My latest post on the swifts (or perhaps just swift now) that inhabits our house

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It’s Swift Awareness Week. Here’s my flag waving in the Bluesky breeze. @sheffswiftnetwork.bsky.social @drjomaher.bsky.social @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

Spent some time watching the swifts out front this evening. Where were you when we were getting high?

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In a forthcoming episode of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, I talk to poet Robert Hamberger about the influence of John Clare on A Length of Road, his prose-and-poetry memoir of finding himself in the footsteps of John Clare.

Coming up as part of season two of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast I talk to Katherine Towers about the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop & how it has shaped and influenced her own creative disciplines #twowaypoetry

One of the real finds for season two of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast was talking to Mark Pullinger about Shinkichi Takahashi’s poetry and how it influenced his own take on writing about animals. This - the second pod of the series - will come out in late September. #twowaypoetry

In the first episode of the new series of The Two-Way Poetry Podcast released on Mon 16 Sept I talk to Fay Musselwhite about David Jones’ poem of the First Word War In Parenthesis and how it influenced ‘Memoir of a Working River’ from her ebullient collection Contraflow @longbarrowpress.bsky.social

Just finished the guided tour of CERN with @drjomaher.bsky.social well worth a visit. No Brian Cox mugs in the gift shop though @robinince.bsky.social I think they’re missing a trick!

Roy Fisher’s ‘The Poet’s Message’ reproduced as part of an exhibition illuminating his life and work at Western Park Library, University of Sheffield

A selection of Roy Fisher’s archive at Western Bank Library, the University of Sheffield @petenothing.bsky.social