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Caleb Parkin
@calebparkinpoet.bsky.social
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 👋🏼

https://linktr.ee/CalebParkin
Hi pals!

It's been brought to my attention I'm the feline mascot for a brand of banana suckies (!) 🍌 😬

However: I'm much older than five, esp in cat years (are they a thing?); I do not like fish; reading, yes, jigsaws, no (crossword pls); I don't love crowded places, but it depends on the vibes.
July 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
We had a buzzing symposium yesterday to round off Lyra Fest / Brigstock Inst AI & Poetry project.

We talked creative potential, ethics, methods, risks & really got into it, in a really convivial way.

Looking forward to reflecting on next steps to explore 🤖 🌎 🖊
June 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
#HappyPrideMonth b!tches

🐕 💩 🌈
June 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Laundry drying outside, through the dogwood buds!

Spring is here! I bought myself a skreeking jay friend!

The exclamation mark is the queerest punctuation!

#happyequinox #springequinox
March 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New poem, for eco-sonnet series - part of speculative weirdness for my PhD.

Another in this world appeared in @sidekickbooks.bsky.social 10 Poets 'Ghost Stories' anthology.

newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/e...

Partly inspired by some image-making collabs with SDXL-Turbo AI:
March 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
🌞 Heralds of Spring 🌞

The Mighty Peg-Bag* 👕👖🧦

Tandem Sunbathing Scruffs 🥰

*With the cover artwork of This Fruiting Body, which is soon to be appearing in a new language TBA!
March 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Went skating (with my partner's niece) at Bump Roller Disco yesterday & I got to hire these skates which I *did not want to return*.

Look at them! Just look!

I love roller- & particularly ice-skating, it's such a great flow state. Might go do a few disco skating lessons to work on my tricks...
February 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Look what I got for DJing! 📞✨️🤣 The sound quality is *terrible* though, so might try to get it upgraded...
February 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Hosting a sesh on Poetry and Contamination next Saturday, for just £20, with @londonlitlab.bsky.social

Poets of all stages welcomed & accommodated.

We'll use chat as a shared pool to disrupt each other's writing & revel in the 'impurity'.

It'll be generative, creaturely & weird.

Pls pass on!
February 2, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Bit of redness, especially in the left eye, but they're not sore today.

At my follow-up this morning, I already have *better than 20/20* vision without specs or contacts. And they're still settling.

Laser eye correction = miraculous. An uncomfortable minute under the machines, but worth it 👀⚡️✨️
January 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Got myself some laser-corrected vision yesterday 👀⚡️✨️

Under 30 seconds per eye under the zappy machines! And now, a long time without glasses or all the waste of contact lenses (pictured).

Healing already & excited for the freedom this will afford me once they've settled.
January 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
The pallid face of one who has had to admit that he cannot go to Devon with whooshy ears, solid sinuses & polystyrene limbs 😫

Sometimes it's hard to make the call on whether you're too ill to do a freelance engagement & it causes me quite a bit of worry & dithering.
January 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Tag urself 🍷

#poetrycommunity
January 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"I write to add my voice to the sum of voices, to be part of the choir. I write to be one sequin among the shimmering others, hanging by a thread from the evening gown of the world."

- Dorianne Laux

✨️ 🎶
January 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
January 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Excellent company for crossing the threshold into 2025 ❤️ 📚 #books #amreading
December 29, 2024 at 11:34 PM
December 28th Vibes from Barney
December 28, 2024 at 11:27 PM
One of those walks earlier, where Zoot buggers off on a half-hour street-dog adventure (while I'm distracted clearing up his droppings) & so I call for backup, then he reappears like this, as though butter wouldn't melt 👿
December 28, 2024 at 11:20 PM
A lovely low-key friendmas yesterday, feat. a *morning run*, then a v stubborn Yorkie Princess who didn't wanna be away from Grandma 😆 and playing new game Ransom Notes, which elicited some moments of genius.

#christmas #dogsofbluesky #games
December 26, 2024 at 10:58 PM
Because my lunch looked like Mickey Mouse, a poem from the new collection 'Mingle' - inspired by the 2022 story of Disney branded hand sanitisers being recalled because they contained traces of benzene and methanol 🐁 ☠️

#poetrybooks #poetry
November 27, 2024 at 1:29 PM
I should be sorting books to relocate offices, but this is also important stormy Saturday work:
November 23, 2024 at 12:11 PM
ZOOT "HALP"
November 23, 2024 at 11:04 AM
This is *progress*, OK?
November 23, 2024 at 10:55 AM
*I am commencing the Grand Book Sort & Relocation*

This is what I'm contending with. Not all books pictured here; there are stacks elsewhere.

Once sorted & purged, they will be joining me in The Hutch (cabin office in garden).

Wish me luck. Secondhand bookshops will defo be in luck.
November 23, 2024 at 9:55 AM
Couple of days in #Liverpool as field poet at the National Biodiversity Network conference, which was stimulating & convivial.

Liverpudlian vibes are impeccable 💖 Love the warmth & wit of people here, it's an fab city.
November 22, 2024 at 11:22 AM