J. R. Carpenter
@jrcarpenter.bsky.social
artist, writer, researcher, fossil hunter, PLA licensed mudlarker, and lecturer in the School of English at University of Leeds https://luckysoap.com
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J.R. Carpenter : How does a poem begin?
How does a poem begin? My mother told me I’d never get anywhere in life because I am a poor speller. I went to art school because ...
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January 1, 2026 at 3:11 PM
newly posted: J.R. Carpenter : How does a poem begin? / @jrcarpenter.bsky.social @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social ;
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last call for submissions to @MinorLits ...
fiction, essays & experimental
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fiction, essays & experimental
info and deadlines here:
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Oleada - A Submission Platform
A submission platform for small presses and magazines.
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January 2, 2026 at 10:32 AM
last call for submissions to @MinorLits ...
fiction, essays & experimental
info and deadlines here:
oleada.io/publication/...
fiction, essays & experimental
info and deadlines here:
oleada.io/publication/...
in which, @robmclennan.bsky.social asks me, how does a poem begin ? periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/jr-c...
J.R. Carpenter : How does a poem begin?
How does a poem begin? My mother told me I’d never get anywhere in life because I am a poor speller. I went to art school because ...
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January 1, 2026 at 4:06 PM
in which, @robmclennan.bsky.social asks me, how does a poem begin ? periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/01/jr-c...
2025. the year of Measures of Weather. thanks to @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social for publishing, Jade Cuttle and others for reviewing, Doug Parker for meteorological discussion, the judges of the Laurel Prize and the Forward Prize, all the sky watchers, and everyone who read poetry this tough old year.
December 31, 2025 at 6:58 AM
2025. the year of Measures of Weather. thanks to @shearsmanbooks.bsky.social for publishing, Jade Cuttle and others for reviewing, Doug Parker for meteorological discussion, the judges of the Laurel Prize and the Forward Prize, all the sky watchers, and everyone who read poetry this tough old year.
it’s not just Reform voters who think you have to be born in the UK to be British. it’s also every British person who asks me where I’m from the minute I open my mouth. after 16.5 years in this country. accent racism is also racism. please stop www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
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December 30, 2025 at 6:12 AM
it’s not just Reform voters who think you have to be born in the UK to be British. it’s also every British person who asks me where I’m from the minute I open my mouth. after 16.5 years in this country. accent racism is also racism. please stop www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
coral carried to London in a sailing ship’s ballast eroding out of the Thames foreshore, with two Tudor dress pins for scale #mudlarking
December 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM
coral carried to London in a sailing ship’s ballast eroding out of the Thames foreshore, with two Tudor dress pins for scale #mudlarking
ever wonder why they call a dick a cock though? well. this is a cockspur. a small yet horny protuberance that grows on the inner side of the lower leg bone of a cock. short for cockerel. a doggerel. for rooster. #mudlarking
December 26, 2025 at 1:29 PM
ever wonder why they call a dick a cock though? well. this is a cockspur. a small yet horny protuberance that grows on the inner side of the lower leg bone of a cock. short for cockerel. a doggerel. for rooster. #mudlarking
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In p a u s e. J. R. Carpenter (@jrcarpenter.bsky.social) turns the simple act of going for a walk into a radical practice of attention. Written over a year of daily encounters with kisiskâciwanisîpiy (the North Saskatchewan River) as it runs through
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December 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
In p a u s e. J. R. Carpenter (@jrcarpenter.bsky.social) turns the simple act of going for a walk into a radical practice of attention. Written over a year of daily encounters with kisiskâciwanisîpiy (the North Saskatchewan River) as it runs through
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happy solstice from near the prime meridian in Greenwich, London. mudlarking in the dark this morning, my headlamp found pleasure in the placement of this piece banded chert in half a smashed oyster shell.
December 21, 2025 at 8:16 PM
happy solstice from near the prime meridian in Greenwich, London. mudlarking in the dark this morning, my headlamp found pleasure in the placement of this piece banded chert in half a smashed oyster shell.
I have two new poems in this issue of @manchesterreview.bsky.social — many thanks to the editors
Dear all,
Please find issue 28 of the Manchester Review at the link below. Thank you to our wonder writers and readers who continue to support the review.
The Editors
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Please find issue 28 of the Manchester Review at the link below. Thank you to our wonder writers and readers who continue to support the review.
The Editors
www.themanchesterreview.co.uk
Issue 28 - The Manchester Review
Image: © Courtesy of Manchester City Galleries Editorial Luke Buffini, ‘Damilola’ Joe Bedford, ‘Mating Habits’ Lillith Pollock, ‘On Wanting’ Lavanya Arora, 3 poems Thomas Storey, ‘Windwatt’ Gary Dunca...
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December 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I have two new poems in this issue of @manchesterreview.bsky.social — many thanks to the editors
London, 20 December 2025. 7:13 AM. #mudlarking
December 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
London, 20 December 2025. 7:13 AM. #mudlarking
Robert Boyle’s to do list is really something: royalsociety.org/blog/2010/08...
December 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Robert Boyle’s to do list is really something: royalsociety.org/blog/2010/08...
a rare pink fog blankets the nation www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Rare pink fog blankets parts of UK with warning issued over poor visibility
The unusual phenomenon is caused by sunlight passing through layers of fog
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December 17, 2025 at 6:38 PM
a rare pink fog blankets the nation www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
the thing about whitby jet is, you know it when you see it. but that doesn’t stop you (or me, anyway) from picking up not jet not jet not jet for days. picked up this piece this afternoon in low light on a falling tide in an area that had already been well searched and immediately knew it was jet.
