Steve Eely

The 4th workshop of my online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance & Process' focuses on Vasko Popa's poem-sequence, 'The Worshipping of the Lame Wolf'. Wednesday 12th November, 7.00-9.00. All welcome. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/.../poetry-a....

Time to paint the cellar

Underrated full-stop. Fabulous writer. Probably the uninterrogated Imperialism and associated racism.

Farage: epic grifter

Yes, congrats to Vidyan. Harrisonesque.

'Sylvia Plath's magisterial 'The Swarm' is the poem we'll be focusing on in the third workshop of my online course, Poetry as Performance and Process, 7.00-9.00pm, Wednesday 29th October (UK). Still a few places open. More details and booking details here; www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...

I like their hats

Not if it's Ophuichus.

A photo of a kākāpō feeding at a food station during the day. Credit: Andrew Digby

We're not feeding #kakapo on Anchor Island this year: with a big rimu mast predicted, we're expecting them not to need help. It's also part of our plan to reduce management intensity. #conservation #parrots

"Police focus on ladder placed against the side of the Louvre"

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

Sylvia Plath's magisterial 'The Swarm' is the exemplary poem we'll be looking at on my online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' on Wednesday 29th October, 7.00-9.00.

'How instructive this is!'

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“I was drawn, surely, to the unusual combination of spiritual reach and humour, as well as recognising the poet’s extraordinary gift for characterisation in miniature”

— @greeningpoet.bsky.social on discovering George Mackay Brown
#poetrysky
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The Burial Ground

Gravestone

The 'gap-toothed vault'

Old wall

The Burial Ground

#otd in 2022 I was wandering around an old burial ground by the edge of an ocean, visualising poetry about this place by @steveeely.bsky.social. This led to exhibitions and a quite unique book.

David Morley · From ‘Seven Women Scientists’

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. I’m proud to share my poem 'Ada Lovelace' and a sonnet to Caroline Herschel, published in the London Review of Books.
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Leighton Buzzards. Saturday Nnight beneath the plastic palm trees, dancing to the rhythm of the Guns of Navarone.

I've just started teaching it (having only become aware of myself in 2020). I'll send you the text of my talk & my 'close reading' annotated version of the poem if you want.

‘Tractor/Horse’ poem. Ted Hughes’s magnificent and almost totally neglected Two Horses’.

Porsche Spyder

Hi All. My online creative writing workshop based on Jorie Graham's magisterial and magnificent 'To 2040' runs at 7.00 on Wednesday 15th October. Three places left. More information and booking details here. www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...

And me

Evolve the pile it does.

If the Pope hears that a bear has converted to the Free Church, does the he shit himself (in the woods)?

Mettle/Metal

The 2nd workshop of my online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' runs on Wed 15th Oct, 7-9 pm. The workshop is structured around a group reading of Jorie Graham's darkly apocalyptic 'To 2040'. Further information and booking details:

www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...

Fascist State.

Fabulous stuff

On the way back it feels like it.

Three places left on this guided walk around Ted Hughes's national service landscape. 11.00-3.00, Saturday 4th October. www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...

Still a few places left on this course. First session on Wednesday 1st October.https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-performance-process-tickets-1574026980069?aff=oddtdtcreator

Lysenkoism ahoy!