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Dan Cox @videlais.bsky.social · 17h

I am thrilled to announce the opening of the Call for Submissions for Electronic Literature Volume 5.

eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/

I am serving along with @zachwhalen.bsky.social, @elikaortega.bsky.social, and Dani Spinosa.

This call launches with translations in 12+ languages!

Call for Submissions

The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.

eliterature.github.io

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Natasha Simonova @philistella.bsky.social · 1d

ONLY migrants though, no one else is to study English because it's a rip off and a waste of time, am I getting this right.

András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 1d

Well this will certainly do it www.gov.uk/government/n...

Migrants will be required to pass A Level standard of English

Migrants will be required to pass tough new English language requirements under a law introduced in Parliament today.

www.gov.uk

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 10h

very much their loss!! we’re so happy to have you over to Leeds !

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 18h

and…. doing the solo version at Aldburgh Poetry Festival

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

the review was for a hiking boot tho

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

Spatula very pleasant to the cool atlas and very comfortable to the canine. — a five star review, translated by Google

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 1d

join me and fellow wind aficionado @richardacarter.bsky.social for discussion on our recent digital poetry projects exploring wind, sound, flight, and phantom islands as weather phenomena. hosted by @rmets.org in Leeds.
Wednesday 19 November 2025
18:00 - 19:30 FREE www.rmets.org/event/toward...

Towards a Wind Humanities

IIn this talk, Dr J. R. Carpenter and Dr Richard Carter will discuss their interdisciplinary practice-led research projects published in a special issue of Media + Environment co-edited by Maximilian ...

www.rmets.org

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 12d

Apply for this free PhD course on Energy Humanities in Stavanger, Norway!

Please pass the opportunity on to students you know. Students from anywhere are welcome.

#envhum #envhist

Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · 29d

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 3d

she told me! such a great experimental writing community there

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 3d

and you met the lovely Ines! how great.

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 5d

people: hope you’re feeling better soon. me: maybe just a short walk in the park. this slag heap: you’re never going to know if we’re full of upper carboniferous fossils or not unless you climb us. the upper carboniferous: sure, we think 30 metres is a perfectly reasonable height to grow club mosses

green grass with a stand of trees in the distance, with some leaves turning autumn colours

A large pile of dirt and rocks with some trees visible beyond

two large pieces of fossilised tree root

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 10d

Wanderer overlooking the Kirkstall Road, Leeds, circa 1896.

Source image from: THE CHARACTER AND EXTENT OF AIR POLLUTION IN LEEDS. A Lecture delivered before the Leeds Philosophical Society, on March 3rd, 1896.

en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Cha...

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 14d

and an early author of electronic literature

Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 14d

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BP

bpNichol was born on September 30, 1944, and was the author of numerous books of poetry, as well as four novels, several books for children and one collection of short fiction.

Learn more about bp's work with CH here: chbooks.com/Authors/N/Ni...

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 15d

worth repeating: reading in the margins: Jordan Abel
, another fragment of a longer work-in-progress, / @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social ;
robmclennan.substack.com/p/reading-in...

reading in the margins: Jordan Abel

, another fragment of a longer work-in-progress,

robmclennan.substack.com

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 21d

complaining to a colleague about autumn allergies, he says, sounds like Duino Elegies. I think the fourth elegy might actually be about autumn allergies: O trees of life, oh, what when winter comes? / We are not of one mind.

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 22d

NEW WORKSHOP!!

Sabrina Imbler will teach "Writing Alongside the Nonhuman" on Sept 15, online.

It is one thing to write about animals, plants, and other non-human beings, but what would it look like to write with them? 🌱🐈🌸

www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/wri...

Sabrina Imbler
Workshops for Gaza
Writing alongside the nonhuman
sat. nov. 14, 1-3pm EST

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 23d

many thanks to the judges of the Forward Prizes — this year’s Forward Book of Poetry is beautiful and I’m very happy to have a poem in it. get your copy here: www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...

J. R. Carpenter holding a copy of the new Forward Book of Poetry 2026

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 24d

TODAY

J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · Sep 3

well chuffed to have a poem in the Forward Book of Poetry launching at the BBC’s Contains Strong Language Festival in Bradford 21 September 14:00 www.bbc.co.uk/events/ewbv9...

Contains Strong Language 2025 - Forward Prize Launch

The Forward Book of Poetry collects the best new poetry published in the UK, curated by this year's judges of the Prizes: Sarah Hall (chair), Hannah Lavery, Lisa Kelly, Sean O'Brien, and Rommi Smith. ...

www.bbc.co.uk

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 25d

thanks to everyone involved in making the Laurel Prize ceremony at the BBC Contains Strong Language Festival in Bradford last evening such a joyful occasion. congratulations to Katrina Porteous, whose Rhizodont is really something special. we both read poems about fossils. what a night!

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The Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social · 26d

Laurel Prize ceremony live-stream starting today at 5.30pm (BST)

💻: poetryschool.com/lau...

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The Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social · 28d

JR Carpenter – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍

On Measures of Weather:
“Writing is noticing + noting. Rocks, seeds, photos—all count as notes. The space between noticing + noting is where the real writing happens.”

🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...

Winner live Fri 19 Sept, 5.30pm BST

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 28d

images of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein together projected on to Windsor castle ahead of Trump’s state visit to the UK. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · 28d

The Laurel Prize asked me some questions and @poetryschool.bsky.social published the answers poetryschool.com/laurel-prize...

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Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social · 29d

Submission Open

15th September to 15th of October 2025

Submissions are now open for issue 28 of The Manchester Review. The Editors are looking forward to reading the best of your poetry, fiction, and non fiction.

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J. R. Carpenter @jrcarpenter.bsky.social · Sep 14

obsessed with the geology of Kirkstall Abbey near Leeds, built with locally quarried Millstone Grit 1152-1182. the stone contains quartzite pebbles that washed down from huge mountain ranges further north over 300 million years ago #kirkstallabbey #geology #erosion #millstonegrit

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