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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶

@deborahharvey.bsky.social
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Poet. Bristolian. 6th collection, 'Love the Albatross', from Indigo Dreams Publishing. Neurodishevelled. She/her indigodreamspublishing.com/deborah-…

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A piece of carpet, released back into the wild and living its best life #rewilding
A piece of brown and green carpet lying over a root and partially covered with soil, fallen leaves, ivy and sweet chestnut cases
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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Subs are open folks! www.andotherpoems.com (Image by Marvin van Beek on Unsplash)
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm delighted to have contributed a poem to new Bristol-based poetry magazine 'The Hen', and to have read it at the launch on Monday. Thanks to Marie-Louise Eyres and Nicola Heaney for including me. #poetry #Bristol The Hen also has a website where you can read the poems: thehenmagazine.co.uk
thehenmagazine.co.uk
The Hen
A magazine of poetry.
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Get your steps in at September's Silver Street Poetry when our guest poets will be keen walkers and poets of landscape, @jmatkin.bsky.social and @richardnskinner.bsky.social. See you at 12.30pm on Friday 25th in St Stephen's Church off #Bristol city centre. Bring a poem to share! #poetry #openmic
Two separate photos of poets Jean Atkin (left) and Richard Skinner (right), both with moorland backgrounds
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
UK poets, writers, artists, illustrators, etc, please sign & share this petition to require AI firms to disclose training data in enough detail for creators to identify if their work was used, enforce rights, negotiate licenses, & secure fair pay #poetry petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training data
We ask the Government to introduce a statutory duty requiring AI developers to disclose the copyrighted works used to train generative AI in enough detail for creators to identify use of their work, e...
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Wendell Berry www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92
Author and Kentucky native, who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial society, died at home
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Silver Street Poetry's guest poet on Friday 28th August is Jeremy Toombs, who comes to us from Kentucky via Alaska and Korea. 12.30pm in St Stephen's Church off #Bristol city centre. Bring a poem to share! #poetry #openmic
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Cwtch says 'don't stare at the sun too long, it'll think you're creepy' *She'd also like you to know she won't be watching the eclipse herself, not in 32°C heat and a fur coat #eclipse #solareclipse
A small tri border collie sporting solar eclipse glasses
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Come to Berkeley Square Poetry Revue on Tuesday 28th July for poetry, music and general conviviality, 7.30pm for 8. #Bristol #poetry
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Britain’s politics has changed, but our voting system hasn’t. I’m asking my MP to support an independent National Commission on Electoral Reform so we can build a voting system fit for modern Britain. Join me. action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/194914/...
action.electoral-reform.org.uk
Ask your MP to support electoral reform
It only takes 30 seconds
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
June’s Silver Street #Poetry is on Friday 26th, with Dominic Fisher @domfishpoet.bsky.social reading. Event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue: St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Open mic slots on a first come, first served basis.
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
April’s Silver Street #Poetry is on Friday 24th, with Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social reading. Event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue: St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Open mic slots on a first come, first served basis.
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
An oasis in the desert that is currently the North #Bristol #poetry scene. Bring a poem of your own to read ... and one by someone else (time permitting). Or just come to listen and patronise the bar ...
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
On this #WorldPoetryDay, I’m delighted to commend the resurrected #poetry journal ‘Outposts’. It’s a real honour to have three poems in this first issue, rubbing shoulders with work by so many of my poetry heroes. For details on how to submit and subscribe: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
The first issue of the resurrected poetry journal, Outposts - with a monochrome retro cover - lies on a blue linen runner.
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Equidies. We made it. #sunrise #equinox #bristol
An orange sunrise has coloured in the sky in a scribbly sort of way
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I struggle to feel a sense of achievement, but today I’ve had news that's put all of spring – bluebells, chiffchaffs, the lot – in my step: that Peter Roe & Izzy Robertson of Jawbone Journal have nominated my poem, A brief feather confession, for a Forward Prize. Many thanks to them both #poetry
A green woodpecker feather against the forest floor
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Thrilled to be reading at the launch of @domfishpoet.bsky.social's pamphlet 'Migrations', along with Matthew Barton and Emily Reynolds this Saturday, 2pm, Inn on the Green. Second pub on the right past the daffodils, if you're coming up from town #Bristol #poetry
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
On Tuesday 24th March at 8pm, I'll be guest-poetting with Dominic Fisher and Martin Rieser at the Berkeley Square Poetry Revue, Cellar Bar, Berkeley Square Hotel, Clifton, BS8 1HB. Music by Guy Calhoun. Tickets £5. If you're in Bristol, do come along. #poetry #bristol
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Fantastic reading by Natalie Diaz for the @bristolpoetry.bsky.social last night. It’s rare for my attention to be corralled and focused for five minutes, let alone over an hour, but these poems managed it. I made my way home in that holy space that is the aftermath of a great poetry experience.
Natalie Diaz reading on a dark stage beneath a projected banner with a photo of herself
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 14/02/2026
Don’t forget the Never Too Late Award from the Bridport Prize which recognises entries from writers over 60 across all categories of prizes. Link below Please share :)
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Never Too Late 60+ award - Bridport Prize
This £500 award is for the highest placed writer aged 60+ across poetry, short story, novel or flash fiction.
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
February’s Silver Street #Poetry is on Friday 27th, with Welsh poetry legend Peter Gruffydd reading. Event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue: St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Open mic slots on a first come, first served basis.
Photo is head and shoulders portrait of Welsh poet, Peter Gruffydd
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Local goat, possibly wishing it would stop raining #bristol
A white goat stands in the middle of a ruined ring of heavy anti-aircraft batteries dating from World War II and now covered in graffiti. The surrounding grass is puddled with rain and there are bare trees behind against a grey sky.
