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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Book 31/31 Courtney Conrad - I Am Evidence (Bloodaxe / Mslexia) "Transactions end with blessings every time, except when customers ask, _tek off likkle something nuh_." ('Mommy Carry Mi Guh Coronation Market') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Book 30/31 Carol Ann Duffy - Love "The moon was a hand-mirror breathed on by a Queen. / My breath was a chiffon scarf for an elegant ghost." ('Mrs Beast') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Book 29/31 Ruth Padel – Girl "So I wake in the dark and walk downstairs / in the beautiful silence of made things." ('The Blue Gate of Morning') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Book 28/31 Sylvia Plath - Ariel "O my God, what am I / That these late mouths should cry open / In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers." ('Poppies in October') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Book 27/31 Don Paterson - Zonal "I have it here somewhere. The Thing. It might be a raffle ticket, a tiny wee screwdriver or a dog biscuit, / but I'll know it when I see it." ('The Thing') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Book 26/31 Kathleen Jamie – The Overhaul "It was August. She travelled / with a small valise / of darkness, and the first few stars / returning to the northern sky, // and my room, it seemed, / had missed her." ('Moon') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Book 25/31 Simon Armitage – Magnetic Field "David Bowie called. Before I could get into the specifics of him being dead and this being a private, unlisted number, he said, 'That's a foreign ring-tone, man – are you abroad?'" ('A New Career in a New Town') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Book 24/31 Barbara Kingsolver – How to Fly "As people do, we've come looking / for proof that the dead of the past were just / like us. And grow quiet, having found it." ('Pompeii') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Book 23/31 W.B. Yeats – The Wind Among the Reeds "The host is rushing ’twixt night and day, / And where is there hope or deed as fair? / Caoilte tossing his burning hair, / And Niamh calling _Away, come away_." ('The Hosting of the Sidhe') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Book 22/31 Seamus Heaney – Aeneid Book VI "Here Cerberus keeps watch, / Growling from three gullets, his brute bulk couched / In the cave, facing down all comers." #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Book 21/31 Sean O'Brien – The Drowned Book (Picador) "There on the steps of the cellar, / Black-clad Victorians // Were feeding the river with souls." ('Water-Gardens') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Book 20/31 Colm Tóibín – Vinegar Hill (Carcanet) "In the Regent, on my own, / I saw 'The Deerhunter' / And 'Halloween II'. It was / A bad period made worse / By going to those two films." ('Dead Cinemas') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Book 19/31 Peter Gizzi – Fierce Elegy "What have I been doing / without me / all this time? / Don't know if / I want to anymore. / I wonder distance / and its discontents." ('I'm Good to Ghost') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Book 18/31 Thom Gunn – My Sad Captains "For on his shoulders they had put tattoos: / The group's name on the left, The Knights, / And on the right the slogan Born To Lose." ('Black Jackets') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Book 17/31 Christopher Logue – The Husbands "The windmills on the Wall are still. / King Priam stands. Then lifts his withered arms, and says: // 'To the plain.' // And on the plain the drums begin to beat." #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

From yesterday... Book 16/31 Patrick McGuinness – Blood Feather (Cape) "The television is a furnace burning local news. // You are breathing wardrobe-air. // The plastic kettle rages and wants to know who's there." ('Travelodge') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Book 15/31 Marie Howe – What the Living Do "Sometimes the island wavers and shimmers underfoot, / but the bridge appears when you walk across it—that's / how it works, right? There's no end to this." ('The Dream') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Book 14/31 Maggie Smith – A Suit or a Suitcase "When you leave the museum / of contemporary art, opening / the doors to midday, you may need / a few minutes to reset context: / the bike shackled to the sign / is only a bike, the sign only a sign" ('Installation') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

"Whatever joy I had, whatever peace of mind, can never escape grief's gravity." #SealeyChallenge @sealeychallenge.bsky.social 14/31 #TodaysPoem #poetry XXXII by Jeevan Bhagwat from The Radha Poems (2025 Silver Bow Publishing) www.silverbowpublishing.com/jeevan-bhagw...

Poetry collection The Radha Poems by Jeevan Bhagwat (Silver Bow Publishing), with its colourful abstract cover, sits on a surface covered with bright green moss and some yellow and red leaves

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Book 13/31 James Wright – Two Citizens "When people don't have quite enough to eat / In August, and the river, / That is supposed to be some holiness, / Starts dying." ('The Old WPA Swimming Pool in Martins Ferry, Ohio') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Book 12/31 Wendy Cope – If I Don't Know "It's beautiful out there - / fields, little lakes and winter trees / in February sunlight, / every car park a shining mosaic." ('On a Train') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Book 11/31 Lucille Clifton – Two-Headed Woman "winged woman was saying / 'full of grace' and like. / was light beyond sun and words / of a name and a blessing." ('mary's dream') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Book 10/31 Fiona Benson – Bright Travellers (Cape) "My pen moving across the page / and the occasional cricket / calling, calling / to love in another garden, / the marvellous elsewhere." ('Small Mercies') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Book 9/31 W.B. Yeats – The Rose "First as a raven on whose ancient wings / Scarcely a feather lingered, then you seemed / A weasel moving on from stone to stone, / And now at last you wear a human shape, / A thin grey man half lost in gathering night." ('Fergus and the Druid') #SealeyChallenge

