The first review of my new novel The Palace of Wisdom here: therecusant.org.uk/recusant-boo... #JohnClare #RobertLowell
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October 12, 2026 at 12:22 PM
The first review of my new novel The Palace of Wisdom here: therecusant.org.uk/recusant-boo... #JohnClare #RobertLowell
I'm at the Westgate Chapel, Lewes, on Saturday 10th October, World Mental Health Day, launching my first novel, The Palace of Wisdom, featuring poets John Clare and Robert Lowell: www.leweslivelit.co.uk It would be lovely to see you there! #Lewes #JohnClare #RobertLowell #Poetry
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October 5, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I'm at the Westgate Chapel, Lewes, on Saturday 10th October, World Mental Health Day, launching my first novel, The Palace of Wisdom, featuring poets John Clare and Robert Lowell: www.leweslivelit.co.uk It would be lovely to see you there! #Lewes #JohnClare #RobertLowell #Poetry
Very much looking forward to celebrating autumn, nature writing & John Clare's poetry in the beautiful setting of Clare Cottage in Helpston on Monday 12 Oct: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th...
Everyone welcome. No writing experience necessary. #johnclare #naturewriting @johnclare.bsky.social
Everyone welcome. No writing experience necessary. #johnclare #naturewriting @johnclare.bsky.social
Writing the Rural Seasons: Colours of Autumn
Guardian Country Diarist Nic Wilson explores the spirit of autumn through creative writing, taking inspiration from Clare’s nature poems
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September 23, 2026 at 11:14 AM
Very much looking forward to celebrating autumn, nature writing & John Clare's poetry in the beautiful setting of Clare Cottage in Helpston on Monday 12 Oct: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-th...
Everyone welcome. No writing experience necessary. #johnclare #naturewriting @johnclare.bsky.social
Everyone welcome. No writing experience necessary. #johnclare #naturewriting @johnclare.bsky.social
September 20, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Love finds its melody once more.
"One gloomy eve I roam’d about" by John Clare
Listen free:
https://v2melody.com/public_poem_details.php?poem_id=1580
NI + AI = V2M
#suno #AIMusic #AIArt #Poem #JohnClare
"One gloomy eve I roam’d about" by John Clare
Listen free:
https://v2melody.com/public_poem_details.php?poem_id=1580
NI + AI = V2M
#suno #AIMusic #AIArt #Poem #JohnClare
September 20, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Love finds its melody once more.
"One gloomy eve I roam’d about" by John Clare
Listen free:
https://v2melody.com/public_poem_details.php?poem_id=1580
NI + AI = V2M
#suno #AIMusic #AIArt #Poem #JohnClare
"One gloomy eve I roam’d about" by John Clare
Listen free:
https://v2melody.com/public_poem_details.php?poem_id=1580
NI + AI = V2M
#suno #AIMusic #AIArt #Poem #JohnClare
September 13, 2026 at 5:30 PM
John Clare #JohnClare and 'The Railways' #Northants #Northampton #Northamptonshire #Helpston #Railway #Poet
August 24, 2026 at 3:58 PM
John Clare #JohnClare and 'The Railways' #Northants #Northampton #Northamptonshire #Helpston #Railway #Poet
“ Then the Sun with gentle creeps / Over heavens surface softly peeps / To his toils again repairs / To knot in gold her spangled hairs / & as waiting in the skies / Till morn takes her exercise…” #JohnClare #Naturalist #Poet 📚
#Tynemouth (UK) #Sunrise this morning 🌅
#Tynemouth (UK) #Sunrise this morning 🌅
August 17, 2026 at 6:10 AM
“ Then the Sun with gentle creeps / Over heavens surface softly peeps / To his toils again repairs / To knot in gold her spangled hairs / & as waiting in the skies / Till morn takes her exercise…” #JohnClare #Naturalist #Poet 📚
#Tynemouth (UK) #Sunrise this morning 🌅
#Tynemouth (UK) #Sunrise this morning 🌅
“The butterflye in wings of brown, Would find me where I lay, Fluttering & bobbing up & down, & settling on the hay” #JohnClare #Naturalist #Poet #Butterfly #TheBorders 🏴
