J. R. Carpenter

in London November the cherry trees were still losing their autumn leaves but also already in blossom….. with parakeets in.

a rather more modest ice breaker than you’re used to!

A white sign with black text on a Stone wall, reflected in still water. The sign says: the remains of a wooden icebreaker lie submerged.

obsessed with this sign warning of a submerged icebreaker, written upside down to be read in reflection in the still water of Leeds-Liverpool Canal, which I’ve never seen frozen over, fwiw. near Armley, Leeds

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Canadian Poets Series #22 : J.R. Carpenter J. R. Carpenter is a Canadian-born UK-based artist, writer, and researcher working across performance, print, and digital media. They studie...

Canadian Poets Series #22 : J.R. Carpenter / @jrcarpenter.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social ;
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Overdue Leeds Central Library books returned 50 years late The books, which were due to be returned in March 1976, were unearthed at a Beverley charity shop.

2 books about fossils from 1836 written by Reverend William Buckland borrowed from Leeds Central Library in 1976 have been found in a charity shop in Beverley, East Yorks & have now been returned to Leeds after 50 years. 👇
Overdue library books returned 50 years late
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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...

J.R. Carpenter, p a u s e. / @jrcarpenter.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social ;
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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.

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...