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Poet and poetry enthusiast
@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social @mklitfest.bsky.social Give Peat a chance poets Eileen Anderson, Anne Cooper, Rene Crouch, Hilary Dunn, Caroline Gill, Richard Law, Nichola May, Michelle McGrane, Elizabeth Osmond, Judy Smith, Dave Wakely and Gail Webb.
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Goodbye, Poetry in Aldeburgh, and warm thanks to all!
09.11.2025 22:34 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to reading at Poetry in Aldeburgh next Friday with fellow #ignitionpress poets Clementine Burnley & Alicia Pirmohamed! Tix at bit.ly/ignitioninaldeburgh.
31.10.2025 06:25 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A wonderful day at Lambeth Palace Library yesterday. The librarians could not have been kinder or more helpful. I still miss the old library, but the new wing — light, calm, beautifully designed — is a joy.
30.10.2025 08:18 — 👍 54 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0On my website today a drop-in by doctor-poet Judith Wozniak reflecting on a poem from her latest pamphlet Case Noted. Check it out. #poetry #poetrycommunity
25.10.2025 09:32 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Outside view of National Poetry library
A reading den outside the National Poetry Library in London
One of my favourite places to read. The National Poetry Library @southbankcentre.bsky.social
30.10.2025 13:43 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
All welcome to the launch of the Four Pamphleteers with Verve.
Come along to the online readings to hear @maxwallis.bsky.social and @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social and Rue Collinge. Bring wine, bring crisps, bring everyone.
@vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
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Good afternoon and Happy National Poetry Day! This is the very first post from Poets for the Planet here on Bluesky. We are very glad to be here. To start us off here's Wendell Berry's classic, The Peace of Wild Things #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...
02.10.2025 12:32 — 👍 17 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1You have to write for the love, because the publishing process and response can be upsetting, and the accolades so few (especially for poetry) yet there are collections I love that received little attention. But that creative rush is very special – no one can take it away
28.09.2025 19:47 — 👍 30 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0@vanessageb.bsky.social
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David Cuthbert Thomas from Pontarddulais was just 20-years old when he was shot in no man’s land in 1916. For two of the greatest war poets, his death changed everything ✍️Norena Shopland
28.09.2025 20:25 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Carol Watts – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍
On Mimic Pond:
“Poetry has always been a place I go to. From childhood rhythms of prayer + countryside, through Wordsworth, Clare, Riley + Niedecker—poems began to pour out in sequences.”
🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...
Thanks so much to Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust for posting this film poem of mine. Re-posting to create my first on Bluesky! To all my old @poetryschool.bsky.social mates, please find me! Kicking off with @suejohns.bsky.social @carolinemdavies.bsky.social @dixonkat.bsky.social ..who else is here..?
16.09.2025 19:54 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Happy b’day, “American Idiot” — released as a single 21 years ago today, and written in the wake of the Iraq War.
“The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”
Fascinating perspective view with woman reading letter, 1665. And her dog, saying 'what are you doing here?' By Samuel van Hoogstraten, #BTD 1627.
02.08.2025 15:00 — 👍 246 🔁 25 💬 7 📌 2If it was my spaniel he would be wondering if you had a biscuit.
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Back cover of book
Front cover of book in Welsh and English
03.08.2025 12:49 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Day 3 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social time for a bilingual anthology - Beyonnd /Tu Hwnt work by Welsh Deaf and disabled writers - a chance to ymarfer fy Cymraeg/practise my Welsh. Favourite poem so far 'When I say I'm tired by Bethany Handley DWP take note
#sealeychallenge #poetrysky #amreading
And @thenewyorker.bsky.social has her reading the title poem www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...
02.08.2025 20:35 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Day 2 of the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social
#sealeychallenge #poetrysky #amreading The City by Stav Poleg published by @carcanet.bsky.social
August is Women in Translation Month #WITMonth and we're happy to see 3 @twolinespress.bsky.social titles "Mending Bodies," "Backlight," and "The Queen of Swords" on @clmporg.bsky.social's reading list!
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Cover of poetry book with photograph of Lee Miller
@sealeychallenge.bsky.social #SealeyChallenge Day 1 A crown of sonnets about the life of Lee Miller, written by Jaqueline Saphra
01.08.2025 20:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fiona Larkin recommends 'alphabet' by Inger Christensen. She says of the book: "Alphabet by Inger Christensen is a rhapsody for the natural world and an urgent call to protect it from human threats. Although those are of its time (the Cold War, and the legacy of the atomic bomb) her message and its urgency ring true even more strongly today."
📚 It's August, which means the #SealeyChallenge is now underway! To help you on your journey to read a book every day this month, The Poetry Society has gotten in touch with poets we've recently worked with for some recommendations. (...)
01.08.2025 09:00 — 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Our first ever nursing students have qualified to work in the health service – many congratulations to them!
More tinyurl.com/uys5nyah
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17.07.2025 18:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Book cover: Words from a Glass Bubble by Vanessa Gebbie
Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
Day 17: Vanessa Gebbie
#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters
A new network of art galleries has been created in a bid to make Wales' unique and rich artistic heritage more accessible to communities
16.07.2025 18:17 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Poem about the kindness that is shown to strangers
A poem #anislandofstrangers for this Labour government, for Keir Starmer. The poem is rough, simplistic perhaps but heartfelt. Thanks for reading. I'm happy for it to be shared.
#inthehopeofchange
#fordecency
#forkindness
#immigrationpolicy
#poetry
#keirstarmer
He's also the president who killed things like this.
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Join us for our Parks Trust Walking event with award-winning journalist, podcaster & broadcaster Ash Bhardwaj is the author of Why We Travel, The Independent’s “Travel Book of the Year 2024”.
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#walkingfestival
#mkwalkingfestival
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