Judith Palmer

Poetry etc. Here on behalf of the etc. Views my own. Community gardening. Wild things. Islington in Europe.

[John Keats @KeatsFound]

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: https://t.co/ExDRxG4tdl

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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

[John Keats @KeatsFound]

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: https://t.co/UZ9dy0m6Kj

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

‘Brain Rot’ is OED’s word of the year 2024 https://t.co/IAQt59WpfV

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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.

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

'Enshittification' selected as word of the year by Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary. “We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening” Cory Doctorow https://t.co/FajGYyDtiY

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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.

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

@juliamarybird Oh no (on both counts)

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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”

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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.

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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.

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

@Carrie_Etter Gibson’s Lonely Tree - https://t.co/BHbtb7vZ54

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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

[Judith Palmer @WasThatThunder]

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