J. R. Carpenter

seating is limited so if you’re planning on attending, do book in advance. #mudlarking

River Readings with Poet and Mudlark J.R. Carpenter Join us for a short talk and river readings from award-winning poet and mudlark J. R. Carpenter at Watermen's Hall.

I’ve got two short poetry readings coming up during a mudlarking exhibition at historic Waterman’s Hall in London on 28 & 29 March www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/river-read...

also spotted in my garden this morning: wren, robin, wagtail, red-breasted nuthatch, great tits, blue tits, coal tits, and a family of longtailed tits

great spotted woodpecker at my bird feeder this morning!

J.R. Carpenter, p a u s e. we walk past a log cabin. the white mud. between the logs. has volcanic ash in it, so it dries into a hard clay, she says.   I’ve been...

“There is such a clear, purposeful and precise cadence to this book-length suite. Carpenter captures deep listening, slowness and the pause across an incredibly sharp lyric” — thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/jr-c...

thanks rob 💚

J.R. Carpenter, p a u s e. we walk past a log cabin. the white mud. between the logs. has volcanic ash in it, so it dries into a hard clay, she says.   I’ve been...

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oh, but you are missing the opportunity to see this as the hateful English anti-migrant sentiment coming back to bite the English in the ass. You can’t build a national ideology around anti-immigration and expect for these sorts of rules to not affect British citizens as well.

I was told, in no uncertain terms, when I became a citizen six years ago, that a U.K. passport was required. so I got one. Canadian duel nationals can’t enter Canada on any other passport. it’s a fairly common rule these days.

‘Grace period’ needed for dual nationals returning to UK on second passport, say Lib Dems Will Forster MP says ‘lack of planning and haphazard communication’ on new border rules has caused chaos

it took me 10 years and £10,000 to get British citizenship. only a few weeks more to get a passport, which I was told I absolutely had to have. this was six years ago. I’m frankly amazed that there are duel nationals out there who haven’t sorted this www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Students begin Covid compensation claim against 36 more universities It comes after University College London settled a claim from students there over lost learning in the pandemic.

one wild thing about students suing universities over the “difference in tuition fee price between courses delivered online and in person” during Covid is the number of students who don’t attend seminars these days. if it’s in person you want, please come to class www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

middle daughter has an appointment, so attempting to begin reading new poetry titles by Andrea Rexilius, J.R. Carpenter + Misha Solomon, // @jrcarpenter.bsky.social @mishasolomon.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @clashbooks.bsky.social

book cover — brown background with blue river — text says: pause, J. R. Carpenter

there will be a launch event for my new poetry collection p a u s e in Leeds & online 18 March 5-6:30 –free, all are welcome! @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.ticketsource.co.uk/university-o...

I mean Eliot, obviously. but The Waste Land has so much of The Tempest init my mind leaps ahead

water reflecting trees and sky covering Carboniferous limestone, showing horizontal bedding at the top of the frame

this unconformity is exposed at Cat Hole Sike. in the Yorkshire Dales. and immediately obscured again. by moss. and algae blooming under groundwater pools reflecting. silver mirrors. for slivers of sky.

outcrop of tilted Ordovician slate covered in moss in a woodland setting

geology diagram explaining the unconformity between the Ordovician slate and the Carboniferous limestone

an unconformity. between the tilted Ordovician slate of the Norber Formation deposited 445 million years ago. and the Carboniferous Great Scar Limestone deposited in horizontal bedding 340 million years ago. a gap. in the geological record. of 100 million years.

small grey pebbles on a river bed. two are fossilised coral. one is bumpy and the other has long thin lines

finally. some sun. when these corals were alive, 340 million years ago, in the Lower Carboniferous. Yorkshire was about 30° south of the equator, at the bottom of a warm shallow sea. the Silurian cobble nearby is 100 million years older. it comes from an unconformity further upstream. #fossilhunting

Shakespeare never had April in Porto, alas

do you know I will be in Porto late April? maybe we can celebrate the book then

I’ll message you. courage!

a close friend has been living with this for years. basically a hostage situation. so hard.

it’s expensive — ask your library to order it!

Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics

“It’s Fine: An Ecopoetics of Exhaustion in Weather Writing” — my chapter in “Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics" ed. @brunoministro.bsky.social April2026, Edinburgh University Press edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transfo...

Can a kite help us "feel" the climate crisis? 🪁

@richardacarter.bsky.social’s new project uses AI-powered sensory payloads on sustainable kites to link environmental data with human narratives.

It’s an "Environmental Intelligence" approach to sensing our world. 🌍

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Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing › meson press Computation must and has always had to “reckon with everything.” This volume brings together contributions that seek to describe the environmentality of computation based on selected settings.

Reckoning with Everything: The Becoming-Environmental of Computing meson.press/books/reckon...

only handmade plagiarism from me

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

palm of hand holding one hairpin, two pipe stems, four fossils with almost 200 million years between them, and five nails of three sizes. one nail is handmade, at least 200 years old.

in my left coat pocket this morning: one hairpin, two clay pipe stems, four fossils with almost 200 million years between them, and five nails of three sizes. one nail is handmade, at least 200 years old.

PostDoc & PhD Opportunities - Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600 The European Research Council (ERC)-funded project ‘Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600’ (ECOLENT), led by Sander Govaerts, offers several PhD and pos...

Postdoc and PhD positions at Ghent University: Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600

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#envhist #medieval #envhum

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