Poets for the Planet

Great poem!

Solstice December 25 final cut YouTube video by Kel Arrowsmith

Delighted to be part of this Solstice film, along with a fine array of walking artists. Huge thanks to @kelarrowsmith.bsky.social for the provocation & the curation. This is the first piece of my visual work involving walking a labyrinth & many more to come #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZZ...

Congratulations to Poets for the Planet's own @susiecampbell.bsky.social - this looks wonderful!

Blue and white water colour painted logo for Poets for the Planet by Henny Beaumont

Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON (Palestine Environmental NGOs Network and a branch of Friends of the Earth). Can you help? #poetrysky

poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...

As we start a new year Brendan Kennelly gives us a poem of hope, of finding joy in small things, of promises & choices & dreams

There is resilience & determination ‘that we will forever begin’. Start from where you are, with what you have, & trust that this is enough

#poetry
#poemoftheday
#NewYear

Please click through and read about the ecocide in Palestine and how PENGON are helping - and can you help with the event? #poetrysky

Blue and white water colour painted logo for Poets for the Planet by Henny Beaumont

Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON (Palestine Environmental NGOs Network and a branch of Friends of the Earth). Can you help? #poetrysky

poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...

Please like and share - we are hoping to raise awareness of the devastating ecocide and funds to support PENGON - read the blog below for more info. Thanks! #climatesky

Morning all, this is wonderful! I love Edwin Morgan anyway but backed by Trio!? Genius. Get in #poetrysky

Congrats @suejohns.bsky.social !

Blue and white Poets for the Planet logo, in watercolour by Henny Beaumont

We are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON (Palestine Environmental NGOs Network and a branch of Friends of the Earth). More info here and how you can get involved! poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...

🔊New Podcast out now: a conversation with @david-farrier.bsky.social on how we might learn to live in “The what ought to be.” He talks about adaptation, resilience, and what nature can teach us about recovery in a changing world. 🎧https://naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/
@ecioxford.bsky.social

The poster for: Hope in the Darkness, a Winter Solstice celebration presented as part of the 'Celebrating the Earth' series of events inspired by nature and folklore. Tuesday, 16 December, 5:30 - 6:30 pm, at the old medieval church in centre of Chagford (Dartmoor, Devon, UK). This is an in-person event; it's free and all are welcome. The poster art, of fairies holding lanterns beneath animate trees, is by Arthur Rackham.

Today in Chagford (Dartmoor, Devon, UK) at 5:30 pm:

Brand new on the blog today - please read and share and see how you might be able to support:
"Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON" #poetrysky poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...

Brand new on the blog today - please read and share and see how you might be able to support:
"Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON" #poetrysky poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day by John Donne (read by Richard Burton) YouTube video by Zsuzsanna Uhlik

Happy St Lucy's Day www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVk-...

So excited to receive the Winter issue of Bat News from the Bat Conservation Trust (@batconservation.bsky.social) 🦇This copy features a 3 page (!!!) interview where I discuss the unique role poetry can play in increasing public interest in protecting bat species 🦇🦇🦇

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, The Dark Shadows in art, photography, poetry and our fears: Tom Sutcliffe's guests discuss darkness

Next week, following the launch of Night Vision, Jean Sprackland will be appearing on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, when she'll be discussing the dark with Jasper Goodall, Christine Riding, and Tom Sutcliffe.

Tune in on Monday:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK.

www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice...

#creativewriting #poetry #shortstories flashfiction creativenonfiction writingcompetition

J.R. Carpenter, Le plaisir de la côte / The Pleasure of the Coast between the ship and the quay lies two metres of incompressible ocean  two metres of light between the edge of the sea and the horiz...

J.R. Carpenter, Le plaisir de la côte / The Pleasure of the Coast / @pamenarpress.bsky.social @jrcarpenter.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/12/jr-c...

Open Arts Forum | Toad Flax Leaf Beetle: The Life Poetry by Paul Brookes

Delighted to have my poem featured on the Front Page of Open Arts Forum

openartsforum.com/toad-flax-le...

Donate to the Cerne Abbas Nature Appeal Donate to the Cerne Abbas Appeal so together, we can help restore the land, habitats and species that live there.

Please support this great initiative if you can.
#cerneabbas
#grassland
#restorenature
www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...

Orange sponge with brown seaweed on sandy beach

Yellow whelk egg case on sandy beach

Rainbow above a sandy beach with grey sky

Red frayed plastic with egg cases attached

Lots of sponges and whelks egg cases washed up after stormy weather. Also some red frayed plastic, masquerading as seaweed with egg cases and shells attached.
A rainbow too!
#beachfinds
#beachwalks

This is wonderful! #poetrysky

sounds great!

Beautiful - a wonderful quote to start the day - thanks @susannacrossman.bsky.social

A lovely read to start the day!

Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry - The Anthology | MK Lit Fest 2025 Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry is an anthology of original ecopoetry written in response to prompts set by Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Jess Mookherjee and Rishi Dastidar during an online e...

Our August Digging in the Dirt #ecopoetry masterclass with
@mklitfest.bsky.social
raised £800 for Give Peat A Chance. A special ebook of the #poems it inspired is now available for £2 (all profits to Give Peat A Chance). #poetrysky
www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...

“Can a timeless moment of consciousness be ever adequately conveyed in a medium that depends on time, i.e., language? This is the mystic's and the lyric poet's problem.”

-- Charles Simic