John Wayne followed by a set worker defrosting his horse for a scene in The Alamo, 1959. Photo: Dennis Stock
Jean Atkin
@jmatkin.bsky.social
British, mostly Scottish, poet in education + community projects / The Poetry Wire online courses / 'Crossing Paths' with Richard Skinner, Black Cat Press, 2026/ out walking / plagued by the cat / www.jeanatkin.com
1/x In 1933 a crewed schooner picking through Arctic ice was overtaken by a ship with nobody at the helm. Ghost ships speak to the imagination, and most are fiction. This one is real, and she drifted for 38 years. This is the story of the SS Baychimo. #maritimehistory
Our wildfire petition has reached 100,000 signatures in four weeks - that’s 100,000 people urging the Government to take action on climate change.
Come and talk about the story of our times: refugees, migrants, the small boats and how we can help, not hate each other. Cambridge library, 2pm Saturday www.library.live/calendar/we-...
We Came by Sea, with author Horatio Clare — Library.Live
Author/broadcaster Horatio Clare discusses his book and highlights stories of kindness and refuge in the UK. In conversation with Dr James Gardom of Pembroke College.
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Victorian couple trying not to laugh while they get their photograph taken. via Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies
"Let’s find a glade where a thought might grow." Matthew Clegg in conversation with @cwjoneschris.bsky.social for The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, discussing the influence of Chinese poetry on 'Have You Always Been Here?' (out now from Longbarrow Press) twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/matt-clegg...
FOXWHELP Young vixen perfect in a morning’s first-light orchard, her legs and belly slashed with dew, an apple in her jaws... The rest of it's here - substack.com/home/post/p-...
Very much looking forward to this! Hello Bristol!
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey.bsky.social · last wk.Get your steps in at September's Silver Street Poetry when our guest poets will be keen walkers and poets of landscape, @jmatkin.bsky.social and @richardnskinner.bsky.social. See you at 12.30pm on Friday 25th in St Stephen's Church off #Bristol city centre. Bring a poem to share! #poetry #openmic
'A bad man dies at Bagbury Farm, comes back as the Bull.' Here's a part of #theborderbackofbeyond my new cross-arts project with artist Katy Alston and composer Martin Bussey! There'll be shows at venues along the border next April. #poetry #music #illustration #borders #folklore #newbook
Soon Nigel will have enough to buy the Bayeux Tapestry. #StitchUp
Spectacular and excessive, in the Andrew Logan Museum in Berriew. She was fully larger than life.
‘There are eyewitness accounts of fairy funeral processions, including one from Tomintoul in the Cairngorms in the 1920s, in which two fairies were seen coming out from under a bush carrying a coffin and wearing bowler hats.’ Nick Richardson on fairies. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Nick Richardson · Cradle Scissors: Away with the Fairies
Fairies are notorious shapeshifters. Their mutability has allowed them to survive, dodging censure by reinventing...
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We spent a century making cities car-friendly. Nobody stopped to ask if the cars were city-friendly.
#PoemsAbout #FaultLines starts Friday. Write what happens under pressure. The hairline crack. The old division. The thing everybody stepped over until the ground moved. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.
"For two years of lockdowns, my partner and I walked Sheffield's Rivelin Valley at dawn. Moss. Herons. Froglets. Treecreepers. Those walks became three poetry pamphlets and a way of paying attention again." Have You Always Been Here? Matthew Clegg Published today longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
I was in Bishop's Castle yesterday for the Open Days and pop-up shops. I talked to BCB1 (special video podcast) about poetry and our new cross-arts project THE BORDER BACK OF BEYOND. Music composed by Martin Bussey, illustrations by Katy Alston, poems by me. Shows coming in April 2027!
This summer Britain burnt. 3000 people died from the heat. Yet this Government is drilling for more gas, despite scientist warnings & it won't make a difference to bills in the UK. We need to double down on renewables, not bend to the wishes of fossil fuel bosses. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jackdaw gas field set to be approved as soon as mid-September, sources say
The government is set to give the go-ahead for the gas field off the coast of Aberdeen, the BBC understands.
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Grateful to Maya C. Popa and Poem-A-Day for publishing this translation Katie Farris and I did of a piece by Lyudmyla Khersonsky, a wonderful poet from Odesa, Ukraine. I met Lyudmyla back in 1993 when I was still a sixteen year old in Odesa. She taught me English alphabet.
Just a week to Shrewsbury Poetry, back at Hive Shrewsbury after a month off grilling in heatwaves... We welcome the excellent poet Thirza Clout, plus there's plenty of open mic opps. Come along and join us!
