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Susie Wilson

@concordmoose.bsky.social
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Skin the Rabbit (The Braag) Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed (Verve). Writing long poems about rivers, absurdity & time +Arts Council £. Runs Sub Club for Manchester Poetry Library. Half poet, half tutor, half clown. Sheffield www.susiewilsonpoet.com

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Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social · 3h
did you listen to the wind today? no? then you probably won’t get an award
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Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social · 4h
Read Anne Carson in Granta as a gift, no paywall. Good news for poetry is good news for the world. Xxx
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 23h
Thank you! There is a Sheffield United gnome in there somewhere too. UTB!
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 23h
Amazing what grows in our garden. But my poetry tutoring’s better than my dog training & gardening. Message me if you’re interested in learning at your own pace through practise. Is this the missing link between generative workshops & full-blown mentoring? Maybe! #poetry #creativewriting #sheffield
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Susie’s Online Poetry Sub Club, finding good homes for your poems in good company, Sat 10th Oct, 10-12, book here (inc for free): dandelion.events/e/v51le This month it’s Gutter & The Dawntreader (+ p’haps And Other Poems). #poetry #poetrysubmissions #poetrymagazines #poetsofbluesky #sheffieldpoetry
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yes! Me too. Happy there’s some I wanted to read already & some totally new to me. 👌
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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Next month @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social will be writer in residence for The Bothy Project, Eigg, where she'll be walking the island and writing memories of the urban into the embodied rural landscape. www.bothyproject.com/residencies/...
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Lydia Unsworth - Bothy Project
Lydia Unsworth is a contemporary British poet currently studying for a PhD at the Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Her research explores kinship with post-industrial architecture, while her poetry is de...
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Please find enclosed a free untitled anti-fascist anti-Reform anti-arsehole poem. #dragonflies #antifascism #tooonthenosetosubmit
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Dr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns
A photo from the BBC of an older woman, with grey hair, being led away by police. A photograph of a line of men in black clothes and balaclavas blocking the port at Dover.
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Northern Gravy is open now, with me at the poetry guest-editing helm for one edition, out this Sept (thanks Nick & Jonny!). So go to northerngravy.com/submissions/ & send me your poems. Poets are PAID for published pieces here 💪😀 #northerngravy #poetrysubmissions #poetry #submissions #poetsonbluesky
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Soundtrack for the weekend before the coronation? Will he turn out to be a coronation chicken? Thank you fellow artists, poets & clowns in this chorus! youtu.be/5AnWQjr4eP8 #andyburnham #soundpoetry #sonicpoetry #poetrybluesky #poetsofbluesky
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Andy Burnham Word Salad - Are you ready for this?
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Thanks to everyone who's bought a copy of 'The Gleaning' this week (in spite of the extreme heat obliging us to postpone its launch until the autumn). Last two days to order with free UK delivery: longbarrowpress.com/2026/04/30/t...
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Saw this on LinkedIn. I come not (only) to praise Philosophy but to note that there’s very little exposure to AI in Civil Engineering, if I’m reading correctly. What? No one is using Grok to build bridges? Why ever not?
Graph plotting exposure to AI and employment in recent graduates. Computer and information sciences have highest exposure and worst change in emissions; the opposite for philosophy and civil engineering.
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BookwormVaught - Dr Anna Vaught @bookwormvaught.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
If I may? There’s some wonderful work and news here.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
yes, of course yer a writer if you use AI, in the same way a cheese grater creates cheese.
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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
You don't want to miss Issue 15.5 of Carmen et Error, which opens with this gorgeous Rachel Bruce poem, 'The Vampire'. carmenerror.com?page_id=662
The Vampire
by Rachel Bruce