August 16, 2026 at 7:07 PM
“The butterflye in wings of brown, Would find me where I lay, Fluttering & bobbing up & down, & settling on the hay” #JohnClare #Naturalist #Poet #Butterfly #TheBorders 🏴
“…The hare steps hirpling oer the plain, Till found a bush or bunch of sedge, Then drops its ears & squats again…” #JohnClare #Naturalist #Poet #Nature
Hare seen in the #NorthPennines yesterday
Hare seen in the #NorthPennines yesterday
August 15, 2026 at 5:38 AM
“…The hare steps hirpling oer the plain, Till found a bush or bunch of sedge, Then drops its ears & squats again…” #JohnClare #Naturalist #Poet #Nature
Hare seen in the #NorthPennines yesterday
Hare seen in the #NorthPennines yesterday
“ the landscape stretching view that opens wide, with dribbling brooks and rivers wider floods, & hills & vales and darksome lowering woods, With grains of varied hues and grasses pied” #JohnClare #Naturalist #Poet
Views from #NorthPennines to south west #Northumberland (UK) #Landscapes 💚
Views from #NorthPennines to south west #Northumberland (UK) #Landscapes 💚
August 15, 2026 at 5:49 AM
“ the landscape stretching view that opens wide, with dribbling brooks and rivers wider floods, & hills & vales and darksome lowering woods, With grains of varied hues and grasses pied” #JohnClare #Naturalist #Poet
Views from #NorthPennines to south west #Northumberland (UK) #Landscapes 💚
Views from #NorthPennines to south west #Northumberland (UK) #Landscapes 💚
“Unbounded freedom ruled the wandering scene / No fence of ownership crept in between / To hide the prospect from the gazing eye / Its only bondage was the circling sky #JohnClare #Naturalist #Trespasser #Poet #Peterborough
August 6, 2026 at 8:40 AM
“Unbounded freedom ruled the wandering scene / No fence of ownership crept in between / To hide the prospect from the gazing eye / Its only bondage was the circling sky #JohnClare #Naturalist #Trespasser #Poet #Peterborough
Walking with the words and thoughts ‘of my friend’, the naturalist and poet #JohnClare along his nearby River Nene #Peterborough 📚🌿
August 5, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Walking with the words and thoughts ‘of my friend’, the naturalist and poet #JohnClare along his nearby River Nene #Peterborough 📚🌿
“Oh, take me from the busy crowd, I cannot bear the noise! For nature‘s voice is never loud; I seek for quiet joys” wrote #Poet #JohnClare #Nature
July 31, 2026 at 4:22 AM
“Oh, take me from the busy crowd, I cannot bear the noise! For nature‘s voice is never loud; I seek for quiet joys” wrote #Poet #JohnClare #Nature
July 30, 2026 at 2:21 PM
“The fields and woods that he so passionately loved, the birds and beasts that he watched and wrote about with tenderness and patience, the familiar trees and stones and hedgerows, were, with the poetry which grew out of them, the great love of his life” on #JohnClare by June Wilson (1951)
Hares
Hares
July 29, 2026 at 7:54 AM
“The fields and woods that he so passionately loved, the birds and beasts that he watched and wrote about with tenderness and patience, the familiar trees and stones and hedgerows, were, with the poetry which grew out of them, the great love of his life” on #JohnClare by June Wilson (1951)
Hares
Hares
I've wanted to write this @theguardian.com country diary on a special place in #JohnClare and my family's lives for a while now. Many thanks to the Gatekeepers and the Puddocks for helping me...
#countrydiary #naturewriting @johnclare.bsky.social @kovesi.bsky.social
#countrydiary #naturewriting @johnclare.bsky.social @kovesi.bsky.social
Country diary: In poet John Clare’s garden, I contemplate my ancestor who lived here too | Nic Wilson
Helpston, Cambridgeshire: I picture Henry as a young lad, hiding in flowerbeds, chasing butterflies, learning to love nature
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July 29, 2026 at 7:26 AM
I've wanted to write this @theguardian.com country diary on a special place in #JohnClare and my family's lives for a while now. Many thanks to the Gatekeepers and the Puddocks for helping me...
