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Clare Starling

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Poetry and milky tea - ‘Magpie’s Nest’, won the Frosted Fire First Pamphlet Award 2023

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I bought “Lumen”after hearing Tiffany Anderson’s dumbfounding poem Dog Speaks, the rest of the book is dynamite too ❤️ #poetry #dogs @tiffanya.bsky.social

28.01.2026 14:54 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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My recommendation this winter for a delightfully pleasing and enjoyable read - now buying all her other books, thanks @lissakevans.bsky.social

17.01.2026 13:24 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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So heartwarming to play the organ for my home village church on Christmas Day - I’d like to say I pulled all the stops out but I’m not sure what they do… Merry Christmas everyone! ❄️🪾❤️

25.12.2025 13:03 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Foggy morning on the way to the hospital #nursing #shiftwork

17.12.2025 18:28 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Powerful exhibition of work by Ishiuchi Miyako on the 80th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombings. There is so much life in these preserved textiles ❤️

24.11.2025 14:06 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Winter lunch - udon, miso, beetroot. A day for rest and poetry ❤️

19.11.2025 14:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Delighted to have a poem in the Fig Tree about a day at the Crazy Golf in the off season…⛳️

03.11.2025 10:58 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
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At the Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels you can see (and hear) what trumpets might have turned out like ❤️

27.10.2025 08:53 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hanging out with the Choking Charlies at First Aid Training ❤️

08.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Summer might be over but the heated laundry rack is on ❤️

04.10.2025 16:21 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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This week I started studying to be a nurse. This antique silver ‘nursing belt’ belonged to my Granny. The designs were specific to the hospitals the nurses trained at ❤️

27.09.2025 09:01 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Good medicine at the Poetry Pharmacy on Oxford Street ❤️💊

16.09.2025 13:12 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m in great company in this excellent journal Dream Catcher, and delighted to have a number of poems in it including this duplex with probably the strangest title I’ve ever used, thank you James Joyce! ❤️

15.09.2025 13:56 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Lady Jane Grey joins me for lunch, rudely facing the other way

08.09.2025 08:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Delighted to be included in issue #10 of the Fig Tree with my football (and life) related poem Extra Time ⚽️

02.09.2025 10:35 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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First time in Cornwall, at the beautiful Trevaunance Cove ❤️

31.08.2025 11:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beautiful southern Norway ❤️

13.08.2025 13:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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London Hydraulic Power Company 1882
Some interesting history on the penultimate leg of my 5 year long Thames walk from Oxford to the Barrier ❤️

03.08.2025 11:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Made a new friend on my rest day ❤️

01.08.2025 15:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The view from St Mary’s Hospital today - dragon boat races on Paddington Basin

31.07.2025 20:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Thanks to N2 magazine for publishing my nature poem ‘wild’ 🪶

29.07.2025 15:52 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Enjoying the Do Ho Suh memory houses at the Tate Modern ❤️

26.07.2025 15:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Plum time

18.07.2025 18:04 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Perfect day on the Heath ❤️

09.07.2025 13:59 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A highlight of my week was the launch of Matthew Paul’s new book - exceptional poems that tell stories of times and people I feel I know ❤️

21.06.2025 11:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The cat brought in a slow worm today!
This friendly chap was put safely in the undergrowth at the back of the garden ❤️

19.06.2025 17:47 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Delighted to receive this gift of poetry in the post from my good friend Steve Moran, who I would describe as the Walt Whitman of Willesden ☺️
@stephen-moran.bsky.social

17.06.2025 11:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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This mural cheered me up on a fruitless mission this morning - it’s June Rose Barber, the longest remaining tenant in her block near Kilburn, done by Global Art Collective in 2020

16.06.2025 12:18 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Enjoyed this Thames timeline mosaic as we passed St Paul’s on our epic walk of the Thames from Oxford to the Barrier - I’m writing time travel, currently lost in 1995 ❤️

01.06.2025 16:22 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My new seedlings are doing well this year…

03.05.2025 16:10 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0