Reposted by A.D. HarperSarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 08/10/2026oh I love a poetry day on here 0214
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Book 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 030
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Book 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 001
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Book 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 031
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Book 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 020
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Book 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 032
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Book 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 021
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Book 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 031
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Book 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 030
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Book 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 000
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I envy you seeing that exhibit, and the tour sounds great too. I am pleased that there are some books of his I still have to discover. 011
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Book 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 130
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Book 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 051
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Book 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 010
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Book 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 010
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Book 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 000
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Book 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 010
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 17/08/2026From 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 010
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Book 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 010
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Book 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 020
Reposted by A.D. HarperVicki 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... 072
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Book 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 040
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Book 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 020
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Book 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 040
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Book 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 030
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Book 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 030
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Book 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 041
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 07/08/20267/31 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 000
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Book 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 031
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Book 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 020
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Book 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 041
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Book 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 031
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Book 2/31 Judy Brown – Loudness (Seren) "The farmhouse is frittered with knick-knackery." ('The Gîte') #SealeyChallenge #poetry 030
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Book 1/31 Syliva Plath – The Colossus Sample: "Some hard stars / Already yellow the heavens." ('The Manor Garden') #SealeyChallenge #poetry 030
Reposted by A.D. HarperNew York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Great 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.lareviewofbooks.orgOrganizing Pessimism | Los Angeles Review of BooksAndré Breton, necropolitics, and 100 years of surrealism. 0168
Reposted by A.D. HarperAndy Warhol @warhol.bsky.social · 19/06/2026It's Andy Warhol's Explosion! / Exploding Plastic Inevitable, 1966 botfrens.com/collections/19/content… 061
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Me too. And it's pleasing that it's so international. 010
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Yes, I like to return to some books too. Good luck with your curation, I look forward to seeing what you read! 110
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Good to hear you are doing it again this year. I am planning to as well. I like this stage of beginning to curate the 31 books, and going through to remember what I've read in previous years. 220
Reposted by A.D. HarperJeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Portraits (Hockney) Tacita Dean, 2016 1406
Reposted by A.D. HarperThe Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · 05/04/2026“ ‘The cat sat on the mat’ is not the beginning of a story, but ‘the cat sat on the dog’s mat’ is.” —John le Carrébuff.lyJohn le Carré, The Art of Fiction No. 149“The one thing you can bet is that spying is never over. Spying is like the wiring in this building: It's just a question of who takes it over and switches on the lights. It will go on and on and on.” 083
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 17/02/2026I'm glad it was so rewarding! I haven't tackled it, maybe over a series of years... 010
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Congratulations! What a great challenge to complete. 110
Reposted by A.D. HarperStone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 07/02/2026POEM 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 0104
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 31/08/202531/31 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 110
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social · 30/08/202530/31 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 010