Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A piece of carpet, released back into the wild and living its best life #rewilding 020
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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I'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.ukthehenmagazine.co.ukThe HenA magazine of poetry. 034
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Get 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 023
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026UK 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.ukPetition: Protect creators' rights: require AI firms to disclose training dataWe 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... 046
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Wendell Berry www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...theguardian.comWendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92Author and Kentucky native, who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial society, died at home 120
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Silver 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 052
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1goodlawproject.orgJason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law ProjectCommission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death. 020
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Cwtch 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 020
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Come to Berkeley Square Poetry Revue on Tuesday 28th July for poetry, music and general conviviality, 7.30pm for 8. #Bristol #poetry 034
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Britain’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.ukAsk your MP to support electoral reformIt only takes 30 seconds 000
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 23/06/2026June’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. 041
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 15/04/2026April’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. 033
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 28/03/2026An 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 ... 094
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 21/03/2026On 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?... 062
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Equidies. We made it. #sunrise #equinox #bristol 061
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 17/03/2026I 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 1132
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Thrilled 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 022
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 06/03/2026On 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 032
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Fantastic 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. 152
Reposted by Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 14/02/2026Don’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 :)bridportprize.org.ukNever Too Late 60+ award - Bridport PrizeThis £500 award is for the highest placed writer aged 60+ across poetry, short story, novel or flash fiction. 010575
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 11/02/2026February’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. 011
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Local goat, possibly wishing it would stop raining #bristol 091
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 23/01/2026It'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. 0113
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Pulitzer 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...facebook.comBPI Annual Reading: Natalie DiazEvent in Bristol, United Kingdom by Bristol Poetry Institute on Tuesday, February 17 2026 020
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 11/01/2026I 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?...youtu.bePatti Smith on the ‘sacred wounds’ of griefYouTube video by CNN 021
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE in Minneapolis, was a #poet. Rest in power, Renee. lithub.com/renee-nicole...lithub.comRenee 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… 170
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Securing 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.comWhat happened next: how a shocking rape and murder case was solved – 58 years laterIn 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... 060
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Sun and mist in December woods #Bristol 0122
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025What a tender, life-affirming experience. Thank you, Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley ❤️ Can't recommend enough x 040
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 17/11/2025November'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! 010
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Thrilled 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...youtube.comSTREET - geo located poetry of the streetYouTube video by Ralph Hoyte 074
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Night after night of ultra-loud fireworks. This is my poor collie, Cwtch, hiding in an old airing cupboard. #fireworks #dogsofbluesky 391
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Autism, ADHD and me deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2025/11/auti... #Autism #ADHD #AuDHD #neurodivergence #poetry 051
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Dragon's breath on the fields and down the lanes #Winterbourne #Bristol #autumn 141
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 22/10/2025Remembering Andi Langford-Woods #poetry #bristol #transrightsarehumanrights deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2025/10/reme... 060
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 20/10/2025Big 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...youtube.comThe Beatles - When I'm Sixty Four (Official Video)YouTube video by TheFreddyShow 380
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 20/10/2025We 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.ukWomen in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name 173
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 18/10/2025Well, at least it's quite autumnal looking ... #bristol #love 020
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Join 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! 032
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 11/10/2025The evenings are drawing in #autumn #seasonalaffectivedisorder 050
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Happy UK Fungus Day! Tentative IDs (clockwise): Beefsteak fungus, Black Bulgar, Earth Star, Dryad's Saddle, Amethyst Deceiver (I think), Turkey Tail #ukfungusday #fungi 084
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Delighted to have some poems in this initiative organised by Ralph Hoyte and Bristol Libraries. Happy #NationalPoetryDay X 034
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Can't eat - or even contemplate - an orange without thinking of this poem by Brian Patten. RIP. 🍊💔 🍊 2356
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 22/09/2025'Well, hello, Mistress Squizzle with an acorn in yer gob' 050
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Well done, Bristol, and especially Bristol City Museum, this is the way to do it www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...bristol247.comBristol Museum returns ‘deeply significant’ cultural objectsThe amazing collection of artefacts was donated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries 030
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Cwtch 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? 040