Anne Caldwell
caldwell10.bsky.social
Anne Caldwell
@caldwell10.bsky.social
Poet, writer, editor, lecturer, RLF Advisory Fellow. Latest book - Neither Here Nor There - SurVision. 5 poetry collections and interests in nature, moss, birds, prose poetry and education annecaldwell.net
Beautiful summer garden in Yorkshire. The perfect writing retreat.
June 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l... Delighted to have some work in this wonderful anthology, edited by Clare Shaw and Anna Chilvers. #bogs #peatlands
The Book of Bogs
This new anthology from over forty writers, including Robert Macfarlane, Amy Liptrot, Alys Fowler and Patti Smith explores peatlands and bogs, and argues for their importance.
www.littletoller.co.uk
May 19, 2025 at 2:49 PM
A great get together with my Royal Literary Fund Mentee Writers and my final day as an Advisory Fellow. It’s been great!
May 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Delighted to have sphagnum - a poetry/dance film at this festival - massive thanks to collaborators Lewis Landini Filmmaker and dancer Inari Hullkonnen hebdenbridgepicturehouse.co.uk/movies/hebde...
Hebden Bridge Short Film Festival
Hebden Bridge Film Festival is proud to present a day celebrating SHORTS. We will be having 3 sessions: A showcase, a Calderdale competition and our loved HBFF National and International shorts compet
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March 21, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Introducing North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars for poets and readers in the UK and Ireland (and for early birds and night owls planet-wide).

northseapoets.com 🌊
Follow @northseapoets.bsky.social to learn more

#NorthSeaPoets
#Poetry
February 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Really looking forward to running this again this summer. Places still available.
February 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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There are many takes on the William Carlos Williams original of this poem but this one sounds most like it is being spoken by someone from Leeds.
February 5, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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We`re opening submissions for our new anthology 17th February! Very happy to work with my magic co-editor @suefinch.bsky.social again.💚We will announce the theme a day before. Looking forward to reading your work. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Anthology Photo by Noah Usry, Unsplash
February 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A gorgeous sunset this evening. Red sky at night shepherds delight! But it is very chilly out there. I saw a kestrel today and three roe deer.
January 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Our Poetry Review reading groups have been meeting this week to discuss poems from the winter issue of the magazine, including poems by Crispin Best, Nejra Ćehić and Meg Day. Why not join us next time - groups meet online and in person every quarter.
January 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This is well worth looking at
January 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Very sad to hear this news.
January 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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A very useful starter pack for Canadian poets compiled by @phillipcrymble.bsky.social
Here's one I made listing some of the poets who've appeared in our pages over the years. There are other Canadian poetry starter packs out there too.
January 22, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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The New Writing Flash Fiction Competition 2025 is open for entries: newwriters.org.uk/flash-fictio...

- Top prize: £1,100
- Head Judge: Shreya Sen-Handley (@shreyasenhan on Insta)
- Donating £1 from each entry to the brilliant creative writing charity First Story

#flashfiction #writingcommunity
November 8, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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‘Hiccoughs’ and ‘Angelica’: Two newly discovered poems by Virginia Woolf www.the-tls.co.uk/literature/p...
‘Hiccoughs’ and ‘Angelica’: Two newly discovered poems by Virginia Woolf
Two poems by Virginia Woolf have resurfaced. I found them tucked in the back of a folder of letters to her niece Angelica Bell in the Harry Ransom Center
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January 17, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I hope you enjoy this wintery prose poem from my collection, ‘ Alice and the North’. It was down to about -10 here last night!
January 11, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Glad to be home. A cold night ahead here in Yorkshire. I am editing anew poetry collection for Valley Press - do you like the working title - ‘The Language of Now’ ?
January 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A great winter walk in the Craggs today, West Yorkshire - freezing and skeletal
January 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Always loved the shipping forecast!
And a special edition of Poetry Please at 15.30 in which Roger McGough & Paul Farley explore poems inspired by the Shipping Forecast- Heaney, Duffy, Plath, Cope, as well as a new poem from Roger. With some guest star @bbcradio4.bsky.social readers...Producer Eliza Lomas www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, The Shipping Forecast: Poetry Please
Roger McGough is joined by Paul Farley, sharing poems inspired by the Shipping Forecast.
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January 1, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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windswept is a poetry film by me with Filmmaker Lewis Landini inspired by an exercise by Dance Artist Inari Hulkkonen. It comes from a residency at Wainsgate Chapel. I hope you enjoy it. #poetryfilm #poetry #poetrycommunity
Poetry Film - Wainsgate - Anne Caldwell, Lewis Landini inspired by dancer Inari Hulkkonen
YouTube video by Anne Caldwell
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December 29, 2024 at 3:14 PM
I thought this was fabulous
What does reading do to a child's brain?

As part of his #R4Today guest edit, @frankcottrellboyce.bsky.social visits the BabyDevLab at the University of East London to chat to developmental cognitive neuroscientist Dr Sam Wass. 🙌🏾
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Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds
Listen live to BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds
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December 24, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Great selection of reading for the Xmas break! Poetry and short stories that are a delight - Books from @helenivory.bsky.social Amanda Dalton and Gaia Holmes.
December 19, 2024 at 10:20 AM
Hello Bluesky people! I have just joined. A very merry festive season to you all. I am working on a new collection of poems at the moment. Watch this space!
December 16, 2024 at 11:39 AM