A calm, wise, and beautifully necessary book. From Nairobi to Sheffield, nature and the urban are intertangled...
Matt Clegg
@eyesfront.bsky.social
Poet, pedestrian, pedagogue. Nature connection. Place writing. Tsu jan. Muga. Atarashi. Digital ascetic. Appstinence. Books include: Lost Between Stations, West North East, The Navigators, & Cazique - all from Longbarrow Press: https://longbarrowpress.c
Forgetting is easy in cities. We walk amongst buildings with no memory of the labour, lives or losses that made them. We forget the animals that have since disappeared or been erased. That’s part of why books like @fayay.bsky.social's The Gleaning are precious – poetry can restore that lost memory.
Gerard Manley Hopkins was born #OTD 28 July 1844. 'What would the world be, Once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, Wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.' from 'Inversnaid'. Canongate Wall, Scottish Parliament Building, Edinburgh.
Great nature poetry often teaches us to shift emphasis from the notion of spectacular nature to attentive noticing of everyday nature - even urban nature. Join us explore nature connection and poetry at Derby University: www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
Great nature poetry often teaches us to shift emphasis from the notion of spectacular nature to attentive noticing of everyday nature - even urban nature. Join us explore nature connection and poetry at Derby University: www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
Very much recommend, both Fay and Longbarrow
Longbarrow Press@longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 3mo agoWhile forest furs the earth, a subterrain shrugged from shrubbery and trees mulches over land’s rock-bones, our lungs unpleat and iron streams our veins. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite A new collection Out now from Longbarrow Press longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...
Feeling overwhelmed by busyness, screens and constant distraction? This course offers space to slow down, observe closely and discover how poetry can help us reconnect with ourselves, others and the natural world. www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
Discover the wellbeing benefits of slowing down and noticing the living world. Through reading, observation and writing, we'll explore poetry as a practice of connection. How reluctantly the bee emerges from deep within the peony ~Basho www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
Noticing nature can support wellbeing. Poetry offers one of the richest ways of deepening that notice. Join us for a short course combining creative writing and nature connection. Explore how poetry can re-enchant our attention to the world. www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
What if poetry wasn't always about producing a finished poem, but about paying deeper attention to the world around us? Our short course explores writing for wellbeing and nature connection through observation, reflection and creative practice. Beginners welcome. www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
Classicist Emily Wilson: ‘Odysseus is a different kind of conman’ ft.trib.al/CpoImJs
Classicist Emily Wilson: ‘Odysseus is a different kind of conman’
The acclaimed translator who helped to inspire Christopher Nolan’s new film on the resonance of Homer’s epics — and which Greek hero Donald Trump most resembles
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I am an Emily Wilson FAN. Read her interview here ⬇️⬇️⬇️
No One Has Dealt With More Angry Odyssey Bros Than Emily Wilson
Christopher Nolan cited Wilson’s translation when discussing his upcoming film. She unpacks the backlash to her work and to Nolan’s adaptation.
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A central idea in nature connection research is that it isn't knowledge of nature that deepens connection, it's having a relationship with nature - through the senses, emotion, beauty, meaning, compassion. Explore poetry & nature connection here: www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain By Li Po / Li Bai The birds have vanished from the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. ~Translated by Sam Hamill www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing at Derby University. Du Fu, Basho, Issa, Wordsworth, Clare, Keats, Whitman, Dickinson, Hopkins, Frost, & more. More details here: www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
Chinese Poetics: Wanwu (萬物) – “The ten thousand things” All phenomena in their multiplicity. Ecopoetic relevance: dissolves human centrality—poetry becomes participation in a field of beings rather than expression of a self. www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
Writing poetry for Nature Connection & Wellbeing 29th July, 5th August & 26th August 2026, Derby. Explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, & to ourselves. From Daoism to Ecopoetics! www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
Writing poetry for Nature Connection & Wellbeing 29th July, 5th August & 26th August 2026 Cavendish Building, Agard Street, Derby Explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, & to ourselves. www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
Writing poetry for Nature Connection & Wellbeing 29th July, 5th August & 26th August 2026 Cavendish Building, Agard Street, Derby Explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, & to ourselves. www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
But his name be everywhere and summat in the way he speaks about world peace and us all being free I felt the fresh air of it like summat you can breathe, and now I only wanna believe. 'The Gleaning' Fay Musselwhite Lonbarrow Press 2026 @longbarrowpress.bsky.social
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead In summer luxury,—he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. ~John Keats www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
Zazen on Ching-t’ing Mountain By Li Po / Li Bai The birds have vanished from the sky. Now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains. ~Translated by Sam Hamill www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
Chinese Poetics: Wanwu (萬物) – “The ten thousand things” All phenomena in their multiplicity. Ecopoetic relevance: dissolves human centrality—poetry becomes participation in a field of beings rather than expression of a self. www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
I love @fayay.bsky.social 's The Gleaning. A sympathetic, historically rooted, politically astute poetry collection about class struggle, land, democracy, and more. You deserve this book. In her perfect world, the author would give it away; in this one, please support @longbarrowpress.bsky.social.
From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the Grasshopper’s—he takes the lead In summer luxury,—he has never done With his delights; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. ~John Keats www.derby.ac.uk/events/lates...
Writing poetry for Nature Connection and Wellbeing
This short course invites you to explore how poetry can help restore these dimensions of experience, reconnecting us to nature, to attention, and to ourselves.
derby.ac.uk
'All foreigners and beggars come from Zeus, and any act of kindness is a blessing. So give the stranger food and drink, and wash him down in the river, sheltered from the wind.' ~Homer, Odyssey
I love @fayay.bsky.social 's The Gleaning. A sympathetic, historically rooted, politically astute poetry collection about class struggle, land, democracy, and more. You deserve this book. In her perfect world, the author would give it away; in this one, please support @longbarrowpress.bsky.social.