My episode of Poetry Please was on BBC radio 4 last night, available now. I chose poems by @romalynante3.bsky.social, Niall Campbell, Moniza Alvi, Warsan Shire, more, & read mine from Beast, ‘The Lammergeier Daughter’ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Presenter Roger McGough. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, Pascale Petit

Roger McGough talks to French British poet Pascale Petit.

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They were warned that this was a likely outcome, and they made fun of the warnings and carried on anyway.

This is appalling and tragic. Cambridge University, the media, and those far right 'scholars' and hangers on who sought to capitalise on this case for social media clout surely bear responsibility for what feels like an entirely predictable outcome. www.lbc.co.uk/article/jaso...

Former Cambridge professor Jason Arday found dead aged 41 | LBC

Mr Arday is understood to have been found "unresponsive" at an address in Battersea on Friday afternoon

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The one thing we had that was world leading, systematically destroyed. 100s of redundancies. This will surely finish off more universities. Hoping @lucympowell.bsky.social will act now. ❤️ @ucu.org.uk for fighting to save higher education. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students

Higher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’

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I'm excited to be guest editing an upcoming special issue for Qualitative Research in Communication Differences and Disorders. 📝Seeking #qualitative research exploring novel communication intervention such as arts-based or mind-body approaches. Details➡️ utppublishing.com/journals/qrc... #slpeeps

Special Issue Call for Papers

Qualitative Research in Communication Differences and Disorders is seeking new insights on special topics to publish in an upcoming issue. See if this CFP is the right fit for your research.

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Teaching Psychology at university: ‘The wind of change is blowing…’ www.bps.org.uk/psychologist... Thanks so much to our interviewees - @dralanajames.bsky.social @juliehulme-psyc.bsky.social Victoria Bourne, Ron Dodzro, Patrick Rosenkranz, Emma McDonald, Andrew Holliman.

Teaching Psychology at university: ‘The wind of change is blowing’ | BPS

The latest in our series where Ian Florance talks with psychologists in a range of specialisms and working environments.

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I'm the Guest Poetry Editor for the October issue of The Madrid Review. Subs are now open and I look forward to reading your poems...! themadridreview.substack.com/p/submission...

Submissions for the October edition are open!

Please spread the message far and wide and we'd love to read your work from wherever you are in the world!

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"Discursive Psychology and Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology" - Intro article to the special issue by Cristian Tileaga, @lizstokoe.bsky.social, & @profsalwiggins.bsky.social - They "review & contextualize DP's background & relationship to qualitative psychology" psycnet.apa.org/record/2027-...

Today on our Substack (free to read), we're delighted to publish a new essay by Brett Hetherington on Sepharad, Antonio Muñoz Molina's extraordinary novel of memory, exile and belonging. open.substack.com/pub/themadri... #Spain #Books #Spanish

Revisiting 'Sepharad'

How Antonio Muñoz Molina's masterpiece of memory, displacement and moral witness remains as urgent today as when it was first published. By Brett Hetherington.

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Huge thanks to #BermondseyAndBeyond 2026 Literary Festival Poetry Competition where my commended poem: Grief & the Grocery Store is now published in their festival anthology. Thank you to Big Local Works, the committee, the editors and Pat Kingwell bermondsey.london/event/litera... #poetryaward

I will be advertising a funded PhD studentship shortly, for a project on adding psychological theory (social identity) to modelling of epidemics ( @leverhulme.ac.uk funded, with Marijn Stok). The studentship will start in January 2027. Get in touch now for informal enquiries.

If you've ever been learning a new language to travel and you find that you do not have the words you need? If yes, you will relate to 'Beginners' Italian' by James Mason Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/james-mason/ #Poetry #Italiano #InkSweatandTears

1/2 ‘I Dropped A Salad Near Jaurès Metro’ appears in the current issue of ‘Southword’. The poem raises questions of what we can do in the face of others’ deprivation, even if our contribution might seem like a drop in the ocean, even if we’re left feeling frustrated that we can’t do more.

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Seamus Heaney - interviewed by Henry Lyman for Poems to a Listener (1983 series), Part One

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As a poet, one of the best things I can do with my work is share it with community groups, who then write poetry for well-being. I've seen it make a real difference to those who've been silenced or marginalised, and I'm excited at all the prospective work ahead... 📖

I'm delighted to learn that this article on open science by @maddipow.bsky.social is just one taste of the collection of stories in her new book "Absent Minds" about women who changed psychology forever: www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

A womanless Psychology is an incomplete Psychology | BPS

An exclusive extract from ‘Absent Minds: The Untold Story of the Women who Changed Psychology Forever’, by Madeleine Pownall.

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19 - ADORED this in every way, as I knew I would Deep engagement with Stein's life and work, yet wears it lightly. Funny. Beautifully written. 🖤🖤🖤

If you're in London, why not come to St Martin in the Fields for some poems and exquisite choral music on Monday night? It's free and everything...

Here I am at the @wcorklitfest.bsky.social reaching out to the audience with my words. I might be sharing 'Jamaican Cinderella', in the latest issue of Southword.

Is it really a miracle that someone aged 60 has a mind and something worth saying? Crikey, guys, get real. Are we meant to spend the last thirty years of our lives apologising for cluttering up the earth with our useless selves?

Matt Gilbert@richlyevocative.bsky.social · last mo.

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For the week that’s in it. (Although, I’ll be honest, I’m a little too battered and bruised from the experience of last year’s hurling All-Ireland, last year’s camogie All-Ireland, and this year’s hurling semifinal to give this much of a push this week.)

RTÉ Brainstorm@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · last yr.

What's behind the behaviour of All-Ireland final crowds? There are many social and cultural factors which explain the psychology of crowd behaviour at the GAA's biggest days out at Croke Park, writes @marcscully.bsky.social MIC Limerick www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Funded PhD opportunity klaxon! We at the Dept of Psychology are currently inviting applications for a funded Departmental Assistantship starting in September. More details here and in the following thread: www.mic.ul.ie/faculty-of-a...

Here's my poem about 'just rewards' in the latest issue of Southword. I'll be sharing it @wcorklitfest.bsky.social on July 16th. Hope to see you all there. 🌿 @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

Excited to announce I'll be facilitating a half-day Poetry and Healing workshop in #Brighton on September 12th. You won't believe the wonderful venue. More details coming soon...🌿

Brilliant conversation with Tom Morris & Nicole Flattery on @stingingfly.bsky.social podcast about the small mortifications in a writing career, relentless rejection, the idea of career progression (or lack of), associated anxieties, process or practice, loneliness. stingingfly.org/podcast/tom-...

We’re busy assembling the new issue but wanted to shout about our contributors. Check out these amazing names. Can’t wait to share their brilliant work, as well! New issue drops 31 July - available in print & digital on our website. #followus for more updates #writingcommunity

A lovely surprise to find a review of Beast in the summer issue of @poetrylondon.bsky.social by Freya Jackson, you can read it online too with the link below here.

Bloodaxe Books@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'a collection that is just as wild as the beasts that populate it, allowing the speaker to find a space for herself within the menagerie as ‘the curator of my own heaven’.’ – Freya Jackson, in @poetrylondon.bsky.social, on @pascalepetit.bsky.social's Beast. poetrylondon.co.uk/an-inheritan...

This fascinating essay conveys a respectful, open curiosity about the practice and with the practitioners while offering the reader interesting interpretations. If I was still an academic, I’d be showing this to students as an example of an ideal stance within certain forms of qualitative research.

Susanna Crossman@susannacrossman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm thrilled to share my new essay in @aeon.co Who are The Fire Tamers? For the past year, I travelled through salt marshes, visited remote farmhouses & oncology clinics to uncover the secret world of French healers working in parallel with conventional medicine. aeon.co/essays/who-a...

I'll be performing @wcorklitfest.bsky.social on the 16th July with three other great poets. Come and see if you'd also like to take part in my workshop on Poetry and Community. Look forward to seeing you there. Retweets appreciated! 🌿🔦🐦 www.westcorkmusic.ie/literary-fes...

Everyone Started Singing: A Poetry Showcase with Jenny Mitchell, Imasha Costa, Daragh Fleming & Gerry Murphy

Everyone Started Singing: Poems About Community, published by Cork City Libraries, is an anthology with a difference as it contains work by established and emerging poets, as well as members of the Co...

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Really looking forward to tomorrow's workshop exploring redrafting. But I've read the book? You'll still get something from this. Am I good enough for a Masterclass? If you're not a beginner, you are. Dm for details. #Poetry #redrafting #poetrycommunity #poems #poets #editing