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Today's picture: a cup used by the Wordsworths 'The Poet was very fond of [this set] & when... all ... were broken but three he was still allowed to use these cups though the rest of the family breakfasted off plain white china' Wordsworth Grasmere

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Could you be the next writer-in-residence at #QuayWords, our live literature programme based at Exeter Custom House on Exeter's historic Quayside? There are just under two weeks left to apply. The season theme for autumn 2024 will be 'Routes'. bit.ly/qwroutes2024

I'm in the last days of readying my book Is A River Alive?––about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers––to go to copy-edit. For the final phase, I'll read the whole book aloud. The tongue trips on what the eye glides over; the ear hears rhythms clear. Is this something others do?

#OTD 1818 Keats and Charles Brown rise at 6 to view the Stock Ghyll Force waterfalls "We ate a Monstrous Breakfast on our return .. and after it proceeded to Wordsworths. He was not at home .... I was much disappointed. I wrote a note for him ...and set out again" 1/2

Keats goes on "What astonishes me more than any thing is the tone, the coloring, the slate, the stone, the moss, the rock-weed; or, if I may so say, the intellect, the countenance of such places. ...I shall learn poetry here and shall henceforth write more than ever" 2/2

We are thrilled to announce that Arundhati Roy is the winner of the PEN Pinter Prize 2024. She will receive the award in a ceremony co-hosted by the British Library on 10 October. #PENPinterPrize englishpen.org/posts/campaign…

Submit your poem(s) by 31st October - you could win a cash prize and get published in The Poetry Review.

#OTD 1819 Keats arrives at Eglantine Cottage, Shanklin. He writes to his sister “Our window looks over house-tops and Cliffs onto the Sea, so that when the Ships sail past the Cottage chimneys you may take them for weathercocks"

#OTD 1818 Mary Shelley writes in her journal "Go with S[helley] on horseback to il prato fiorito -- a flowery meadow at the top of one of the high Apenines -- Read Anacharsis -- S[helley] reads Anacharsis"

Sustainable stories workshop A free workshop for young people and families to develop stories for a more sustainable future Tomorrow 6 July, 10:30-12:30 Register your place 👇 plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/susta…

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Time for the Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition: they always like students to enter!! poetrysociety.org.uk/competitions/n…

The Wars of the Roses from a woman’s point of view. A new blog about Cecily Neville. Annie Garthwaite Richard III Society English - University of Plymouth #HistoricalFiction #womenshistory #WriterCommunity #ReaderCommunity aksmith.co.uk/post/the-wars-…

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We're excited to say we'll be open for submissions from tomorrow until August 11th - send us your very best work, and of course, read some of the incredible writing on our site to see the kind of stories we enjoy! shortfictionjournal.co.uk/subs

Thanks to Rosemarie Corlett, the #PlymouthLaureateofWords, for sharing these photos from Letters to the Sea workshops that she led at The Box, Plymouth over the weekend. Plymouth Culture

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR LOVELY ECW STUDENTS GRADUATING TODAY! BRAVO, AND THANK YOU >>> FOLLOW THE STEPS >>>

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