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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Say hello to my new pamphlet ‘Mædwe’ I’m so grateful to @salopress.bsky.social for publishing it, and to Tom Branfoot and @sophiaargyris.bsky.social for their lovely endorsements! 💚💚💚

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Durham Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC) @languagesdurham.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Celebrating Student Success: Maisy Hicks Recognised in National Essay Competition - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

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Celebrating Student Success: Maisy Hicks - Durham University

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Kathryn Gray @kathryngray.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Posting this exemplary poem by an exemplary poet, Kona Macphee, is something I love to do every few years or so. The smallness of it—but the immensity. Utterly beautiful poem-making.

The gift
Sometimes the recompense arrives so far ahead of what you'll give that you will fail to recognise the reciprocity, the love
that circles in the universe: this life a grace advanced, its knack to meet requital with its cause - the offering up, the giving back.

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Durham Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC) @languagesdurham.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University The School is inviting expressions of interest from potential candidates. See further here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/... #postdocs #academicjobs

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Funding Opportunities - Durham University

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Amaleena Damlé @amaleenadamle.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I was really pleased to have been shortlisted for a Northern Writers Debut Award for Poetry, for the second year in a row. Congratulations to all the winners!

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

✨️So honoured to be featured as this month's @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #SilverBranch poet 💎 Gratitude to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for inviting me & curating this special selection of my work. Do take a read: includes 13 new & exclusive poems + insights on my writing ✨️ #PoetryCommunity

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 23/04/2025

'A Philosophy of Light' by Hannah Linden / @hannahl1n.bsky.social explores the quiet resilience of an octopus under a bloodmoon — a meditation on adaptation, cosmic indifference, and finding home in the dark. Read now! inksweatandtears.co.uk/hannah-linde... #InkSweatandTears #Submission #Poetry

A digital artwork featuring an excerpt from the poem A Philosophy of Light by Hannah Linden. The background is a dark gradient with golden light particles scattered like stars or sparks. At the top, the poem’s title is written: 'A Philosophy of Light.' Below, in the centre of the image, the poem excerpt reads:
'Formed into darkness
an octopus squeezes around
the spaces of a shipwreck."
At the bottom right corner, the author’s name appears: 'Hannah Linden©'.

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Amaleena Damlé @amaleenadamle.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Publication day for this beautiful anthology of poems about grief. Delighted to have a poem included alongside some gorgeous writing, and looking forward to reading it all. Thanks so much to the editors for all their thought and care.

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A mood board video of my latest @ninearchespress.bsky.social poetry collection, Blackbird Singing at Dusk. If you’re looking for a lyrical exploration of the working class and female body within the rural, a bit of darkness, a bit of deep time, then you’ll likely like this collection.

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Sarah Doyle @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Inspired partly by the eco-atrocity at Sycamore Gap, and partly by my admiration for the sycamore on the canal bank just beyond my garden, I'm delighted that my poem 'Sycamore's Prayer' appears at the wonderful Atrium Poetry today. I'd be so pleased if anyone fancied reading. 🌳

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Klaxon-not all gloom. Our brand new inter-uni seminar titled 'Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair' kicks off 2nd May: Paris Book Launch of Alana Lentin's The New Racial Regime. Online speaker series next. Coordinators at various stages of career. Cast an eye. undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 13/04/2025

Extraordinary #ekphrastic poem up now on @afterpoetry.com, as Suzi Feay writes of bone made ceramic. ' ... Glass is a fluid that will flow Slower than marrow, DNA or any Beam in your house of meat.' afterpoetry.com/poem/apr-13-...

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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'Glass Bone' by Suzi Feay exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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Kate Wakeling @katewakeling.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Here’s a new poem – the first of a set of seven exploring the ‘capital vices’ (among other things) – in the terrific new issue of @magmapoetry.bsky.social Warmest thanks to editors @aoifelyall.bsky.social and Victoria Kennefick for taking it in all its grottiness 🩷

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Amaleena Damlé @amaleenadamle.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

So pleased to have been longlisted for my pamphlet by @theemmapress.bsky.social! Congratulations to all those who made the shortlist - these all sound wonderful.

