Ellen Harrold

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I'm delighted to be included in this issue 😄🌼✌️, can't wait to read the full lineup. 🌌

Thank you so much! I like hearing about which specific phrases stuck with people so that's always good to hear😄🌦

Thank you so much. I wanted to veer away from the role of passive observer so I'm glad to hear it came through😄🌼

I wanted it to have both onservation and action. Recontextualises the viewing of the landscape as a dwliberate act
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Delighted to hear it. Always enjoy people wandering through my writing, makes it feel like the words are a living place😄 🌳

Thank you! Glad the mystery came through 😄🌿

Delighted you enjoyed it.✌️

Deadbolt Ellen Harrold Grease the filigree with fresh marrow. Stop-gap mechanisms need the movement to push and click thrpugh metal intestines. The process ingrained in the architecture, now rotting under termite tracks. Stainless steel melts in the furnace, rusts in the scrap heap. Churned out by thw thousand, chieftans and kings would gaze in awe at our ikea doorhandles.

For this weeks #PoemsAbout #LockedDoors with @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I wanted to focua on the locks themselves. The complex mechanisms and feats of engineering that are taken for granted.

I was delighted to grab a copy of The Storms Issue 5 at the in Rathfarnham Castle in Dublin. I have two pieces of art in this issue: 'Caress' and 'Nautilis'. Can't wait to listen to the audio companion to the issue with Eat the Storms podcast #litmag #literarymagazine

This poem is really precise and poingnant. I think the layout of this piece really bring the physicality and movement of this piece to the forefront.

Happy Friday! #PoemsAbout #Blood
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Please note: Content warning for this week's poem. Alludes to sexual child abuse.

Barbed Oh, there in the fence! Fresh-woven oxygen awash with luminous beads. Caught in the refractions between shallow light and mist ascending the nettled banks. Sunlight speckles across the mattes, interlaces and permeated with hues of tallow . Every strand catches incisors, caking to earthen consistency. Rusted shut and rotting amidst the dew. It’s thickest round a bleary patch of barbed wire. Near covered in curls of fern. Corrugated plastic still shines where the sun hits low, bridging a meagre gap in the treeline. You have to know it’s there.

For this weeks #PoemsAbout #Blood (great hashtag) with @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I'm focusing on amateur forensics and the traces of stories that get left behind.

Thanks! I always think that the best critiques are those that look beyond the surface. 😄

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I'm lucky enough to have two art pieces in this issue. Can't wait for the launch on Saturday. 🌼☀️

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

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The 5th Storm has landed, the printed journal of poetry, prose & visual art featuring 89 star Stormers & cover art by Brian Malachy Quinn is supported by @dublincityoflit.bsky.social @fingal.ie

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Just finished up my last shift at the 41st EVA International Biennal of contemporary art. The team were kind enough to share archival documents to all the visitor assistants so I'm pouring over them while hiding from the rain. 😄🌧

Thanks! A lot of it was inspjred by the fact that the ancient greek medical researcher Galen set the standard for medicine up until the renaissance (4 humors, etc.) 👍

I do oft feel like Cassandra. Glad to see that it comes through😄🔮

Fab, thanks! I love being decadent with my use of language so it's great to hear that people enjoy reading it. 🌼☀️

Good to hear. I always struggle with my titles. They have to do so much heavy lifting. 😄☀️

Thanks! It's an emotion I channel well.😵‍💫😄

There are no circumstances where human beings should be without food. There are no qualifications that make someone undeserving of access to food. If you are a human being, you should get food. I don’t care about ability, job status, legal status, or anything else. If people are hungry, feed them.

For this weeks #PoemsAbout #BurnForTheCamera with @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk I want to look at social media politics and the lack of political literacy that leads to cult-like worship of political parties. As written by an irish socialist.

It's doing triple duty if you count how infuriating i find the whole process.

I love the formatting of this piece and the natural flow between casual and anatomical language. Showcases the nuace of everyday experiences for different people really well. ✌️

CLINICAL TRIAL Ellen Harrold Rank crescendos haunt the charts, calculated to within an inch of their life. The number could still go down: Petty tributaries dispensed among the investors. Flecks of metal ripped from the soil - a new face imported. Morning silence shattered, cement for the untread soil. The sun hangs low - you stop for a moment weave the air to a supple pause - still. The screen illuminates scant peripherals. You can see the buttons, not the hand - hesitating at the edge. Reading the palm of Chronos, rendered finite by prescription. Punched in, enough accuracy to survive the dawn chorus. They will one day sell it back. Automated efficiency, driving guesswork from the process of existence. It works on paper, rendered pulp. Soaking up the statistics. Nevermind, my guess was wrong. An outlier, rank display of human error. Best avoided if one wishes to continue the programme

Back on to #PoemsAbout after a brief sabbatical while starting a new job. For #BreakTheMould with @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk . I wanted to discuss the limitations of clinical trials for medical devices and the variety of human experience. #poetry

Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026

Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

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