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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Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.
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.
February 4, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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.
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Postdoc and PhD positions at Ghent University: Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600
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#envhist #medieval #envhum
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#envhist #medieval #envhum
PostDoc & PhD Opportunities - Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600
The European Research Council (ERC)-funded project ‘Ecological Entanglements and Biodiversity in Late Medieval Northern Europe, 1400-1600’ (ECOLENT), led by Sander Govaerts, offers several PhD and pos...
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February 2, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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
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#envhist #medieval #envhum
I miss the corner of old Twitter one could ask random JavaScript questions to. took me ages to figure out how to offload a body onload element in script tags. luv you window.setTimeout(speak, 450);
February 1, 2026 at 2:18 PM
I miss the corner of old Twitter one could ask random JavaScript questions to. took me ages to figure out how to offload a body onload element in script tags. luv you window.setTimeout(speak, 450);
fourteen-day forecasts are coming to the Met Office web and app in the coming months www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
‘Innovating weather science’: Met Office launches new two-week forecast
Weather service research concludes that less accurate probability-based predictions are still considered helpful
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January 31, 2026 at 7:55 AM
fourteen-day forecasts are coming to the Met Office web and app in the coming months www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
kinda buzzing from online book launch but also, kinda fried from a 14 hour work day. official publication date for p a u s e is tomorrow. go well wee book @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
J. R. Carpenter - p a u s e. | Broken Sleep Books
In p a u s e. J. R. Carpenter turns the simple act of going for a walk into a radical practice of attention. Written out of a year of daily encounters with kisiskâciwanisîpiy, the North Saskatchewan R...
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January 30, 2026 at 10:12 PM
kinda buzzing from online book launch but also, kinda fried from a 14 hour work day. official publication date for p a u s e is tomorrow. go well wee book @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
tonight!!
I’ll be reading from my new poetry collection p a u s e in the @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social January launch event 30 January 8pm (UK) online, along with Jake Wild Hall, Andrew McDonnell, Annie Muir, Simon Barraclough & Aaron Kent, and Sneha Subramanian Kanta: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...
Broken Sleep Books January 2026 Launch
Readers: Jake Wild Hall, J. R. Carpenter, Simon Barraclough, Aaron Kent, Andrew McDonnell, Annie Muir, and Sneha Subramanian Kanta
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January 30, 2026 at 5:24 PM
tonight!!
storm Ingrid damaged part of the seawall that supports the railway track near Dawlish yesterday, 8 after a storm destroyed sections of the same track in February 2014. this is the only rail line into the West County www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Storm Ingrid damage forces closure of Devon railway line - BBC News
The Dawlish railway line is closed "until further notice" after a sea wall partially collapsed.
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January 25, 2026 at 8:57 AM
storm Ingrid damaged part of the seawall that supports the railway track near Dawlish yesterday, 8 after a storm destroyed sections of the same track in February 2014. this is the only rail line into the West County www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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God, Carney really said the quiet part out loud eh? Shamelessly like, "the old order of exploitation and war crimes was working well for us so we were pretending to believe in 'human rights' and 'international law' but now it's not, so let's uhhhhh make a new order and forget about all that stuff"
January 21, 2026 at 2:00 PM
God, Carney really said the quiet part out loud eh? Shamelessly like, "the old order of exploitation and war crimes was working well for us so we were pretending to believe in 'human rights' and 'international law' but now it's not, so let's uhhhhh make a new order and forget about all that stuff"
re: Greenland, one is reminded of the incredibly influential and problematic paper by Frederick Jackson Turner___The Significance of the Frontier in American History read at the meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago, 12 July 1893 nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/e...
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January 17, 2026 at 5:10 PM
re: Greenland, one is reminded of the incredibly influential and problematic paper by Frederick Jackson Turner___The Significance of the Frontier in American History read at the meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago, 12 July 1893 nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/gilded/e...
it’s arrived! first sighting of my new poetry collection p a u s e, written in Treaty 6 Territory, published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social available for order here: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
January 16, 2026 at 11:24 AM
it’s arrived! first sighting of my new poetry collection p a u s e, written in Treaty 6 Territory, published by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social available for order here: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.
So begins translator David Larsen’s introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by 9th-century Arabic linguist Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī. www.wavepoetry.com/products/the...
So begins translator David Larsen’s introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by 9th-century Arabic linguist Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī. www.wavepoetry.com/products/the...
The Book of Rain, translated by David Larsen
Translated by David Larsen Description Reviews The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud. So begins translator David Larsen’s introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalog...
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January 14, 2026 at 1:36 PM
The contents of the future are the contents of a cloud.
So begins translator David Larsen’s introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by 9th-century Arabic linguist Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī. www.wavepoetry.com/products/the...
So begins translator David Larsen’s introduction for the Book of Rain, the earliest known catalogue of Arabic weather-words, by 9th-century Arabic linguist Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī. www.wavepoetry.com/products/the...
did I mention, in the blur that was autumn, that Julie Johnstone has produced this beautiful publication of my work, called ‘cobble’ available in open edition from @essencepress.bsky.social www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...
JR Carpenter - Julie Johnstone
J. R. Carpenter Essence Press has published two publications with J. R. Carpenter. cobble cobble | J. R. Carpenter | two hand cut cobble shapes drawn from real cobbles, with a tracing paper insert, in...
