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
only handmade plagiarism from me
February 7, 2026 at 9:07 AM
only handmade plagiarism from me
thank you so much!
January 30, 2026 at 11:00 PM
thank you so much!
the book version of The Gathering Cloud, @uniformbooks.bsky.social 2017, contains 32 photos of the sea from the train passing through Dawlish, and a note about the time the sea broke through the line in 1859, as it will almost certainly do again. and again. www.uniformbooks.co.uk/thegathering...
January 25, 2026 at 9:57 AM
the book version of The Gathering Cloud, @uniformbooks.bsky.social 2017, contains 32 photos of the sea from the train passing through Dawlish, and a note about the time the sea broke through the line in 1859, as it will almost certainly do again. and again. www.uniformbooks.co.uk/thegathering...
The Gathering Cloud launched in November 2016, the night Trump was elected president, the first time. I honestly did not intend for the title to be portent of some greater catastrophe
January 25, 2026 at 9:42 AM
The Gathering Cloud launched in November 2016, the night Trump was elected president, the first time. I honestly did not intend for the title to be portent of some greater catastrophe
the destruction of the railway at Dawlish in 2014 also started me thinking about entanglements of climate and infrastructure. The Gathering Cloud, addresses the environmental impact of cloud storage by calling attention to the materiality of clouds in the sky luckysoap.com/thegathering...
January 25, 2026 at 9:39 AM
the destruction of the railway at Dawlish in 2014 also started me thinking about entanglements of climate and infrastructure. The Gathering Cloud, addresses the environmental impact of cloud storage by calling attention to the materiality of clouds in the sky luckysoap.com/thegathering...
in response to the storms of 2014, which also brought devastating flooding to Somerset, I started thinking about how we write about invisible forces such as wind. This is a Picture of Wind, a weather poem for phones, launched around this this in 2018 luckysoap.com/apictureofwi...
This is a Picture of Wind || J. R. Carpenter
Part poetic almanac, part private weather diary, and part live wind report for the South West of England, this work calls attention to climate change by picturing through variations in language distur...
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January 25, 2026 at 9:25 AM
in response to the storms of 2014, which also brought devastating flooding to Somerset, I started thinking about how we write about invisible forces such as wind. This is a Picture of Wind, a weather poem for phones, launched around this this in 2018 luckysoap.com/apictureofwi...
I had been living in England, the other side of Dawlish, for about 5 years when storm destroyed this same section of railway 4 February 2014. that storm and its aftermath galvanised me to write about climate www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
Dawlish railway: Decade on from storm devastation
The South West mainline railway was severely damaged in 2014 and unusable for eight weeks.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 25, 2026 at 9:04 AM
I had been living in England, the other side of Dawlish, for about 5 years when storm destroyed this same section of railway 4 February 2014. that storm and its aftermath galvanised me to write about climate www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
oh I wish I’d spotted this sooner!
January 14, 2026 at 5:08 PM
oh I wish I’d spotted this sooner!