Rennie Parker
@rennieparker.bsky.social
Poet and FE worker, published by Shoestring Press: Candleshoe (2014) The Complete Electric Artisan (2017) Jongleur (2021) Balloons and Stripey Trousers (2024). Order from: centralbooks.com.
Shoestring Press books have 50% off when you buy 4 or more from www.centralbooks.com ! Enter SHOE50 in the discount code box at checkout. P&p is on average £3.99. Student medievalists might like this one⤵️
December 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Shoestring Press books have 50% off when you buy 4 or more from www.centralbooks.com ! Enter SHOE50 in the discount code box at checkout. P&p is on average £3.99. Student medievalists might like this one⤵️
Sunday afternoon pursuits: sewing daisy buttons on a steampunk cape...🎩⚙️
November 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Sunday afternoon pursuits: sewing daisy buttons on a steampunk cape...🎩⚙️
Only 4 of each left at the distributors, www.centralbooks.com ! That's the end of the print run forever, as Mr Publisher has ceased. Candleshoe - rural strangeness/layered landscape; 'electric artisan' a bit more industrial and populated, with voices and characters if you like your poems talky...
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Only 4 of each left at the distributors, www.centralbooks.com ! That's the end of the print run forever, as Mr Publisher has ceased. Candleshoe - rural strangeness/layered landscape; 'electric artisan' a bit more industrial and populated, with voices and characters if you like your poems talky...
Copy of an illustration from a medieval manuscript, shown at Mount Grace Priory; the pathway to heaven, from a contemplative heart. And the greatest of these is Luf.....
October 30, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Copy of an illustration from a medieval manuscript, shown at Mount Grace Priory; the pathway to heaven, from a contemplative heart. And the greatest of these is Luf.....
Another weekend of frantic planning as Dr. Parker's Grandiose Book of Machines takes shape for the Lincoln Steampunk Asylum - yes, my first creative writing session in a loooong while - eek!
August 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Another weekend of frantic planning as Dr. Parker's Grandiose Book of Machines takes shape for the Lincoln Steampunk Asylum - yes, my first creative writing session in a loooong while - eek!
Midsummer Fair at Castle Bytham near me, and here's the Bourne Borderers giving it some welly. Bought a nice silver ring from the Church jumble stall, and came away in a much better mood than I was in before. The current state of Labour has been doing my head in.
June 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Midsummer Fair at Castle Bytham near me, and here's the Bourne Borderers giving it some welly. Bought a nice silver ring from the Church jumble stall, and came away in a much better mood than I was in before. The current state of Labour has been doing my head in.
Rotring pen set with unused nibs, including the size I always write with: it's a instant yes from me. Charity shop gold!
June 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Rotring pen set with unused nibs, including the size I always write with: it's a instant yes from me. Charity shop gold!
A pretty heavy week at work with everyone on high stress mode cos of exams; so I'm missing places like this, my favourite church ever, the clifftop ark at Whitby. You can easily imagine the seafaring families packed into the box-pews on a stormy evening.
June 8, 2025 at 9:08 AM
A pretty heavy week at work with everyone on high stress mode cos of exams; so I'm missing places like this, my favourite church ever, the clifftop ark at Whitby. You can easily imagine the seafaring families packed into the box-pews on a stormy evening.
....to Pannett Park, aka Whitby Museum, where the said watercolour is to join the art collection. Thankyou, Denise the Registrar and Sue the Art Curator! Here's their Lit & Phil room.
May 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
....to Pannett Park, aka Whitby Museum, where the said watercolour is to join the art collection. Thankyou, Denise the Registrar and Sue the Art Curator! Here's their Lit & Phil room.
Today's task! Over the bridge and up the hill with this painting...
May 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Today's task! Over the bridge and up the hill with this painting...
Terrific day in Lincoln on Weds. (this is our cathedral on the hill 😍) and a good time was had by all at the University Library. Thanks to my fellow poets! Meanwhile, if you've never been to Lincoln...⤵️
May 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Terrific day in Lincoln on Weds. (this is our cathedral on the hill 😍) and a good time was had by all at the University Library. Thanks to my fellow poets! Meanwhile, if you've never been to Lincoln...⤵️
10/10 for the visitor hostel at Hebden Bridge, with poetry on its bookshelf...
April 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
10/10 for the visitor hostel at Hebden Bridge, with poetry on its bookshelf...
....Drew Gummerson has even brought matching Tunnocks with him....
March 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
....Drew Gummerson has even brought matching Tunnocks with him....
and here's Shoestring Press stablemate Roy Marshall with his secondhand bookstall...
March 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
and here's Shoestring Press stablemate Roy Marshall with his secondhand bookstall...
It soon looked busy at their end...
March 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
It soon looked busy at their end...
Sunday afternoon pursuits: a fiendishly hard jigsaw which I wish I hadn't started. And as ever, the coolest sounds from 6Music 🎶📻
March 16, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Sunday afternoon pursuits: a fiendishly hard jigsaw which I wish I hadn't started. And as ever, the coolest sounds from 6Music 🎶📻
Closing in on the Hat in 1.5 Days Project...(real life colour is brighter than the photo!)
December 26, 2024 at 11:35 AM
Closing in on the Hat in 1.5 Days Project...(real life colour is brighter than the photo!)
Haunted house postbox topper by the creative WI of Bailgate, Lincoln! Seasonal wooooo 🎃
November 2, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Haunted house postbox topper by the creative WI of Bailgate, Lincoln! Seasonal wooooo 🎃
Bit of gentle restoration going on; released this little second hand dulcimer from a music shop earlier this week...
October 26, 2024 at 12:07 PM
Bit of gentle restoration going on; released this little second hand dulcimer from a music shop earlier this week...
It's arrived! The one and only Apocalypticon! It's proper full-on. Available from W/stones or through yr local indie. There's even me in it. 🎉
October 24, 2024 at 4:54 PM
It's arrived! The one and only Apocalypticon! It's proper full-on. Available from W/stones or through yr local indie. There's even me in it. 🎉
When the office leaving card is unexpectedly the same colour as the receiver....
September 11, 2024 at 5:12 PM
When the office leaving card is unexpectedly the same colour as the receiver....
ok, laying into it with a homemade hat & scarf. As I don't know how much yarn makes both, I'm starting each at opposite ends of the ball...
August 24, 2024 at 11:12 AM
ok, laying into it with a homemade hat & scarf. As I don't know how much yarn makes both, I'm starting each at opposite ends of the ball...
I simply have to share this uniquely-phrased note on the back of my flower loom.
August 15, 2024 at 8:06 PM
I simply have to share this uniquely-phrased note on the back of my flower loom.
Been reading this on my hols & what intrigues me is how retro the styling is. Maybe a result of being written through the covid years? (the past where life was simpler/where human contact was taken for granted)
May 27, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Been reading this on my hols & what intrigues me is how retro the styling is. Maybe a result of being written through the covid years? (the past where life was simpler/where human contact was taken for granted)
Top Oxfam pick of the day, from Ambleside: £1.
May 27, 2024 at 4:12 PM
Top Oxfam pick of the day, from Ambleside: £1.