Steve Eely
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Steve Eely
@steveeely.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Corn bunting singing in the beets. Another two singing males nearby. Never heard them sing qpmin November before.
November 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The 4th workshop of my online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance & Process' focuses on Vasko Popa's poem-sequence, 'The Worshipping of the Lame Wolf'. Wednesday 12th November, 7.00-9.00. All welcome. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/.../poetry-a....
November 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
'Sylvia Plath's magisterial 'The Swarm' is the poem we'll be focusing on in the third workshop of my online course, Poetry as Performance and Process, 7.00-9.00pm, Wednesday 29th October (UK). Still a few places open. More details and booking details here; www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
October 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Sylvia Plath's magisterial 'The Swarm' is the exemplary poem we'll be looking at on my online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' on Wednesday 29th October, 7.00-9.00.

'How instructive this is!'

More information and booking details: www.eventbrite.com/.../poetry-a....
October 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Evolve the pile it does.
October 9, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The 2nd workshop of my online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' runs on Wed 15th Oct, 7-9 pm. The workshop is structured around a group reading of Jorie Graham's darkly apocalyptic 'To 2040'. Further information and booking details:

www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
October 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Three places left on this guided walk around Ted Hughes's national service landscape. 11.00-3.00, Saturday 4th October. www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
September 28, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Still a few places left on this course. First session on Wednesday 1st October.https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-performance-process-tickets-1574026980069?aff=oddtdtcreator
September 28, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My fortnightly online creative writing course, 'Poetry as Performance and Process' begins on Wed 1st Oct, 7-9pm.

Numbers are capped to allow a small group experience, and there are still a few places left. More information and booking details here.

www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
September 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Still three or four tickets left for this event before I have to declare it full.

Ted Hughes's Patrington: a guided walk through the poet's little seminal National Service landscape. Saturday 4th October, 11am-3pm. More information and booking details here:

www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
September 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
My literary walk, 'Ted Hughes's Patrington', exploring the seminal East Yorkshire landscape in which Hughes undertook his National Service takes place on Saturday 4 October. Hope you can join me. More information and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
September 8, 2025 at 5:58 AM
The course begins with a focus on Ted Hughes's overlooked Expressionist masterpiece, 'Two Horses'.

Earth heaved, splitting. Towers
Reared out. I emerged
Behind horses, updragging with oaken twists
Swaying castles of elastic

My fortifications moved on the sky
The ploughshare my visor [...]
September 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Poetry as Performance & Process: an Online Creative Writing Short-Course, led by Steve Ely, fortnightly from Wednesday 1st Oct. Each of the workshops involves a writing activity arising from a close reading of an exemplary poem. More information and tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
September 1, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Ted Hughes’s Patrington

A Guided Walk through Ted Hughes’s National Service landscape with poet & Hughes expert, Steve Ely

11.00-3.00, Saturday 4th October, 2025

More information and tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
September 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I'm running a 5 workshop online course, 'Poetry as Performance & Process' in Oct and Nov of this year - 'What is this poem doing?' 'How is it doing it?' - We'll use learning derived from our close readings of exemplary poems to inform our work. More info here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
August 18, 2025 at 12:43 PM
On Saturday 4th October, I'm running a guided walk around Ted Hughes's formative National Service Landscape at Patrington - It's a leisurely amble around the area, and an insight into a crucially formative but neglected part of Hughes's life. www.eventbrite.com/e/ted-hughes...
August 13, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I'm running a five workshop, online short-course, 'Poetry as Performance & Process' Oct-Nov 2025. We'll focus on 5 exemplary poems - What is the poem doing?' 'How is it doing it?' - and use the learning to inform our own work. More info and booking details here: www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-as-...
August 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Books.
August 1, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Look at me Chalfonts
July 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Piles evolving. A bit.
July 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Egghead likes his bookywooks #333
June 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Back to the piles
June 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM
The South Uist launch of ‘Orasaigh’, the book I made with photographer Mike Faint, is launched with a reading and talk on Thursday 29th May at Cnoc Soilleir, Daliburgh. You can listen to Duncan McLeod's Ivor Novello nominated 'Acousmatic Soundwalk', based on the poem here: duncanmacleod.org/listen/
May 19, 2025 at 1:24 PM
In which the settler retreat from Sandtoft to Thorney is seen through the eyes of Large Coppers and Swallowtails, in the context of other Royal settlements of the period, and the resistance to them.
May 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM