The tiny egg and the life it produced

📹 Adrian Kozakiewicz

To a man who has dedicated his life to conserving and understanding our natural world: Happy 98th Birthday! 🎉

Sir David Attenborough, thank you for your decades of devotion to our planet's wonders and wildlife.

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Sir Thomas Bodley’s motto was 'Quarta perennis'.

Which means 'The fourth will last forever' - referring to the Bodleian being the 'fourth' library built in Oxford.

It could arguably be read as...'May the fourth last forever.'

Happy #StarWarsDay !

#MayThe4th

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Mike Donaghy opened doors for poets from working class backgrounds like me being one himself. Through this scheme, he can continue to do so: I'm glad to have the chance to help.
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A beautiful way to register the value and privilege of using a vote 🗳️

Of the importance and otherwise of prepositions - poet and translator Don Mee Choi celebrates the most easily overlooked of words in her lecture next week for The Poetry Society and University of Liverpool at The Tung Auditorium and online - 9 May. 의의의의의의의의의의의의의의의의의의의의의의의의

It’s been fascinating this spring having been able to locate, observe and protect this Woodlark nest, much to the delight of our guests that are visiting our Careys Secret Garden Garden Osprey platform. Being able to carefully monitor this rare scene has been great. Dorset Bird Club

First view of the 3

Another remarkable poetry collection from Steve Ely, produced with the most exquisite shokunin by Longbarrow Press

Massive congratulations to Romani Artist Delaine LeBas, who has just been announced as one of the four contenders for this year's Turner Prize! Amazing, well done Delaine 🏆

Learn more about Delaine and the other three contenders below 👇

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There are three categories in the annual meeuwenschreeuwen (gull screeching) competition – junior, adult and “colony'
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BCU. One of the best creative writing programmes in the UK.

The counts are in! We're very pleased to announce that this year's Puffin number on Skomer Island is 41,605.

We're very pleased that the island remains a stronghold for this seabird species.

Photo © Huia Wesling Macgregor, Skomer Long-Term Volunteer

Lord grant us the confidence of a lapwing chick that hatched literally hours ago

Blue tit singing on a cold early morning.

You can even see its song in the air.

[📷 Mikhail Kalinin]

A westerly wind gusting at up to 50 knots has encouraged the Squacco Heron into the relatively sheltered Crab Bay Puffin colony. It is still wild enough to give it a plume comb over. BirdGuides

Emma Hayes quotes Robert Frost's 'Choose Something Like a Star' theguardian.com/football/2024/…

There are tiny Rabbits all over the place

I took out a subscription to Butcher's Dog Publishing today. Its amazing editor, the poet Jo Clement Dr Jo Clement, deserves the respect of all writers and readers. The magazine is magnificent and deserves our support.