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This exhibition explores returning rocks to Aotearoa New Zealand, following Māori protocols and the ethics of moving rocks and stones. What if a rock is sacred? Do you need to ask permission before taking a stone? How can we be more aware in our relations with rocks and stones? The exhibition is open until the end of August in the EarthArt Gallery, Wills Memorial Building, Queen Street, Bristol. It is open to the public on Wednesday afternoons from 1 to 4.30. Events are happening on Thursday 16th April, Thursday 21st May and Saturday 30th May. Please contact Alyson for more details if you’re interested in coming along.

I’m delighted to be teaching a course at Lumb Bank from 17th to 20th 2026 August with Ruth Allen. We will be exploring poetry, prose, movement, rocks, stones – and working inside and outside. No experience necessary – this will be a supportive, exciting and encouraging writing course. https://www.arvon.org/writing-courses/courses-retreats/4-day-short-course-poetry-and-prose/

I’m delighted to be running a workshop with Ruth Allen for Arvon in December. It will be a fun, two hour deep dive into rocks and our relationships with them. https://www.arvon.org/writing-courses/courses-retreats/masterclass-exploring-the-creative-connections-between-humans-and-stones/

On Sunday 5th October, I’ll be reading a few poems and talking about all things glacial that relate to the paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham alongside Rob Airey, Mark Cousins, Peter Nienow and Tilly Heydon. 1.30 to 2.30 in the library downstairs.

This Saturday we’re celebrating 30 years of the SCG with a poetry walk and lecture. Do join us if you can. Details and tickets on eventbrite.

I’ll be reading poems from ‘End of the Glacier’ at the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham trust on Thursday 13th June where I’ll be joined by Peter Nienow, Professor of Glaciology at Edinburgh University.

Then on to the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics conference at Glasgow University celebrating the life and work of Kenneth White on 14th and 15th June. A few tickets still available at: https://bit.ly/K_White_Conference.

I’m delighted to tell you that my latest pamphlet of poems, End of the Glacier, has just emerged. These poems respond to the glacier paintings of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and the pamphlet has been produced by the WBG Trust. Please get in contact if you would like a copy.

I am currently crowdfunding to buy myself some time to write my next book about rocks and stones. If you can help, please visit the link. Many thanks in advance: https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/AlysonHallett?utm_term=KQwd67vQZ

I’ll be reading poems at the Kings Head in Wells – from 7 onwards. I’ll be focusing on my work with rocks and stones.

I’ve just been teaching at Moniack Mhor with the novelist Sarah Moss. We ran a course titled In Place of Writing and got to work with some amazing poets and novelists. I taught in Abriachan Forest, which is community owned, and we all stretched our imaginations under a cloudless June sky. I’m back in Somerset now and taking time out of teaching and mentoring for the summer.