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Reader, gardening on Whadjuk Noongar boodja in Boorloo/ Perth, Western Australia https://about.me/samboswell

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Issue Six Contents β€” The Marrow International Poetry

New #Poetry issue released & electrifying πŸ’₯ www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-six-co...

08.02.2026 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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QuitGPT β€” OpenAI Execs are Trump's Biggest Donors Join the movement. Delete ChatGPT. Cancel your subscription. It's time to quit.

Seems like the right moment to boycott ChatGPT & support @quitgpt.bsky.social >

More info: quitgpt.org // #QuitGPT

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issue ten - berlin lit

Sunday reading ahead berlinlit.com/issue-ten/

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Ways to Change Your Life | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction

One beautiful, breathless headlong sentence πŸ‘

Ways to Change Your Life brevitymag.com/current-issu...

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Bougainvillea in bloom; Corymbia citriodora, or lemon scented gum tree with its distinctive naked, toned trunk; and unsure if this yellow pea blossom tree is Laburnum or Cassia fistula (?)

Bougainvillea in bloom; Corymbia citriodora, or lemon scented gum tree with its distinctive naked, toned trunk; and unsure if this yellow pea blossom tree is Laburnum or Cassia fistula (?)

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Saturday morning actions & thinking πŸ—―οΈ

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Lines by Alice Oswald Alice Oswald is the current Professor of Poetry at the Faculty of English. She took up her post in September 2019. Alice Oswald’s first two lectures as Professor of Poetry are available online: β€˜The A...

Balancing β€œthe weight of hope against the light of patience” >

Poet Alice Oswald delivers this lecture about lines and other sound barriers podcasts.ox.ac.uk/lines-alice-...

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Edward Said Β· On Writing a Memoir: Living by the Clock I was given my first watch, an insipid-looking Tissot, at the age of 11 or 12; for several days I spent hours staring at...

Experiencing Self β€œas a cluster of flowing currents” >

On Writing a Memoir www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v2...

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Today’s poem is Quiet auctioning of futures past by Samantha Boswell: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/quiet-a...

26.12.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks for selecting for inclusion in this lineup 🌞

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" I knew the worm would find a way to crawl inside me." Unforgettable @sarahillswrites.bsky.social

19.12.2025 02:44 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sharing black swans on Freshwater Bay where we picnicked beside the Derbarl Yerrigan/ Swan River 🧺

17.12.2025 07:14 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I would like, if I may, to take you on a strange journey: explore the papers of Jim Sharman | National Library of Australia (NLA) Enter the time warp and explore the Rocky Horror Picture Show script and Jim Sharman’s visual diaries, now on Trove.

Worth a Trove date to excavate Aussie icon Jim Sharman’s visual diary & Rocky Horror Picture Show script β€œit’s astounding/ time is fleeting” 🎢 πŸ§› www.library.gov.au/news-media/i...

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Current Issue: December 2025 | One Sentence Poems

New issue of One Sentence Poems landed 🎁 & sublime www.onesentencepoems.com/december2025

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118: PRECARIOUS – Cordite Poetry Review Poetry guest edited by Andy Jackson

Reassurance on living with indeterminacy in the current issue of Cordite Poetry Review - Precarious cordite.org.au/content/poet...

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Congratulations - love your poem 🌱

22.11.2025 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Tara & Catherine for including β€œQuiet auctioning” as radioactive testament among the constellation that is Dear World 🌟✨ #poetry πŸ’œ So much beauty among the calibration of losses 🌏πŸŽͺ

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Learning the 🎹 means notes, chords, melodies, left-right integrations leach into sympoeisis - page lights up with sound & affect 🎼✨

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The Braided Gift - Plumwood Mountain New poems by 38 Australian and international poets braid together generosity, practice and ecology in The Braided Gift, edited by Shari Lynelle and Lucy Van.

Carousing with Plumwood Mountain Journal spirits as they dismantle, document, disappear, lie fallow in survival mode - current issue πŸŽ‰ plumwoodmountain.com/issue/the-br... #poetry

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Cover art copyright Sharon Monagle, 2022 depicts human winged creature

Cover art copyright Sharon Monagle, 2022 depicts human winged creature

Poetry text in block format showing page 8 of β€œSub-floor check”

Poetry text in block format showing page 8 of β€œSub-floor check”

Quote taken from poem, like a core sample of emotion

Quote taken from poem, like a core sample of emotion

First ⛱️ of the season with 34 degrees and, even better, there’s mail πŸ“¬

Congratulations to contributors, and thanks to the editors for including β€œSub-floor check” in the Poetry of Flight Anthology ✨ cover art work is copyright Sharon Monagle πŸ–ΌοΈ #poetry #anthology #poetryofflight

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Dear editors of Wild Whispers Poetry Magazine Issue 1:2,
Thanks for including my microcosms in such grand company, and congratulations to all those contributing πŸŽ‰

Read more #poetry:
www.wildwhisperspoetrymagazine.com/12poetry.html

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Daily walks to capture the upward glance - mostly magpies, but also corvids & parrots #senseofplace

Original photos colourised with Procreate

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Billionaire Hands off Public Policy! Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy

Why is a Tesla executive leading Australia’s R&D review?

Public roles should serve us – not billionaires. You can demand Denholm’s resignation & new integrity laws: getup.to/o3eOQXtjCE8LTa

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The Nerve Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech.

Worth reading & supporting @thenerve.news as they embark on journalism as it might/ could still be www.thenerve.news

30.09.2025 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ATOMIC POETRY @ NUCLEAR LANDSCAPES

Sunday 28 September | 1-3pm
πŸ“Moores Building Art Space
46 Henry Street | Fremantle

Photo gallery of inspiration www.brettleighdicks.net/nuclear-land...

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Best month to be with others, writing 🎈

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Downloadable ebook Hope for whole: Poets speak up to Adani via Plumwood Mountain Journal plumwoodmountain.com//srv/htdocs/...

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Issue 14

Issue 14 of Dust Poetry is now live ✨

And you can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...

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Eleven Urgent & Possibly Helpful Things I Have Learned About Writing From Reading Thousands of Manuscripts Eleven Urgent & Possibly Helpful Things I Have Learned About Writing From Reading Thousands of Manuscripts

Essential list recommended at a flash fiction workshop in Fremantle today β˜„οΈSubstack post by Jeanine Oullette open.substack.com/pub/writingi...

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20 Poets, a Free Anthology from Cordite Books The geographic barriers that can, at times, hinder Australian literature are no longer relevant, and poetry communities around the world must be enlightened by the commanding, demanding and excitin…

20 Poets πŸ“–
Melange of experimental & lyrical - also free to download from Cordite Books cordite.org.au/guncotton/20... #poetry

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