December 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
the thing about whitby jet is, you know it when you see it. but that doesn’t stop you (or me, anyway) from picking up not jet not jet not jet for days. picked up this piece this afternoon in low light on a falling tide in an area that had already been well searched and immediately knew it was jet.
Caedmon’s Cross, erected in honour of the earliest English poet whose name is known, in the graveyard of St Mary’s Church in Whitby in 1898. Cædmon (657–684) cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (now known as Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy of St. Hilda (657–680).
December 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Caedmon’s Cross, erected in honour of the earliest English poet whose name is known, in the graveyard of St Mary’s Church in Whitby in 1898. Cædmon (657–684) cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (now known as Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy of St. Hilda (657–680).
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🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of our contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025.
Next is Fiona Larkin's pick: Measures of Weather by J.R. Carpenter (Shearsman). Thank you, Fiona!
Next is Fiona Larkin's pick: Measures of Weather by J.R. Carpenter (Shearsman). Thank you, Fiona!
December 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of our contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025.
Next is Fiona Larkin's pick: Measures of Weather by J.R. Carpenter (Shearsman). Thank you, Fiona!
Next is Fiona Larkin's pick: Measures of Weather by J.R. Carpenter (Shearsman). Thank you, Fiona!
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Random link from the archives: "...and by islands I mean paragraphs || J. R. Carpenter" https://web.archive.org/web/20220713110541/http://luckysoap.com/andbyislands/ originally retrieved Wed 13 Jul 2022 11:05:41 AM EDT
October 20, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Random link from the archives: "...and by islands I mean paragraphs || J. R. Carpenter" https://web.archive.org/web/20220713110541/http://luckysoap.com/andbyislands/ originally retrieved Wed 13 Jul 2022 11:05:41 AM EDT
the re-emergence of zines as samizdat in the US right now www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Gen Zine: DIY publications find new life as a form of resistance against Trump
Zines have made a resurgence as communities seek to share information on everything from ICE raids to local elections
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December 11, 2025 at 5:19 AM
the re-emergence of zines as samizdat in the US right now www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
standing inside my house looking through the jagged blur of an ocular migraine at the dark shadow of my house low against a bright ridge of trees close against a dark sky northward in which a double rainbow hangs for a moment an alignment of fine droplets suspended in what pass for slant winter sun
December 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
standing inside my house looking through the jagged blur of an ocular migraine at the dark shadow of my house low against a bright ridge of trees close against a dark sky northward in which a double rainbow hangs for a moment an alignment of fine droplets suspended in what pass for slant winter sun
CFP: POETRY AND PERFORMANCE IV De-Authoritarianism and Indisciplinarity. April 22 to 24, 2026 | FLUP and Casa Comum – University of Porto. Deadline for submission: December 15, 2025 ilcml.com/en/poetry-an...
Poetry and Performance IV - ILCML
POETRY AND PERFORMANCE IV De-Authoritarianism and Indisciplinarity April 22 to 24, 2026 | FLUP and Casa Comum – University of Porto Call for Papers Building on the common foundation of the three previ...
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December 6, 2025 at 7:34 PM
CFP: POETRY AND PERFORMANCE IV De-Authoritarianism and Indisciplinarity. April 22 to 24, 2026 | FLUP and Casa Comum – University of Porto. Deadline for submission: December 15, 2025 ilcml.com/en/poetry-an...
books find their readers. two years after its publication, I’m delighted to see this insightful review of The Pleasure of the Coast by Canadian small press powerhouse @robmclennan.bsky.social
J.R. Carpenter, Le plaisir de la côte / The Pleasure of the Coast / @pamenarpress.bsky.social @jrcarpenter.bsky.social ;
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J.R. Carpenter, Le plaisir de la côte / The Pleasure of the Coast
between the ship and the quay lies two metres of incompressible ocean two metres of light between the edge of the sea and the horiz...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
books find their readers. two years after its publication, I’m delighted to see this insightful review of The Pleasure of the Coast by Canadian small press powerhouse @robmclennan.bsky.social
Join Poetry@Leeds live online for a special event on visual poetry with Professor Fiona Becket, author of Contemporary Visual Poetry Women Writing the Posthuman (Routledge, 2025) — 10 December 6-6pm poetry.leeds.ac.uk/events/54-2/
Contemporary Visual Poetry Women Writing the Posthuman (Routledge, 2025) with Fiona Becket | Poetry@Leeds
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December 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Join Poetry@Leeds live online for a special event on visual poetry with Professor Fiona Becket, author of Contemporary Visual Poetry Women Writing the Posthuman (Routledge, 2025) — 10 December 6-6pm poetry.leeds.ac.uk/events/54-2/
exciting book news — my new poetry collection, p a u s e, is now available for pre-order from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
December 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
exciting book news — my new poetry collection, p a u s e, is now available for pre-order from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
one for the mudlarks
‘In an echo of the hippos’ swamp, the Strand was so deep in mud in 1315 that Edward II signed an ordinance to pave it, though the work needed to be redone in 1353.’
Ysenda Maxtone Graham on a biography of the London street.
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Ysenda Maxtone Graham on a biography of the London street.
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Ysenda Maxtone Graham · Busiest Thoroughfare of the Metropolis of the World: The Strand
The Strand, which today has its western limit at Trafalgar Square, was first recorded in the Roman period, as the lesser...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
one for the mudlarks
after dipping in and out of Proust for decades, this year I finally read In Search of Lost Time cover to cover. astounding. pretty sure I’ll be rereading it for the rest of my life.
November 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
after dipping in and out of Proust for decades, this year I finally read In Search of Lost Time cover to cover. astounding. pretty sure I’ll be rereading it for the rest of my life.