We have something old and interesting to show you today. This is the Geneva Bible or Breeches Bible. It dates to 1607!
Wendy Pratt
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Author: The Ghost Lake Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk Editor: Spelt Magazine https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 40
A personal selection of posts from around the Anglophone blogosphere.
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Blues on the moor in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Mark Cocker. #naturewriting #countrydiary
Country diary: On the bluest of days, the plaintive call of a pipit | Mark Cocker
Combs Moss, Derbyshire: There is plenty to be gloomy about, but today was not the day for it up on the moor
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Poor shieldbugs! The below-the-line commenters this morning don't seem to be big fans...
Please can I share my enthusiasm for hairy shieldbugs with you in my @theguardian.com country diary this morning? They are so cool! 😍 #naturewriting #countrydiary @chrismothman.bsky.social
This month we’re leaning into change and finding the mirror in the landscape wendypratt.substack.com/p/landscape-...
Your life is a landscape
Writing prompts from the Dawn and Dusk Chorus
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Hello 👋 let me tell you about the worst review I ever had. wendypratt.substack.com/p/the-bad-re...
The bad review that almost broke me
How it felt to have all my worst fears confirmed
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Delighted to be part of the poetry support crew for @internetofwords.com at the virtual launch of Forest Management 🥳 Get your ticket & join us on Friday 9th Oct 🥳
Will be promoting this a fair bit in the next few weeks: tickets for the Virtual Pamphlet Launch are now live! Massive thanks to @paulwritespoems.bsky.social who is the MC for this event, and @ninaparmenter.bsky.social and @victoriaspires.bsky.social for being my support team! shorturl.at/N1fkS
How come existential doom from AI is sexy, and existential doom from global warming isn’t?
“The starlings in this picture are at the halfway stage between their juvenile and adult plumage” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson ‘What to Look for in Autumn’ (1960)
This week I’m zooming in on a 1499 woodcut of the battle of Dornach wendypratt.substack.com/p/the-vulner...
The vulnerable flesh
Notes from the research diary
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“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster
So last year LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS came out, my first collection in eight years, and I worked really hard on getting back into the poetry scene. Teaching three residential courses, two online, lots of one-off workshops, mentoring, reviewing regularly, writing a poetry substack… 1/3
Im delighted to be back with the poetry A Team judging this brilliant poetry competition again this year. The theme is ‘the stories that made us’ the deadline is 10th January. Get your poems in! We can’t wait to read them! www.eastridinglibraries.co.uk/festival-of-...
Poetry Competition
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What’s going on at Notes from the Nargin this autumn? A memoir writing workshop The Dawn and Dusk Chorus writing sessions Articles galore: history, poetry, memoir, behind the scenes, writer agonising, writer diaries wendypratt.substack.com/p/autumn-at-...
Autumn at Notes from the Margin
News about workshops and more
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So excited to be speaking in the Bronte Women's Writing Festival at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. I'm looking forward to chatting with @wendypratt.bsky.social about nature, landscapes & memoir on the Sunday afternoon. Hope to see you there... Tickets: www.bronte.org.uk/events/bwwf2... #naturewriting
Excited to be bringing my memoir, The Ghost Lake to the Brontë Women’s Writing Festival in September, alongside the brilliantly talented @nicwilson.bsky.social . See you there? www.bronte.org.uk/events/bwwf2...
BWWF26: Nature, Landscapes and Memoirs | The Brontë Parsonage Museum
Find out how authors Wendy Pratt and Nic Wilson have approached memoir writing, and how nature and landscape helped them navigate challenging times through
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The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.
An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.
In this month’s writing sessions we peeled back time to find connection points in the ancient landscape. wendypratt.substack.com/p/charged-la...
Charged Landscape
Extracts, prompts and notes from August’s Dawn Chorus writing sessions
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PRESALE LINK FOR MY BOOK IS HERE: the-flight-of-the-dragonfly-bookshop.sumupstore.com/product/fore...
Forest Management S. Reeson - presale, signed
'A fascinating pamphlet' - Wendy Pratt; 'unflinching, inventive poems of discovery, trauma and healing' - Jen Feroze; '...candid, skilful and often unsettling poems; a forest trail that leads us throu...
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What is a haiku? A tiny house with three floors And seventeen doors