One year ago today I made an epic, unforgettable City church crawl. Very grateful to everyone who followed me as I live-tweeted my trek to 45 churches. Relive it here👇

Kevin Gardner@kg520.bsky.social · last yr.

Have just arrived in London and am hoping to shed the jet lag with a brisk walk around the City. Aiming to see as many churches as possible. How many can I get to today? A thread of images to follow.

A late poem by the great Jeremy Hooker, who died on 26 December, and whose loss is hard to bear.

‘After inexplicable music in the sky, … the screams.’ John Heath-Stubbs remembers the slaughter of the innocents.

Robert Lowell remembering the Holy Innocents in 1945. ‘The world out-Herods Herod.’

‘Christmas Night’ by the much-missed Peter Scupham

A merry Christmas to all!

Campus sunset

If you missed the opportunity to buy one of these little gems in person from Cam, order yours here: mngbookshop.co.uk/978148132183...

At the Garden's Dark Edge

Anthony Thwaite (1930–2021) was one of the most formidable voices in postwar English letters. Deeply esteemed by fellow poets and critics for his original ...

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Delighted to see my new selected edition of Anthony Thwaite’s poems (At the Garden’s Dark Edge, published by Baylor University Press) featured by George Szirtes in the Eastern Daily Press. www.edp24.co.uk/news/2557097...

Poet and archaeologist who was part of the fabric of Norfolk life

‘This is the simple poem,’ wrote Anthony Thwaite OBE, poet, archaeologist, teacher, broadcaster, television presenter, traveller, critic,…

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Something rather exciting is coming in three short weeks – a beautiful collection of excerpts, poems, short stories, scenes from all the authors we’ve published in our first five years. 📚 All proceeds to our Bookbanks scheme. renardpress.com/books/renard... #beautifulbooks #booksky

Obvs will blather on more about this v soon, but book 4 is on its way... www.waterstones.com/book/cherry-...

I’m very much looking forward to this collection. You can whet your appetite with my review of Graeme’s excellent chapbook, Last of the Coalmine Choirboys, wildcourt.co.uk/from-the-shi....

Graeme Richardson@ravoon.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I'm thrilled to say that my collection "Dirt Rich" will be published by Carcanet in January. I've been working at it for almost 30 years: love poems, elegies, lamentations, jokes... The aim is "all killer no filler". Please buy it if you can. Here's Andrew Latimer's brilliant cover:

I had the privilege of spending some time with Seamus Heaney over the last week... www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Seamus Heaney kept up a staggeringly high strike rate of good poems

The Poems of Seamus Heaney, collected together in one volume for the first time, is a record of nearly 60 years of excellence

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My new review essay of collections by @betarish.bsky.social, @tomsastry.bsky.social, Michael Vince, and Kieron Winn is published today in Wild Court. Find out why I like them so much: wildcourt.co.uk/a-hobby-of-exi….

A very happy birthday to my dad, who turns 97 today!

Reading this delightful book by @fugitiveink.bsky.social on Kindle in Brazil and instantly transported to Norfolk. 🌘🪾🦉⚓️🪦🕯️🌬️ (also astonished to find out Jack O' Lantern's Toby and I share a mother)

Kevin Gardner@kg520.bsky.social · 2y ago

This collection of ghost stories by @fugitiveink.bsky.social was a Christmas present. Finally settled in tonight to read the opening story, and what a thrill - full of seething dread, unsettling undercurrents, much like the Norfolk landscape the stories occupy. Having read some of Barendina’s 1/2

As well as today being Larkin's birthday, this year it's 70 years since the publication of his first mature volume, 'The Less Deceived'. The poems in it were mostly written during his five relatively happy years in Belfast, and the volume would be published in 1955, the year he moved to Hull. 1/2

Creamed Meat Quickie, anyone?

Sixteen Famous British Plays 🤔

Delighted to have this latest from @greeningpoet.bsky.social and @renardpress.com. Contents are even more intriguing than this brilliant cover design!

Point Loma peninsula

San Diego

Some time in the past century, I lived on the second floor. (My name was not Luca.)

Immaculata Church, San Diego

Last bit of #bookpost for the weekend, and it’s a real pleasure to see this glorious hybrid book navigating poetry with @greeningpoet.bsky.social in print. ✈️ (Signed copies available in limited supply.) renardpress.com/books/a-high...

Catastrophic flooding hit Kerrville overnight. Fourth of July revelers and campers are feared lost in the floodwaters.

The Fourth of July Turned Tragic in Kerrville, Texas

Catastrophic flooding hit Kerrville overnight. Fourth of July revelers and campers are feared lost in the floodwaters.

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Blanco, Texas. Water buffalo gelato 😲😋. Ciaio, y’all.