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I'm presenting @BBCRadio3's Sunday Feature from the fens—with a squelch. Interviewing Rob Macfarlane & @carolinedavison, we don our brown-tinted spectacles to show how poets, like Vaughan Williams, see flatness as somewhere fertile for creativity to land bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qqp…
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“I was excited by the opportunity to unleash [the objects] from their cage,” says @JadeCuttle Now on display at the Museum of Writing @SenateHouseLib is a huge private collection of writing-related ephemera spanning more than 5,000 years bit.ly/4dgit7v
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It's 100 years since Virginia Woolf wrote On Being Il. As presenter @KirstyWark & I discuss her legacy on @BBCRadio4 @BBCFrontRow I reach for medicine of my own—a snuff jar of soil—read my muddy sonnet (soilnet @FaberBooks)& announce my @metoffice collab🌤 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002w5z…
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Also in Poetry Review @PoetrySociety. @JadeCuttle writes evocatively of her passion for soil, & of 'the bold & beating heart of 'Nature Matters: Vital Poems from the Global Majority'.
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Jennifer Lee Tsai's first full-length poetry book Melete is reviewed in @ObserverUK of 3 May. With thanks to @JadeCuttle for featuring Melete as a Poetry Book of the Month.
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Must poets always be so serious, I ask in @ObserverUK? Might we “shed majesty, for a moment”—query the “role”? As balloons turn sentient & aliens steal jobs, fun gains fourth-person presence in @BetaRish's delightfully surreal Cherry Blossom at Nightbreak🌸observer.co.uk/culture/books…
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Unsafe is not a peaceful read—it sounds blaring sirens & squealing balloons that snag in hedges. Still I pick this brave & unsettling title by @KMcCarthyWoolf for my @ObserverUK February book column reflecting on Nature Matters @FaberBooks @BloomsburyBooks observer.co.uk/culture/books…
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Thd @ObserverUK’s @JadeCuttle digs up some of the finest lines in @MrRavoon’s “Dirt Rich,” one of the finest collections I’ve read in a long while, and identifies what makes these often bleakly funny poems, at bottom, so unexpectedly uplifting. observer.co.uk/culture/books…
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I wrote a personal thinkpiece for @ObserverUK on Phillis Wheatley, the largely forgotten first Black poet whose nature poems preceded Wordsworth/Keats, to celebrate Britain's first anthology of global majority nature poets @FaberBooks Nature Matters ed @arshi_mona @KMcCarthyWoolf
Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet trib.al/QNV08VT
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Are you a lower-income writer interested in how to lead a more ethical and creatively fulfilling writing life? We have x50 half-price tickets available which give full access to our #ConsciousWritingMonth series - no application required! literaryconsultancy.co.uk/ev…
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What is #ConsciousWritingMonth? Lovingly curated by @JadeCuttle, this series invites you to take a moment as a writer for pause and reflection. In a busy world, we invite you to come together for five weeks of vital 'writing, reflection and renewal'. So, what's in store? ...
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Simon Armitage makes peace with the dead In New Cemetery, the poet laureate draws on the wonder of moths and the death of his father to produce a haunting sequence of poems. @JadeCuttle bit.ly/3I1sVTp
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Thank you so much @JadeCuttle for such a sensitive review of #TheMercyStep in today's Observer Over many moons at this fabulous review of my solo debut novel #TheMercyStep In The Observer today observer.co.uk/culture/books… #debutfiction #blackbooks #autofiction
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"This unapologetically original poet invites us to love the land and tread with care" - Great to see this stunning review of Nina Mingya Powles's new collection In the Hollow of the Wave from @ninearchespress in the Observer from @JadeCuttle > observer.co.uk/culture/books…
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Thank you @JadeCuttle and @ObserverUK for selecting In the Hollow of the Wave by Nina Mingya Powles as Poetry Book of the Month in today's paper. Finding a "striking vision of our beautiful, fragile world" from an "unapologetically original poet" ninearchespress.com/publicat…
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My @ObserverUK column has @arshi_mona as best poetry book this month; @ChattoBooks @vintagebooks—“marginal women” of Greek tragedy, tossed “like dusty moths into the night”, turn “stuffed rags” into freedom flags💪🏽Recs for next column? @felicitybryan observer.co.uk/culture/books…
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'What isn't nature poetry, when everything we know begins and ends with the earth?' @JadeCuttle is at the University of Cambridge, researching British nature poets of colour. Listen to her Essay on BBC R3, that highlights upcoming anthology Nature Matters: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00298f…
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I've scripted & presented a @BBCRadio3 show, 'Digging for Words' 9.45pm tonight/online now🎙️Drawing on my PhD & BBC New Generation Thinker work, a mossary of linguistic invention celebrates Nature Matters, Britain's first anth. of nature poets of colour🙌🏾🌱bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00298f…
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