Isn’t it quite incredible what we have become: a country divided over a group of volunteers who risk their own lives to save others. This would have been unthinkable 10 years ago, but thanks to Nigel and others we are here. Shameful really
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Just me and words. Link to bookshop: https://linktr.ee/nickallenpoet
Not only do oil and other extraction and burning industries know that man made climate change is real and devastating, they used to use the data to boast of their prowess: this from 1962. From Fire Weather, John Vaillant.
“In the store old men gathered, occupying for endless hours the creaking milkcases, speaking slowly and with conviction upon matters of profound inconsequence …”
Tonight poet Judith Willson will be reading at the Beehive Poets, Bradford City Library, Centenary Sq. 19.00. I’ll be the support act.
Published 1935. Still setting the standard 2026. Page 1, a house, “Square, with a broken roof set at a single pitch, it leans in empty and shimmering dilapidation in the sunlight…”
Published in 1969, this is the Ur-text of environmental, ecological poetry, and contains a decent amount of native American thought/belief. Turtle Island = America Superb.
☀️ Poetry Summer Sale! ☀️ To celebrate the publication of our new collections Before the Rain and The Impossibility of Nothingness, we’re running a poetry summer sale - until Monday 6th July, enjoy 40% off all poetry titles on our website! www.peepaltreepress.com
Big thanks to Joseph Blythe for this review of my poem hill fog. Poetry books available at pauladunnartist.com zimmermagazine.com/blogs/poem-o...
A Look at Nick Allen's 'Hill Fog'
walking the loose cross-stitch / of tracks that mesh this hillsidepushing through the seaweed / heavy cling of brackena jogger emerges from mist / disappears as if pulled under I pull my low-brow ca...
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A slimline glimpse of Willy Vlautin (60 pages, a steady hour of reading), doing what he does best. The down-trodden, blue collar, just trying to make ends meet week to week… and all the while waiting on some kindness, some sign of hope. A verifiable treat
Burn back: poetry and painting about “moorlands”. Our first joint publication. Available today and tomorrow through the Saltaire Arts Trail, at 6 Harold Place. pauladunnartist.com/products/bur...
Make sure you vote. You can’t afford not to.
University of Leeds UNISON@uolunison.bsky.social · 6mo ago‼️ 13 more days left in the HE reballot, we’re just over halfway through 🚨⏳ Reps are continuing to contact members individually, please do let the branch know when you’ve voted. Ballots must be RECEIVED by Friday 27th March so return yours ASAP! If you need a replacement ballot, call 0800 0857 857.
Let’s do this @uolunison.bsky.social
University of Leeds UNISON@uolunison.bsky.social · 6mo agoBallots are arriving! 📬 The UNISON HE pay reballot is underway and ballot papers are starting to arrive in the post. We have until 27 March to vote so don’t wait. Get your ballot returned and tell the branch when you’ve voted! For more visit unsn.uk/3ZrKJwu
This book is fierce. It starts where Kelman usually leaves off. If it is standing at the abyss looking down, it takes your hand, jumps, and takes you with it. Recommended.
Can someone tell me what is being preempted by killing over 140 school kids?
Let’s get those ballots returned! We work hard and what do we see for it..?
University of Leeds UNISON@uolunison.bsky.social · 7mo ago🚨 RE-BALLOT OPENS TODAY 🚨 University of Leeds UNISON branch didn’t make the 50% turnout in the autumn Higher Education pay ballot. We missed the legal threshold by one vote, so we’re re-balloting to ask again. Ballot papers are being sent out from TODAY and the vote closes Friday 27 March. 🧵
Uni of Leeds and fellow Leeds UNISON branches are hiring a coach for members to join the @togetheralliance.bsky.social March Against the Far Right on 28 March. Leaving Parkinson steps at 7:30, leaving London at 16:30. Email the branch to book a FREE place for yourself + a guest. In solidarity ✊
