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Andy Breckenridge @drbafc.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Deftly handled business in the boardroom once again. Why was Graham pissed off with the process? Another offer? Pls share the power point!😂

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Robin Houghton @robinhoughton.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

I'm delighted that Sharon Black at Pindrop Press nominated 'The Mayday Diaries' for the Forward Prize Best First Collection. Up against a zillion others of course, but one can live in hope! robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/the-mayday-d...

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The Mayday Diaries

It starts with an all-consuming job and its associated terrors. But from a life teetering on collapse and the aftermath of grief, anger and illness comes reflection, redemption and the joy of every…

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Andy Breckenridge @drbafc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Seasonal one from The Fish Inside from the fabulous Flight of the Dragonfly press.

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Andy Breckenridge @drbafc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Cheers - really enjoyed this. ‘Our lives happen between the memorable.’

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Andy Breckenridge @drbafc.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Poetry classes on Zoom with poet and teacher, Donny O’Rourke recommence on the 9th of April. Prompts, feedback from a hugely knowledgeable and supportive tutor and group. Contact Donny on this email if you want more info: donny.orourke@btinternet.com .

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Andy Breckenridge @drbafc.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Poem a day late for St Patrick’s Day with apologies to Wim Wenders for the title.

The Keeper’s Fear Of Taking A Goal Kick

I met Patrick for the first time in decades by chance.

He was already two pints in and we got talking
family, folk from school, jobs, mortgages, debt …

Much later, he said sometimes his gut felt
like a bucket crammed with eels
but at other times like a creel
full of lobsters and spider crabs.

But the worst was the night
he felt power cables
pulled taut till they snapped
and whiplashed like headless snakes
spitting streams of sparks
against the dense cloud
until the pylon of him staggered and fell
lay twitching on the ground.

As he was telling me all this I remembered him
the school genius, in his yellow keeper’s jersey
taking an entire minute to line up a goal kick.
Edging one way then the other
instead of just running up
putting his laces through it.

I ordered him an Uber.

The next day I skimmed a stone for him.
The loch was slick still.

The stone leapt several times, then slid along
before it leant in
under the skin.

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Andy Breckenridge @drbafc.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Excellent point of departure. Cheers for sharing.

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𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iamb.uk · 15/03/2025

Crocuses yawn, sparrows nest, daffodils trumpet the sun. Spring has returned. With her, she brings a basket of 45 poems – some delicate, some fierce, all of them rich in colour. Sit where you're comfortable, and reach in, to wave twenty-one of @iambapoet.com. #newpoetry iambapoet.com/wave/21

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poets | wave 21 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard

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Pete Strong @petestrongpoet.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

My pamphlet Greenfinch is available from Flight of the Dragonfly: flight-of-the-dragonfly.sumupstore.com/product/gree... “assured and poignant…fizzes with energy” John McCullough “deadpan, surreal, wryly comic, tender and mournful - often in the same poem” Andy Breckenridge

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Greenfinch - Pete Strong

Greenfinch - Pete Strong - pamphlet

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Andy Breckenridge @drbafc.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Belter - read this in Rialto today. Great job.

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Andy Breckenridge @drbafc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Happy Valentine’s Day evribdy. Poem from a while back…

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Andy Breckenridge @drbafc.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Superb poem Stuart. Compressed time plus the ending. 👏

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