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Great interview with Tony Juniper Good to see him offering strong support for #Wildbelt, as proposed by the The Wildlife Trusts and many others... theguardian.com/environment/20…

Up to Liverpool tomorrow night to see Martin Crimp’s Play House at the Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse theatres directed by Eira Murphy. Have cleaned my fridge in anticipation. everymanplayhouse.com/whats-on/yep-d…

The sun shone for the #RejoinEUMarch today

LEOOOOOO! Trossard slots in our second just ahead of the interval 2️⃣ 🔴 2-0 🔵 (45+1)

Extra time, extra points

At the Leeds Corn Exchange as Tom Branfoot and sarah dawson (poet) create cut up poetry

At the Laurel Prize for nature and environmental poetry at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. John Burnside awarded the main prize with prizes to charlotte shevchenko knight and Hannah Copley

Thanks for a stimulating day of eco-poetic discussions and readings Poetry School today at Leeds University.

Mapping the Future mapped, Complete Works community celebrated Royal Society of Literature - wonderful readings and inspiring intros Bernardine Evaristo Nathalie Teitler Mona Arshi Karen McCarthy Woolf Dr Nick Makoha Yomi Ṣode 🇳🇬 - Bloodaxe Books

Westminster Abbey today for annual Keats commemoration. “If I should die, said I to myself, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory”

Poetry in the sister languages of Gaelic and Irish from Pàdraig MacAoidh and Eoin P. Ó Murchú at Scotland House London. Interesting discussion mourning the loss of the cultural connections and networks with the other minoritised languages of Europe since Brexit.

'Enshittification' selected as word of the year by Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary. “We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening” Cory Doctorow canberratimes.com.au/story/8830766/…

Fàilte! Congratulations to Pàdraig MacAoidh (Peter Mackay) appointed the new Scots Makar, National Poet for Scotland.

It’s Christmas Tree day in London! The Norwegian Trafalgar Square tree will be lit at 6pm this evening. Looking forward to the brass band, the drummers, the choir and ⭐️the new poem⭐️ commissioned for the ceremony. (rain please delay your arrival). See you later Trafalgar Tree

Another Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree has been lit and feted with a new poem. Thank you Valerie Bloom and the children of St Vincent’s primary. It may have been the WETTEST event in living memory but we had great fun. The Poetry Society Trafalgar Tree

‘Brain Rot’ is OED’s word of the year 2024 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Ah, bitter chill it was! Get ready for the Eve of St Agnes - Monday 20 January. We have a special online event featuring poet Helen Farish Bloodaxe Books, Prof Nicholas Roe and a relay reading of Keats’s chilliest poem. Free tickets here: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/visions-…

Take part in this year’s Keats conference this May at Keats House Museum London. Deadline for proposals is Friday 21 February, 12 noon UK time. We just need a 200-250 outline. More info here: keatsfoundation.com/conference/