#countrydiary #naturewriting @johnclare.bsky.social @kovesi.bsky.social
#countrydiary #naturewriting @johnclare.bsky.social @kovesi.bsky.social
“O who can pass such lovely spots / Without a wish to stray / And leave life cares a while forgot / To muse an hour away…” from Emmonsales Heath
#Nature #Poem by #JohnClare 🌿
Northumberland Park #NorthShields #Tynemouth 🌳
#Nature #Poem by #JohnClare 🌿
Northumberland Park #NorthShields #Tynemouth 🌳
July 27, 2026 at 3:54 PM
“O who can pass such lovely spots / Without a wish to stray / And leave life cares a while forgot / To muse an hour away…” from Emmonsales Heath
#Nature #Poem by #JohnClare 🌿
Northumberland Park #NorthShields #Tynemouth 🌳
#Nature #Poem by #JohnClare 🌿
Northumberland Park #NorthShields #Tynemouth 🌳
“I long for scenes, where man hath never trod / A place where women never smiled or wept….” From I Am by #JohnClare #Nature #poet
Curlew at #WhitleyBay #Birds
Curlew at #WhitleyBay #Birds
July 27, 2026 at 4:47 AM
“I long for scenes, where man hath never trod / A place where women never smiled or wept….” From I Am by #JohnClare #Nature #poet
Curlew at #WhitleyBay #Birds
Curlew at #WhitleyBay #Birds
Robin in a garden #NorthShields &
#Poem by #JohnClare “I hear the red breasts faint & feeble note / As on the thorn he prunes his drooping wing / His song scarce warbles from his wispering throat / He sings like one thats little cheered to sing / Ah little bird thy song is like my sigh #Nature
#Poem by #JohnClare “I hear the red breasts faint & feeble note / As on the thorn he prunes his drooping wing / His song scarce warbles from his wispering throat / He sings like one thats little cheered to sing / Ah little bird thy song is like my sigh #Nature
July 23, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Robin in a garden #NorthShields &
#Poem by #JohnClare “I hear the red breasts faint & feeble note / As on the thorn he prunes his drooping wing / His song scarce warbles from his wispering throat / He sings like one thats little cheered to sing / Ah little bird thy song is like my sigh #Nature
#Poem by #JohnClare “I hear the red breasts faint & feeble note / As on the thorn he prunes his drooping wing / His song scarce warbles from his wispering throat / He sings like one thats little cheered to sing / Ah little bird thy song is like my sigh #Nature
“ a wild & giddy thing, with health robust from every care unbound, comes on the zephyr’s wing, and cheers the toiling clown” #JohnClare (excerpt ‘Now swathy summer’)
Common Tern in #NorthShields #Birds
Common Tern in #NorthShields #Birds
July 22, 2026 at 4:17 AM
“ a wild & giddy thing, with health robust from every care unbound, comes on the zephyr’s wing, and cheers the toiling clown” #JohnClare (excerpt ‘Now swathy summer’)
Common Tern in #NorthShields #Birds
Common Tern in #NorthShields #Birds
“It is no longer enough to read Clare as a simple observer of nature in transparent descriptive verse…We need to recognise that he works through groups of linked ideas, and [ #Trespass ]..is a key concept in his writing, and in his imaginative world #JohnClare #Nature #Poet
July 22, 2026 at 9:09 AM
“It is no longer enough to read Clare as a simple observer of nature in transparent descriptive verse…We need to recognise that he works through groups of linked ideas, and [ #Trespass ]..is a key concept in his writing, and in his imaginative world #JohnClare #Nature #Poet
The latest instalment of my year looking at Britain's common lands; this time a March trip across the Fens, and nature lost and found at John Clare's Swaddy Well.
#commonland
#JohnClare
#TheFens
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#commonland
#JohnClare
#TheFens
substack.com/@commonplace...
A common land year, March
At Swaddy Well
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March 29, 2026 at 8:46 PM
The latest instalment of my year looking at Britain's common lands; this time a March trip across the Fens, and nature lost and found at John Clare's Swaddy Well.
#commonland
#JohnClare
#TheFens
substack.com/@commonplace...
#commonland
#JohnClare
#TheFens
substack.com/@commonplace...
Over on my blog, I've started a monthly chronicle of my encounters with Britain's #commonland.
In January we find out what common land is, bust some myths, speak of #JohnClare and hear about the lands I have lost.
helenbaczkowska.com
And
open.substack.com/pub/commonpl...
In January we find out what common land is, bust some myths, speak of #JohnClare and hear about the lands I have lost.
helenbaczkowska.com
And
open.substack.com/pub/commonpl...
A common land year
Exploring the many lives of Britain's common lands.
open.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Over on my blog, I've started a monthly chronicle of my encounters with Britain's #commonland.
In January we find out what common land is, bust some myths, speak of #JohnClare and hear about the lands I have lost.
helenbaczkowska.com
And
open.substack.com/pub/commonpl...
In January we find out what common land is, bust some myths, speak of #JohnClare and hear about the lands I have lost.
helenbaczkowska.com
And
open.substack.com/pub/commonpl...