The starting point: how is child sexual abuse represented in the arts, if indeed it is represented at all?
Looking for ourselves in books, films, plays, visual arts, and music is a human thing. We look outward as ways of looking inward.We look outward to reflect upon our own lives and experiences.
A new blog post, with news of a lyric essay published in BMJ Medical Humanities. Proud of this. clarebest.co.uk/2026/04/21/s...
Finally made it to the V&A East Storage where I swooned at the Frankfurt Kitchen. These were designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for German social housing in 1926 and were the forerunner of the ‘fitted kitchen’. Such beautiful simplicity.
#V&A #frankfurtkitchen #london #architecture #design
A bump for this guest @northseapoets.bsky.social post. I've always loved this Auden poem and I have always loved the notion of an imaginary friend. So here I am writing about both: open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Wouldn’t it be something if Royal Lodge, Windsor, could become a retreat / shelter for victim survivors of #sexualabuse and #sexualassault?
#survivorsvoices #CSA #rapecrisis #survivor #SA #DV #MeToo
Submissions are now open for issue nine. The theme is Trespass: rights and wrongs; encroachment and colonisation; faults and forgiveness. Please see the website (link in bio) for information and guidelines. Window closes August 31st. 🕊 xx
Gorgeous miniature binding by Gabrielle Fox of my poem ‘The bookbinder’ - what a gift!
#finebookbinding #miniaturebooks
buzz buzz 💚
A description of John Glenday's latest North Sea Poets Substack against a green background.
New post on #Substack from @johnglenday.bsky.social
Robert Frost's Eyebrows – John Glenday on words, syllables and cadence.
#NorthSeaPoets #PoetryCommunity
Competition - Win copies of new book 'Bowie Land - Walking In The Footsteps of David' by Peter Carpenter.
little brushes of larch 💚
North Sea Poets is shaping up to be a vital new collaborative poetry project. Writing on their #Substack at northseapoets.substack.com is superb.
How could it not be when NSP is written/run by Kathleen Jamie, Niall Campbell, Don Paterson, Karen Solie, John Glenday, Lisa Brockwell, Lesley Harrison.
My next book, INTO BEING: will be published by MUP in October and I can now share the cover - it is part memoir, part teaching manual for those of you who love writing. It is one of the only books in the UK to focus on the craft of #memoir. Pre-order manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179258/
Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, arranged diagonally, spines facing outwards.
Special offer from Longbarrow Press: any 3 hardbacks for £32. Includes collections by Steve Ely, Angelina D'Roza, Rob Hindle, Peter Riley, Nancy Gaffield, Mark Goodwin, Matthew Clegg, Fay Musselwhite, 'The Footing' anthology, and more
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Yesterday made a ⚡️ trip to Lewes to hear Neil Gower talk for LewesLitSoc about a life’s work with graphic art, books, maps, + his own writing.
So moving to see Neil’s art for ‘The Missing List’ among the images projected. I love what he created & I’m so happy to have his painting on my study wall.
I’m reading Mountainish atm and loving it 🙏🏻
My review of Robert Hamberger’s latest collection – for The Friday Poem
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Tomorrow!
Wishing you a happy mid February, with the help of the five-year-olds of Keswick.
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Good to meet you here Sarah. I’ll be posting more of this kind of thing (and on my research) over @cbestphd.bsky.social
Yes, a 3D poem!
Love continues. Poem by Robert Hershon (1936-2021) originally published in Poetry Northwest, Autumn 2000.
A single word can be a lie. For example, journalists are still calling what Musk and his child army have been doing an operation in pursuit of government efficiency.... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/to-use-their...
this is my mother’s cloth tape measure, and the embroidered felt case (complete with tiny button and button loop!) that she made as a schoolgirl in the mid-1930s… a wonderful small reminder of an age of handmade detail in everyday objects – bringing so much pleasure still 😌
This is what should be on every front page right now. What's happening in the US right now is an illegal power grab by a private citizen. IT'S A COUP.
It's a digital coup. It's Musk who's leading it. The consequences are terrifying. And it's coming for us next.
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The Bridport Prize is offering two fully funded writer residencies in Dorset for writers from The Midlands and/or The North West of the UK who are working class and/or 60+
From Sunday 22 to Friday 27 June 2025. Writers must be available for the whole period.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Things feel quite grim in the world. Poetry, as with much else, is battered by the elements: the doers struggle against the odds, while our thinkers are befuddled. But you know what? Bad Lilies returns later this month and we start typesetting TOMORROW. 😎
🙏🏻 - just seen this! so lovely to see you and grand to read in Lewes again 😌
