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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My #poem 'Net' was selected for an anthology called 'Salt Songs' by the George Mackay Brown Fellowship in Orkney, (2023). This tiny piece was inspired by GMB's writing, & appeared in my rock|salt collaboration with artist Elspeth Knight (2022) 💙 Link to anthology: www.orcadian.co.uk/shop/orkney-...

Net by Larissa Reid

The raw flex of muscled rope
the blue slap of cold
a tangible sky pressed into ink.

Backs hunched in creel curves;
hand over hand, bone over fist,
blood into brute force of a gale-ripped sea.

The reward:
a sliding spill of silver fish.

That night, the sails split open galaxies;
their guts are full of stars.

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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Christmas #poetry gifts... I've copies of my short collection 'rock|salt' (2022) #poems about #Fife in Scotland & its industrial / seafaring #heritage. Pls donate to my friend Victoria McGloin's memorial in aid of #womenshealth, then DM me & I will post books: www.justgiving.com/page/vicky-m... 💙

Copies of Larissa Reid's 2022 poetry collection rock|salt. Cover has artwork by Elspeth Knight, featuring a sketched crane over docks, pebbles and a shoreline in pinks, greys and blues. Typeface is typewriter font.

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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Thank you so much, and so sorry I missed this! I’ve not been online much in recent months, I’ve had to focus on my health for a while. Grateful to still have folk interested in (& remembering!) my poetry 🙏💫❤️

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Cáit O'Neill McCullagh @kittyjomac.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

#Cromarty will fill with a wheen of writers & musicians 23-24 May, celebrating #HughMiller folklorist, geologist, paleantologist, essayist, sennachie; person of many pairts. I look forward to sharing my #poems there, along with @gillshawwrites.bsky.social @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social & many more 👇

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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

A lovely mystery story from us at The Friends of Hugh Miller and Hugh Miller's Birthplace NTS today! Huge thanks to all involved in bringing this beautiful object to Scotland 💎 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Mystery of Victorian geologist's ring found on African beach

The long-lost gold ring commemorating Hugh Miller is going on display at his Highland birthplace.

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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

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Mystery of Victorian geologist's ring found on African beach

The long-lost gold ring commemorating Hugh Miller is going on display at his Highland birthplace.

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Submissions are open for poetry & CNF, the theme is GRIEF. One more week to go! 📷:Etienne Girardet sidhe-press.eu/submissions/ #Poetry #CNF #Anthology #Grief Please read the guidelines🌼

An office with a big window in the dark. The words "WHAT IS YOUR STORY?" are illuminated on the window.

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Jon Carling @joncarling.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Meet me in the garden

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

These deeply beautiful maps show the migration patterns of––respectively––Curlew, Kittiwake & Blackcap. From this interactive migration atlas recording migrations of 300 bird species: migrationatlas.org Birds both tether us to places & stitch the world together.

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Submissions are open on the theme of GRIEF until 10/3. Please read the guidelines carefully! #Poetry #CNF #Anthology #Grief sidhe-press.eu/submissions/ Photo by Annie Spratt, via Unsplash.

Daisy-like flowers, slightly out of focus

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

We are opening submissions on the theme of GRIEF tomorrow! We are looking for poems and short CNF about grief. By this we mean not only the grief for a person/ for people, but also grief for animals, grief for a place, a home, a time, an idea, our health, the world, 🧵

A white neon sign on the corner of a house. It says: You're not lost you're here.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 11/02/2025

🚨 #CoverReveal 🚨 Introducing #BeautifulLittleFools, our centenary celebration of The Great Gatsby—a collection of poetry & prose dripping with desire, decadence & the ghosts of Gatsby’s world. Want your work inside? The #SubmissionWindow closes Feb 28. #PoetrySky #PoetsOfBlueSky #GreatGatsby100

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This Thursday! Tickets still available, we're looking forward to seeing you there. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #ForSarah #AlwaysFire #TheCrowGods #Remembrance #Hospice #Fundraiser

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Please join us in celebrating Sarah. It will be a quiet evening filled with beautiful poems and love. buytickets.at/sdhepress/15... The gorgeous painting after a poem by Sarah is by @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social You can also find Oormila on Instagram oormila_paintings

Painting after Sarah´s poem "The Start", by Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad, Instagram oormila_paintings. A painting in hues of blue with two magpies flying and a nest filled with shiny things

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

In 2021 The GMB Fellowship published Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums – a collection of poetry and prose in Orcadian dialect. The Orkney Voices writing group have now recorded it as an audio collection. Listen to the first episode NOW at gousters.transistor.fm or wherever you get your podcasts. 🎧

The cover of the book Gousters, glims and veerie-orums, featuring a painting of a seacape and a stormy sky

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Jackie Curtis @jcurtisart.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Seascape recent demo print from a workshop

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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

From this bright start to the day, a nosedive into the red zone for #stormeowyn 🤞🏻 #staysafe #winterstorm

Sunlight on early snowdrops; white tears glow in the undergrowth.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 18/01/2025

The best thing about this, for us anyway, is that I can see what the #BrokenSpineFamily is in in just the one place. The posts being collated here, by writers that I have admired and published over the last five years, is a beautiful thing! go.bsky.app/Aw9cpV2

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 15/01/2025

Midweek motivation: #FromTheAshes. Go deep. Don’t shy away from cultivating each line. Engage with others—it’s how we’re building a new poetry space far beyond Twitter. #PoemsAbout #StayOnTheme #BeBold #ConcreteOverAbstract

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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Glimpses of our stunning #winter walk round to the local loch today - all ice, feather and water ruffles 💙❄️

Stately swan drifting in on a silver-grey, partially iced loch, east Scotland.

