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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Emily Wilson’s response to the Odyssey film is exactly how I would have liked Tracy Chapman to react when that guy did the bland cover of Fast Car and had a huge hit but she way too sweet and accepting lol.

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

For when you are feeling nutty with the pastels. Don't know if I've given up writing, but I'm reading a lot. Best things: To Star the Dark, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A line made by walking, Sarah Baume, and a tonic in Thirteen ways to smell a tree, David George Haskell.

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Jenny Mitchell @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Two poems from my first collection 'Her Lost Language' have just been used in a film about Nunhead Cemetery. It's strange to think I wrote the poems years ago, and now they have a 2nd life in the world. Look forward to sharing the film here soon. 🌿

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Today's scribble. Haven't been able to write for a long time. Have looked over old stuff alright and edited, but can only get so far with that. When I think about writing I feel stuck, like what? I need encouragement, but maybe that can only come from within even if I was getting THE publications.

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

So today, looking after the books (reading kind), I was called upon for a computer/network issue. Thankfully I solved it. I'd forgotten how satisfying that is. Spent rest of day fuzzy headed, getting biro on my striped pink shirt, coffee stains, knocked over a loaded ashtray. Might try HRT.

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Thanks for sharing this Jenny. Hard hitting, as needs be. @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social After Auden - Culture Matters P.S. Varients of this happening here too, for sure.

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Breda Spaight @bredaspaight.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I'm loving this chapbook from the wonderful @leggettbohan.bsky.social Available from @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

I've been stopping to talk to a young homeless person over last three months. I've witnessed her deteriote and age badly. I've witnessed her turn from extremely vulnerable to taking on street smarts. Hardened. Still very vulnerable. Wish there was intervention. It's be humane, wouldn't it.

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

What a wonderful time of year. Easy to forget the worries with a stroll in the woods/park/wherever one goes, for an hour or so. Birdsong, buds, leaves, flowers. Reality comes back with a vengeance, but I'm taking those hours. Grant me the serenity, how does that old prayer go.....

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Magnificent . Today’s #FoxOfTheDay from @ antoniasalter.co.uk

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Now (painting) and soon (photo). Had some fun in the woods today, me, a coffee, and some nice light.

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Jamie O'Halloran @jamieohalloran108.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Delighted and honoured to be reading with @moyradonaldson for Harry E. Northup's Poetry Hour on St. Patrick's Day. Here in Ireland, that will be at 8 o'clock in the evening. I hope you can join us. The link is in the bio.

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

a poem in latest Abridged by me. About the sea, the sea, about the world, Bach, of course, and a little bit of insignificent me in there. @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social #Poetry #Ireland #climatecrisis

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Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Novelist Kit de Waal, a leading voice for working class writers, joins Dr Dan Taylor to discuss how to challenge the class ceiling. www.mklitfest.org/online-event... @kitdewaal.com @ouliterature.bsky.social

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Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Afternoon. We're pleased to present Abridged 0 - 108: Adrenochrome. Read it at www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for free! The print version will be available in libraries throughout Northern Ireland and in our usual arts organisations and comic shops soon.

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Just in Limber lake featuring Lustin Bieber

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Before I go looking, presumably needing to set up an account, what is Substack?

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Painted this some years ago with a can of cider or two on the go

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Drive The Car Like We Stole It @thoang1971.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Strange that the US kidnapped a foreign country’s president and then will try him in US courts for drug trafficking yet the former Honduran president was recently pardoned for…drug trafficking

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

I've had life altering kindness, but I won't delve into that. Instead: Was on bus, foggy headed and dithery with middle-age. Gave driver too little money, and he was gruff telling me so. Tap on back. Young fella behind me held out handful of coins. 'Do you need change', in other words 'I'll pay'.

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

1. Hell's Kitchen An optimistic 2. A Farewell to Arms

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Molly Twomey @mollytwomey.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Poem-a-day advent calendar 🎁 Day 24 is 'Weather' from Kevin Graham's 'Time's Guest' 🌹✨ @thegallerypress.bsky.social

Cover of 'Time's Guest' is different blocks of rectangular shapes in reds, gold, orange and grey

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If there'd been tension or disagreement over a bill you couldn't tell. In an instant the whole restaurant fell silent as if a spell had been cast. Each heart in the room was a bell-wether, feather-light and mysterious.

Snow sank through the imperious night over candles floating behind the glass like a Hollywood movie. Inside sudden mass beauty we bonded naturally and watched like children the heavens open, the clock stop. Each flake seemed to carry something that couldn't be expressed and so we clung to the flurry passing, the wideness of the world gifting what couldn't be possessed.

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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Before the Storm — Gregory Jacek Olejniczak, 2024 Oil on canvas

Seen close up from a low angle wild flowers in a field. past them dark clouds crowd the sky. storm coming soon

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

happy sostice, beautiful misty damp morning that it was.

red roofed barn in field painted with pastels.

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Audacious #FoxOfTheDay , thank you to @robdumbarton.bsky.social for sharing !

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Alison McCrossan @alison-mc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Lurgy keeps promising to lift then comes back like a tsunami. I'm a stress oversharer! Been a lot of that in your life lately, you ask? There has but I've got, in contradiction, solace in music and trees and friends and stuff like that.

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