Never forget your reading glasses when you need to stand in front of a very busy audience and some of the best nature writers in the UK.

The Book of Bogs is a glorious anthology about peat and the necessity to protect it. Here's the first page of my chapter about the bogs above Bethesda.

The launch for this anthology will be in Haworth in October. If you'd enjoy hearing from some of the UK's best nature writers, then follow the link and come along: lnkd.in/eX6dBb-Y

Pamphlet proofs completed on the Äland Isles. If there's loads of errors in there, please blame the Finnish archipelago!

'How to Make a Paper Grenade' will be out with @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social next month

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It's important to challenge the silence. I am proud to add volume to valiant endeavour headed by @horatioclare.bsky.social.

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Hiya Julian, thanks for the message. The title poem has the potential for some aftershock.

Thanks Chris

That's wonderful to hear. It looks like a delicious anthology. Thanks for the support 😊

Many thanks Lucy - trying BlueSky again after a big break.

I sensed 'The Book of Bogs' would look good, but I didn't think it would look THIS good...

My piece is about a walk Nic and I took on the Carneddau above Bethesda, and Clare Shaw and Anna Chilvers helped shape it into something quite lovely.

@littletollerbooks.bsky.social

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'How to Make a Paper Grenade' began as a series of acts of resistance, and the poetry pamphlet will be published by @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social in Sep.

Pre-orders:
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And thank you so much to @glynedwards.bsky.social
for his insightful questions. This was a real pleasure.

The Wintry edition of North Wales Wildlife Trust's Wild North Wales was all chilly after overnighting in the letterbox.

Now reading about ecology has become a crucial response to climate anxiety writing, writing may be the next step towards activating positive change 🌱

Running a course through Poetry School this spring which will revisit the first 'nature poets' as lens to considering current ecological collapse.

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Sorry. I was at a university in the week misinforming undergrads about it too. Open still for non-fiction (that'll teach me to half read my emails)

Life goal achieved: finding your book in your local Waterstones (on a lively terrace beside noisy neighbours Duffy and TS Elliot).

'Simon Armitage says poets can convey climate change in a way that scientists and journalists can't'

PLEASE consider submitting your environmental writing / ecopoetry to Modron this weekend for ed 3.

For more info and subs: modronmagazine.com

#poetry #climate

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