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J. R. Carpenter

@jrcarpenter.bsky.social

artist, writer, researcher, fossil hunter, PLA licensed mudlarker, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds https://luckysoap.com

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

26.02.2026 07:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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...

23.02.2026 18:54 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

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

22.02.2026 10:42 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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great spotted woodpecker at my bird feeder this morning!

22.02.2026 10:38 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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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. Β  I’ve been...

β€œThere 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” β€” thank you @robmclennan.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/jr-c...

21.02.2026 17:54 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thanks rob πŸ’š

21.02.2026 16:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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. Β  I’ve been...

J.R. Carpenter, p a u s e. / @jrcarpenter.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2026/02/jr-c...

21.02.2026 13:47 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

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.

19.02.2026 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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.

19.02.2026 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Grace period’ needed for dual nationals returning to UK on second passport, say Lib Dems Will Forster MP says β€˜lack of planning and haphazard communication’ on new border rules has caused chaos

it took me 10 years and Β£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...

19.02.2026 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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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 β€œdifference 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...

17.02.2026 09:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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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

16.02.2026 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
book cover β€” brown background with blue river β€” text says: pause, J. R. Carpenter

book cover β€” brown background with blue river β€” 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...

16.02.2026 14:26 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

15.02.2026 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
water reflecting trees and sky covering Carboniferous limestone, showing horizontal bedding at the top of the frame

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.

15.02.2026 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
outcrop of tilted Ordovician slate covered in moss in a woodland setting

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

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.

15.02.2026 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
small grey pebbles on a river bed. two are fossilised coral. one is bumpy and the other has long thin lines

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 30Β° 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

15.02.2026 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Shakespeare never had April in Porto, alas

12.02.2026 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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

11.02.2026 21:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ll message you. courage!

11.02.2026 09:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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

11.02.2026 06:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

it’s expensive β€” ask your library to order it!

11.02.2026 06:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics Transformative Repetition in Experimental and Post-Digital Poetics

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

11.02.2026 06:08 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can a kite help us "feel" the climate crisis? πŸͺ

@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. 🌍

Learn more πŸ”— buff.ly/lMHu49B

09.02.2026 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reckoning with Everything. The Becoming-Environmental of Computing β€Ί meson press Computation must and has always had to β€œreckon 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...

10.02.2026 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

only handmade plagiarism from me

07.02.2026 09:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ian McKellen performs β€œThe Strangers’ Case” speech from β€œSir Thomas More” on Colbert.

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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.

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.

04.02.2026 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 347    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 2
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PostDoc & PhD Opportunities - Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600 The European Research Council (ERC)-funded project β€˜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

niche-canada.org/2026/01/31/p...

#envhist #medieval #envhum

02.02.2026 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

very on brand

01.02.2026 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0