Chris Jones
@CwjonesChris
Poet, lecturer, dad. Books inc. Skin & Little Piece of Harm (Longbarrow Press). Knee-deep in season two of podcast: https://twowaypoetry.podbean.com/
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In today's gorgeous essay, @RachelGenn looks back on Sheffield in the 70s, skinheads and skipping school sheffieldtribune.co.uk/winged/
A wonderful experience at the Cockshut wetlands, #Lewes, this afternoon - 40+ #Swifts screaming over the water and around our heads, accompanied by about 12 House Martins.
Caught one of our pair of swifts entering the nest last week. Taking entries from my Swift diaries from 2021, 2024 & 2025 to reflect on the urban swift experience on Substack. cwjoneschris.substack.com/p/swift-diarie… @SheffSwiftNet @swifts_uk
Opening this weekend... Dominique Cameron RSW Waterland 17 May to 22 June Pictured: Hithe Oil on Wood Panel 25x2cm #dominiquecameron #waterland
My second post on Substack about the swifts we share our house with
There's still time to get a £40 @AfSwifts brick and a £25 Swift caller up. We can arrange that for you Email: [email protected]
𝗔𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝘄𝗮𝗹𝗹. Potential home to many species, and in the building for life! Brick donated by SCC SW LAC; congrats to the Totley Swift Brick Competition Winner Offer a home to a young Sheffield Swift - get in touch. [email protected]
Featured today on Creative Writing at Leicester: the wonderful Pam Thompson @fierydes and her new pamphlet "Sub/urban Legends." Read 2 brilliant poems from the collection here: …eativewritingatleicester.blogspot.com/2025/04/pam-th… @paperswanspress @crystalclearjt @EverybodyReview @PoetrySociety
Thrilled our 'Reading for Pleasure' book is out!!😃 It focuses on understanding readers, texts, pedagogies and contexts supportive of RfP 😊Huge thanks to our brilliant contributors! 👇 @TeresaCremin @OpenUni_RfP @The_UKLA @MorayHouse
Just published – ‘Reading for Pleasure’ edited by @TeresaCremin and @DrSarahMcG explores how fostering a love of reading can improve children and young people's academic outcomes and socio-emotional wellbeing 📚 Learn more 👉 spr.ly/60160l8ys
It's #NationalNestBoxWeek. Help replace some of the millions of nests lost, in time for the arrival of our red listed birds. For free advice email [email protected] 🪺 Swift bricks 🪺 External Swift boxes 🪺 UPVC soffit boxes 🪺 House Martin cups
Imagine re-reading Edward Lear’s The Owl and the Pussy-Cat and deciding to write a prequel & sequel for it. That’s what Matt Black decided to do. He talks nonsense to me in the latest - & final episode of the second series - Two-Way Poetry podcast. twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/matt-black-o…
‘If you think there’s a realistic chance that aliens are visiting Earth, you’re going to want to make your case as noisily as possible. But if you think it’s all a bit far-fetched, why bother getting involved?’ Edmund Gordon on the history of UFOs: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…
Our voices are close; completely echoless - muffled as if indoors. We're between four walls of mist. New year offer: 30% off Mark Goodwin's hardback collection 'Steps' (+ our mini-anthology 'Winter Songs' free) markgoodwinsteps.wordpress.com
thanks for the lovely chat @CwjonesChris & for letting me geek out over work & words by @hannahlowepoet @MissLizBerry @CarolineBirdUK & Georgie Woodhead 🙏♥️✍️
Next up on The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, I talk to @VickyMWriter about ‘Fist’ by @hannahlowepoet & how she uses poems like this to teach writing craft to her students - & how it inspired her to write a very fine poem like ‘Sea Road’. twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/vicky-morris…
Next up on The Two-Way Poetry Podcast, I talk to @VickyMWriter about ‘Fist’ by @hannahlowepoet & how she uses poems like this to teach writing craft to her students - & how it inspired her to write a very fine poem like ‘Sea Road’. twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/vicky-morris…
Well, among the terrible January gloom, one nice tiny thing: ten years after my last one, my third novel is finally ready for submission. So there's that at least.
Not a house in sight. Stripped, wind-swept moorland, gritstone walls in bad repair, snow quite likely. Here we wait, as if waiting for the return of truthful politics. 'Truth, Justice, and the Companionship of Owls' Peter Riley longbarrowpress.com/current-public…
Our voices are close; completely echoless - muffled as if indoors. We're between four walls of mist. Last day for our special offer: 30% off Mark Goodwin's hardback collection 'Steps' (+ our mini-anthology 'Winter Songs' free) markgoodwinsteps.wordpress.com
"The drainage of the fens is generally regarded as a triumphant episode in the national historiography. The truth of the matter is very different." #1a: The themes of 'Eely' - biodiversity, fenland, power, conflict, eels - are discussed in a short essay: longbarrowblog.wordpress.com/2024/03/26/eel…
Longbarrow 2024 highlights: a short thread. #1: April. The arrival of Steve Ely's 'Eely' ('a symphony in four movements'), seen here on the pavement outside the publisher's house, minutes before depalletisation.