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Caleb Parkin
@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social
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Poet 💡 PhDing, Exeter RENEW Biodiversity 🌿 'Mingle' - Nine Arches ☣️ 'The Coin' - Broken Sleep 🪙 Bristol City Poet, '20-22 🦄 Ecopoetry, queer ecologies 🐙 Music, dancing, DJing 🎶 Say hello 👋🏼

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Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social · Nov 19
Finally got round to making a #LinkTree and frankly, I feel exhausted by my own internet self:

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Issue 84 of The Interpreter's House features the brilliant Poet, DJ, writer & RENEW Early Career Researcher @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social which: 'looks broadly at human-nonhuman communication & 'critterly voices' in contemporary #ecopoetry.' 👇

theinterpretershouse.org/parkin-84

#renewbiodiversity
Issue 84 — The Interpreter's House
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November 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Excited to teach this eco-techno course in early '26 🖥 🌎🍄🔬🔭📡🧫
poetryschool.bsky.social The Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social · 7d
Our Spring Term is now live & we’ve got a whole host of brilliant tutors & poetry courses lined up, so be sure to book promptly to avoid disappointment. Our handy Quick Course Guide is linked in bio, where you’ll find everything you’ll need to know…

poetryschool.com/new-courses/... 🪻🌜
Spring 2026 – Quick Course Guide • Poetry School
Check out our Quick Course Guide for the Spring 2026 term which will help you pick a course to take at the Poetry School.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Welcome to ‘The Living Library’: a pop-up exhibition of material ecopoetry curated by @royalholloway.bsky.social and the Landmark Arts Centre 🍃🪾🍁🐝🦇

This event forms part of Being Human Festival - the national festival of the humanities 🧡
A large gothic church - image taken from high up looking down at an exhibition. There are temporary walls displayed throughout featuring text art and table covered in books Woman stood in front of an exhibition area where Susie Campbell’s wound is positioned - framed images of torn fabrics are on the wall and a Concertina books on a mirror table reflecting the ceiling of a church
November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Morning gorgeous babies. Share some kindness this day if you're able. Good mischief. Love you all 🍂🧡🍂
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

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Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
calebparkinpoet.bsky.social
What if we dared to imagine and write towards a technolgy that was a part of, not apart from, our biosphere?

I'll be teaching this course starting in January, with @poetryschool.bsky.social

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Microscope, Telescope, Periscope: An Ecopoetics of Technology • Poetry School
On this new course you will have the opportunity to tap into the special appeal of cartographies with tutor Peter Hughes.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Peter Hughes, Iris Colomb, Caleb Parkin (@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social), Natalie Whittaker (@natalie-whittaker.bsky.social), Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese, Suzanne Conway (@suzanneconwaypoet.bsky.social), Steve Komarnyckyj, Hannah Silva.
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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Rats given a faecal transplant from exuberant toddlers showed more exploratory behaviour, supporting the idea that gut bacteria might affect children’s emotional development
The gut microbiome may play a role in shaping our personality
Rats given a faecal transplant from exuberant toddlers showed more exploratory behaviour, supporting the idea that gut bacteria might affect children’s emotional development
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November 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
calebparkinpoet.bsky.social
Hi friends - I'm Featured Poet on the new @interpretershouse, with three poems & an introductory essay to them:

theinterpretershouse.org/parkin-84

They're PhD work: one of my jay poems & two from my travels last year 🐦 🚢 🐻
Parkin 84 — The Interpreter's House
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November 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Delighted to have a poem in the new issue of The Interpreter's House alongside @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social and @moette.bsky.social!

My piece 'Fourpence', narrated by the women of Whitechapel during the time of Jack the Ripper, can be read here:
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Hainsworth 84 — The Interpreter's House
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November 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
calebparkinpoet.bsky.social
Cutting support to the motability scheme for disabled people, while we continue to fund Prince Andrew's residences & "lifestyle", should *radicalise anyone* 👑🚫🤬

#CharlesTheLast #TaxTheRich #WealthTaxNow
October 22, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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My absolute favourite critter this week is the wren/s in our garden, hopping about adorably & bellowing their rowdy little songs.

