Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
@abdavis.bsky.social
Shelleyan 🍂 | Co-editor, Romantic Trees: The Literary Arboretum | Lecturer in English Literature https://www.derby.ac.uk/staff/amanda-blake-davis/
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Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
This roundtable will celebrate the publication of the latest volume, Volume IV, of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry.
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Join us on 12 November for a @bars.bsky.social Digital Event to celebrate the publication of Volume IV of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (gen. eds. @fraistat.bsky.social & Nora Crook, pub. by @hopkinspress.bsky.social) 🍂 Free tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
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The K-SAA is excited to share about an exciting digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more info on the #KSAABlog: www.k-saa.org/blog/jhu4-ev...
‘Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley,’ Volume 4 — K-SAA
The K-SAA is excited to share about this digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more informa...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The K-SAA is excited to share about an exciting digital event celebrating the publication of Volume IV of the Johns Hopkins University Press edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry! Please find more info on the #KSAABlog: www.k-saa.org/blog/jhu4-ev...
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The 2025-26 Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes are open! There are two competitions – poetry and essays – and two age groups: the Keats-Shelley Prize, which is open to all, and the Young Romantics Prize, aimed at anyone aged between 16-18.
For more information, visit bit.ly/3KdIurO
For more information, visit bit.ly/3KdIurO
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The 2025-26 Keats-Shelley and Young Romantics Prizes are open! There are two competitions – poetry and essays – and two age groups: the Keats-Shelley Prize, which is open to all, and the Young Romantics Prize, aimed at anyone aged between 16-18.
For more information, visit bit.ly/3KdIurO
For more information, visit bit.ly/3KdIurO
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Early career research fellowship opportunity in UK related to Plant Humanities, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh & Kew. Apply by Dec 10, 2025. "Apply for funding to conduct research at cultural and heritage institutions"
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025
Apply for funding to conduct research at participating cultural and heritage institutions.
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November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Early career research fellowship opportunity in UK related to Plant Humanities, at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh & Kew. Apply by Dec 10, 2025. "Apply for funding to conduct research at cultural and heritage institutions"
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
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Study of a fir tree, c.1842 by Emily Brontë, best known for her classic novel 'Wuthering Heights' #WomensArt
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Study of a fir tree, c.1842 by Emily Brontë, best known for her classic novel 'Wuthering Heights' #WomensArt
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New BARS Digital Event: Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (12 November 6PM UK time)
Details and tickets below ⤵️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Details and tickets below ⤵️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
This roundtable will celebrate the publication of the latest volume, Volume IV, of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
New BARS Digital Event: Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (12 November 6PM UK time)
Details and tickets below ⤵️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Details and tickets below ⤵️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
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A date for your diary: Please join the ASLE-UKI Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT. Convened by Brycchan Carey (Northumbria) and Tess Somervell (Oxford). Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...
October 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A date for your diary: Please join the ASLE-UKI Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT. Convened by Brycchan Carey (Northumbria) and Tess Somervell (Oxford). Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...
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Very much looking forward to this talk by Jonathan Bate next Monday plus the performance by Emily Woof, daughter of Robert and Pamela.
Very much looking forward to this talk by Jonathan Bate next Monday plus the performance by Emily Woof, daughter of Robert and Pamela.
The Wordsworth Lecture: Romantic Ecology Rebooted | British Library
This year’s Wordsworth Lecture is given by author Jonathan Bate, sharing his hugely influential work on Wordsworth and sustainability, Romantic Ecology.As
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October 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Very much looking forward to this talk by Jonathan Bate next Monday plus the performance by Emily Woof, daughter of Robert and Pamela.
Very much looking forward to this talk by Jonathan Bate next Monday plus the performance by Emily Woof, daughter of Robert and Pamela.
It appears that the Shelley Conference special issue of 'Romanticism' is currently available open access! Anna Mercer and I edited this issue, including essays by Nora Crook, Michael Rossington, @paulstephens.bsky.social, & more, from the 2022 Shelley Conference 🍂 www.euppublishing.com/toc/rom/30/1
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - rom: Vol 30, No 1
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October 18, 2025 at 11:37 AM
It appears that the Shelley Conference special issue of 'Romanticism' is currently available open access! Anna Mercer and I edited this issue, including essays by Nora Crook, Michael Rossington, @paulstephens.bsky.social, & more, from the 2022 Shelley Conference 🍂 www.euppublishing.com/toc/rom/30/1
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
This volume contains several poems edited by Stuart Curran, including The Cenci. It represents his final completed work, the acme of his stunning career.
Join us on 12 November for a @bars.bsky.social Digital Event to celebrate the publication of Volume IV of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (gen. eds. @fraistat.bsky.social & Nora Crook, pub. by @hopkinspress.bsky.social) 🍂 Free tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
This roundtable will celebrate the publication of the latest volume, Volume IV, of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This volume contains several poems edited by Stuart Curran, including The Cenci. It represents his final completed work, the acme of his stunning career.
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
BARS Independent Scholar bursary is now open: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6189
BARS Independent Researcher Bursary Call for Applications – BARS Blog
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October 17, 2025 at 9:36 AM
BARS Independent Scholar bursary is now open: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6189
Join us on 12 November for a @bars.bsky.social Digital Event to celebrate the publication of Volume IV of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (gen. eds. @fraistat.bsky.social & Nora Crook, pub. by @hopkinspress.bsky.social) 🍂 Free tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
This roundtable will celebrate the publication of the latest volume, Volume IV, of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Join us on 12 November for a @bars.bsky.social Digital Event to celebrate the publication of Volume IV of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (gen. eds. @fraistat.bsky.social & Nora Crook, pub. by @hopkinspress.bsky.social) 🍂 Free tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Volcanic Romanticism!! 🌋On a Thursday evening with @bars.bsky.social ! What could be more thrilling? Please join me, @dilarakalkan.bsky.social Chloe Melvin, Katerina Liontou and @davidhiggins.bsky.social on 30th October at 7.30pm to discuss the weather of 1816, the Diodati Circle, and more!
BARS Digital Events: Volcanic Romanticism
Exploring the Diodatic Circle, the volcanic as a sublime, apocalyptic force, and how this inflected their powerful visions of the future.
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October 16, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Volcanic Romanticism!! 🌋On a Thursday evening with @bars.bsky.social ! What could be more thrilling? Please join me, @dilarakalkan.bsky.social Chloe Melvin, Katerina Liontou and @davidhiggins.bsky.social on 30th October at 7.30pm to discuss the weather of 1816, the Diodati Circle, and more!
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We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social
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CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026.
About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.
Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.
Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
Call for Proposals | Poetry's Environments
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October 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026.
About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.
Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.
Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.
conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...
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🌳Exciting news! Our own Caroline Cornish & Christina Hourigan guest edited a special issue of Plant Perspectives on Tree Cultures & Arboreal Humanities.
From Kew tree biographies to literary & cultural stories, discover how trees can inspire both research and imagination👇
@treeseeker.bsky.social
From Kew tree biographies to literary & cultural stories, discover how trees can inspire both research and imagination👇
@treeseeker.bsky.social
‘Plant Perspectives’ 2.2 is now available online – entirely #openaccess thanks to our #subscribetoopen supporters and our generous individual donors. #plantstudies @plantperspectives.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
🌳Exciting news! Our own Caroline Cornish & Christina Hourigan guest edited a special issue of Plant Perspectives on Tree Cultures & Arboreal Humanities.
