The silver eel’s a submarine missile,
a glittring metallic migrating machine.
Skin-tight neoprene diving suit,
greased with euryhaline mucus.
Fuel-fat packed in zigzag myomeres,
long-fin, long-haul pectorals ...

'Eely'
Steve Ely

Out now
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The silver eel’s a submarine missile,
a glittring metallic migrating machine.
Skin-tight neoprene diving suit,
greased with euryhaline mucus.
Fuel-fat packed in zigzag myomeres,
long-fin, long-haul pectorals ...

'Eely'
Steve Ely

Out now
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My podcast featuring poets Suzannah Evans Dr Pam Thompson Matt Lydia Allison Angelina D'Roza among others discussing influence, craft & the long game of writing #twowaypoetry twowaypoetry.podbean.com

'Eely': a new post on the Longbarrow Press site, with details of Steve Ely's new collection
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Midsummer dark-moon, black belly
of the Went. Clouds heavy with thunder,
a tremor of distant horses. Glyphosate
drifting down from the rape on a crisp bag.

New Featured Poem: 'Winwædfeld', from Steve Ely’s new collection 'Eely'
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'Eely': a new post on the Longbarrow Press site, with details of Steve Ely's new collection
longbarrowpress.com/2024/04/12/eel…

Lower the tip of your split-cane rod:
these peatland drains are black with little eels.

Steve Ely launches 'Eely' at Small Seeds, Castlegate, Huddersfield, HD1 2UD on Thursday 25 April, 6pm-7pm. Part of Hudd Lit Fest. Admission free. Further details:
huddlitfest.org.uk/event/book-lau…

Midsummer dark-moon, black belly
of the Went. Clouds heavy with thunder,
a tremor of distant horses. Glyphosate
drifting down from the rape on a crisp bag.

New Featured Poem: 'Winwædfeld', from Steve Ely’s new collection 'Eely'
longbarrowpress.com/featured-poem/

Born in the Garden, died in the Flames,
Cain’s spree-kill, carbon-offset Endtime.
Ninety million years of life, two hundred years of death,
coming down every year to a single fear:
will this be the spring that none return?

'Eely'
Steve Ely

Out now
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Lower the tip of your split-cane rod:
these peatland drains are black with little eels.

Steve Ely launches 'Eely' at Small Seeds, Castlegate, Huddersfield, HD1 2UD on Thursday 25 April, 6pm-7pm. Part of Hudd Lit Fest. Admission free. Further details:
huddlitfest.org.uk/event/book-lau…

Crushed by the eels of industry. Steve Ely, and 'Eely', Owlerton, North Sheffield, 11 April 2024.

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Sky darkens bright with ancient light from uncountable
pinprick galaxies, where ‘Oumuamua is lost in space,
swept blind in the Big Bang’s current. A little eel
slips off, begins to make her way downstream.

'Eely'
Steve Ely

8 April
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Daybreak in the wreck of Dogger. Gulls drifting
over the slowly rising sea. Seals hauled-out
on sandbanks, bleached ribs of stranded whales.
Dunlin and knot, swarming the mudflats,
armies of silt-spearing godwit and whaup.

'Eely'
Steve Ely
Out now
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I spoke to Johny Pitts and others about working-class photography and the reasons that talent like Tish Murtha still struggles to make it today theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Daybreak in the wreck of Dogger. Gulls drifting
over the slowly rising sea. Seals hauled-out
on sandbanks, bleached ribs of stranded whales.
Dunlin and knot, swarming the mudflats,
armies of silt-spearing godwit and whaup.

'Eely'
Steve Ely
Out now
longbarrowpress.com/current-public…

Delighted to have published 'Where 'the Cloud' Touches the Ground: Electronic Poetry, Digital Infrastructures, and the Environment' by Natalie Pollard Natalie Pollard about J. R. Carpenter's poetry doi.org/10.1093/isle/i…

Check out our new website, designed by Peter & Paul
As we try to renarrate the city, to relocate our stories in this landscape, obstacles continue to try and test but this coalition of archivists, activists, artists, designers, focused on archival justice we keep goin…

Four hundred years will the Dutchman’s drought
afflict our shrinking land—then it shalbe
as in the days of Noe; the heavens will roar,
the wild seas rise, and the aegre rage in Trent and Don...

'Eely'
Steve Ely
A symphony in four movements
Published today
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Whoopers cruise the Dutch Barn’s shadow, pen and cob,
a litter of half-grown cygnets, upending in the algal soup,
plucking out pondweed, diving beetles, the monstrous
Palaeozoic nymphs of Anax imperator.

'Eely'
Steve Ely

Out now
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