Steve Eely
@steveeely.bsky.social
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....
'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-...
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....
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-...
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...
My literary walk, 'Ted Hughes's Patrington', exploring the seminal East Yorkshire landscape in which Hughes undertook his National Service takes place on Saturday 4 October. Hope you can join me. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
September 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
My literary walk, 'Ted Hughes's Patrington', exploring the seminal East Yorkshire landscape in which Hughes undertook his National Service takes place on Saturday 4 October. Hope you can join me. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
The course begins with a focus on Ted Hughes's overlooked Expressionist masterpiece, 'Two Horses'.
Earth heaved, splitting. Towers
Reared out. I emerged
Behind horses, updragging with oaken twists
Swaying castles of elastic
My fortifications moved on the sky
The ploughshare my visor [...]
Earth heaved, splitting. Towers
Reared out. I emerged
Behind horses, updragging with oaken twists
Swaying castles of elastic
My fortifications moved on the sky
The ploughshare my visor [...]
September 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The course begins with a focus on Ted Hughes's overlooked Expressionist masterpiece, 'Two Horses'.
Earth heaved, splitting. Towers
Reared out. I emerged
Behind horses, updragging with oaken twists
Swaying castles of elastic
My fortifications moved on the sky
The ploughshare my visor [...]
Earth heaved, splitting. Towers
Reared out. I emerged
Behind horses, updragging with oaken twists
Swaying castles of elastic
My fortifications moved on the sky
The ploughshare my visor [...]
Poetry as Performance & Process: an Online Creative Writing Short-Course, led by Steve Ely, fortnightly from Wednesday 1st Oct. Each of the workshops involves a writing activity arising from a close reading of an exemplary poem. More information and tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
September 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Poetry as Performance & Process: an Online Creative Writing Short-Course, led by Steve Ely, fortnightly from Wednesday 1st Oct. Each of the workshops involves a writing activity arising from a close reading of an exemplary poem. More information and tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
Ted Hughes’s Patrington
A Guided Walk through Ted Hughes’s National Service landscape with poet & Hughes expert, Steve Ely
11.00-3.00, Saturday 4th October, 2025
More information and tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
A Guided Walk through Ted Hughes’s National Service landscape with poet & Hughes expert, Steve Ely
11.00-3.00, Saturday 4th October, 2025
More information and tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Ted Hughes’s Patrington
A Guided Walk through Ted Hughes’s National Service landscape with poet & Hughes expert, Steve Ely
11.00-3.00, Saturday 4th October, 2025
More information and tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
A Guided Walk through Ted Hughes’s National Service landscape with poet & Hughes expert, Steve Ely
11.00-3.00, Saturday 4th October, 2025
More information and tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
I'm running a 5 workshop online course, 'Poetry as Performance & Process' in Oct and Nov of this year - 'What is this poem doing?' 'How is it doing it?' - We'll use learning derived from our close readings of exemplary poems to inform our work. More info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
August 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I'm running a 5 workshop online course, 'Poetry as Performance & Process' in Oct and Nov of this year - 'What is this poem doing?' 'How is it doing it?' - We'll use learning derived from our close readings of exemplary poems to inform our work. More info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
On Saturday 4th October, I'm running a guided walk around Ted Hughes's formative National Service Landscape at Patrington - It's a leisurely amble around the area, and an insight into a crucially formative but neglected part of Hughes's life. www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
August 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
On Saturday 4th October, I'm running a guided walk around Ted Hughes's formative National Service Landscape at Patrington - It's a leisurely amble around the area, and an insight into a crucially formative but neglected part of Hughes's life. www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
I'm running a five workshop, online short-course, 'Poetry as Performance & Process' Oct-Nov 2025. We'll focus on 5 exemplary poems - What is the poem doing?' 'How is it doing it?' - and use the learning to inform our own work. More info and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
August 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I'm running a five workshop, online short-course, 'Poetry as Performance & Process' Oct-Nov 2025. We'll focus on 5 exemplary poems - What is the poem doing?' 'How is it doing it?' - and use the learning to inform our own work. More info and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
Look at me Chalfonts
July 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Look at me Chalfonts
Piles evolving. A bit.
July 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Piles evolving. A bit.
Egghead likes his bookywooks #333
June 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Egghead likes his bookywooks #333
The South Uist launch of ‘Orasaigh’, the book I made with photographer Mike Faint, is launched with a reading and talk on Thursday 29th May at Cnoc Soilleir, Daliburgh. You can listen to Duncan McLeod's Ivor Novello nominated 'Acousmatic Soundwalk', based on the poem here: duncanmacleod.org/listen/
May 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The South Uist launch of ‘Orasaigh’, the book I made with photographer Mike Faint, is launched with a reading and talk on Thursday 29th May at Cnoc Soilleir, Daliburgh. You can listen to Duncan McLeod's Ivor Novello nominated 'Acousmatic Soundwalk', based on the poem here: duncanmacleod.org/listen/