Elizabeth Chadwick Pywell

What a superb winner for the National Poetry Competition - congratulations @fionalarkin.bsky.social 🎉

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APRIL! Rachel Long, Minal Sukumar and Ioney Smallhorne. Ridiculously exciting.

Antony Dunn, Nathan Walker and me - reading at Rise Up! last night. Such a beautiful evening - huge thanks to all poets and guests!

Such beautiful textile art from Rob Burton up in the Bluebird Bakery at the moment 😍

Photo of Sylvia Plath’s gravestone

Feeling nostalgic for Lumb Bank on Sylvia Plath’s anniversary @arvonfoundation.bsky.social I was there in 2023 for a life changing residential and met friends for life
@deborahfinding.bsky.social @estelleprice.bsky.social @imogenforster.bsky.social @carolinebirduk.bsky.social @chadpie.bsky.social

RISE UP! With Antony Dunn, Lisa Coates and Nathan Walker 🎉 26/02, nowhere better to be on a Wednesday in February (or any other Wednesday)

Absolute cracker of a night at Rise Up! with the wonderful @carolinebirduk.bsky.social @coliverpoet.bsky.social & @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social - thank you, ace poets - & (always) my brilliant co-host @chadpie.bsky.social

Thanks Kexin!

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That’s so kind, thank you! I’m glad you love it 🦂🦂🦂

Course! Really loved it. Super moving, plus we went down an internet rabbit hole about Anglo Saxon sacrificial burials…!

@wendypratt.bsky.social’s Blackbird Singing at Dusk - both the whole book and the title poem - just excellent! I keep excitedly reading bits out to Eloise while she tries to do her homework 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

Cannot believe the last thing I watched on my crap old telly before it went to the electronic afterlife was a reality show about selling houses worth more than every single property in York added together, instead of something more high brow.

Your covers are always so beautiful!

Everyone’s a critic eh.

Britain has seen an alarming rise in poetry sales --The Economist, 15 Jan 2024

2024 Headline of the Year nominee (January)

I refused to stop until the end of each episode 😅

Managed to time service station breaks with the end of each episode, very pleasing 😅

Stevie Ronnie and Ella Frears in conversation with @gregorykearns.bsky.social are excellent company on the A1 this morning

A pinhole camera photo taken from Summer to Winter Solstice. It's a bit blurry as the aperture was made with a tiny needle and no focus mechanism. There are yellow to green lines across the photo, that's the Sun moving across the sky over the course of a day. The top line is from the Summer Solstice, the bottom line from the Winter Solstice. Cloudy days don't have any lines or broken lines as the Sun was obscured by clouds. There are some trees on the left, right and in the background.

A pinhole camera photo, a 6 month exposure from Summer to Winter solstice. There are trees on the right side and background. A house with two cars in the drive are visible almost in the center of the photo. The lines are made from the Sun moving across the sky with the bottom line being the Winter Solstice and the top line the Summer solstice. On cloudy days the lines are broken or not visible as the sun was obscured by clouds. The lines show some reflections from a tree trunk. The lines are mostly a white color with some hints of blue, green and yellow in places. Some of the colors could be from rain or snow staining the paper I was using.

Happy Winter Solstice!

These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure.

Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice.

The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds

Oh wow, that’s beautiful, and so very much needs to be a sestina! All that tumbling, desperate love

Thank you @annierutherford.bsky.social for the introduction to Ella Risbridger’s ‘What We Talk About When We Talk About Cheese,’ which made me well up on the school run this morning. ‘The women I know get together and talk about their mothers./
Oh God, my mother, let me tell you about my mother…’

I set the kids a selfie challenge. The instruction for this one was ‘write a Christmas message’ 🤣

Oh fab!!

Ahh no Janet, that’s such a shame! Hope you’ll be doing something lovely though

👀 it’s going to be a very Happy New Year! Caroline Bird, Oliver Carmichael and Minal Sukumar - what more could you want? 🎉

Moon tell me the truth 🌕❤️ poems from this beautiful book are decorating the walls at York Uni’s Festive Bazaar for Palestine tonight www.handsupproject.org/shop/moon-te...

Really looking forward to reading alongside some awesome poets @poetrysociety.bsky.social’s Stanza Bonanza on 12/12! I will be on the ginger wine and biscuits. 🎄

Morning pages, coffee and a sky like this ❤️