Read more of other people’s poems, that’s all I’m saying. Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Published by the magnificent Longbarrow press. I share a house through the summer with nesting swifts. Podcast:
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Chris Jones
In my first post in June, I write about an encounter with a lot of swifts early on a Tuesday morning.
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Loaded as it is with the means
to bestow or withhold the elemental,
a cloud is fragile too –
all puffed up and overblown
meringue whipped from stone.
'The Gleaning'
Fay Musselwhite
A new collection
Out now from Longbarrow Press
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Line Drawing/Grid, Layered Print on Saunders Waterford Paper
In this week’s Swift Diaries post I reflect on empty May skies.
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There will be a Longbarrow poets reading in Sheffield on April 21st at The Harlequin from 7.30pm-9pm featuring @steveeely.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com Fay Musselwhite, Angelina D’Roza, Rob Hindle and myself. Details here:
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There will be a Longbarrow poets reading in Sheffield on April 21st at The Harlequin from 7.30pm-9pm featuring @steveeely.bsky.social @petegreensolo.com Fay Musselwhite, Angelina D’Roza, Rob Hindle and myself. Details here:
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A walk from York to Goole, via the River Ouse, Bishopthorpe, the Trans Pennine Trail, Selby and Boothferry, 9am to 9.30pm Thursday 2 April 2026.
An improvised, illustrated thread of indeterminate length, part reflection, part reconstruction. 1/
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In this, the second post of the year, I reflect on the swift bricks that have packed in and around our house’s dirty face.
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Swifts shape a fly-by,
their high, riotous piercings,
and one year’s shot past.
My first Swift Diary of the year.
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In my penultimate Swift Diary from May, I discuss prison time and swifts.
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