It was my Dad’s funeral yesterday &, today, the sadness is immeasurable. I’m grateful though, that, for the last few weeks of his life, we shared a view of the city in which he’d lived & worked for over 50 years #Liverpool

Technology in the English Classroom! Latest issue of Newsletter, packed with teaching ideas & some provocations … thanks to co-editors @draperel @HollieB_FE & contributors incl @JoePaulBarber @KateWhyles @PamelaDaleAP & @BobEaglestone on @OCR_Policy #StrikingTheBalance report 💫

We need your help. If you can, please support this anthology. A co-production between @LittleToller and Bluemoose. It is important. We're publishing in September 2025. Rt and shout about it! Thank you. @thebookseller @guardianeco @samatlounge https://t.co/tN0BEjOYDF

First thing on campus @ManMetUni & looking forward to spending the day meeting our new @PlaceCentre postgraduate researcher @supriyadhaliwal & third-year @MMUEnglishDept Critical Project students.

‘Each time I’ve been to Fingal’s Cave, the sense of natural magnitude dwarfing human endeavour has been inescapable. Turner’s painting amplified the feeling: a luminescent, natural arch opening into the unfathomable past’: Fiona Stafford on Staffa in ‘Time & Tide’.

Good morning. We have some cracking news tomorrow about an anthology we are co - publishing with @LittleToller We will need all your help but we know you'll shout about it for us, which would be really appreciated. Thank you.

Just remembered that my first ever publications were in the much-missed, acerbic #LFC fanzine ‘Through the Wind & Rain’. I was so proud that I framed the articles & put them on my bedroom wall. Sadly, over a quarter of a century later, I haven’t got a clue what I wrote about.

From the Edge of All Habitation... Four years since her last work, Autumn Richardson returns with a poetic sequence that vividly conjures time spent on a wild peninsula of the Irish southwest: https://t.co/VZp4hKSdRx

‘Chopping, Working, Thinking’: fascinatingly wide-ranging essay on life in a kitchen by former @McrWritingSchl creative non-fiction MA student @JoeFennUK This is the first post in Joe’s new food writing blog, ‘Panorama: The View from the Kitchen’

Seeing Red Oil on cradled panel 13x18cm Spanning the M6 at Sandbach Services. The southbound, north facing side, a vibrant red, with the northbound south facing side sun bleached and faded. This piece will be @McrArtFair with Saul Hay Gallery in Nov. #painting #grimartgroup

I’d encourage everyone to read this heart-breakingly beautiful piece by @jeffyoungwriter in today’s paper & then, if you haven’t already done so, buy a copy of ‘Wild Twin’ from @LittleToller Essential reading for place writers @MMUEnglishDept @McrWritingSchl @PlaceCentre

Exploring the explorers’ maps: free hybrid @RGS_IBG lecture by @katieparker18th on 28 October #maps #mapping #cartography

1/4 This academic year we're delighted to be collaborating with @NaturalEngland on 2 exciting arts commissions (1 in Devon & 1 in Cornwall) exploring people's values assigned to nature around protected sites. Come & join the project team! https://t.co/5aZ96Iloex #ArtsJobs

The Sound of the Fens: wonderful @BBCOpenCountry in which @Marthakearney visits Helpston & Fen Edge to explore how the landscape has changed since the days of John Clare. Features Francesca Mackenney discussing Clare’s soundscapes

‘I want to make some kind of gesture. An offering. A mark of passing. And to leave it here. Tied to the land’: about to re-immerse myself - for the nth time - in the extraordinary deep map of Richard Skelton’s ‘Landings’ #amreading

Next month, I’m starting my Creative Writing PhD at @PlaceCentre @MMUEnglishDept, funded by the NWCDTP. I’m excited for this new adventure! I’ve been very lucky to have had the support of many brilliant people along the way. If you’re in Manchester, let’s get coffee!

Just spent much of the train commute home dreaming of walking into this painting (‘Washdaybreak’, 2003) by Martin Greenland https://t.co/D6EKiwRlrA

Morecambe Bay is 250 years old: Bill Shannon explains how, in 1774, the name ‘Morecambe Bay’ appeared on a map for the first time as part of Father Thomas West’s ‘The Antiquities of Furness’ #maps #mapping https://t.co/rsPsR2Gsjx

Mapping the Tube: 1863-2023 - exhibition @TheMapHouse - from 25 October to 30 November - exploring the evolution of London’s Tube system and the London Underground map. The exhibition will feature some of Harry Beck’s hand-drawn & annotated manuscripts

*Please* do this. Students need time & space to be students: to follow their interests, read beyond the curriculum, be intellectually curious, share ideas with each other over a cuppa, go to talks on other subjects. They can't do this when working multiple jobs to stay afloat.

My book about how we can tell a new history of Britain through the city of Liverpool now has a cover. It's out next year but can be pre-ordered here: https://t.co/5FtoPoSW0Q