the #NaturalHistoryGCSE – would you have taken one?

Enter Philippa Forrester's poll below, and listen to her interviewing Mary Colwell in the latest podcast episode

New issue! Boasts articles by Clark McGinn, Gerard Carruthers, Gerry McKeever, Patrick Scott/SSL, Dr G, George Smith, and Michael Russell, plus contribs by Arun Sood and reviews of Paul Malgrati & Dr Daniel Cook. A dream team for Burns Studies!

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Do you have caring responsibilities? Would you like to meet other carers and write some poems together? Join me & the poet Sarah Hesketh online for our Think Human poetry writing workshop! brookes.ac.uk/think-human
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Richard Cronin is talking about his Byron book in a special @UofGEngLit research seminar on 18th April, hosted by our Romanticism research cluster in UofG Critical Studies.

Let me know if you'd like to come along. #Byron #DonJuan

Spring Chronicle is out! Pleased to contribute to a special EUP multi-journal issue on race and racism in Scotland with articles by Clark McGinn and Shara McCallum.

Thanks also to Arun Sood Moira Hansen

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Come and do a PhD on The Bones of Norman Cross with me, Sarah Wilson, Lauren Fried and glnys Wass Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery and at ARU findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

The late Ronald Blythe was the founding president of the John Clare Society at its inception. Here's his fabulous 1995 essay 'Solvitur Ambulando: John Clare and Footpath Walking' in the journal:

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