Robert Adamson, the poet of the Hawkesbury River, dies at 79 smh.com.au/culture/books/…

One for the indefatigable Matthew M C Smith this TopTweetTuesday – a poem so infused with spirit of place (this week's theme) it made it into Places of Poetry's 2020 anthology. Here's 'Windmill Hill', from Release One of Mark Antony Owen's ...

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8 weeks until BLACK OPS & BEAVER BOMBING is published by @ONEWORLDNEWS. So Fiona Mathews and I will be tweeting about each of our 8 species in turn, starting tomorrow---and all week---with the heroes of chapter 1: beavers.

Can't wait to dive into 'Places of Poetry', an amazing collection edited by Andrew McRae!

The Firetails Nest by John Clare (these days we commonly call this bird the redstart, in the UK).

It’s a fabulous collection, with lots of amazing poems to introduce into the secondary English curriculum!

Here’s a thing we did during lockdown: 10 poems with 10 brief essays, by leading scholars, marking 200 years since John Clare’s first book of poems was published. Happy World Poetry Day. youtu.be/4XMOC8JLkmc

Time to start planting poems! A note from DIRT's editor Alice Willitts 🌱 Alice Willitts dialect.org.uk/blog/the-art-o…

The University of Exeter Sustainability team are looking to work with a poet on developing a self-guided sound trail of the Streatham campus in Exeter. Fee £3,000, deadline 10 May. Exeter City of Literature Exeter Culture buff.ly/3LdTti0

Ah, so THAT’S how you fund online poetry projects!

Excellent program of free poetry events in Cornwall this weekend ⁦Charles Causley Festival⁩ causleytrust.org/the-causley-tr…

If you loved the placesofpoetry.org.uk map, have a look at this long thread on the county maps that inspired it. William Hole's 17th C work is unique & gorgeous. Mainly colour images; some problems to solve. Ordnance Survey The Poetry Society Beautiful Maps

This amazing incredible thing has happened and I am still almost speechless about it. With so many thanks to judges Helen Mort John Aitchison & Jane Caven Wordsworth Grasmere The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets #poetry #autistic #environment michaelmarksawards.org/epoty2023/winn…