From Kew tree biographies to literary & cultural stories, discover how trees can inspire both research and imagination👇
@treeseeker.bsky.social
From Kew tree biographies to literary & cultural stories, discover how trees can inspire both research and imagination👇
@treeseeker.bsky.social
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It's taken over 24 hours to get this uploaded with passable captions, but here's my talk from last night @cumbriauni.bsky.social with @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social on #TheCompanyOfOwls and #DorothyWordsworth. Including some terrible slights on robins, and blackbird impressions. youtu.be/goiC3hhlsx4
Companions of Nature: from sickbed consolations to mimic hootings
YouTube video by Polly Atkin
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October 8, 2025 at 11:51 PM
It's taken over 24 hours to get this uploaded with passable captions, but here's my talk from last night @cumbriauni.bsky.social with @drpennybradshaw.bsky.social on #TheCompanyOfOwls and #DorothyWordsworth. Including some terrible slights on robins, and blackbird impressions. youtu.be/goiC3hhlsx4
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Now on the BARS Blog: Symposium on Frankenstein in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Meiji University and online, Saturday 18th October www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6139
September 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Now on the BARS Blog: Symposium on Frankenstein in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Meiji University and online, Saturday 18th October www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6139
Happy to have my essay on P.B. Shelley and Wordsworth's 'woodland state' included in the 'Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities' special issue of @plantperspectives.bsky.social, ed. by @treeseeker.bsky.social & @planthums-uk.bsky.social 🌿🌳
October 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Happy to have my essay on P.B. Shelley and Wordsworth's 'woodland state' included in the 'Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities' special issue of @plantperspectives.bsky.social, ed. by @treeseeker.bsky.social & @planthums-uk.bsky.social 🌿🌳
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Excited to see my article on Beatrix Potter, timber, and arboreal stewardship published in Plant Perspectives (OA) 🪵🧚🏻♀️
September 30, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Excited to see my article on Beatrix Potter, timber, and arboreal stewardship published in Plant Perspectives (OA) 🪵🧚🏻♀️
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It's here!!! 200 pages of #research articles, #narrative #nonfiction, #poetry & #reviews - all on #trees! Many thanks to @whitehorsepress.bsky.social, @treeseeker.bsky.social & all our contributors url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9ZIoCojPZH...
September 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It's here!!! 200 pages of #research articles, #narrative #nonfiction, #poetry & #reviews - all on #trees! Many thanks to @whitehorsepress.bsky.social, @treeseeker.bsky.social & all our contributors url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/9ZIoCojPZH...
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Delighted to announce that our special issue of #PlantPerspectives @plantperspectives.bsky.social journal is NOW LIVE 🎊🎉🍾🥂
See:
whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
Great range of papers, poetry, narrative non-fiction, and book reviews on the #arborealhumanities 🌳
Huge thanks to @planthums-uk.bsky.social
See:
whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
Great range of papers, poetry, narrative non-fiction, and book reviews on the #arborealhumanities 🌳
Huge thanks to @planthums-uk.bsky.social
Plant Perspectives
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September 29, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Delighted to announce that our special issue of #PlantPerspectives @plantperspectives.bsky.social journal is NOW LIVE 🎊🎉🍾🥂
See:
whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
Great range of papers, poetry, narrative non-fiction, and book reviews on the #arborealhumanities 🌳
Huge thanks to @planthums-uk.bsky.social
See:
whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
Great range of papers, poetry, narrative non-fiction, and book reviews on the #arborealhumanities 🌳
Huge thanks to @planthums-uk.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱
Join me for a workshop on archival research in the Environmental Humanities at The National Archives!
We're seeking early career participants - apply to attend to hear from speakers, view original documents, and help test our research guidance. #envhum #envhist
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We're seeking early career participants - apply to attend to hear from speakers, view original documents, and help test our research guidance. #envhum #envhist
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-r...
Archival Research in the Environmental Humanities Workshop
Learn about archival research in the Environmental Humanities in a workshop at The National Archives.
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September 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Join me for a workshop on archival research in the Environmental Humanities at The National Archives!
We're seeking early career participants - apply to attend to hear from speakers, view original documents, and help test our research guidance. #envhum #envhist
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-r...
We're seeking early career participants - apply to attend to hear from speakers, view original documents, and help test our research guidance. #envhum #envhist
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archival-r...
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Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Naming and Classifying cfp final
CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...