Judith Palmer

Take part in this year’s Keats conference this May at @KeatsHouse London. Deadline for proposals is Friday 21 February, 12 noon UK time. We just need a 200-250 outline. More info here: keatsfoundation.com/conference/

@CatsLikeFelix Just wait until he realises his belly is 15% less full than he thought.

Ah, bitter chill it was! Get ready for the Eve of St Agnes - Monday 20 January. We have a special online event featuring poet Helen Farish @BloodaxeBooks, Prof Nicholas Roe and a relay reading of Keats’s chilliest poem. Free tickets here: poetrysociety.org.uk/event/visions-…

‘Brain Rot’ is OED’s word of the year 2024 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Another Trafalgar Square Christmas Tree has been lit and feted with a new poem. Thank you Valerie Bloom and the children of St Vincent’s primary. It may have been the WETTEST event in living memory but we had great fun. @PoetrySociety @TrafalgarsTree

It’s Christmas Tree day in London! The Norwegian Trafalgar Square tree will be lit at 6pm this evening. Looking forward to the brass band, the drummers, the choir and ⭐️the new poem⭐️ commissioned for the ceremony. (rain please delay your arrival). See you later @TrafalgarsTree

Fàilte! Congratulations to @PadraigMacaoidh (Peter Mackay) appointed the new Scots Makar, National Poet for Scotland.

'Enshittification' selected as word of the year by Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary. “We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening” Cory Doctorow canberratimes.com.au/story/8830766/…

Poetry in the sister languages of Gaelic and Irish from Pàdraig MacAoidh and Eoin P. Ó Murchú at @ScotGovLondon. Interesting discussion mourning the loss of the cultural connections and networks with the other minoritised languages of Europe since Brexit.

@juliamarybird Oh no (on both counts)

i am recovering from covid. my brain is now back under my control, although my lungs are not. if i were to watch one hour of election coverage, would it finish me off?

Westminster Abbey today for annual Keats commemoration. “If I should die, said I to myself, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory”

The original life mask made by Keats’s friend Haydon is at @keatshouse Hampstead. The new commemoration, unveiled yesterday by the Lord Mayor of London is at the site of the Swan and Hoop livery stables on the corner of Moorgate and London Wall.

In Moorgate, London, a new sculpture commemorating John Keats, at the place he was born. Bust by Martin Jennings based on Keats’s life mask made by Hayden in 1816. With lines from Ode on Indolence.

@Carrie_Etter Gibson’s Lonely Tree - poetrynook.com/poem/lonely-tr…

Mentions of birch trees in poetry?

Mapping the Future mapped, Complete Works community celebrated @RSLiterature - wonderful readings and inspiring intros @BernardineEvari @Natteitler @arshi_mona @KMcCarthyWoolf @NickMakoha @YomiSode @soshunetwork @BloodaxeBooks

@HCopley @shevchenkonight You too Hannah - I really enjoyed all your sessions

@WasThatThunder @shevchenkonight It was lovely to meet you Judith 😊💚

At the Laurel Prize for nature and environmental poetry at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. John Burnside awarded the main prize with prizes to @shevchenkonight and @HCopley

Thanks for a stimulating day of eco-poetic discussions and readings @poetryschool today at Leeds University.

At the Leeds Corn Exchange as @tombranfoot and @sarahkdawson create cut up poetry

@tombranfoot @NatPoetryCentre @sarahkdawson Ah Tom! I hadn’t realised it was you! Doh! Hello - nice to have seen you!

Had a great time helping people make poems from found text at Rubbish Works, the @NatPoetryCentre’s inaugural event on all weekend w/ @sarahkdawson! Read some of the ace poems people made today, reminding us that poetry is as much about curation as creation! 📓🗑️🎨🔠