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Poster from The Poetry Society urging teachers to book a poet visit for National Poetry Day on Thursday 2 October. Includes a photo of a student writing and a link to the enquiry form at bit.ly/PoetsInSchools.

Poets in Schools is The Poetry Society’s service for educators looking to bring a facilitator into their school to deliver poetry workshops and assemblies. We have been placing poets in schools for over 50 years.

Book your visit: bit.ly/PoetsInSchools

Photo: Emma Ledwith

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Following on from my earlier thread about claims of “bias” in universities (link below 👇), I was struck by James Marriott’s column in today’s Times. It’s full of anecdote & caricature. The real story of UK universities is structural, financial, and political. 🧵
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Delighted to have won the Southword Subscriber's Prize with my poem 'Overproof Jamaican Rum' about legacies. 🌿

A lovely idea. Interesting to see the note about emphasis going on the first syllable of a word, the same as in Ulster Irish.

Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone? by Laura Theis Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone? I guess that’s what I must be, because I couldnot walk across a graveyard without being assailed by old dead friendswanting to tell me their latest gossip...

“I guess that’s what I must be, because I could/ not walk across a graveyard

without being assailed by old dead friends / wanting to tell me their latest gossip”

Today’s poem is Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone? by Laura Theis.

Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/do-you-...

The wonderful Mary Shelley was born on this day in 1797. Here’s one of my poems that was published earlier this year in Magma (issue 91), in which I imagine us bonding over our shared experience of young widowhood.

New blog post - we share the secrets of our Feedback Options & how it’s helped so many writers achieve their goals, the reason editing skills are so important for writers, and the realities of editing a literary journal.

Link below

We’re open for submissions all month!

Very interested in seeing more scripts, art, and photography.

Submissions guidelines apply, link in bio

YouTube video by Virginia Braun Dr Braun(love) - or: how I learned to stop worrying and love GenAI (yeah nah)

Here's a talk I gave as a keynote for the BPS @qmip.bsky.social conference (July 2025) - the result of @vicclarke.bsky.social & I recognising we needed to "dive in" & grapple with the beast that is GenAI & qualitative/(reflexive) thematic analysis
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Abstract This essay takes aim at normal academic practice in interpretative analysis. Specifically, the ways methodological discussions are often stilted, wooden and don’t sufficiently attempt to trace the intellectual journeys which scholars have traveled to arrive at their understandings. Based on this I consider some of the epistemological under-laboring that sits at the foundation of social scientific analysis of much qualitative data. With a sound understanding of what it means to understand, we can grasp something of the “rational shadow” that is often cast over the realities of human knowledge production. That is because, while we scholars might organize our time so that we can have a moment when we are “doing our analysis,” such a moment, when understood as a bounded, linear and rational event or series of progressive steps, is an epistemological fiction. It is, then, more rational to acknowledge the diffuse, tacit, and non-rational features of human understanding, and build methodological and analytic strategies which lean into these realities. And, in that regard, we can provide a more rational analysis of our relatively rational analysis. Keywords interpretative analysis, research philosophy, understanding, epistemology, knowledge

Do you ever read qualitative social science; sociology, psychology, criminology, and the like, and get a sense that the methods just don't give enough insight into what actually happened? Yep, me to, esp in relation to where scholars' ideas came from. More here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

3/3 to the Arvon Foundation and to our tutors on that week, Jenny & Roy, for bringing us together, creating space for magic to happen and for a lasting, creative, supportive group to form. You just never know what unexpected delights await on and from an @arvonfoundation.bsky.social course!

2/3 We’ve chosen themes, written individual poems, shared them, learned from each other and relished each person’s individual style and voice - delightfully comic, brooding gothic, swirling free verse, tight forms, and much more. On this anniversary, we want to say a huge thanks

1/3 Exactly one year ago today, a group of intrepid poets embarked on an exhilarating @arvonfoundation.bsky.social online course led by @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social & Roy McFarlane. During that intense week, poems were crafted and bonds created, so much so that 6 of us have met monthly since then.

We’ve been keeping it on the down low, but we re-open for submissions 1 August to 1 September.