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January 14, 2026 at 10:37 AM
did I mention, in the blur that was autumn, that Julie Johnstone has produced this beautiful publication of my work, called ‘cobble’ available in open edition from @essencepress.bsky.social www.juliejohnstone.com/essence-pres...
“People interested in climate change want us to speak about the rain, but we want to speak about social relations.” The Weathering Collective. weatheringstation.net
W E A T H E R I N G
A collaborative research project
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January 10, 2026 at 5:46 PM
“People interested in climate change want us to speak about the rain, but we want to speak about social relations.” The Weathering Collective. weatheringstation.net
wildfires and logging have shifted the groundwater elevation in northern quebec and now whole lakes are on the move www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Quebec’s Lake Rouge vanished – but was it a freak natural event or caused by human actions?
Experts and community trying to untangle mystery of outburst that saw water travel almost 10km overland into a bigger lake
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:37 PM
wildfires and logging have shifted the groundwater elevation in northern quebec and now whole lakes are on the move www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
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A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
I’ll be reading from my new poetry collection p a u s e in the @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social January launch event 30 January 8pm (UK) online, along with Jake Wild Hall, Andrew McDonnell, Annie Muir, Simon Barraclough & Aaron Kent, and Sneha Subramanian Kanta: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...
Broken Sleep Books January 2026 Launch
Readers: Jake Wild Hall, J. R. Carpenter, Simon Barraclough, Aaron Kent, Andrew McDonnell, Annie Muir, and Sneha Subramanian Kanta
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 7, 2026 at 10:42 AM
I’ll be reading from my new poetry collection p a u s e in the @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social January launch event 30 January 8pm (UK) online, along with Jake Wild Hall, Andrew McDonnell, Annie Muir, Simon Barraclough & Aaron Kent, and Sneha Subramanian Kanta: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/broken-sle...
James Joyce's short story The Dead, from his collection Dubliners, takes place on 6 January 1904, the feast day of the Epiphany, 122 years ago today: www.gutenberg.org/files/2814/2...
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Dubliners, by James Joyce
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January 6, 2026 at 8:06 PM
James Joyce's short story The Dead, from his collection Dubliners, takes place on 6 January 1904, the feast day of the Epiphany, 122 years ago today: www.gutenberg.org/files/2814/2...
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newly posted: J.R. Carpenter : How does a poem begin? / @jrcarpenter.bsky.social @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social ;
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J.R. Carpenter : How does a poem begin?
How does a poem begin? My mother told me I’d never get anywhere in life because I am a poor speller. I went to art school because ...
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January 1, 2026 at 3:11 PM
newly posted: J.R. Carpenter : How does a poem begin? / @jrcarpenter.bsky.social @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social ;
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last call for submissions to @MinorLits ...
fiction, essays & experimental
info and deadlines here:
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fiction, essays & experimental
info and deadlines here:
oleada.io/publication/...
Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
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January 2, 2026 at 10:32 AM
last call for submissions to @MinorLits ...
fiction, essays & experimental
info and deadlines here:
oleada.io/publication/...
fiction, essays & experimental
info and deadlines here:
oleada.io/publication/...
in which, @robmclennan.bsky.social asks me, how does a poem begin ? periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/jr-c...
J.R. Carpenter : How does a poem begin?
How does a poem begin? My mother told me I’d never get anywhere in life because I am a poor speller. I went to art school because ...
periodicityjournal.blogspot.com
January 1, 2026 at 4:06 PM
in which, @robmclennan.bsky.social asks me, how does a poem begin ? periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/jr-c...
2025. the year of Measures of Weather. thanks to @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social for publishing, Jade Cuttle and others for reviewing, Doug Parker for meteorological discussion, the judges of the Laurel Prize and the Forward Prize, all the sky watchers, and everyone who read poetry this tough old year.
December 31, 2025 at 6:58 AM
2025. the year of Measures of Weather. thanks to @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social for publishing, Jade Cuttle and others for reviewing, Doug Parker for meteorological discussion, the judges of the Laurel Prize and the Forward Prize, all the sky watchers, and everyone who read poetry this tough old year.
it’s not just Reform voters who think you have to be born in the UK to be British. it’s also every British person who asks me where I’m from the minute I open my mouth. after 16.5 years in this country. accent racism is also racism. please stop www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
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December 30, 2025 at 6:12 AM
it’s not just Reform voters who think you have to be born in the UK to be British. it’s also every British person who asks me where I’m from the minute I open my mouth. after 16.5 years in this country. accent racism is also racism. please stop www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
coral carried to London in a sailing ship’s ballast eroding out of the Thames foreshore, with two Tudor dress pins for scale #mudlarking
December 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
coral carried to London in a sailing ship’s ballast eroding out of the Thames foreshore, with two Tudor dress pins for scale #mudlarking
ever wonder why they call a dick a cock though? well. this is a cockspur. a small yet horny protuberance that grows on the inner side of the lower leg bone of a cock. short for cockerel. a doggerel. for rooster. #mudlarking
December 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
ever wonder why they call a dick a cock though? well. this is a cockspur. a small yet horny protuberance that grows on the inner side of the lower leg bone of a cock. short for cockerel. a doggerel. for rooster. #mudlarking