Barb Milne
@barbmilne
More left than right. I like looking at gaps, poetry, philosophy.
Hill Top (Slaithwaite)reservoir, #Slaithwaite, April 2026, & this afternoon in #WestYorkshire
‘This exhibition, Upwelling, considers the complex nature of our relationships to the landscape, the sublime, time, and impermanence.’ Meghann Riepenhoff, ‘Upwelling’ www.rencontres-arles.com/en/expositio...
'Local Weave' Natasha Tingle, Wigan North Western Railway Station #poetry in a subway 🚆
#EveningWalk found art: Skip, and three discs ( The Crystals, O'Jays, Wings), c. 1972 (the discs).
My kind of recipe 🙂 @theobserveruk.bsky.social Ella Risbridger, 'Quick one-bowl cherry cake' - 'The top will look a little burnt — this is correct, and also the best part.'
Thank you @carcanet.bsky.social, contributors, organisers, and readers, for a brilliant evening ‘100 Years of Elizabeth Jennings: A Carcanet Celebration’. Such a terrific outpouring of poems. Particularly taken by ‘Almost’, one of Rebecca Watts’ selections. #ElizabethJennings #poetry
'What's On My Mind?' in today's edition of @theobserveruk.bsky.social magazine, Sarah Moss #Helm @faberbooks.bsky.social
'Makes Eng.Lit. a pushover', from 'Education Pages', published by Methuen Ltd, London 1974, #TerryJones #MichaelPalin #EnglishLiterature
'Fame and Fortune' Matthew Hoggard in today's @thetimes.com 'I can cook anything on a barbecue: souffles,Yorkshire puddings, cakes.'
'Swineherd' Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin '101 Sonnets' edited by Don Paterson @faberbooks.bsky.social #poetry
'Summer Books' @financialtimes.com this weekend: #poetry Jorie Graham, Leontia Flynn @carcanet.bsky.social Daljit Nagra @faberbooks.bsky.social
‘Reynolds had a camera that folded up to look like a book, which is interesting, meaning it was hidden. He gave lectures saying that you shouldn’t use it too much. He did it to get his likenesses, simply because it makes it easier and quicker.’ David Hockney, 2010. www.idler.co.uk/article/a-ch...
David Hockney (1937-2026) Obituary written by Jackie Wullschläger @financialtimes.com 'I have the good fortune that it can make me happy to watch raindrops running down a window pane,' he said, 'The sense and purpose of my paintings are pleasure and joy.'
Just got back from the John Halstead Memorial Lecture 2026, thanks to Prof John Goodridge for brilliantly engaging lecture on working-class poets — genuinely fascinating stuff. #TheJohnRylandsInstituteAndLibrary #poetry #JohnClare
Roses & a cathedral reaching up to the sky @mancathedral.bsky.social 🐝🐝🐝
'Reading difficult texts or wrestling with unfamiliar styles is not always an inefficiency to be prompted away but the way you truly learn.' #AI #StyleShifting Jamie Bartlett