Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶

Don't forget cutting disability benefits.

A small border collie stands in a lane leaved with autumn foliage; in the adjacent fields misty sunlight

Dragon's breath on the fields and down the lanes #Winterbourne #Bristol #autumn

Text of poem written about poet Andi Langford-Woods' funeral and read at her memorial in Bristol

Remembering Andi Langford-Woods #poetry #bristol #transrightsarehumanrights

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Happy birthday for then!

YouTube video by TheFreddyShow The Beatles - When I'm Sixty Four (Official Video)

Big birthdays aren't the ones with a 0 in them, they're the ones when Paul McCartney writes you a song. I've been waiting for today since I was five. Reckon I'm coming into my own now.

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We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

A man in a black coat and a border collie are walking through a wood, away from the viewer, having passed a truncated oak with the words Fuck Love sprayed on it in orange paint

Well, at least it's quite autumnal looking ... #bristol #love

Join us at Silver Street #Poetry & #OpenMic on Friday 31st October, when our guest poet will be David Goldstein.

Our event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, with entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue is St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Wrap up warm & be sure to bring a (not epic) poem to share!

Thank you for all you're doing for Big Mac x

Sunset by a railway siding, a light taking the place of the moon

The evenings are drawing in #autumn #seasonalaffectivedisorder

Collage of colourful fungi found in UK

Happy UK Fungus Day!

Tentative IDs (clockwise): Beefsteak fungus, Black Bulgar, Earth Star, Dryad's Saddle, Amethyst Deceiver (I think), Turkey Tail

#ukfungusday #fungi

Delighted to have some poems in this initiative organised by Ralph Hoyte and Bristol Libraries. Happy #NationalPoetryDay X

This is just to say, I think it's about temptation. (Should have been Adam who stole the apple.)

It's certainly the sense of smell that hotwires the past.

Can't eat - or even contemplate - an orange without thinking of this poem by Brian Patten. RIP. 🍊💔 🍊

In the branches of a tree, a grey squirrel with wide eyes and an acorn in its mouth looks straight down the lens of the camera

'Well, hello, Mistress Squizzle with an acorn in yer gob'

Dawn, in a welter of colour, above a horizon of trees and distant hills

Before the thunderstorm #bristol

Bristol Museum returns ‘deeply significant’ cultural objects The amazing collection of artefacts was donated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Well done, Bristol, and especially Bristol City Museum, this is the way to do it

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Two perfectly-formed mags are finding their way to subscribers this morning. Brimming with poetry: packed with good writing. Take yourself away from it all & get one. share.google/e1tS0ARLtyxn...

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A small tri border collie, with possibly a bit of terrier in there somewhere, is sitting on fallen leaves. She's wearing a turquoise harness and looks every inch the very very good girl that she is.

Cwtch the Collie (the best girl there ever was) says Happy International Dog Day 2025 and why not give @niallharbison.bsky.social of Happy Doggo a follow?

A small black and white border collie stands on an empty sandy beach. In the background, the distant mountains of the Lake District.

We only saw the notice prohibiting dogs during the summer months afterwards. Apologies to anyone we might have disturbed. #nodogsallowed

Andi Langford-Woods, in green jacket, and Colin Brown holding a placard that says Poets for Corbyn, at the Jeremy for Labour rally in Bristol in 2016

Remembering Andi Langford-Woods, poet, who died yesterday. Organiser of Bristol Acoustic Night, and a pivotal member of the #bristolpoetrycommunity. I think it's safe to say we'll never forget you, Andi 🎇 🎇 🎇 #bristol #poetry #poetrycommunity

‪Join us at Silver Street #Poetry & #OpenMic on Friday 29th August, when our guest poet is the extraordinary Daniel Richardson.

Our event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, with entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue is St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Be sure to bring a (not epic) poem to share!

It's beyond me.

Absolute respect for Alice Oswald

A small tri border collie is sitting on a ferry boat, next to a woman in a red top. Both are smiling at the photographer. In the background is a red ensign at the stern of the ferry, which is blowing in the breeze, and more boats on an estuary with hills behind them.

Happiness is a warm dog on the Teignmouth and Shaldon ferry

It's Rippon Tor. Haytor is to the right. You can see it, with Saddle Tor between them, from the Point in Teignmouth.

Woman with brown curly hair wearing a blue dress is standing at a microphone and reading from a piece of paper in her hand; behind her is an early 17th century tomb and eighteenth century wall monuments

Reading 'How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best' by Andrea Gibson at today's Silver Street #poetry #openmic #spokenword #andreagibson

I'm in.

A vaguely heart-shaped blob of bird poo, stained purple by blackberries the bird has been eating and also glittery (insect wings?) lies on a fallen green leaf with an orange leaf to one side, which provides a pleasing colour contrast

Even the bird poo is beautiful in the woods right now, by which I mean purple and strangely glittery