Matt Clegg
@eyesfront.bsky.social
Poet, pedestrian, pedagogue. Nature connection. Place writing. Tsu jan. Muga. Atarashi. Digital ascetic. Appstinence. Books include: Lost Between Stations, West North East, The Navigators, & Cazique - all from Longbarrow Press: https://longbarrowpress.c
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Matt Clegg
@eyesfront.bsky.social
· Sep 15
Sadly, I don't currently have good enough tech to get age-verification through a picture, so I'm unable to use my 'chat' facility. Apologies to those who are trying to message me.
History has lured
me here – a lining of moss
on a crumbling log.
This year, I'm hoping to release a 3-pamphlet sequence of haibun with @longbarrowpress.bsky.social. It has a Covid-19 theme, lockdown-restricted walking/writing process, & illustrations by my partner, Ruth. #HaveYouAlwaysBeenHere?
me here – a lining of moss
on a crumbling log.
This year, I'm hoping to release a 3-pamphlet sequence of haibun with @longbarrowpress.bsky.social. It has a Covid-19 theme, lockdown-restricted walking/writing process, & illustrations by my partner, Ruth. #HaveYouAlwaysBeenHere?
January 4, 2026 at 1:24 PM
History has lured
me here – a lining of moss
on a crumbling log.
This year, I'm hoping to release a 3-pamphlet sequence of haibun with @longbarrowpress.bsky.social. It has a Covid-19 theme, lockdown-restricted walking/writing process, & illustrations by my partner, Ruth. #HaveYouAlwaysBeenHere?
me here – a lining of moss
on a crumbling log.
This year, I'm hoping to release a 3-pamphlet sequence of haibun with @longbarrowpress.bsky.social. It has a Covid-19 theme, lockdown-restricted walking/writing process, & illustrations by my partner, Ruth. #HaveYouAlwaysBeenHere?
If one habit unites the leaders, inventors, scientists and artists who have forged our civilisation it is reading. Serious readers are over-represented in almost every area of human achievement.
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The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation
jmarriott.substack.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
If one habit unites the leaders, inventors, scientists and artists who have forged our civilisation it is reading. Serious readers are over-represented in almost every area of human achievement.
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o...
Staff were left in tears and there was a "real sadness in the room" when more than 200 University of Derby workers were called to a redundancy meeting earlier this week. It comes after the university announced proposals which could see around 265 staff lose their jobs...
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October 21, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Staff were left in tears and there was a "real sadness in the room" when more than 200 University of Derby workers were called to a redundancy meeting earlier this week. It comes after the university announced proposals which could see around 265 staff lose their jobs...
www.msn.com/en-gb/educat...
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A union has said it is balloting for strike action after the University of Derby announced plans that could see more than 200 members of staff made redundant.
The BBC understands the redundancy proposals involve 265 full-time equivalent job losses.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The BBC understands the redundancy proposals involve 265 full-time equivalent job losses.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Union ballots for strike action over cuts at the University of Derby
The BBC understands the redundancy proposals involve 265 full-time equivalent job losses.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A union has said it is balloting for strike action after the University of Derby announced plans that could see more than 200 members of staff made redundant.
The BBC understands the redundancy proposals involve 265 full-time equivalent job losses.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The BBC understands the redundancy proposals involve 265 full-time equivalent job losses.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
On the 'opportunity cost' of Smartphones, 'behavioural contagion', & the new societal norms they produce: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad-s...
The ugly cost of smartphones
YouTube video by The Market Exit
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October 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM
On the 'opportunity cost' of Smartphones, 'behavioural contagion', & the new societal norms they produce: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ad-s...
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John Bevis, 'Cloud Study'; Dymo tape edition, 1981.
“There is always a danger that the use of any system of names based on types shall lead to the neglect of everything not typical.”—Arthur W. Clayden, Cloud Studies, 1905.
“There is always a danger that the use of any system of names based on types shall lead to the neglect of everything not typical.”—Arthur W. Clayden, Cloud Studies, 1905.
October 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
John Bevis, 'Cloud Study'; Dymo tape edition, 1981.
“There is always a danger that the use of any system of names based on types shall lead to the neglect of everything not typical.”—Arthur W. Clayden, Cloud Studies, 1905.
“There is always a danger that the use of any system of names based on types shall lead to the neglect of everything not typical.”—Arthur W. Clayden, Cloud Studies, 1905.