And we’ll be announcing a new online masterclass…hint, it’s for editors……

1/10 On this day 20 years ago, I was with @chriscocking.bsky.social and Steve Reicher at the Royal Society summer exhibition in London, presenting our work on how people behave in emergency evacuations. As I tried to travel to the exhibition venue, I was part of a crowd of

If you would like to read the article the presentation was based on, it’s in the current issue of @ispp-pops.bsky.social

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Issue 14

Issue 14 of Dust Poetry is now live ✨

And you can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...

A poem as delicious as “a rich chocolate ganache tart, garnished with the season’s first strawberries”.

If younger folk are wondering who “Iggy” refers to… en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iggy_Pop

Doctors wouldn’t let my sister die A car crash left Polly Kitzinger with devastating brain injuries. Her family was unable to persuade doctors to let her die.

It's more than sixteen years since my sister Polly Kitzinger was profoundly brain-injured in a car crash. Yet again today I've had to explain to someone that, yes, she is still alive.... Write your Advance Decision today.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories...

Our 5th county poet for our #PoetryDayIRL on the #poetry #podcast is Seamus McDermott for Derry

Seamus Mc Dermott is an active member of ‘The Diamond Writers’ and ‘This Writing Thing’.

Tune in 1 May
32 poets, 32 poems, 32 poems

@poetryireland.bsky.social

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Our 8th county poet for #PoetryDayIRL on the #poetry #podcast is Michelle Dennehy for Tyrone.

Michelle is the 2024 winner of the Seamus Heaney Award for New Writing.

Tune in 1 May
32 poets, 32 poems, 32 poems,

supported by @poetryireland.bsky.social

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Our 16th poet for #PoetryDayIRL on the #poetry #podcast is @trishbennettwriter.bsky.social for Fermanagh

Trish is an award-winning writer & performer. Her debut collection is ‘Stench’ (Arlen House, 2024)

Tune in 1 May
32 poets, 32 poems, 32 poems
@poetryireland.bsky.social

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Our 20th poet for #PoetryDayIRL on the #poetry #podcast is @catherinekay.bsky.social for Donegal

Catherine was long listed for Cúirt New Writing 2022 and highly commended for the Frances Browne Festival.

Tune in 1 May
32 poets, 32 poems, 32 poems
@poetryireland.bsky.social

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Fewer secrets: less harm - A poetic history of the Irish in Leeds Ian Duhig on an anthology he co-edited inspired by Leeds Museums’ 19th-century Irish holdings

Huge thanks to @martindoyle.bsky.social Books Editor of The Irish Times, for using this piece on my project with Leeds Irish Health and Homes and Leeds Museums on the historical context of anti-Irish prejudice in this city.

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

I guess that reference now only hits those of us of a certain age, Richard! You could have had the country vegetable soup (“What country? Taiwan?”) or even two soups. I just hope your meal wasn’t disturbed by anyone smelling of Ma Griffe. 🤷🏻‍♂️

The Stony Thursday Book - ed. by Victoria Kennefick
(an annual publication published by Limerick Arts Office and Limerick County Council). A fine looking production.

Very happy to have poem included. Thanks to all involved.

Cover of issue 20 (winter 2024) of The Stony Thursday Book: A Collection of Contemporary Poetry.

“The work of a wake”, a poem by Aidan Coyle.

I was delighted to receive the latest edition of The Stony Thursday Book, produced by Limerick Arts Office. With nearly 140 pages of poems from over 80 poets, it’s a delightful, diverse anthology. I’m proud to have had a short poem included in such esteemed company. Congratulations to all.

The deadline for abstracts to the York Conference on Conversation Analysis has been extended to next Monday. The guest speakers are Paul Drew and Lorenza Mondada, so it promises to be an intellectually stimulating event!

My latest poem s for anyone who's had toup sticks and move to a new place. Hope you get something from it.

@adriancoyle.bsky.social @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social @indigodreamspub.bsky.social

YouTube video by Emmy's Existential Zone Introducing my new book on Researching life with Structural Existential Analysis

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Advance copy of my new book ahead of publication on 28 March.