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Centre for Place Writing
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Creative-critical research centre, Manchester Metropolitan University. Exploring the relationship between writing & place to examine major contemporary issues.
Co-directed by Dr David Cooper & Dr Rachel Lichtenstein
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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · Jan 2
Some of our highlights from 2024 include:

Helen Mort's new book Ethel was pub & her appearance on Countryfile & Kendal Mtn Lit Fest.
David Cooper's co-ed Handbook of Literary Geographies was pub.
Kate Pahl led a brilliant new project working with young people, learning through trees.

#PlaceWriting
book cover of Ethel, with title and author in large solid white text and yellow drawings of plants woven through. Overlaid on a background of a photograph of a woman in black and white looking at the camera with short curly hair and a wooly hat. muted green background. book cover, dark brown with circles and shapes in white, below is a solid black background and white text that reads 'The Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies' edited by Neal Alexander and David Cooper. white and green background with green text that reads 'Voices of the Future' and a hand drawn picture of a tree on the right with a large bird on the top and two people standing either side reaching out towards one another.
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Saw an amazing little exhibition at the new Petri archaeology museum in Berlin - "degenerate" art confiscated by the Nazis and excavated in 2010 during construction of a metro station.
Terracotta sculpture of a stylised woman's head. She has large eyes and a narrow nose and chin. In the background a panel reads "The Berlin Sculpture Find."
November 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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This is a lovely thing.
annierutherford.bsky.social Annie Rutherford @annierutherford.bsky.social · 4d
It's a tad down to the wire, I know, but I'm thrilled to say that I'm running the Poetry Advent Calendar again this year -- sign up by donating to @msf.ca and receive a poem every day from 1 to 24 December: book.benefacthq.com?id=poetry-ad...
Image of an advent calendar, with the words "Poetry Advent Calendar"
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Some great choices here. Mine are: Maggie Nelson, Yiyun Li, Ed Atkins, @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, David Park, @elainefeeney.bsky.social, Leanne Shapton, and our Nero Fiction shortlist of Ben Woods, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Damian Barr and Ian McEwan. www.irishtimes.com/culture/book... #Booksoftheyear
Books of the year 2025: Authors and critics pick their favourites
Roisín O’Donnell’s Nesting, Helen Garner’s How to End a Story and Liadan Ní Chuinn’s Every One Still Here are among the year’s top choices
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November 29, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Stag in the silence in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett.

#countrydiary #naturewriting
Country diary: A stag red deer, totally still, totally dominant | Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Raddon Hills, Devon: I spend a watchful moment with a mixed herd. Rutting season is over, but there’s no doubt who is in charge
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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What a wonderful antidote to the rampant commercialism of this time of year … “The darkness around me feels inhabited, companionable.” Lovely stuff from @nicwilson.bsky.social
Country diary: My Black Friday? A night-time skulk in the woods | Nic Wilson
Purwell Ninesprings, Hertfordshire: A chilly evening spent interpreting rustles and admiring the silhouetted trees – now that’s what I call a bargain
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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OH MY! Land Beneath the Waves is one of BBC Wildlife Magazine's seven best adult books of 2025! And in such wonderful company! Totally made my year! 🥰💚

@summersdalebooks.bsky.social #naturewriting #chronicillness
November 24, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Next week at Manchester Poetry Library & Online - the wonderful Dan Richards & Helen McGhie are in conversation with Jean Sprackland. In celebration of the night & all things darkness. The 3rd in Jean's specially curated series for Night Vision.
#BookSky @danzep.bsky.social @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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For all your poetry woes, make an appointment with @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social who can help untangle & nudge your work into shape. Book a place on this #poetry drop in clinic at Mcr Poetry Library here:
@dcahf-met.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-lib...
Poetry Library Drop In with Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
Come have a chat with us. Bring your questions, your creative knots, your in-progress thoughts.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
centreplacewriting.bsky.social
For all your poetry woes, make an appointment with @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social who can help untangle & nudge your work into shape. Book a place on this #poetry drop in clinic at Mcr Poetry Library here:
@dcahf-met.bsky.social @manmetuni.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-lib...
Poetry Library Drop In with Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
Come have a chat with us. Bring your questions, your creative knots, your in-progress thoughts.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
centreplacewriting.bsky.social
Next week at Manchester Poetry Library & Online - the wonderful Dan Richards & Helen McGhie are in conversation with Jean Sprackland. In celebration of the night & all things darkness. The 3rd in Jean's specially curated series for Night Vision.
#BookSky @danzep.bsky.social @mcrcityoflit.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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TONIGHT in London - with @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social @jrcarpenter.bsky.social & Elfie Shiosaki.

