Great feedback from students who can be very proud of their work! @stephenspender.bsky.social

Just to be absolutely clear, an editor who uses AI to assess manuscripts is talentless, and probably only got into publishing through their wealth and/or contacts. Get rid.

Join us at Art & Talking in #ChippingNorton on Sun 8 Mar with @mwhelanwrites.bsky.social & @zoebrooks.bsky.social for more words that make you feel something / or at least sound like they mean something.

4–6pm, £5 on the door. Bios at www.instagram.com/p/DVWFQrCiFXH/

#poetry #openmic

More KS2 teachers have been filling this in. THANK YOU! We're keeping the survey open as we'd love to have even more. Just 2 mins of your time to tick a few boxes!

Mamdani got a humanities degree.

His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

Join me for our upcoming close reading sessions with @litcamb.bsky.social 2-4pm GMT on Sundays via Zoom. This winter we'll be repeating our sold out Keats class, looking at winter poetry and getting to grips with all those dashes in Emily Dickinson's miniatures:

mariahwhelan.com/2025/11/03/w...

Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections

Bodleian Library, Sassoon Visiting Fellowship in South Asian and Black History for the 2026-2027 academic year.

It's a great scheme, with a deadline of 28 November 2025. Check it and Bodley's other visiting fellowships out here.

Image with text encouraging joining the EA - info on our website.

Join us !😊

englishassociation.ac.uk

Epitaph on a tyrant by WH Auden

Today’s #poemsontheunderground
@poemsonthetube.bsky.social

St. Thomas Aquinas argued that poets and philosophers “are alike in being big with wonder.” Lucille Clifton remarked that “poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.”

Part of what drives us to the page as poets is the pleasure of capturing in language what seems bent on eluding it.

It seems that the only relief I can find from the current political nightmare is to post rude songs from #18thc children's books & let my Bluesky friends make the applications as they choose.
Not just sure this one, also from Tommy Thumb's Pretty Songbook, will get past the moderators, but I'll try:

Pictures of new fellows, full details on our website.

Pictures of new fellows, full info on our website.

Pictures of new fellows, full info on our website.

🌟🥳 Meet our new Fellows, nominated by their peers, they represent excellence in the teaching & learning of English, & have an active role in the EA’s mission. Stay tuned over this week, to find out the distinguished scholars & teachers awarded Fellowships this year! Here are some of them ⬇️🌟🥳

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Happy National Writing Day! Today is a day dedicated to celebrating the power of writing creatively ✍️ This year's theme is #ShareYourVoice, check out @firststory.bsky.social for great resources to get people started with writing: firststory.org.uk/writeday/ #NationalWritingDay

We're opening up submissions for translations in June and July! And we've even got a snazzy new email for you to send
'em to: translations@atlengthmag.com.

Submission guidelines below. @affisher.bsky.social is excited to read your work!

atlengthmag.com/submissions/

I've just read this astounding review. Huge and heartfelt thanks to @alanparry83.bsky.social for his deep engagement with the text. I am so grateful for the time you've given this little book. Thank you x

Thank you so much for sharing this Emily. Happy the poem landed with you x

On the topic of digital mags and hearing poets read their own work, did you know @BathMagg's @MWhelanWriter was part of the inaugural wave of @iambapoet back in February 2020? You can check out her contribution here.
http://iambapoet.com/mariah-whelan

Can't believe it's been 8 years. Thinking of all those who lost their lives x

“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

~The Great Gatsby

A poetry giveaway from Poetry By Heart! Re-tweets appreciated, pals. We've got x2 sets of the latest titles from the fab @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social to giveaway :)

Let's Bring Back the Creative Writing A Level! If you support bringing back the Creative Writing A Level, please complete the form. Any questions, please contact Dr Carrie Etter at carrie.etter@bristol.ac.uk. Let's go!

Come on, folks--I know a lot of you believe in restoring the A Level in Creative Writing in England--sign and share now!

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@poetrysociety.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social @rsliterature.bsky.social @kitdewaal.bsky.social

This is brilliant news, Natalie. Looking forward to reading x

Agreed, it's very good!

It's #GCSE revision time! I wrote an article about how you can use the Poetry By Heart website to support your #EnglishLiterature students with oodles of free resources.

RTs appreciated to spread the word :)

🌙 🌟

Worth signing up to Bluesky just to have this essential literary content back in my life.

Your rights are under threat from AI. It’s time to have your say! The Government recently launched a consultation on AI and copyright. Now is the time to have your say and make sure that legislators hear the concerns of creators.

Got a spare moment on your lunch break? What better way to spend it than by telling the Government to respect the rights of creators.

Submit a response to their AI and copyright consultation. It doesn't need to take long. Guidance below 👇

www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

Two steps back to yourself with poetry

1. Get comfortable.

2. Click this link: https://buff.ly/4gk8X2c

#poetrypause #mindfulmondays

There are some lovely images from 'Tales from Shakespeare' and information about its composition over here:

www.britishlibrary.cn/en/works/tal...

Happy Monday! Happy NEW #PoetryByHeart Poem of the Week! Explore 'Answer to a child's question' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge then use our activities to lift the poem off the page so that it can be spoken, heard & enjoyed. #EduSky #Poetry
poetrybyheart.org.uk/poems/answer-to-a-childs...