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Kim Moore @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Thanks to The New Statesman for publishing a brand new shiny poem www.newstatesman.com/culture/poet...

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The NS Poem: Her Birth

A new poem by Kim Moore.

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Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Happy Solstice everyone. 3 poems for you today: the 1st my own & one each from @johncraigwhite.bsky.social and Stephen Keeler. Yes it's the 1st day of The 12 Days of Christmas feature from Ink, Sweat and Tears. Thanks @helenivory.bsky.social & Kate & Zhara for putting this together & including mine

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On the first day of Christmas, we bring you Hannah Linden, John White and Stephen Keeler | Ink Sweat and Tears

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Amaleena Damlé @amaleenadamle.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

My winter solstice poem - the moon holds fast on the longest night - written two years ago, as my littlest was starting nursery. Published in the wonderful The Dirigible Balloon, and soon to appear in their anthology, Sky Surfing: Excellent Adventures in a Poetry Balloon @northernjim.bsky.social

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Sarah Doyle @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A poem for the shortest day, when we have almost forgotten what light looks and feels like. I'm grateful to Damien B Donnelly for publishing this in 'The Storms Journal' in autumn 2023.

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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iamb.uk · 01/12/2024

Say hi to... @daraghfleming.bsky.social, Dion O'Reilly, @gclifford1.bsky.social, Jane Ayres, @kevingrauke.bsky.social, Laura Lewis-Waters, Marie Marchand, @pamthompson240.bsky.social, Polly Walshe, Rachel Smith, Rowan Lyster, Sharon Phillips, Simon Alderwick, T S S Fulk and @wendypratt.bsky.social.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 01/12/2024

We're thrilled to announce that submissions are now OPEN for our #SelectedPoetry series—an online-only showcase celebrating boundary-pushing, thought-provoking poetry! Join us in redefining the poetic landscape. Deadline: December 2024. thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/11/30/p...

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Push the Boundaries: Submit to #SelectedPoetry – Opening December 2025 - The Broken Spine

The Broken Spine is accepting submissions for our #SelectedPoetry series this December 2025. We’re looking for bold, contemporary poetry that pushes

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Kate Wakeling @katewakeling.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A thrill of the year to have a poem in the new issue of @stingingfly.bsky.social 🪰

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 04/12/2024

This Saturday Eat the Storms, the poetry podcast, is hosting a special funding episode A Podcast for Palestine 🇵🇸 All funds will go to www.childrennotnumbers.org This is the list of writers, so far, taking part, more to be added before Saturday We now also have a GoFundMe page gofund.me/553c2548

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

My poetry books of the year for @theguardian.com; it was v tricky to get it down to this selection. But a rich year all told: www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

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The best poetry books of 2024

The joy of house parties, an email to an estate agent, tales from a billionaire’s dolls and more

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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 24/11/2024

The Literary Events Starter Pack is up to 23, if you know of festivals or literary events that are on Bluesky please let me know go.bsky.app/PHw99bS

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RELISH @relish-he.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Information available for the 2025 Oxford Food Symposium - Food and the Elements. Early bid voucher good until end of November!

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2025 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery Update

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Durham Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC) @languagesdurham.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

In this new blog post, our student Nicola describes her experiences studying at Tsinghua University in China, and visiting sights such as the Gubei Water Town in Beijing. studentblog.webspace.durham.ac.uk/my-china-exp...

