Ian Tattum

Poetry, essays, book reviews by an independent scholar and wonderer 🦋🦩🦕 FZSL FLS

[Ian Tattum @ITattum]

A kind friend has produced a third chapbook of my poems.
I don’t write many about birds these days

[Ian Tattum @ITattum]

Water meadows

[Ian Tattum @ITattum]

@ArtistDora @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems I sensed a kinship between our poems and our lament🦋

[Ian Tattum @ITattum]

For @TopTweetTuesday I have written a Walt Whitman inspired poem about nationhood . Really enjoy the research @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems

[Brycchan Carey @Brycchan]

It's great to see that the call for papers for the 2027 @isecs_sieds International Congress on the Enlightenment is now open! It's hosted by Zaragoza in Spain on 12-16 July and I'll definitely be there! https://t.co/9QG05Xb13N

[Anthony J.P @antJP01]

Influenced by ‘The Charge of the light brigade’ by Tennyson, my @TopTweetTuesday ‘Folly and blunder’
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[🌻 Go Wild With Annette @writethewrongs2]

Two marsupials known to science only from fossils, and presumed gone for more than 6,000 years, have turned out to be alive in the rainforests of the Vogelkop Peninsula in Indonesian Papua.

The finding was published in March in the Records of the Australian Museum, and it leaned less on a lucky expedition than on a misfiled museum specimen, a handful of photographs, fossil fragments, and the knowledge of the people who have always lived alongside the animals.

Both species are what biologists call Lazarus taxa, creatures that drop out of the fossil record, appear to be extinct, and then turn up living.

The first is the ring-tailed glider, now named...

More here: https://t.co/W3jrMMcgHY

[Ian Tattum @ITattum]

Great news

[Cambridge University @Cambridge_Uni]

Swifts have returned to nest in Cambridge, settling in @DarwinCollege for the very first time 🐣

As swift numbers continue to decline, Dr Mike Rands, Master of Darwin College, explains how simple measures like installing swift nest boxes and swift bricks can help protect these remarkable birds.

“One of the things that the University of Cambridge is doing to try to help recover the swift population is to put nest boxes on buildings around the University, to compensate for the fact that natural nest sites have disappeared as a result of new modern buildings,” Dr Rands explains.

Learn more about our swift chicks and follow their journey here 👉 https://t.co/ABRCJR7IpE

[Ian Tattum @ITattum]

@hool415 @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith You are right.
They are often terrible fantasists.
The other night I dreamed I was being chased by 3 angry young ostriches.
A larger bird joined in the hue and cry but I was greatly relieved to discover it was just an angry goose and not an adult ostrich 😊

[Gary Legg @GaryLegg12]

A take on Mr Whitman....hopefully!
Cheers everyone!!😃

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[Poetry by PS ☘️ @PoetryByPS]

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Happy @TopTweetTuesday, friends!

No homages or vintaged hints from me this week. Just a little PS Conway trying his best to play the imagistic wannabe. 🥂

Thanks for the #poetry prompts @MatthewMCSmith
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[Sarah Raybould @raybould_drs]

I promise I will write a poem next week! To quote Emily ‘I dwell in possibility….’
I would never have thought I could put any body of work out there without the mega poetic drive of @MatthewMCSmith & weekly talent & encouragement from all of you! Thank you!
@TopTweetTuesday

[Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor]

For @TopTweetTuesday here’s a piece responding to Tennyson’s poem ‘The Eagle’. Thanks for hosting to EIC @MatthewMCSmith

#vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

[M.F. Sutherland @MegsDregs]

Thinking about Ulysses for this week’s @TopTweetTuesday prompt. Thanks to @MatthewMCSmith for hosting. ☕️
#Poetry #TopTweetTuesday #Boudica #Tennyson #Iambic

[thedevilstuna @thedevilstuna]

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I've spent a few days immersing myself in Tennyson, a poet I'd not read in depth before. So here's my (longer than usual so long I couldn't get it in one image!) effort Eating Lotos With Alfred.

#tennyson
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[Ian Tattum @ITattum]

@teemgrin @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems If you are going to violate the sacred rule about rhyme it is worth doing it in style.
This is a super take on Tennyson and the brutality of turf war🦋

[Ian Tattum @ITattum]

@SteveBirtsequel @TopTweetTuesday @blackboughpoems @MatthewMCSmith This is marvellous and so true 🌷

[Steve Birt @SteveBirtsequel]

Once again it's @TopTweetTuesday time! So for @blackboughpoems , @MatthewMCSmith and all the other wordsmiths....

[Ian Tattum @ITattum]

@ArtistDora @TopTweetTuesday @blackboughpoems @MatthewMCSmith Useless diorama of barefaced skies❤️
This is a bang up to date anti paean to what America has become- I think

[DoraArtist @ArtistDora]

@TopTweetTuesday
@blackboughpoems and special thanks to @MatthewMCSmith for hosting. Here's my sub, Drive-Through America.

Thanks to all for reading and commenting!

[Ian Tattum @ITattum]

@dandugwriter @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith The park is a mourning place in bad weather 👏