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Book 8/31 Sharon Olds – One Secret Thing "the woman opened a file drawer, / low rumble of wheels on rails, / and took out the ashes, in a satin maroon / plastic box, and set them on the desk." ('Satin Maroon') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

7/31 John McCullough – Reckless Paper Birds (Penned in the Margins) "I tremble, pick at falafel wraps and store each terror / like those bald eagles who save every twig they find / till their overburdened nests plummet to the ground." ('Please Don't Touch Me, My Head Falls Off') #SealeyChallenge

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Book 6/31 Anne Sexton - The Awful Rowing Toward God "I am not lazy. / I am on the amphetamine of the soul. / I am, each day, / typing out the God / my typewriter believes in." ('Frenzy') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Book 5/31 Seamus Heaney - Field Work (Faber) "When the badger glimmered away / into another garden / you stood, half-lit with whiskey, / sensing you had disturbed / some soft returning." ('The Badgers') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Book 4/31 Clare Pollard – Changeling (Bloodaxe) "Men wade to shore / and Circe's sure / they're the same men // or close enough, rough / hands, straight hips, / the type who talk / of sharks and ships." ('An Island') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Book 3/31 Isabel Galleymore – Significant Other (Carcanet) "we stride across; the rails / already bushy with brassy / locks that love the bridge that links / this part of the earth with the next" ('Are We There Yet?') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Book 2/31 Judy Brown – Loudness (Seren) "The farmhouse is frittered with knick-knackery." ('The Gîte') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Book 1/31 Syliva Plath – The Colossus Sample: "Some hard stars / Already yellow the heavens." ('The Manor Garden') #SealeyChallenge #poetry

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New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Great article on why surrealism still matters and can "spark the seeds of permanent dissent." There have been 3 new translations of Breton's writing, including Nadja by Mark Polizzotti.

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Organizing Pessimism | Los Angeles Review of Books

André Breton, necropolitics, and 100 years of surrealism.

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Andy Warhol @warhol.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It's Andy Warhol's Explosion! / Exploding Plastic Inevitable, 1966 botfrens.com/collections/19/content…

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Portraits (Hockney) Tacita Dean, 2016

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

POEM 307: "Unearthed" by A.D. Harper (@adharper.bsky.social) "The wildlife that comes to my house at night is unknown to the books. Maybe / I have the wrong books. Maybe all nature books are a lie." stonecirclereview.com/unearthed/ #Poem #Poetry #NewPoem #PoetryCommunity

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

31/31 Hannah Levene – Boneless Ribs "Turning the lights on in the living room when I leave the house / to make it look lived in." ('I've Folded the Pages I Think You'll Enjoy') #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

30/31 Thom Gunn – The Sense of Movement "We keep ourselves in touch with a mere dime: / Distorting hackneyed words in hackneyed songs / He turns revolt into a style, prolongs / The impulse to a habit of the time." ('Elvis Presley') #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

29/31 Carol Ann Duffy – Politics "They have shipped Gulliver up North. / He lies at the edge of town, / sleeping. / His snores are thunder in the night." ('Job Creation') #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

28/31 Ian Seed – Night Window "My father was in the front-room: clean shaven, young, expectant. From above, The Rolling Stones' 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' was playing." ('Meanwhile') #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

"still there's scones however you pronounce them or plain toast for those unwilling to risk error" #TodaysPoem #poetry Deduced by @adharper.bsky.social (2024 Tentacular Mag) tinyurl.com/36sk6kff

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

27/31 Lavinia Greenlaw – The Built Moment "His stories led only back to their beginnings / like the last letter he sent me / in which the second page repeats the first." ('My father appears') #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

26/31 Rae Armantrout – Go Figure "AI spells death / to truck stops // and their gift shops / packed with lonesome // doodads." ('Forests') #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

25/31 Lucille Clifton – an ordinary woman "Kali / queen of fatality, she / determines the destiny / of things. nemesis. / the permanent guest / within ourselves." ('Kali') #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

24/31 Christina Rossetti – Goblin Fruit and Other Poems "My heart is like a singing bird / Whose nest is in a watered shoot; / My heart is like an apple-tree / Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit" ('A Birthday') #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

23/31 James Wright – Shall We Gather at the River "They looked me over, / More or less alive, / They looked at me, more / Or less out of place." ('An Elegy for the Poet Morgan Blum') #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

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A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

22/31 Louise Glück – The Wild Iris "More than you love me, very possibly / you love the beasts of the field, even, / possibly, the field itself, in August dotted / with wild chicory and aster: / I know." ('Vespers') #SealeyChallenge #theSealeyChallenge

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