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  1. "fights with savage horses / maligned in music halls" 's new blog post and poem on Waterlines:

  2. Have you spotted these unusual noticed popping up at the canalside? Here's why...

  3. At Newbury Lock with Canal River Trust and Banjo Cycles - come and see!

  4. Poetry on the towpath from Canal Laureate. Visit to read full poem

  5. That temporary paint really is temporary so let's try and collect the set of Kennards before the geese lick them off the towpaths

  6. A pleasure to find on the shining towpath

  7. Not often you can pick up and 'obey' a poem - by on my walk at yesterday

  8. Our Canal Laureate has written a new poem as part of 's . Read more at:

  9. is helping us with a new poem about having good manners

  10. Keep your eyes peeled whilst out along the canal in for a poem by aimed at tackling towpath troubles

  11. In reply to

    Nice pic Yes new temporary poem for the towpath by . Where did you find this one?

  12. Congratulations on book launch week , new poetry collection Bearings out now!

  13. See exciting new voices in poetry for only a fiver! Foyle Young Poets showcase on 24 April...

  14. We are with Derek Crawley, volunteers & volunteers learning about hedgehog surveys

  15. "the quality of the litter seemed to come from another era" latest blog at

  16. "God’s promise not to flood the world again / is a dispersion of light through the study window / of a climate-change-denier’s poem."

  17. Read the new poem and blog post by on Waterlines!

  18. New blog from Luke Kennard coming soon on . Check in every month for new poem and digressions

  19. Uncover fascinating canal history at Craigmarloch Stables

  20. Read Canal Laureate 's new blog post and poem 'The Water Replies' here:

  21. I love Luke Kennard's tap of tears in his new prose poem inspired by Indian canals

  22. "a canal was created to run the population’s tears over the border." New poem from

  23. Luke Kennard is inspired by the canals of India in his latest post on Waterlines:

  24. Forward Prizes are open for submissions: Best Collection, Best First Collection, and Best Single Poem. Enter here

  25. "You wake, and know. / The boat is still as bones / and you, its red heart beating". Read Jo Bell's poem 'Frozen In'

  26. "We cut a ragged path under my captaincy." Read Luke Kennard's poem 'Steering Someone Else's Boat':

  27. Poetry in : writer/translator of World Bookshelf 2015 poll winner read extracts from winning collection!

    • @EECanalFest

      Come and celebrate 200 years of the Regent's Canal on Sunday 26th June 11-5pm! @ Mile End Art Pavilion & canalside. A free fun day for all!

    • @seraphimaAM

      Writer. Programme Director at the National Association of Writers in Education. PhD student at Goldsmiths, University of London. All views my own.

  28. ‘But I hate learning,’ I wailed. ‘I like things like drinking, and smoking.’ welcome inside the head of Luke Kennard

  29. Luke Kennard shares his first thoughts as Canal Laureate:

  30. It's time for the first quiz of the year! Do you know where this is?

  31. "To take a home between your finger and your thumb.." (Captain) describes his first time at the tiller on the blog

  32. 'Steering someone else's boat' - read Canal Laureate Luke Kennard at

  33. just read Jo's 'Spirit Level' & loved it. Really look forward to Luke's reign over the watery high & byways.

  34. Congratulations to new Canal Laureate Can't wait to follow the adventures!

  35. For the people of Cumbria, here's a poem Jo Bell wrote last year for the a West Country floods: River Steel

  36. If any system of transport deserves a poet laureate, it's the canal network. Congrats to new Canal Laureate

  37. After a fantastic reign as Canal Laureate the wonderful hands over to smashing as 2016 Canal Laureate.

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