This in Camberwell New Cemetery yesterday. Along with a lot of not-so-distant chainsaw noise. Awaiting an email response from Southwark Council concerning why this has to happen at the peak of the nesting season… Camberwell Cemeteries

★★★★ across the board baby 🎉 The reviews are in for Emily Woof's (Emily Woof) ‘wickedly funny’ (The Stage ) Blizzard - safe to say you’ll be sorry to miss it At ours until Sat 23 May sohotheatre.com/events/blizzar…

I was at this last night. Funny, poignant and utterly, utterly brilliant! Do, do, DO go and see, if you possibly can, while you still have the chance.

“Rubbish? But that’s politics…” youtu.be/SG0rqD82R5A?si…

“Dear pleb As a token of thanks for your loyalty, we’re going to force you to buy a new computer even though there’s nothing wrong with your old one. Well, how else do you think I got so rich? Fuck you Bill Gates P.S. can I have another medal for philanthropy please?”

“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel’s heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence…” George Eliot — ‘Middlemarch’

Fluffy magpie fledgeling.

Moorhens being romantic again.

Janey Godley

When you’re a seasoned tracker like me, you learn to spot and interpret the subtlest of marks. Was made distinctly uneasy by these… And sure ‘nuff, the Morties were massing on the plain. Time for those who can’t run to start a-slow-hobblin’ outta there…

Pick of today’s overheard park quotes: “In that mesh dress you could see her tits were down to her belly button…” That, if heard sooner, would surely have found its way into rather forthcoming tome…

Thanks so much to Helen and Live Canon Poetry and to judge Abigail Parry for choosing my poem as winner of the Live Canon competition! Still a bit in shock to be honest. Congrats also to all long-and shortlisted fellow poets and to the actors for reading tonight 💙#chufferghasted

Dillon Jaxx has won The 2024 Live Canon Competition with their fantastic poem ‘The Fisher Price Hospital’! Huge thanks to judge Abigail Parry & congratulations to shortlisted poets. Read Dillon’s poem & all other longlisted in the 2024 anthology! livecanon.co.uk/store/product/…

youtu.be/2DL4Q0jvWd0?si… Poetry connoisseurs will doubtless remember the winning poem from the Live Canon Poetry International Poetry Competition of 2020. Well, it’s back and now it’s set to (AI-generated) music… 🎵

“What ever became of Paul?” they still whisper in poetry circles. “We miss his work. Will he ever be published again…?” Well, this was in Live Canon Poetry’s 2024 anthology. Here reimagined, with a bit of AI trickery, as a C&W song. youtu.be/cp-w5W3nryo?si…

Still in AI-generated C&W mode, this. Originally a poem from that lost classic, ‘Into the Earth’, published by Live Canon Poetry youtu.be/NcUrKOJDPwo?si…