I don’t feel real in my body
but at least I can imagine yours,
your cape and fangs,
your perfect skin and accent.
Halloween escapism,
delicious pretending.
You are nothing like the real creature.
I saw it once on a dark country road,
drinking blood through a straw,
bat-winged, blonde.
In my headlights its eyes
were white.
The next morning it was in my kitchen,
hair wet, drinking tea.
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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Morning all. Well it had to happen, I'm after poems on football 😂 I have Armitage's Goalkeeper with a Cigarette, Diane Ackerman's and Bruce Dawe's Aussie Rules piece. Please suggest some others🙏 #poets #sport #football #poetry #sportsSunday #rugby
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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
8th in the UK poetry charts. 🖊️ 💎 ‘Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot’s The Waste Land’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm... #poetry #writing
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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
We seem to have forgotten that identities and opinions are the least interesting parts of people—ripples on the surface of the ocean of the soul, shimmering but shallow, irrelevant to the depths. An antidote from the brilliant Annie Dillard, who turns 81 today
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Annie Dillard on Unselfconsciousness
Walking through the white-walled gallery at the graduation show of one of New York’s most esteemed art schools, between beautiful young people with Instagram faces, I was struck to see projec…
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
You can find us (next to @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social) at the Free Verse Poetry Book Fair in the basement of St Columbas Church, Pont St, Knightsbridge, London, til 6.30pm
The Longbarrow Press stall
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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I’m reading in Oxford with @oliviamcc.bsky.social on 13 May. Please come along – it’s a free poetry event but you need to sign up: www.ticketsource.com/queens-trans...
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Happy Birthday big Beast & little beast! Thanks Sam Cavender capturing us @ Lyrafest last year. Pascal Petit launching Beast, me releasing little queer Skin the Rabbit & reading Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed, with Fran Lock’s Hyena, corralled by Vanessa Kissuule thebraag.co/product/micr...
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Booked!
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Aha! Fay Musselwhite’s new collection is orderable from tomorrow. 👌 #PoetsOnBlueSky #PoetrySheffield
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
#PoetsOnBlueSky #PoetrySheffield Can you help me out here? I’m trying (ironically) to reach people NOT on socials who miss out on events by making this new central list. And all of us! Jump on & share, would you please? forms.gle/tefPGokrzLyS... + Submit events to list by 12pm 2nd Wed of the month.
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Join What's On list for poetry in Sheffield
An email list where Susie Wilson collates and advertises poetry events in Sheffield, including Poetry Sub Club. Your email will only be used for these purposes and you can come off at any point by ema...
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Live streamed! Yes!
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
on the one hand, this is amazingly cool. on the other, would be nice if we didn’t have to have nuclear accidents to create rewilding / human-free areas… (article is from 2020, more recent one in replies) theconversation.com/the-mystery-...
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The mystery of Chernobyl’s wild horses
Wild horses native to the steppes of Asia live now in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (Ukraine), with an expanding population, 34 years after the nuclear accident.
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Sheaf Poetry @sheafpoetry.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
As part of Sheffield Indie Book Fest, Sheaf Poetry is proud to present a spring reading by three poets: @helenmort.bsky.social, @suzannahevans.bsky.social, and Molly Naylor. Saturday 25 April (6pm-8pm) La Biblioteka, Leah's Yard, Sheffield S1 4HP Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/three-shef...
Sheaf Poetry flyer for event at La Biblioteka, Leah's Yard, Sheffield on Sat 25 April 2026, illustrated with photos of Molly Naylor, Helen Mort and Suzannah Evans
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Oliver Mantell @olivermantell.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
(The Sunday event I mentioned is Speaker’s Corner at Sheffield Indie Book Festival, with an open mic plus featured slots by Fay Musselwhite, Pete Green, SHALdo, Aaron Stephenson, Anzal Omar & Tokoni Olobio). SO much on in one week - it shows how energised poetry is in Sheffield right now…
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Thanks Oliver
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Oliver Mantell @olivermantell.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
There are so many great poetry events on next week, it’s like a mini festival(!). Tues: @longbarrowpress.bsky.social ‘s Habitation Weds: Queer poets (Lasoye, Chicken, Davies) with @concordmoose.bsky.social Thurs: Katherine Towers in a song cycle Sat: Mort, Evans, Naylor Sun: Sheaf @ SIBF and more…
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Me too.
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Gregory @gregorykearns.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
You can find there discussion on Apple Podcasts here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Episode 44: Roma Havers -
Podcast Episode · The Poems We Made Along The Way · 23 March · 58m
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Hugo @hugoandhuman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I don’t mean to brag, but this is a masterclass in #Won’tLookWednesday, don’t you think? 🧡 #SchnauzerGang #DogsofBluesky
Hugo the black and grey miniature schnauzer is sat on some grass side on to the camera. He’s not looking at the camera. He is wearing an orange collar.

Behind him are some trees, backlit by the setting sun. 

