I’m one of the judges for this year’s Laurel Prize, chaired by Mimi Khalvati, alongside Bethan Laughlin at the Zoological Society of London. The first harvest of books arrived today while I was writing about lichen. laurelprize.com
Join sought after teacher David Morley for an immersive workshop on the pantoum, one of poetry’s most haunting and versatile forms. David will offer a unique visual map of the form and experiments with extended pantoums. @carcanet.bsky.social @profdavidmorley.bsky.social www.cathdrake.com 11 May
I do. And they're doing the same, with beakfuls of dry leaves....
My rain-draggled lanes of Warwickshire abound with long tailed tits and song thrushes. I'm so delighted by them. My walks have been so meagre of late due to rain, living in the land of Hamnet.
Heaven.
A Warwickshire lane in midwinter after the storm stripped the oaks' final leaves.
A Christmas poem written and read in an abandoned tree plantation, first published in the London Review of Books.
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Thanks, Sarah. It's a pantoum, pushed around, to suit an intended and unintentional audience. I love your poetry and am delighted to hear from you.
My Ode upon St Lucy's Day.
Let the mind take its photograph
Of the bright scene, something to wear
Against the heart in the long cold.
from 'A Day in Autumn' by R.S. Thomas
Brilliant to hear our poets @profdavidmorley.bsky.social and Sinéad Morrissey on BBC Radio 4's The Verb on Sunday, discussing some of their recent Carcanet work.
To listen to the recording:🎧⬇️
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Tune in today at 5.10pm to hear Carcanet poets @profdavidmorley.bsky.social and Sinéad Morrissey on BBC Radio 4's 'The Verb' where they will be discussing some of their recent work.
Listen here:🎧⬇️
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
The jay's larder's ajar.
Litter
Crab-apples spilled from the back of the lorry of autumn.
A Frostian moment in a Warwickshire forest.
Thank you so much Sarah!
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in science, technology, engineering and maths. I’m proud to share my poem 'Ada Lovelace' and a sonnet to Caroline Herschel, published in the London Review of Books.
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Happy World Bird Migration Day
RINGING SWALLOWS
Swallows clip the lake for a sip of water,
or kerfuffle their feathers as they dip for a bathe.
They stipple ellipses across the surface like a skimming stone.
None skitter the water except by glitch or error
nor overwinter under its ice-barred door.
🎙️ The Verb, BBC Radio 4 19 Oct, 17:10
David Morley & Sinéad Morrissey join Ian McMillan to chat birdsong, RS Thomas, Tony Harrison, stammering, and a gobful of pebbles. Featuring Daniel Sluman (Versus Versus) & Arthur Sze, new U.S. Poet Laureate.
🔗 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002l236
#TheVerb #Carcanet
Bumbarrel, Hedge Mumruffin, Poke Pudding,
Huggen-Muffin, Juffit, Jack-in-a-Bottle,
Feather Poke, Hedge Jug, Prinpriddle,
Ragamuffin, Billy-featherpoke, Puddneypoke,
Bellringer, Nimble Tailor, French Pie,
Long Pod, Bush Oven, and Miller’s Thumb.
I tucked them in this box before they woke.
Wrapping up BBC Radio 4's The Verb with Sinead Morrissey and Ian McMillan. We stole a 5Live Studio. Happy National Poetry Day.
Off to BBC Media City to record The Verb with Ian McMillan, Sinead Morrissey and Fiona Benson. Happy National Poetry Day!
Then it's the kumquat fruit expresses best
how days have darkness round them like a rind,
life has a skin of death that keeps its zest.
'A Kumquat for John Keats'
Tony Harrison R.I.P.
Tonight, with foxes! wordsworth.org.uk/blog/events/...
