J. R. Carpenter

anyone else quietly building a stack of books for strictly non-work holiday reading already?

if so, what’s on it?

Don’t invest in AI, invest in the future of the book Why the publishing industry must back small presses, rather than LLMs.

wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do!

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Mark Up | Granta For an online series, Mark Up, we invited writers to tell us their thoughts on...

A Granta series on punctuation and grammar: lol's, transitive verbs, ellipses, quotation marks, line breaks, xox's... 🤗

squashed echinoderm fossil in flint

Micraster echinoderm fossil

Temnocidaris echinoderm fossil

feeling the late semester squash. fossils cheer me. with their zero fucks to give about time. this adorable blob of flint is giving echinoid (sea urchin) vibes. with rows of pores indicative of a Micraster cast. & a bonus tubercle mould from maybe a Temnocidaris.(100–66 million yrs old) #mudlarking

same and same

a loose approximation of a painting. Still Life with a Stoneware Jug, Berkemeyer, and Smoking Utensils, 1640, Pieter Claesz (Dutch, about 1597–1661) echoed in #mudlarking finds from the Thames

Vatican returns Indigenous cultural items to Canadian delegation of Catholic bishops | CBC News A century-old Inuvialuit kayak once used for beluga and whale hunts, and 61 other cultural objects from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities have long been held in Vatican Museums vaults. But th...

Hopefully more to come home after this— my nieces were among the Indigenous people privately shown some of the Vatican’s collection of Native items over 3 years ago at the Papal apology for residential schools and there were lots more than objects.

small sherd of white ceramic with a blue asterisk on it, on the wet foreshore surface surrounded by sand and stone

a cracking addition to the asterisk collection #mudlarking

Towards a Wind Humanities IIn this talk, Dr J. R. Carpenter and Dr Richard Carter will discuss their interdisciplinary practice-led research projects published in a special issue of Media + Environment co-edited by Maximilian ...

Next week! For all those in Yorkshire, I will be giving a talk for the Royal Meteorological Society alongside @jrcarpenter.bsky.social (who very kindly invited me along). "Towards a Wind Humanities" - on wind as "model, media, and experience" www.rmets.org/event/toward...

my river will carve a starward path Join us for an evening of poetry & performance on water with Elfie Shiosaki, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal, & J. R. Carpenter

I’m reading with Elfie Shiosaki and Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal in this water-themed poetry evening in London 6-9pm 26 November. Free, with food after: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-river-w...

middle daughter piano lesson, curious about these recent Pamenar Press titles by Stephen Collis and J.R. Carpenter, // @pamenarpress.bsky.social @jrcarpenter.bsky.social

meanwhile, in south london. cherry trees are still losing their autumn leaves. and also, already in blossom.

a score for packing for five days of trains, friends, opera, mudlarking, performing at a poetry festival, walking on a beach, and important work meetings. lipstick and a fountain pen. work gloves and a silk scarf. a ring and a loop. implements of magnification. to see both near and far.

‘We’ve planted the apple that fell on Newton’s head’: the artists striking back against the climate emergency From cultivating a spiral-shaped orchard to finding lost glaciers and dressing up as a landmark bird, on 4 November artists around the UK will participate in Remember Nature, a day of activism to offe...

on the 4th of November artists around the UK will participate in Remember Nature, a day of environmental art activism www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

We Will Sing | Bradford 2025 Ann Hamilton transforms the immense top floor at Salts Mill for her largest solo UK installation to date.

glad I managed to catch the last few hours of We Will Sing, Ann Hamilton’s eerie and expansive exhibition at Salts Mill, Saltaire bradford2025.co.uk/event/we-wil...

I have a chapter called “Library of Wind” (after Nancy Campbell’s book Library of Ice) in this wonderful new book from Torque Editions BiblioTech: ReReading the Post-digital Library torquetorque.net/publications...

cobble, a new micro publication with Essence Press — a poem printed in light grey on two pieces of darker grey paper cut in the shape of cobbles of stone

Measures of Weather, by J. R. Carpenter (book on a table with other books)

The Pleasure of the Coast, by J. R. Carpenter (book on a table with other books)

The Gathering Cloud, by J. R. Carpenter (book on a table with other books)

epic 27 hours in London for Small Publishers Fair. so many favourite people. much buzz. such books. spotted my books on four tables this year: @essencepress.bsky.social @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social @pamenarpress.bsky.social @uniformbooks.bsky.social @smallpublishers.bsky.social

night larking #mudlarking

it’s a second year English Lit core module called Writing Environments

normalise lecturing on weather writing wearing battered wellies with waterproofs and knee pads in rucksack #mudlarking

as fate would have it, I was in the beautiful Brotherton Library today at @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social looking at ships logs and weather lore. old habits die hard.

my contribution is called Library of Wind, after Nancy Campbell’s wonderful Library of Ice (with permission). it’s a sort of reading log of the interior weather of the many libraries I’ve researched wind in.

my contributor’s copy of BiblioTech: ReReading the Post-Digital library arrived today, edited by Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner.

The Poetry’s Environments conference aims to consider poetry that addresses the natural environment and the environments in which poetry is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied. We are especially interested in proposals that consider these two contexts together.

Join Poetry@Leeds in June 2026 for Poetry’s Environments — we invite proposals from poets, critics, translators, archivists, activists, editors, digital specialists, literary professionals, individuals, groups & orgs involved in poetry & its environments conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

great opportunity to get my media meteorology The Gathering Cloud directly from the publisher @uniformbooks.bsky.social at @smallpublishers.bsky.social

It's #smallpublishersfair25 in London this Fri/Sat! Here's a quick link to the PDF of the Fair programme, with details of all 66 UK & international publishers, special exhibition, readings & talks: smallpublishersfair.co.uk/wp-content/u...

(Print copies also available at Conway Hall on Fri/Sat)

As well as new book works by Thomas A Clark, Richard Price & @jrcarpenter.bsky.social I will be showing many of my own new works at @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair this coming weekend 24-25 October. A round up of 2025 projects is here www.juliejohnstone.com/2025-2/

One of three new collaborations that Essence Press will be launching @smallpublishers.bsky.social fair this coming Friday and Saturday 24-25 October.
#smallpublishersfair25

cobble
by J.R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social
www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...

sneak peek at “cobble” — a new micro publication launching at @smallpublishers.bsky.social next weekend. very much a rock paper scissors situation. thank you @essencepress.bsky.social for cutting these paper stone poèmes. 2nd image is a cobble of coral fossil from the River Ribble in North Yorkshire