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Climate change though. Absolutely insane lack of panic about this www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Climate change though. Absolutely insane lack of panic about this www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Voters' voices are being shut out of British politics. Your Party has a radical plan to change that | Jeremy Corbyn
Voters' voices are being shut out of British politics. Your Party has a radical plan to change that | Jeremy Corbyn
At our conference in November we will use a jury service-type model to allow members to discuss and decide policy, strategy and even the name of our party, says Your Party co-leader Jeremy Corbyn
www.theguardian.com
October 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Voters' voices are being shut out of British politics. Your Party has a radical plan to change that | Jeremy Corbyn
Beth Gibbons - Floating On A Moment (Later... with Jools Holland)
YouTube video by BBC Music
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October 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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I thought this John Berryman poem, exhumed from an archive by Shane Macrae and published in the TLS, was very fine.
October 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
I thought this John Berryman poem, exhumed from an archive by Shane Macrae and published in the TLS, was very fine.
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Tony Harrison, poet
1937-2025
1937-2025
September 27, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Tony Harrison, poet
1937-2025
1937-2025
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Sad to hear of the death of Tony Harrison at the age of 88. He was perhaps the last surviving major English poet of the 20th Century. I posted this on his birthday last year:
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September 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sad to hear of the death of Tony Harrison at the age of 88. He was perhaps the last surviving major English poet of the 20th Century. I posted this on his birthday last year:
x.com/SimoninSuffo...
x.com/SimoninSuffo...
nside the Tony Blair Institute: Larry Ellison’s Money, NHS Data, and Democracy at Risk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JHO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JHO...
Inside the Tony Blair Institute: Larry Ellison’s Money, NHS Data, and Democracy at Risk
YouTube video by Democracy for Sale
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September 29, 2025 at 5:35 AM
nside the Tony Blair Institute: Larry Ellison’s Money, NHS Data, and Democracy at Risk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JHO...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JHO...
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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...
RIP Tony Harrison: the first poet from my home city I read. I remember my first girlfriend calling me downstairs when she saw the re-showing of 'V' in the late 80s. 'There's a poet on TV! He's from Leeds!' The School of Eloquence is his masterpiece, & The Loiners is underprized.
September 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
RIP Tony Harrison: the first poet from my home city I read. I remember my first girlfriend calling me downstairs when she saw the re-showing of 'V' in the late 80s. 'There's a poet on TV! He's from Leeds!' The School of Eloquence is his masterpiece, & The Loiners is underprized.
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And so everyone needs IDs?
Are they actually saying this?
What?
Are they actually saying this?
What?
September 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
And so everyone needs IDs?
Are they actually saying this?
What?
Are they actually saying this?
What?
Nearly half of UK families excluded from modern digital society, study finds
Exclusive: Lack of online skills and access creates digital divide that amplifies other exclusions, says report
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Exclusive: Lack of online skills and access creates digital divide that amplifies other exclusions, says report
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Nearly half of UK families excluded from modern digital society, study finds
Exclusive: Lack of online skills and access creates digital divide that amplifies other exclusions, says report
www.theguardian.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Nearly half of UK families excluded from modern digital society, study finds
Exclusive: Lack of online skills and access creates digital divide that amplifies other exclusions, says report
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Exclusive: Lack of online skills and access creates digital divide that amplifies other exclusions, says report
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Available for a while on BBC Sounds…
4pm TODAY on @BBCRadio4
Love’s Moment: RS Thomas and Mildred Eldridge
Often portrayed as a hostile & difficult figure, RS Thomas was also a poet of deep sensitivity. Gwyneth Lewis explores his unusual marriage to the painter Mildred Elsie Eldridge.
Love’s Moment: RS Thomas and Mildred Eldridge
Often portrayed as a hostile & difficult figure, RS Thomas was also a poet of deep sensitivity. Gwyneth Lewis explores his unusual marriage to the painter Mildred Elsie Eldridge.
BBC Radio 4 - Artworks, Love’s Moment: RS Thomas and Mildred Eldridge
Gwyneth Lewis explores the unusual marriage of poet RS Thomas and artist Mildred Eldridge.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 16, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Available for a while on BBC Sounds…
Can't help feel that Labour's recent strategizing has shifted the Overton Window against their own interests & those of their core voters. The Morgan McSweeney approach seems to melt principles, fog long-term vision, & set up perfect conditions for backlash. It worsens cynicism.
September 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Can't help feel that Labour's recent strategizing has shifted the Overton Window against their own interests & those of their core voters. The Morgan McSweeney approach seems to melt principles, fog long-term vision, & set up perfect conditions for backlash. It worsens cynicism.