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Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I've started compiling starter packs of UK Poets. I've just finished the first one... alphabetically listed from A to J (1st names)... will start another list from there on. go.bsky.app/DgHRkcK

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I love this poem by Cynthia Miller (from her Nine Arches Press collection ‘Honorifics’ 2021). #Poetry

To become a dragon, first wear its skin
By Cynthia Miller

When she married, my mother wore a cheongsam of red silk bright as a bolt of dragonfire. Her mother tipped her from the bath and poured her into it, all brimstone brilliance and the hottest part of the flame.
The tailoring perfect, each button knotted and curled like a dragon's whiskers, and she liked that it was a touch demure but slitted high enough on the thigh to turn heads.
The cool material felt like slipping out at night to lie on your back in the sea, or the drawn-out pleasure of a cigarette after sex, sheets pooled in the sticky heat.
Shoes, of course, buckled dragonskin. Imagine a bride, knowing she could swallow any man whole. And later, imagine a newlywed, packing a bag for his things (coarse denim jacket stinking of hay and Oreo nicotine smell), and finding the cheongsam at the back of the wardrobe, pressed and forgotten. She cards her fingers through whispering tissue, remembers the dress clinging like smoke.
Imagine memory as a whetstone. She sharpens herself on it.

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Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk · 18/11/2024

If the world ended tomorrow, what would you say? Last Light: Apocalypse Poetry is an anthology that answers—raw, unflinching, unforgettable. Read it before the last light fades. 🔥#LastLight

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 18/11/2024

Happy Release Day! Last Light: Apocalypse Poetry is a stunning anthology that confronts endings—imagined and real—with raw, poetic brilliance. #LastLight #Slimlines #Poetry Step into the spectre of annihilation. 🔗 amzn.eu/d/1VYg5Qc

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Last Light: Apocalypse Poetry: Amazon.co.uk: Parry, Alan: 9798335705431: Books

Buy Last Light: Apocalypse Poetry by Parry, Alan (ISBN: 9798335705431) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Amaleena Damlé @amaleenadamle.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Delighted to have a poem in @brokenspinearts.bsky.social’s new anthology, Last Light. Thanks so much @alanparry83.bsky.social for including it, I’m so looking forward to reading more poems about fragility, finality and fire.

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Our Silver Branch project: 🔥 WRITER OF THE MONTH 🔥 Saraswati Nagpal with stunning poems. Check this feature out, bookmark, boost. Let's get this writer's words across the planet. www.blackboughpoetry.com/saraswati-na... #poetry #writing #poet #readers #poetic #readers

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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Because bsky has no algorithm, our ripples here are linked to our time. We drop our pebbles, those nearby see circles spreading. Some lap an opposite shore, but only if fishers there are looking for them. Disparate timezones, owls vs larks, will miss each other more. Be kind with your attention.

Very calm blue ocean, silky with slow ripples. Blue sky, cloudless, almost matches the water. Long, low hills laze the horizon left, closer right. A sea fountain jets a single white plume 50 feet high, hard right, mid-distance. Gentle sunbow flares the lens, from a diffuse white glow top right - the sun is shy of the camera, it feels like very early morning.

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Enrico (Yuner) Bisetto @yunerart.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

For newcomers: Bluesky has no algorithm, posts are shown in chronological order and only from people you follow. If you like something, "like" ❤️ is fine (a little dopamine) but does almost nothing; "repost" 🔄 gives visibilty and makes the difference. Press those arrows and support each others!

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 15/11/2024

This is a brilliant short read on why this haka is being heard around the world. As the child of two oppressed cultures I felt this raw emotion deep in my soul. There is no Irish or Caribbean equivalent.

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Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Delighted to be discussing how to get published as part of the literary agents and publishers panel for Writers and Artists, and Open University on 5th December. Sign up deets below: www.writersandartists.co.uk/events-and-c...

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

In this difficult world, we should be tender with ourselves too... This poem pulls gently at a tapestry of threads, from self-love to isolation to temporality. What an astonishing beauty ❤️ "In Ulvik" by Jane Hirshfield in 'Ledger' (Alfred A. Knopf) #poetrycommunity #poetry #writingcommunity

"In Ulvik" by Jane Hirshfield in 'Ledger' (Alfred A. Knopf)

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

I'm honoured to be featured on this episode of A Thousand Shades of Green, hosted by Susan Richardson. I'm blown away by Susan's exquisite readings of my work 💚 I'd love for you to listen over coffee or tea ☕️ Thank you so much, Susan. A true gift. Absolutely breathtaking! 🙏 #WritingCommunity

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