Swan swims away from the camera, ruffling feathers and water.

Iced loch under silver low winter sun. All shades of blue-grey-white. Geese, swans, ducks drift in the unfrozen centre of the loch.

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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

A transient new pathway over ice - curious which creature made this journey over the hill pond… #desireways #newpaths #ice #winterwalk

Blue skies over an iced pond, east coast Fife. A set of tracks scuttles across the centre of the pond; a new pathway over transient ice. Curious who made that journey…

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 08/01/2025

Midweek check: #PoemsAbout #Clarity. Stick to vivid images and bold ideas that go beyond the surface. Building a true poetry community here means engaging—so share feedback and connect. #PoemsAbout #StayOnTheme #BeBold #EmotionNotMelodrama

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 01/01/2025

Submissions are OPEN for Glow: City at Night Poems! Illuminate urban nightscapes with your work. Accepting submissions all January! Details here: thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/12/08/s...

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Submit to Glow: City at Night Poems Anthology - Illuminate Urban Nightscapes in Verse for January 2025 - The Broken Spine

Call for Submissions: Glow: City at Night Poems

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

We are open for an extended period through January for * Welsh writers only * Whether you are Mohammed from Swansea, Callum from Gilfach or Sian from Bala, we want to hear from you. If you identify as Welsh (not excluding other heritages), go for it. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Get booking poets! Our first open mic of the year, 5 mins. per poet on Zoom. Limited places. Roadtest your work at our popular event. Ideal for the nervous. Sunday 12th January 6:00pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-bough-online-open-mic-tickets-1129444481849?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Black Bough Online Open Mic

Roadtest your poetry at our popular online open mic on Zoom! 5 mins max per poet! Hosted by Matthew M. C. Smith

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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Another from last night; less detail in the light side of the moon, but I love that I caught something of what you could actually see! #moonandvenus #crescentmoon #NikonD3500

Crescent moon and Venus, 3rd Jan 2025, East Scotland. Ink night, (full) moon imprinted. Venus to the top right.

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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Crescent moon with Venus, taken with my Nikon D3500 camera, 70-300 lens, & a tripod. Very much a beginner at #astrophotography 🌙✨❄️ Gorgeous, crisp, cold night.

Crescent moon against a dark velvet sky, Venus to the top right. Cold, crisp January night, East Scotland.

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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

My incredibly talented #horrorwriter friend Keith Foreman has scribed a winter story for the Decadent Serpent competition... Please do read, and vote for it if you are creeped out enough to do so! ❄❄❄ (Voting options are at the end of the story...) decadentserpent.com/2024/12/04/c...

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Christmas Competition Entry 3: Frostbitten

Author: Keith Foreman. Keith is a self-confessed Lovecraft nerd and member of the Edinburgh Writing Collective. He lives in Scotland, and would probably get more writing done if he wasn’t als…

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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

A beautiful moment to end a tough year; Giant’s Causeway with good friends, epic turquoise waves and a pod of dolphins passing by 💙 Couldn’t believe that last part, but it happened. Much love, courage and resilience to you all for 2025 ✨

Looking out at crashing turquoise waves from the Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland. Dark hexagonal rock platforms against the soft spume of the sea.

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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Festive greetings and warm wishes to all my followers from my wee corner of this beautiful world 💙

Striking dark-blue-gold clouds above a windswept beach; Pettycur Bay, Fife, Scotland.

Low to the sand shot of shells with long winter shadows: gold sun blazes between dark clouds. Pettycur bay, Fife, Scotland.

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Happy Winter Solstice to all in the northern hemisphere. The turn of the year's tide, a pivot-point, a day of hope—when the dark stops rising & after which the Sun begins its slow climb back. A day I celebrate more than Christmas or New Year. Fiat lux! 📷 by @annieworsley.bsky.social

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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Muted #dawn colours over the Binn hill, Fife coast, early this morning. A blue silver #frost and orange-reds left over from autumn. The only sound was a blackbird sounding the alarm that I was in his space (forgive me, good sir, it was so beautiful).

Muted dawn colours over the Binn hill, Fife coast. A blue silver frost and orange-reds left over from autumn.

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Annie Worsley @annieworsley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The wilderness and the mountains... from the wee road home. Baosbhein, Beinn Dearg, Beinn Alligin taken a few days ago. #naturewriting #writingcommunity #landscapephotography

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Larissa @ammonitesandstars.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

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Christmas Competition Entry 3: Frostbitten

Author: Keith Foreman. Keith is a self-confessed Lovecraft nerd and member of the Edinburgh Writing Collective. He lives in Scotland, and would probably get more writing done if he wasn’t als…

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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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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Characteristically gorg hybrid work from Anindita Sengupta @lilithblues.bsky.social on the Ice Floe today 'An incandescent sort of living is what she wants, someone once said of me, meaning it was indecent, meaning I would only ever come to harm' #poetry icefloepress.net/2024/12/02/p...

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Poems, Photography and Collage Works – Anindita Sengupta

TREE WOMAN WILDING 1 King’s Canyon Lights stake the path / my daughter graphs ghostly leaves. Globes of dew adhere to every shaft of light, streaming / Sequoia needles like a benediction even as, i…

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Another day, another door! 🎁 Supervising the tree decorating... who will be today's advent surprise? #RSPBAdvent

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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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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

It's the Christmas countdown for nature lovers! ✨🎄 Every day, we’ll bring a little magic from the wild to your feed. Who’s hiding behind door 1?.... Let’s take a peek… #RSPBAdvent

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Poetry submission opportunity coming up! Read carefully! 🎄 🤶 🎅 🧝 www.blackboughpoetry.com/events #writingsubmissions #poetic #poetry #poetrysubmissions

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