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…
“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
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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'.
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.
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…
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…
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
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!
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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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“Welcome to Conscious Writing Month,
a gentle invitation to journey together
across five weeks of writing, reflection,
and renewal. I’m honored to hold this space
with you — and cannot wait to see where
your words will take us. Welcome in.” - Jade Cuttle
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.
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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…
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…
'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…
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…