Queen Mary University of London.

#poetry #events @dcahf-met.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/my-river-w...
my river will carve a starward path
Join us for an evening of poetry & performance on water with Elfie Shiosaki, Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal, & J. R. Carpenter
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Hiromi Itō is often credited with revolutionising postwar Japanese poetry with her work focusing on sexuality, childbirth, and women’s bodies. She moved to the US and has since focused on migration and the psychological effects of linguistic and cultural alienation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOgp...
Komachi Project – Hiromi Ito and Jeffrey Angles at Manchester Poetry Library
YouTube video by Manchester Poetry Library
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November 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Asia Triennial Manchester and Manchester Poetry Library welcomed Hiromi Itō for a reading and Q&A with her translator, the poet Jeffrey Angles, associate professor of Japanese literature and translation studies at Western Michigan University.

Recording below for anyone who missed it.

#PoetrySky
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Hiromi Itō is often credited with revolutionising postwar Japanese poetry with her work focusing on sexuality, childbirth, and women’s bodies. She moved to the US and has since focused on migration and the psychological effects of linguistic and cultural alienation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOgp...
Komachi Project – Hiromi Ito and Jeffrey Angles at Manchester Poetry Library
YouTube video by Manchester Poetry Library
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November 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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in-person tickets at Manchester Poetry Library:
www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...
Night Vision: Dan Richards and Helen McGhie, 04 Dec 2025
Reading, Manchester Poetry Library
www.mmu.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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From Broken Sleep Books - We are open for poetry pamphlet/chapbook submissions until 30th November.
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @dcahf-met.bsky.social #poetry #writingopps

www.brokensleepbooks.com
Welcome | Broken Sleep Books
A working-class indie publisher putting access to the arts at the forefront of what we do. Authors include J H Prynne, Gillian Clarke, Fiona Benson, Luke Kennard, Andre Bagoo, Andrew McMillan, Pádraig...
www.brokensleepbooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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New interview with Nikolai Duffy on his new novel, Common.
"Sitting with poet and author Nikolai Duffy at the Manchester Poetry Library, he speaks candidly about a new chapter in his life – one that leads him from poetry into the realm of prose."
Continue reading: aah-magazine.co.uk/2025/i-didnt...
"I didn't know I was writing a novel at first": Nikolai Duffy’s on his debut into the world of prose - aAh! Magazine
By Makenna AliFeatured image: Nikolai Duffy Sitting with poet and author Nikolai Duffy at the Manchester Poetry Library, he speaks candidly about a new chapter in his life – one that leads him from po...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Six young climate activists and negotiators at Cop30 shared their hopes and demands.
The demands of young people went unfulfilled by the UN climate summit – mostly
Six young climate activists and negotiators at Cop30 shared their hopes and demands.
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November 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.

🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
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September 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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The November 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities is out now! Check it out for all the lastest #envhum scholarship
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Cover image: A Marshall Islands navigation chart collected by Thomas William Smillie in 1899. Smithsonian Institution Archives.
cover of journal Environmental Humanities. White sticks laid out in a shape on a light blue background
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Hope & action, right here, with joy (& the ever joyful @anitaroy1000.bsky.social) “we are part of a grassroots movement – ordinary people like us across the country, working together to care for the land & each other.”
Country diary: Once a plain old field, now a thriving forest garden | Anita Roy
Wellington, Somerset: The five years we’ve spent transforming this patch has been recognised with an RHS award. We’re proud, but we’re not done yet
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Happy World Linguistics Day! Celebratory days take off when groups of people decide to make them happen so... let's see how many different locations we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!
Green background with three white globes showing different aspects of earth (top to bottom Asia/Oceania, North and South America, and Africa and Europe). Around each globe are the words 'Happy World Linguistics Day! November 26th'.
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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This is your chance to vote for Oxford’s Word of the Year.

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Oxford Word of the Year 2025 - Oxford University Press
Voting is now open for Oxford Word of the Year 2025! Discover our shortlist and have your say by Thursday 27 November.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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New in Geo:

A literature review on climate smart strategies: Localising climate action and advancing some possibilities for artificial intelligence in resilience building for small-scale farmers in Zimbabwe' by Siphephisiwe Dube & Sadhana Manik

doi.org/10.1002/geo2... #geosky
A Literature Review on Climate Smart Strategies: Localising Climate Action and Advancing Some Possibilities for Artificial Intelligence in Resilience Building for Small‐Scale Farmers in Zimbabwe
Small-scale farmers across the world face numerous challenges exacerbated by climate change which severely affects their farming activities. Similarly in Zimbabwe, small-scale farmers are struggling ...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM