@piprowson.bsky.social
Freelance writer, copyeditor, and proofreader for the arts and creative industries. Poet focused on the natural world. Winchester, UK. piprowson.co.uk
My latest weekly column. This one's about understanding old handwriting:
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Want to read about what I saw at the cinema, have a nosy at some vintage postcards, and find a source of animal-friendly idioms? Well then, my latest weekly column is for you. open.substack.com/pub/piprowso...
13.10.2025 08:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
My column this week is about why mistakes don’t need to mean the end of the world … they may even lead to better audience engagement. (Having said that, I have also included a bonus tip on how to avoid them!)
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Hot MERL Summer
10.06.2025 10:56 — 👍 301 🔁 31 💬 4 📌 1
🌈 Happy Pride Month! Exclusive to Poetry Society members, we have an exciting new book giveaway with Stephanie Burt's Super Gay Poems as the prize.
We have three copies to give away to three randomly selected members who email marketing@poetrysociety.org.uk by Monday 16 June with the (...)
This looks great, from @tanyagold.bsky.social
03.06.2025 08:23 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A circle with some rocks in it is right up my street when it comes to art. And this one's all the better for being unfinished
03.06.2025 08:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Splitpixel’s Lauren James is navigating the changing landscape on trans rights in the UK as best as she can – and the arts are as safe a haven as can be found anywhere.
02.06.2025 11:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Bog talk – what a great title and topic for a project. Love a bog
02.06.2025 11:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Today’s car-boot-sale haul. I especially love the double quote marks for Submarine “Alliance” (now discovered it’s the vessel name, but it would work well as a secret society), and I wonder how the Townswomen felt about having a Chairman.
13.04.2025 14:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week’s writing celebrates inanimate objects jumping into the spring spotlight: piprowson.substack.com/p/shiny-shin...
12.04.2025 12:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I think we can all agree that this is the best one pound fifty that anyone’s ever spent. Yesterday’s finds from the car boot sale.
Image description: Two vintage books/pamphlets: A history of the postmarking of mail in Great Britain 1661–1939 and How to read Hieroglyphes (50p)
My latest writing has been buzzing around my brain for a year now. Read at piprowson.substack.com
10.03.2025 09:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A giggle in these scary times…
This is an old favourite ‘I’m so glad that wasn’t me’ typo, and it’s doing the rounds again among editors. So, share the laughter.
(Keep reading past the first couple of examples – the joy is at the end.)
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#edibuddies
Proper lolling at this. Thank you for sharing, Suzanne 😂
28.01.2025 18:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This week’s diary: open.substack.com/pub/piprowso...
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