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Peter Devonald

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Multi award-winning poet /screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Winner HoHx2, Waltham Forest & FofHCS | Second Shelley Memorial & N2tS 2024 | Nominations BoNx2, Forward Prize & Children's Bafta

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Such an achievement, wonderful poem

06.08.2025 09:50 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I'm an A - born down south in Watford - though tea could also be dinner; but dinner is always evening meal, except, oddly sundays and christmas day !

06.08.2025 09:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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So pleased to be part of this in September.

To subscribe to this wonderful free poetry magazine - The Candyman's Trumpet - email the editor Jack at jackcaradoctct@gmail.com

06.08.2025 08:50 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love this, such quality

04.08.2025 17:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much

04.08.2025 14:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Really so appreciate it, thank you

04.08.2025 13:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much x

04.08.2025 13:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Process of Poetry is so wonderful, seminal anthology of great writing and insights from all the best poets

www.amazon.co.uk/Process-Poet...

03.08.2025 15:17 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

So awesome, such an achievement, congratulations

03.08.2025 15:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fantastic news, such quality

03.08.2025 15:15 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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So great to see my poem/ art installation at the Stockport Open Exhibition 2025 at Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery - with my mum!

A great show, beautifully curated and put together by #stockportwarmemorialartgallery. Huge thanks to everyone involved

#stockportrt #artist #art

03.08.2025 08:58 — 👍 25    🔁 9    💬 4    📌 0

Great news, congratulations

02.08.2025 20:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Only 8 copies left of the wonderful The Perpendicular Poetry Prize 2025 - which I am delighted to be included in

This 59 page A6 book includes shortlisted experimental poetry from the inaugural competition.

#PerpendicularPoetryPrize #poetry

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01.08.2025 08:28 — 👍 22    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Fantastic news, congratulations -- and thank you

01.08.2025 07:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

wow, stunning poem

01.08.2025 07:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Love this, evokes these times so elegantly

01.08.2025 07:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wonderful work, so impressed by this. Love the links between the stars and moon and our life, really is stunning work

01.08.2025 07:18 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you so much

01.08.2025 07:17 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Quality work

31.07.2025 20:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Awesome news, congratulations. Always the best poems in The Toy

30.07.2025 14:45 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Yes totally

30.07.2025 10:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

wow such a great photo - signing copies of The Dreaming (1982).

30.07.2025 10:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you so much

30.07.2025 10:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Edition 18 is now available to buy as a PDF file from www.steeljackdaw.com - and delighted to have a poem in this wonderful art and literary magazine

Huge thanks to the editor JasonConway

#poetry #steeljackdaw

30.07.2025 09:01 — 👍 20    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
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Welcome to your super Tuesday -- delighted to share another Haiku published recently

Huge thanks to DJ Tyrer and #575haikujournal

#haiku #poetry #DJTyrer

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29.07.2025 08:07 — 👍 15    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
SHINE poetry series promo

SHINE poetry series promo

Subs are open. Reading now for Issue 4. Details at: www.SHINEpoetry.com

#poetry
#poetrysubmissions
#poetrycommunity
#writingcommunity

17.06.2025 21:12 — 👍 14    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Peter Devonald
Ode To Lionesses

Inspired by Lionesses slick and stylish football,
control with proud anticipation, they progress 
with patterns and verve from round to round,
honoured to have them around, spectacular.

A spectacle to behold the Lionesses roar
with satisfaction, team-work and style,
the perfect tonic for our nation to hold 
our heads up high and cheer our players on.

Sprint faster, be stronger, better, achieve 
everything our hearts desire, this is your moment!
Show the world what can be accomplished,
unbelievable skill matched by true integrity.

Perseverance of the indomitable spirit, 
hard-working honesty and honour, 
all possibilities with every glorious pass, 
we are aghast by your impressive quality.

The values we all hold inside our hearts
and on the field --- make goals your goal,
achieve impossible dreams, scale heights, 
we are so proud, Lionesses forever.

Peter Devonald Ode To Lionesses Inspired by Lionesses slick and stylish football, control with proud anticipation, they progress with patterns and verve from round to round, honoured to have them around, spectacular. A spectacle to behold the Lionesses roar with satisfaction, team-work and style, the perfect tonic for our nation to hold our heads up high and cheer our players on. Sprint faster, be stronger, better, achieve everything our hearts desire, this is your moment! Show the world what can be accomplished, unbelievable skill matched by true integrity. Perseverance of the indomitable spirit, hard-working honesty and honour, all possibilities with every glorious pass, we are aghast by your impressive quality. The values we all hold inside our hearts and on the field --- make goals your goal, achieve impossible dreams, scale heights, we are so proud, Lionesses forever.

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Congratulations to the lionesses! And my poem from 2022's Women In Sport journal - reedited for 2025

#Lionesses #lionesspoetry #poetry

28.07.2025 11:08 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

haha! Yes :-0

26.07.2025 18:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Honestly it drives me potty sometimes - I have the exact thing I want to describe and we just don't have the words.

I think of Ludwig Wittgenstein's "the limits of my language mean the limits of my world".

Often these words did exist but gone out of fashion

26.07.2025 15:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

branchlets?

26.07.2025 15:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

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