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
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.
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
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.
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.
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 🤖 🌎 🖊
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
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 🤖 🌎 🖊
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 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
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
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
Spring is here! I bought myself a skreeking jay friend!
The exclamation mark is the queerest punctuation!
#happyequinox #springequinox
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:
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
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:
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:
🌞 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!
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
🌞 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!
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!
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...
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
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...
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...
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
Look what I got for DJing! 📞✨️🤣 The sound quality is *terrible* though, so might try to get it upgraded...
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!
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
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!
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!
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 👀⚡️✨️
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
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 👀⚡️✨️
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 👀⚡️✨️
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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
✨️ 🎶
- Dorianne Laux
✨️ 🎶
January 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"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
✨️ 🎶
- Dorianne Laux
✨️ 🎶
January 1, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Excellent company for crossing the threshold into 2025 ❤️ 📚 #books #amreading
December 29, 2024 at 11:34 PM
Excellent company for crossing the threshold into 2025 ❤️ 📚 #books #amreading
December 28th Vibes from Barney
December 28, 2024 at 11:27 PM
December 28th Vibes from Barney
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
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 👿
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
#christmas #dogsofbluesky #games
December 26, 2024 at 10:58 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
#christmas #dogsofbluesky #games
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
#poetrybooks #poetry
November 27, 2024 at 1:29 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
#poetrybooks #poetry
I should be sorting books to relocate offices, but this is also important stormy Saturday work:
November 23, 2024 at 12:11 PM
I should be sorting books to relocate offices, but this is also important stormy Saturday work:
This is *progress*, OK?
November 23, 2024 at 10:55 AM
This is *progress*, OK?
*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.
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
*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.
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.
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.
Liverpudlian vibes are impeccable 💖 Love the warmth & wit of people here, it's an fab city.
November 22, 2024 at 11:22 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.
Liverpudlian vibes are impeccable 💖 Love the warmth & wit of people here, it's an fab city.