I'm running a five workshop online creative writing (poetry) short course, 'Creating Bespoke & Organic Forms: Shaping Poems in the Act of Composition' this autumn, first workshop on Tuesday 20th October. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creating-b...

Creating Bespoke & Organic Forms: Shaping Poems in the Act of Composition

A creative writing (poetry) course of 5 workshops in which participants will devise their own bespoke forms for poems and sequences.

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Fine equine

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL)@themerl.bsky.social · 5d ago

everyone, meet Hugo www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fantastic. Leonard Baskin loved Orozco.

Michael Lobel@mlobelart.bsky.social · 4d ago

To me, one of the most touching representations of the Twin Towers before 9/11 is Gabriel Orozco's haunting "Island Within an Island" of 1993, in which the artist constructed a tiny scale model of lower Manhattan using scavenged detritus leaned against a concrete barricade

I have a selection of prints in my online store, mostly from the Outer Hebrides. Each print produced to order. Please take a look, you may even find a book: www.ansolasoir.com/store #OuterHebrides #Photography #Prints #Scotland

store | An Solas Òir | Outer Hebrides

Photography of the Outer Hebrides, prints of Uist, Harris, Lewis, Eriskay and more.

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OMG ETC

markruddy@markruddy.bsky.social · last wk.

Holy shit. This girl.

Fabulous research

BirdGuides@birdguides.bsky.social · last wk.

A new study has tracked female Eurasian Dotterel throughout an entire summer for the first time, revealing a summer of long-distance travel in search of multiple partners:

Murdered by the Lodge brothers, who were transported to Van Diemen’s Land. All Saints, Frickley.

'White Pony', my poetry/painting collaboration with Alan Parker is published by Shearsman Books this month. You can buy it here in paperback and hardback, but it is available from all good bookstores, and at least one bad one. www.shearsman.com/.../Steve-El.... See less

Short-eared Owl has enjoyed an exceptional breeding season in western Belgium, with the number of breeding pairs increasing dramatically in 2026:

Record breeding season for Short-eared Owl in Belgium

Exceptional vole numbers appear to have driven a dramatic increase in breeding pairs in western Belgium in 2026.

f.mtr.cool

Kirkdale, and a centre forward’s pose.

Visionary, urgent… extraordinary blendings of environmental & social history. - Mark Wormald This spirited, astonishing, bewildering book is one of the best long poems I have read. - Adam Piette One of 2024's wildest volumes of poetry. - Christian Bok 'Eely' longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…

At Monks Wood, the soil temperatures this week are insane: Grass surface 45C 10 cm deep 27C 30 cm deep 22C 1 metre deep 19C Air temperature has reached 34.5C. Max concrete surface temperature is off the scale, over 50C. The sensors can't detect that high, it was not expected when they were designed.

Richard K Broughton@richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Met Office weather station on our Monks Wood site recorded 35.7C yesterday, 26 June. It was >30C by 10 am, and the grass temperature reached 45.2C. Imagine being a vole, hare, skylark chick, lizard or ground beetle in that heat. A foot deep, the soil was 22C.

Berlin Olympics

Raider@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Egypt fans being pulled aside, patted down, and double-checked before the Argentina vs. Egypt match, while Argentina supporters were allowed to walk through security without the same level of screening. And this is exactly why people keep accusing FIFA of double standards.

O poo gig ooo

My poly-intertextual, multi-ekphrastic collaboration with the dark genius Alan Parker is now available from Shearsman Books. The poetry begins with the hypothesis that class society is fundamentally paedophilic, and it's all downhill from there. www.shearsman.com/.../Steve-El....

A fact about myself or comment

Roy Cohn is their role model.

Tim Waterman@tim-waterman.co.uk · 2mo ago

Right, they've come for our trans brothers and sisters, and now they're coming for those of us who don't want to (or can't) be "straight gays". Did anyone really think this wouldn't be the script? www.advocate.com/opinion/nyt-...

Cheap at the price. They all are.

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Reform/crypto billionaire pincer movement on our democracy continues apace with £5mill Farage grubbing for more cash, Harborne registering to vote here and Delo holding parties to see who will make him more money. The Times calls this “transforming” British politics, rather than buying it.

Cheap at the price. They all are.

Private Eye Magazine@privateeyenews.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Coincidence corner: Labour MP Rosie Wrighting receives travel and hospitality worth £550 from YouTube From the latest Private Eye, out now.

This is the best thing I’ve seen on here for ages.

Peter Stronach@macstronach.bsky.social · 3mo ago

and a wee bit of video of the Woodcock with chicks in tow! #highlandbirds 🪶

I wonder if the 3000 people dragged away by police for peacefully holding signs saying they support Palestine Action feel like Keir Starmer is the innocent victim of an ungovernable country?

The country needs a bold change of direction.

Elon Musk spent $290 million getting Trump elected. During this midterm cycle, he's spent $85 million. In total, that’s 0.0375% of his $1 trillion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

War criminal state.

Cat Cordeiro@topmarx.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The house that the IDF attacked was run as a bed and breakfast by Mona and her partner Habiba Fayed since 2000 to fund their research and conservation project Happy Pride. You deserved better, Mona.

One more note. The media's near-silence on this astonishing legal shift is almost as disturbing as the issue itself. This vast change is covered in most outlets way down the bulletins, with almost no explanation or context. This is how democracy dies: not with a bang but a whimper. Thank you.