NO place for a #nuclear power station! Serious erosion next to the #SizewellC site this weekend. Left is the "tank traps" in October this year, which we thought was bad.... on the right is how the same spot looks today. Sea incursion and tons of dune washed away! #StopSizewellC

#SizewellC site this morning. Dune has retreated six feet, more in places, in one weekend surge. #StopSizewellC

How glad I am to have chosen this seat, opposite this poem. Poetry says more by saying less…and today it speaks to me especially powerfully, at a time of deep sadness and despair.

Local fantastic poet Clare Shaw Clare Shaw leading this poetry workshop at Heptonstall Museum Heptonstall Museum ~ poetry + mudlarking...cake! This Saturday ~ eventbrite.co.uk/e/message-in-a…

Out again today with my students on Orford Ness, England’s offshore desert, its former nuclear weapons test-site, our untrue island. Late winter light laying the shingle-wrinkles bare. The laboratories in silhouette. Long-lankin shadows lying low. The final sun an atomic burst.

Coming soon to BBC1… #bbcpanorama BBC Panorama

From lines submitted, we've made a Scottish People's Address to World Leaders. Fellow poet Niall Campbell joined me for an inaugural reading at Push The Boat Out. The poem will be launched on Friday, St Andrew's Day.

Due to demand, The Coronet Theatre has released a limited number of standing tickets for Autumn Journal - starring Éanna Hardwicke - this Sunday. 🍂 #LouisMacNeice was a Northern Irish poet. #AutumnJournal, his masterpiece, describes his response to a season of intense anxiety…

Popped in to the wonderful ⁦@jambookshopuk⁩ yesterday to catch the ⁦Tony Husband Cartoon Archive⁩ tribute. It’s the go-to emporium for graphic novels, cartoon books and illustration . So go to! #books #graphicnovels #cartoons

“I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges will grow light. Till then I see what’s really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now…” Philip #Larkin, died 2 December 1985 #death #poem

Celebrate with me 125 years of @DGClassics with the most beautiful classical music in the world. Tune in to DG's classical radio station on Amazon Music ... "Alexa, play Deutsche Grammophon"!

‘The Exceedingly Tiny Bookshop’ my cartoon for today's Guardian Books / Guardian Saturday. Let's support good bookshops of all sizes, either locally or online.

Just out: whistleblowers tell BBC Panorama that United Utilities is "controlling the evidence" concerning its pollution incidents Tail wags dog; water company tells Environment Agency if it's polluting or not. "They're effectively regulating themselves." bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Sellafield: ‘bottomless pit of hell, money and despair’ at Europe’s most toxic nuclear site The latest estimate for cleaning up the Britain’s nuclear sites is £263bn, of which Sellafield is by far the biggest proportion. However, adjustments to its...1/2 theguardian.com/business/2023/…

RIP Benjamin Zephaniah. I read with him once in Huddersfield and he was gracious to me who nobody there had come to hear. He helped cut a path for later poets of colour and could use humour well to make his point, as in this Xmas poem: benjaminzephaniah.com/books/talking-…

It seems impossible that someone as vital as Benjamin is gone. RIP, great soul

Such terrible news. Language is poorer today.

Bach's Aria and Variation 1 from the 2023 OPUS Klassik Awards at the Konzerthaus Berlin, with @DGClassics 🎶 Watch the full performance on YouTube 🎥 youtu.be/2iFXB7o9Au0?si…

A local bylaw in Leeds requires poets to wear identifying clothes during storms so people can comfort themselves with the thought, "It coud be worse: I could be at a poetry reading!"