The photo was taken 6 days ago in the New Forest.
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
🔥 to have these 3 @ Central Library 22nd April. Come hear poems of radical friendship, aromantic & asexual identity, non-binary re-imagining of queer ancestry, sex, love, queerness & political commitment. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/queer-poet... #nationalyearofreading2026 #queerpoetry #poetry #sheffield
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Queer Poets Reading
Sheffield poets Sarah Lasoye, Eden Chicken and Beth Davies (Sheffield Poet Laureate) in conversation about their work with Susie Wilson
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Tomorrow! 25/3, 6-7.30pm Sheffield Central Library: Poetry Magazine Open Mic - bring a poem you’ve had in a mag OR someone else’s poem in a mag that you’d like to get into. Catch-up & news time. Inclusive, free, just turn up. #poetry #submissions #openmic #poetrysheffield #poetsonbluesky #sheffield
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Dr Ellie Chowns MP @elliechowns.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Britain's waterways are vital resources for our communities, local economies, and wildlife - they must be protected, for people and planet. That means taking a truly joined up approach to pollution, tackling sewage and agricultural pollution alike. #WorldWaterDay
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Yes, absolutely! X
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is what I live with, but melanoma. Far and away the best article I’ve read about living ‘in the long middle’. Please read. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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I have stage four cancer – there will be no cure, but death isn’t necessarily imminent: this is how it feels to live in the long middle
When you are cured, the world cheers; when you are dying, it mourns. But when you are simply maintaining, the world is at a loss
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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 21/03/2026
Happy World Poetry Day 🌍 To celebrate, we're giving away FREE access to our digital archive of The Poetry Review, so everyone can read some of the finest in modern poetry from round the globe. Until noon (GMT) on Thursday 26th March, you can access the archive at the link in our bio.
A blue square with text along the top reading 'Happy World Poetry Day! 21st March 2026'. Beneath the text is a white star with lots of points, surrounded by a circle of yellow dashes. In the middle of this is a photo of a hand holding up a microphone. Along the bottom of the square is text which reads 'Celebrating the power of poetry to transform, connect, and inspire'.A dark purple square with an extract from a poem in white text. The extract reads: i think just now you must be walking perhaps down chapel turning briefly right perhaps on crown   sharpening when the song you love spills generous from a passing car unspools into the night you might be walking now. Beneath the text is an illustration of a series of musical notes. The text at the bottom of the image reads 'from 'Night' by Safia Elhillo, The Poetry Review, Autumn 2018.A green square with the following poem in black text: 'An empress tree grew in Yukyang, enduring years of frigid shade. Fortunately, it met a master craftsman who cut it for a black harp. When the harp was played, few understood the songs. Finally, the old music wisped away in smoke.' In the bottom right hand corner is a drawing of a harp in a tree. Next to this is text which reads ‘Remnants, Part I’ by Nansŏrhŏn, translated by Ian Haight and T’ae-yong Hŏ, The Poetry Review, Autumn 2017'.A read square with white text along the top reading 'from ‘[’You’re still alive. You’re the very bottom...’]’ by Vasyl Stus translated by Alan Zhukovski'. Beneath this is an extract from the poem: Your soul’s about to rush away - a horse who tore his tether. Please tell me: are you still alive? Oh, really? Another flash of fire? The view around has gotten clearer, so much clearer now. You’re dazzled by the light. Beneath this is a simple illustration of a horse leaping, followed by the text 'The Poetry Review, Winter 2022'.
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Drum roll…if you couldn’t make it to River Clown/Energy Fields here’s the opening silent clown + drums responding to the Don, subtitled. Knock yourselves out (I nearly did). THANK U lovely audience. Public as no text in this bit #clown #poetry #music #sheffield #river m.youtube.com/watch?v=uHou...
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RIVER CLOWN / ENERGY FIELDS - Part 1 River Clown Clothes Tease (silent)
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Thank you!
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Ok folks, this is very much now happening on Sunday night. Free to view online (including immersive exhibition and audio description) and at Site Gallery, Sheffield: #poetsonbluesky #poetry #clown #rivers dandelion.events/e/riverclown...
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River Clown / Energy Fields
Sun 15th Mar 2026, 6:30pm – 8:30pm GMT (UTC +00:00)
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Get in. Made it to 50. Apex.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
This deeply deranged pamphlet has been living rent-free in the heads of most of my friend group for over a year now. Let it infect your minds too.
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Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Anyone want to come explore, draw, sing & maybe dance with us at this #DYCP poetry scratch share next Sun? From a year writing with the Don & Spey rivers. Part show, part critique, part party! Online & Sheffield. Audio description & disabled access. #PoetsOnBlueSky dandelion.events/e/riverclown...
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River Clown / Energy Fields
Sun 15th Mar 2026, 6:30pm – 8:30pm GMT (UTC +00:00)
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Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Looking forward to celebrating International Women's Day with the women who collaborated with @gillcresearch.bsky.social Safety in Numbers anthology tonight... poem chains in response to other women's poems. Glorious. Happy Women's Day everyone.
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Mark Goodwin @poet-markgoodwin.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
. 'Else' is the only word I can come UP with to re -PLACE Newton's word 'gravity'. #phenomenology #weight #poetics from Five Fold's Load, published by Stride Magazine blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2...
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Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Would thoroughly recommend getting yourself these wonderful watery collections from Longbarrow!
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