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
It's January in the UK and I spotted all of these ladybirds on a stretch of wall today at Snuff Mills in Bristol. Tell me again how #climatechange is a hoax.
A collaged of thirty-five ladybirds, all spotted on a stretch of stone wall in Bristol, UK on a January afternoon. Also visible, areas of moss, an ivy leaf and a few other small, aphid-type insects.
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Pulitzer prize-winning poet, Natalie Diaz, will be reading at the Wills Memorial Building, Bristol, at 6.30pm on Tuesday 17th February. Entry: free. An important poet to hear at any time, but especially now. #poetry #bristol www.facebook.com/events/12187...
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BPI Annual Reading: Natalie Diaz
Event in Bristol, United Kingdom by Bristol Poetry Institute on Tuesday, February 17 2026
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
I kept having to rewind this because I was getting distracted by the thoughts it provoked, but it’s absolutely life- and death-affirming and will repay the (probably rather shorter) time it might take you to listen. Patti Smith, hero. And what a great series of podcasts. youtu.be/JmEaX5NlSV0?...
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Patti Smith on the ‘sacred wounds’ of grief
YouTube video by CNN
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE in Minneapolis, was a #poet. Rest in power, Renee. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Securing justice for her grandmother, Louisa, has been transformative for my friend, Mary. Cold cases should never be closed. Murderers should never be able to think they're off the hook.
theguardian.com
What happened next: how a shocking rape and murder case was solved – 58 years later
In Portishead, a dusty box of forgotten files led Jo Smith and her team to a criminal who had escaped justice for more than half a century. This was the longest-running cold case to be solved in the U...
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Sun and mist in December woods #Bristol
Mist rising from a brook, with shafts of sunlight bursting through the last of the autumn leaves
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
What a tender, life-affirming experience. Thank you, Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley ❤️ Can't recommend enough x
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
November's Silver Street #Poetry is on Friday 28th, when our guests will be @chaucercameron.bsky.social & @helendewbery.bsky.social Event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue: St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Wrap up warm & bring a (not epic) poem to share!
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME GO THERE
A border collie with a worried look on her face sits at the entrance to a footpath close to an old milestone with the legend 'To Bath 9 1/4' inscribed on it
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Thrilled to have some poems in the Street! initiative organised by Ralph Hoyte & @bristollibraries.bsky.social. Here's how to access them; plus, at 1.30, a snatch of my poem about my great-great grandmother who lived on Christmas Steps in 1880s #Bristol #poetry www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8oo...
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STREET - geo located poetry of the street
YouTube video by Ralph Hoyte
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Night after night of ultra-loud fireworks. This is my poor collie, Cwtch, hiding in an old airing cupboard. #fireworks #dogsofbluesky
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Autism, ADHD and me deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2025/11/auti... #Autism #ADHD #AuDHD #neurodivergence #poetry
A woman with brown hair, wearing sunglasses, is smiling into the camera. She has a leafy branch caught in her hair and a smudge of green face paint on the end of her nose.
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Dragon's breath on the fields and down the lanes #Winterbourne #Bristol #autumn
A small border collie stands in a lane leaved with autumn foliage; in the adjacent fields misty sunlight
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Remembering Andi Langford-Woods #poetry #bristol #transrightsarehumanrights deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2025/10/reme...
Text of poem written about poet Andi Langford-Woods' funeral and read at her memorial in Bristol
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Big birthdays aren't the ones with a 0 in them, they're the ones when Paul McCartney writes you a song. I've been waiting for today since I was five. Reckon I'm coming into my own now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUDR...
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The Beatles - When I'm Sixty Four (Official Video)
YouTube video by TheFreddyShow
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
notinourname.org.uk
Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Well, at least it's quite autumnal looking ... #bristol #love
A man in a black coat and a border collie are walking through a wood, away from the viewer, having passed a truncated oak with the words Fuck Love sprayed on it in orange paint
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Join us at Silver Street #Poetry & #OpenMic on Friday 31st October, when our guest poet will be David Goldstein. Our event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, with entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue is St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Wrap up warm & be sure to bring a (not epic) poem to share!
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
The evenings are drawing in #autumn #seasonalaffectivedisorder
Sunset by a railway siding, a light taking the place of the moon
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Happy UK Fungus Day! Tentative IDs (clockwise): Beefsteak fungus, Black Bulgar, Earth Star, Dryad's Saddle, Amethyst Deceiver (I think), Turkey Tail #ukfungusday #fungi
Collage of colourful fungi found in UK
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Delighted to have some poems in this initiative organised by Ralph Hoyte and Bristol Libraries. Happy #NationalPoetryDay X
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Can't eat - or even contemplate - an orange without thinking of this poem by Brian Patten. RIP. 🍊💔 🍊
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
'Well, hello, Mistress Squizzle with an acorn in yer gob'
In the branches of a tree, a grey squirrel with wide eyes and an acorn in its mouth looks straight down the lens of the camera
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Before the thunderstorm #bristol
Dawn, in a welter of colour, above a horizon of trees and distant hills
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Well done, Bristol, and especially Bristol City Museum, this is the way to do it www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...
bristol247.com
Bristol Museum returns ‘deeply significant’ cultural objects
The amazing collection of artefacts was donated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Cwtch the Collie (the best girl there ever was) says Happy International Dog Day 2025 and why not give @niallharbison.bsky.social of Happy Doggo a follow?
A small tri border collie, with possibly a bit of terrier in there somewhere, is sitting on fallen leaves. She's wearing a turquoise harness and looks every inch the very very good girl that she is.
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