How could anyone watch a wren & not feel inspired to bring down capitalism?
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October 14, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Check out this bad boy - a Pale Tussock moth caterpillar (Calliteara pudibunda) - living its best life. That gorgeous on-trend burgundy tail tuft!
October 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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In collaboration with @mklitfest.bsky.social in August we held an online masterclass – Digging in the Dirt: adventures in ecopoetry with @clareshawpoet.bsky.social , @betarish.bsky.social , @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/the-magic-of... 1 /3
The Magic of Bogs – Poets for the Planet
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October 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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I'm reading at this on Saturday night - come join, it's online 🙂
August 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Many thanks to the poets who took part in the #EcoSonnetChain:

#LindaFrance, #EmmaMust, @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social, #AnnSophieBalzer, @janeburn.bsky.social, #TishaniDoshi, #JemmaBorg, @jsaphra.bsky.social, #JacobPolley, @sophieherx.bsky.social, @helenmort.bsky.social, #SteveEly, & #GlynMaxwell.
August 18, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Really happy to be being joined on this month's #LastSaturdayPoetry online Zoom by @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social @carmellapoetry.bsky.social @irisannelewis.bsky.social @eoinflannery.bsky.social @dralyal.bsky.social and SueProfitt - free tix: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur...
Last Saturday Poets: August
A magnificent seven poets, reading for you.
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August 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Look what I picked up in Stratford-Upon-Avon last week! The Anne-thology from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social is a beautiful collection of poems, with a tour de force sestina from @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social and a hilarious film review/poem from @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social 🪶💀
August 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.
Poem title: At the Intersection The poem is divided into two overlapping circles. The left-hand circle is titled ‘me’ and the text reads: the day we went out to have an ice-cream, we said nothing just let our silence melt in the air as we walked across the common our love never tiring at all The right-hand circle is titled ‘you’ and the text reads: we should have talked it over but nothing ever seems to get in your fat head. You are so common that I wish we’d never met at all and I’d married Tim instead In the intersection of the poem (where the two circles overlap), the text reads: we have nothing in common at all
August 4, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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mklitfest.bsky.social
A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project and for Give Peat A Chance.

www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...

@clareshawpoet.bsky.social
@betarish.bsky.social
@jessmookherjee.bsky.social
@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social
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July 31, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project.

www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...

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July 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Writing for #PoemsAbout #Glamour?
Friday’s the moment.
Polish the surface, cut to the truth.
Tag your post + tag us:
@alanparry83.bsky.social
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Then: Read. Repost. Reply.
Keep it real, even when it sparkles.
Prompts: shorturl.at/oEXAM
A person strikes a dramatic pose under green and red lighting, wearing a leopard-print top. Their makeup is bold, with dark glittering eye accents trailing like tears or stars. They have short, tousled hair and dangle earrings, contributing to a look that mixes defiance with allure. The lighting and posture evoke a cabaret or glam-rock aesthetic. In the top right corner, white text reads: "@BrokenSpineArts.bsky.social" and "@AlanParry83.bsky.social." Bottom right text says: "Read Repost Reply #PoemsAbout #Glamour." The Broken Spine logo, a stylised fountain pen nib, is in the top left corner.
July 22, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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mklitfest.bsky.social
A 90-minute masterclass for our Raising Voices Project and for Give Peat A Chance.

www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...

@clareshawpoet.bsky.social
@betarish.bsky.social
@jessmookherjee.bsky.social
@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
@ninearchespress.bsky.social
July 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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I'd rather see wind farms spring up, than watch the landscapes everyone is passionate about die because we didn't save them - because we were so keen on keeping them pretty.

These places aren't just a vista. They are a fragile living cloak upon the land. They will not survive climate change.
July 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Pride birthday is great & all, but it's essentially like having it on Gay Christmas 🌈🎁😅
July 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM