📢 Calling all northern poets! Applications are now open for Word Up North & University of Leeds Poetry Centre's New Northern Poets 2024 programme. ✍️ You'll receive mentoring, commissions, opportunities to build your profile and network & more! 👉 Apply by 30 June: tinyurl.com/aupv6d8y

It takes a whole universe to make one small black bird. ONE MIDSUMMER'S DAY by 'one of our greatest living naturalists' (Spectator) Mark Cocker is out today in paperback!

Our free June online launch event with #MattHoward (Lines of migration) and #KatrinaPorteous is tomorrow at 7pm BST on our YouTube channel! (And available afterwards at the same link) Register here for a reminder email: buytickets.at/bloodaxebooks/…

Today is publication day for these new collections: Broadlands by #MattHoward, Poems 2026-2024 by #JHPrynne & Rhizodont by #KatrinaPorteous Find out more about these books and order copies on our website here: bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/new_titles…

We have a nightmare , dreaming hasn’t worked . . . But it doesn’t have to be like this , we can restore nature now , we must restore nature now . Nature doesn’t have a voice but we do , nature can’t act but we must . Please RT

'an exceptional contribution to the ecopoetry genre, and to poetry itself.' - Carol Rumens, on Matt Howard's just-published second collection #Broadlands. 'Marbled Orb Weaver' is Carol Rumens' The Guardian Poem of the Week . Lines of migration Guardian Books theguardian.com/books/article/…

Mon 12 Aug 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM: Online Workshop: 'Nature and eco-poetry' with Matt Howard tickettailor.com/events/thepoet…

Join us for an evening of poetry featuring The Rialto Nature and Place Competition winners reading their prize winning poems and a headline reading from this year’s judge, Zaffar Kunial Book free tix here: cambridgeconservation.org/the-rialto-nat…

An important and nuanced reflection on nature's right to our absence and our silence. theecologist.org/2024/jul/16/ri…

July news: shorturl.at/AWYb0 Marjorie Lotfi on Forward Prizes shortlist; Imtiaz Dharker on BBC World Service; Lines of migration The Guardian Poem of the Week; CommaJane on Planet Poetry Podcast; Katie Donovan on The Shaking Bog; Awards & Honours: @nellivory, Jessica Traynor & @poetclare

The quiet of my early morning session photographing Spoonbills RSPB Frampton Marsh 🌍 was rudely and fortuitously interrupted when the shout went up "Hobby!". I managed to grab this shot as the falcon flew away with a Sandmartin in it's talons. Discover Boston

Many congratulations to all the poets with poems Highly Commended by Forward Prizes, including Irish poets Katie Donovan, #KerryHardie & Aoife Lyall, plus Matt Howard (Lines of migration) & Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌳🦜🌳🐆 (for a poem published in Modron).

Poets have long used their craft to reframe issues, convey emotion and share ideas, and climate change is an increasing feature of poetry worldwide 🌍📜 This #NationalPoetryDay we’re highlighting the work of Leeds poets inspired by conversations with our climate researchers 👇

Summit: A Poetry School Festival on ecopoetry, nature, & climate writing, featuring top ecological writers & thinkers. Join us for performances, workshops & more!   19 Oct: Yorkshire Sculpture Park 20 Oct: University of Leeds Poetry Centre Book tickets: poetryschool.com/summit-a-poetr…

Ahead of the Summit weekend at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, poets Matt Howard and John Whale share their climate poems inspired by conversations with Priestley researchers 🌍📚 Watch the videos below 👇 youtube.com/playlist?list=… Or read all of our climate poems here 👇 climate.leeds.ac.uk/climate-poetry/

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Booking is open for our January poetry workshops led by two of this year's New Northern Poets, Claire Lynn and Mike Farren. Write poetry inspired by artwork with Claire Lynn and develop your own poetry of place with Mike Farren ✍️ 18 & 22 Jan, book now: buff.ly/48HFxrz

Poet and environmentalist Matt Howard (Lines of migration) reads and introduces eight poems from his second collection #Broadlands on this special Christmas edition of the The Ted Hughes Society podcast. With thanks to Mick Gowar. shows.acast.com/the-ted-hughes…

Huge congratulations to Matt Howard, winner of the poetry category of the ASLE-UKI Book Prize 2025 for his second collection #Broadlands. Well done to all the shortlisted authors, including Yvonne Reddick, who was shortlisted for her debut #BurningSeason. bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid…