Poets for the Planet
@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social
A community of kindred poets, performers, artists and creative activists raising their voices to engage with climate emergency. https://poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/poets4theplanet Image credit: Henny Beaumont
An inspiring and creative way to mark Earth Hour next Saturday!
Poets for the Planet@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 5mo agoJoin us on Sat 28 March for Earth Hour: Writing by Candlelight. We'll meet at 8pm GMT on Zoom for readings & inspiration before lighting candles & switching off for Earth Hour 8.30-9.30pm GMT. email poetsfortheplanet@gmail.com with the subject: Earth Hour & we'll send you the link the day before
Join us on Sat 28 March for Earth Hour: Writing by Candlelight. We'll meet at 8pm GMT on Zoom for readings & inspiration before lighting candles & switching off for Earth Hour 8.30-9.30pm GMT. email poetsfortheplanet@gmail.com with the subject: Earth Hour & we'll send you the link the day before
@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social May 8th 2026 is a very special day. It’s David Attenborough’s 100th birthday. On May 8th @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social invite you to post a poem on social media to honour him. It could be your own poem or a published poem by someone else. And please spread the word.
Delighted to be part of this Solstice film, along with a fine array of walking artists. Huge thanks to @kelarrowsmith.bsky.social for the provocation & the curation. This is the first piece of my visual work involving walking a labyrinth & many more to come #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZZ...
Solstice December 25 final cut
YouTube video by Kel Arrowsmith
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Congratulations to Poets for the Planet's own @susiecampbell.bsky.social - this looks wonderful!
Susie Campbell@susiecampbell.bsky.social · 7mo agoWASTELINES. Details from a new piece (by me) up on brilliantly innovative @icefloepress.bsky.social site, with thanks to series editors @rfredekenter.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social and to other wonderful contributors. You can check out the full piece here icefloepress.net/2026/01/12/i...
Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON (Palestine Environmental NGOs Network and a branch of Friends of the Earth). Can you help? #poetrysky poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...
As we start a new year Brendan Kennelly gives us a poem of hope, of finding joy in small things, of promises & choices & dreams There is resilience & determination ‘that we will forever begin’. Start from where you are, with what you have, & trust that this is enough #poetry #poemoftheday #NewYear
Please click through and read about the ecocide in Palestine and how PENGON are helping - and can you help with the event? #poetrysky
Poets for the Planet@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 7mo agoPoets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON (Palestine Environmental NGOs Network and a branch of Friends of the Earth). Can you help? #poetrysky poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...
Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON (Palestine Environmental NGOs Network and a branch of Friends of the Earth). Can you help? #poetrysky poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...
Please like and share - we are hoping to raise awareness of the devastating ecocide and funds to support PENGON - read the blog below for more info. Thanks! #climatesky
Poets for the Planet@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON (Palestine Environmental NGOs Network and a branch of Friends of the Earth). More info here and how you can get involved! poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...
Morning all, this is wonderful! I love Edwin Morgan anyway but backed by Trio!? Genius. Get in #poetrysky
Tommy Mackay@tommyreckless.bsky.social · 8mo agoWe're having a merry Edwin Morgan Christmas at the Daily Reckless. After yesterday's Holly and the Willoughby, here he is with his poem, Trio, backed by... Trio! @asls.org.uk @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @edmorgantrust.bsky.social
We are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON (Palestine Environmental NGOs Network and a branch of Friends of the Earth). More info here and how you can get involved! poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...
🔊New Podcast out now: a conversation with @david-farrier.bsky.social on how we might learn to live in “The what ought to be.” He talks about adaptation, resilience, and what nature can teach us about recovery in a changing world. 🎧https://naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/ @ecioxford.bsky.social
Today in Chagford (Dartmoor, Devon, UK) at 5:30 pm:
Brand new on the blog today - please read and share and see how you might be able to support: "Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON" #poetrysky poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...
‘If there are no olive trees, there can be no olive branch’ – Poets for the Planet
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Brand new on the blog today - please read and share and see how you might be able to support: "Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON" #poetrysky poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...
‘If there are no olive trees, there can be no olive branch’ – Poets for the Planet
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So excited to receive the Winter issue of Bat News from the Bat Conservation Trust (@batconservation.bsky.social) 🦇This copy features a 3 page (!!!) interview where I discuss the unique role poetry can play in increasing public interest in protecting bat species 🦇🦇🦇
Next week, following the launch of Night Vision, Jean Sprackland will be appearing on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, when she'll be discussing the dark with Jasper Goodall, Christine Riding, and Tom Sutcliffe. Tune in on Monday: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, The Dark
Shadows in art, photography, poetry and our fears: Tom Sutcliffe's guests discuss darkness
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Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice... #creativewriting #poetry #shortstories flashfiction creativenonfiction writingcompetition
J.R. Carpenter, Le plaisir de la côte / The Pleasure of the Coast / @pamenarpress.bsky.social @jrcarpenter.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/12/jr-c...
J.R. Carpenter, Le plaisir de la côte / The Pleasure of the Coast
between the ship and the quay lies two metres of incompressible ocean two metres of light between the edge of the sea and the horiz...
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Delighted to have my poem featured on the Front Page of Open Arts Forum openartsforum.com/toad-flax-le...
Open Arts Forum | Toad Flax Leaf Beetle: The Life
Poetry by Paul Brookes
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Lots of sponges and whelks egg cases washed up after stormy weather. Also some red frayed plastic, masquerading as seaweed with egg cases and shells attached. A rainbow too! #beachfinds #beachwalks
This is wonderful! #poetrysky
Caroline Bird@carolinebirduk.bsky.social · 8mo agoThe Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia … Stephen Sexton shared this Oni Buchanan poem on a recent arvon course we taught together about obsessions… and now I am obsessed with this poem. The tragedy of a yak falling in love with a horse…
Beautiful - a wonderful quote to start the day - thanks @susannacrossman.bsky.social
Susanna Crossman@susannacrossman.bsky.social · 9mo ago"This way of looking is first of all attentive.The soul empties itself of all its own contents in order to receive the being it is looking at, just as he is, in all his truth. Only he who is capable of attention can do this.” Simone Weil on paying attention.
