Beth Brooke

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Post flu-jab slump

Watch this! So good. And timely.

Feel a bit cross about buying a Gruffalo themed garment for my grandson only to have one of its seams come undone after one day of wear. Big brand too. Not good 😡

Narwhal No legend. Only heat where cold should cradle. The tusk listens, salinity, fracture, ice forgets seasons. It swims through thinning sheets of absence, a spiral in retreat. Myth was never shelter. The sea offers none now.

Here’s a creature for today’s #vss365

'Sapo' by Rob Hindle: a jacketed hardback book framed against an open copy, with the olive endpapers visible

If it came to the worst, the world gone west,
the land deserted and the seas made barren,
still I imagine starlings, plumes of them

patterning a vacant sky, its flamed horizon.

From Rob Hindle's excellent collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday
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Fabulous performance of Faure’s requiem at St Peter’s in Dorchester. Nice and early too

Loving this new book from @citizen-chris.bsky.social. Thanks Chris 🥳

Oh those final two stanzas especially!

It’s a lovely piece

The mosaic hangs on the atrium wall. The god Neptune can be seen at the top

Spent the afternoon prepping for a highlights tour. Dorset Museum is just wonderful. Here’s the mosaic found in Fordington near where I live. It fills the atrium wall

Good morning @gailaldwin.bsky.social! My plans are coffee with a pal then a visit to Dorset Museum to plan my highlights tour for a group of year eights next week. Maybe draft a poem later.

These are brilliant, welcoming open mic events for the #poetrycommunity hosted with warmth, wit and discerning by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Sign up below 👇

Solar Prayer

I watched the light
move through the room
wall
chair
table
floor
like a slow confession
needing no listener

all it wanted
was to touch everything once
then go

I knelt without meaning to

#poetry

My little grandson went on a nursery outing to his local park today. They were collecting leaves. 🍁 Nothing so cute as a group of 2yr olds in tiny hi-viz jackets!

Has anyone contacted NWT and Nunavut?

Treating and releasing oil sands tailings water will directly affect their drinking water AND the Arctic Ocean.

Finished the second draft of a poem about my Canadian son. We are planning our next visit to him but today I really really miss him. 🇨🇦

Excellent

41. Dick Jones Creator and translator of poetry and accomplished musician

Here's a small selection of the #poetry of Dick Jones. Six well crafted pieces, including one about Jazz Saxophonist #TubbyHayes

On the meaning and mattering of language:

'Word my world', a voice cries
before leaving the world
#GazaGenocide‌

Do you by any chance know anyone who could help me set up templates for zines? I can pay a little, but as the press is now a complete mutual aid project (with all the profits going to Gaza), not much.
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Please start the day by doing something good and helpful. Akram depends on you. Thank you so much.

‘I’m happy and sad to see you’: The paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing what...

“My once-firm stride, the stride of a university instructor who hurried between lecture halls, had turned into a limp. My shoes were worn and coated with much dust, my clothes tattered and stained, and my face—once animated by ideas and humor—had grown pale and gaunt.” mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-h...

Look at this graph, Reform almost all of them went to Private School.

If you are Working Class and you vote for Reform, you are a traitor, to yourself.

Or as we call them, a bloody fool.

Poster warning about hedgehogs sleeping in garden woodpiles, and asking people to check before burning them

Remember, remember, the hogs in November. It's bonfire night soon. Remember that at this time of year hedgehogs are making homes in woodpiles or piles of garden waste. Please check before lighting your bonfire. (please share or print and display poster) #Hedgehogs #BonfireNight #GuyFawkes

Title: “We Keep Telling: a reading series for Gaza.” Text: “Online on Zoom. 2 November, 7pm GMT, tinyurl.com/wekeeptelling.” In the background is a painting of a dancing Palestinian woman in a white, short-sleeved thobe with red tatreez and a keffiyeh tied around her waist. Her long black hair is swirling around her and covering her face. A dove stands on one of her outstretched hands, and another dove dances around her other hand. In the lower left, the painting is signed “Marah.”

This Sunday! Tickets are free, donations are encouraged and needed. We are in touch with all the people we raising funds for, these are private campaigns and you can offer tangible help. (You also get to listen to beautiful poetry, so win-win for your heart)
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Farage: epic grifter

For Sylvia's birthday. A Scorpio like me, after my own heart.