Steve Eely
@steveeely.bsky.social
Cracking book
Worth snapping up if there’s only a few left: would also make a good present for anyone who likes walking/the outdoors (or just really good poetry).
'It is the best anthology of new work that I’ve read in years; anyone with an interest in contemporary British poetry should read it.' - Billy Mills
Last few copies of 'The Footing': our first (and, to date, only) anthology (unlikely to be reprinted)
thefooting.wordpress.com
Last few copies of 'The Footing': our first (and, to date, only) anthology (unlikely to be reprinted)
thefooting.wordpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Cracking book
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Worth snapping up if there’s only a few left: would also make a good present for anyone who likes walking/the outdoors (or just really good poetry).
'It is the best anthology of new work that I’ve read in years; anyone with an interest in contemporary British poetry should read it.' - Billy Mills
Last few copies of 'The Footing': our first (and, to date, only) anthology (unlikely to be reprinted)
thefooting.wordpress.com
Last few copies of 'The Footing': our first (and, to date, only) anthology (unlikely to be reprinted)
thefooting.wordpress.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Worth snapping up if there’s only a few left: would also make a good present for anyone who likes walking/the outdoors (or just really good poetry).
The fifth and final workshop of my creative writing short-course 'Poetry as Performance and Process' looks at Wole Soyinka's visionary modernist sequence 'Idanre'. Wednesday 26th November, 7.00-9.00. Booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
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Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
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November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The fifth and final workshop of my creative writing short-course 'Poetry as Performance and Process' looks at Wole Soyinka's visionary modernist sequence 'Idanre'. Wednesday 26th November, 7.00-9.00. Booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
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November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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I was looking for the fault the tripping switch
the place where the signal jumped the tracks
To the End of the Land: a text & audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia.
Order the pamphlet & CD here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
the place where the signal jumped the tracks
To the End of the Land: a text & audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia.
Order the pamphlet & CD here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
June 27, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I was looking for the fault the tripping switch
the place where the signal jumped the tracks
To the End of the Land: a text & audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia.
Order the pamphlet & CD here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
the place where the signal jumped the tracks
To the End of the Land: a text & audio collaboration between Martin Heslop & Helen Tookey, grounded in the landscapes of Nova Scotia.
Order the pamphlet & CD here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Corn bunting singing in the beets. Another two singing males nearby. Never heard them sing qpmin November before.
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Corn bunting singing in the beets. Another two singing males nearby. Never heard them sing qpmin November before.
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....
November 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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....
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Farage: epic grifter
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Farage: epic grifter
'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-...
October 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
'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-...
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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
October 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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
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I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.
October 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
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!'
More information and booking details: www.eventbrite.com/.../poetry-a....
'How instructive this is!'
More information and booking details: www.eventbrite.com/.../poetry-a....
October 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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!'
More information and booking details: www.eventbrite.com/.../poetry-a....
'How instructive this is!'
More information and booking details: www.eventbrite.com/.../poetry-a....
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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
wildcourt.co.uk/discovering-...
— @greeningpoet.bsky.social on discovering George Mackay Brown
#poetrysky
wildcourt.co.uk/discovering-...
October 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“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
wildcourt.co.uk/discovering-...
— @greeningpoet.bsky.social on discovering George Mackay Brown
#poetrysky
wildcourt.co.uk/discovering-...
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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.
#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.
October 14, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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.
#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.
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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.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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David Morley · From ‘Seven Women Scientists’
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October 14, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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-...
Poetry as Performance & Process
An Online Creative Writing Short-Course
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October 11, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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-...
Evolve the pile it does.
October 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Evolve the pile it does.
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-...
www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
October 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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-...
www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
Fascist State.
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
October 3, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Fascist State.
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...
September 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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
September 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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
My fortnightly online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' begins on Wed 1st Oct, 7-9pm.
Numbers are capped to allow a small group experience, and there are still a few places left. More information and booking details here.
www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
Numbers are capped to allow a small group experience, and there are still a few places left. More information and booking details here.
www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
September 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My fortnightly online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' begins on Wed 1st Oct, 7-9pm.
Numbers are capped to allow a small group experience, and there are still a few places left. More information and booking details here.
www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
Numbers are capped to allow a small group experience, and there are still a few places left. More information and booking details here.
www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
Still three or four tickets left for this event before I have to declare it full.
Ted Hughes's Patrington: a guided walk through the poet's little seminal National Service landscape. Saturday 4th October, 11am-3pm. More information and booking details here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
Ted Hughes's Patrington: a guided walk through the poet's little seminal National Service landscape. Saturday 4th October, 11am-3pm. More information and booking details here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
September 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Still three or four tickets left for this event before I have to declare it full.
Ted Hughes's Patrington: a guided walk through the poet's little seminal National Service landscape. Saturday 4th October, 11am-3pm. More information and booking details here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
Ted Hughes's Patrington: a guided walk through the poet's little seminal National Service landscape. Saturday 4th October, 11am-3pm. More information and booking details here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
Sickening capitulation to their true values.
Every Senate Democrat voted for this crap. Every single one of them.
September 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Sickening capitulation to their true values.