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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Didn’t expect my reading to give me a #BookSpine #Poem this morning! 🤣

A stack of books whose spines make this poem:

THE PREDICAMENT /
How To Do Nothing /
Things Hidden/
Overconnected/
Germs/
Hiding In Plain Sight/
A Paradise Built in Hell/
I Know You Are Lying

And in the far background the titles of Rebecca Solnit’s ‘Orwell’s Roses’ & Isaac Babel’s ‘Complete stories’ & Pat Barkers ‘Silence of the Girls’ hover.

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Time to repost this classic cartoon. #FakeNews

A black & white hand drawn cartoon by M Stevens titled ‘Fake News’ with a man watching sunshine on the TV while, out the window, to his right, it is snowing .

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I keep ahold of this ancient t-shirt because it makes me laugh so hard and feels so true: ‘In her spare time, Mrs Bomblatt writes #poetry and #reads it to her friends. I love Mrs Bomblatt so much! #poetrycommunity #visualjournal #writeon

A black and white image of a woman in a kitchen with a headscarf sitting on a chair reading aloud to her mixer, toaster and kettle and vacuum cleaner worth he kitchen curtains open and the shrubbery all listening to her. The text reads: ‘In her spare time, Mrs Bomblatt writes poetry and reads it to her friends.’

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Thought for the day: ‘Hope above all is a faith in our capacity to act together to make change. To do this we need to be bold.’ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

A white card with the words: ‘Hope above all is a faith in our capacity to act together to make change. To do this we need to be bold.’ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Hugs & #Hope & little #NYC Vision to #poets, #writers #artists & #journalists who are busy imagining a better world. #StreetArt

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Thanking #JamesBaldwin for all his wisdom & the gift of the insights of his writing & civil rights work #IndependenceDay #July42025 #250th

Journal page with Red, White and Blue around the quotation: “And Love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and, furthermore, to win.’ —James Baldwin

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Took this photo out the #MTA train into Grand Central #NYC & loving the play of shadow winged moment on a flowered world & concrete #TravellingWithDevices

A young man walks in front of mural, a world made of brilliantly coloured flowers, or a flower face, just past another mural of a young child’s face bowed in prayer and contemplation, as a pigeon flies towards him, leaving its shadow on the flower world wall right as the boy’s two legs, beneath the photo frozen pigeon wings, turn into the bird’s wing shadows.

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Always grateful for a comic’s universal perspective!

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Thinking of #JosephBrodsky & all his writing & joy in work & #poetry and his family, on his birthday. #Gratitude to #TheCormorant & @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social for choosing to publish my #poem ‘May 24, 2020’

MAY 24, 2020 by Evalyn Lee

for Joseph Brodsky

catkins are dying in a dry and white light a flux of birdsong flexes blossoms bends the wind into a pandemonium of parakeets too drunk to eat even one more translucent petal petals like skin your skin the skin I have repented especially the flexible blooms of our hands behind my head as you say you are dying trace the thick blue scar up behind your knee until it crosses your heart you cried after the heart surgery the doctor held the blossom cascade of your fingers bent but not broken you judged me shallow I am still shallow maybe less slippery certainly fatter but quick before the doves arrive to feast on the final blooms under this bright May sky clouds like the white pillows
I move out of the way let me touch paper petal your skin thank you and say sorry for the nitty-gritty you are dying I believe you I want kids in the garden blossoms flex in birdsong releasing a confusion of pollen

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Happy Happy 80th Birthday @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social absolutely loved seeing you at the Rose theatre & hearing you answer the question why did you become a writer—all because of your brother and ‘the invisible line you cannot cross.’

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Today’s #writing #advice from my notebook: ‘The story asks questions, it doesn’t answer them.’ Sometimes I think this is why people get tangled up in news cycles, where there is always the hope of a definitive answer.

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

more wonderful readers & writers attending @londonistoryprize.bsky.social on April 24 2026: #AnVu & #TVBrown

a line drawing of @londonistoryprize.bsky.social finalist reader An Vu on April 24 2026

a line drawing of @londonistoryprize.bsky.social finalist reader TV Brown on April 24 2026

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

@londonistoryprize.bsky.social Is such a supportive community group, run by #OzgeGoztuk. Do think about #submitting #film, #poetry, #flash, #shortstories www.londonindependentstoryprize.co.uk/services-5

Line drawing of Ozge Goztuk, Director of the London Independent Story Prize

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Really wonderful time & so great to read as a #poetryfinalist at the launch of @londonistoryprize.bsky.social this week! Congrats to the winners: #SettitBeyene for #flash & #DervilleMurphy for her #shortstory

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Nothing like the joy of seeing—face to face—an artist’s work, that you’ve loved since you copied it out from a book as a kid. #Raphael #SaintJohn & #SaintPeter #MetropolitanMuseum

head and hands is two apostles, Saints John and Peter ca 1519-20 by Raphael

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Joyous #NoKingsDay in #NYC & some of my favourite signs:

A woman wearing heart dark glasses holds a sign that reads: Healthcare not Warfare

A sign held up by a hand reads: Let’s stand together and fix this shit

A sign held by a man’s leg reads ‘we the people’

A sign reads in blue and red letters: Vote!!!!

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

My copy has just arrived!! Cannot wait to dive in! So exciting! Bravo!!!!

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

#London Angel, Islington ‘Please Help Me God Bless You’

A young man sits in north London under a tan sheet or light blanket in a green hoodie with a paper cup with a sign that reads ‘please help me God bless you’ beside a wall covered in graffiti next to the image of a dark head with two blank eyes and arm upstretched with its left hand almost claw-like, both are deep in water, either drowning or waving

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Notice from #ThamesWater for anyone waking up to #flooding or no #water in #London postcodes - WIH, W4, W6, W8, W11, W12, W13 and W14

London - WIH, W4, W6, W8, W11, W12, W13 and
W14
No water Low pressure
Last updated: 21/01 04:00
Overview - 03:55 21/01/2026
Sorry if your tap water is not flowing right now. We are aware of a burst water pipe by Holland Park roundabout, W11.
Our team are on site and are working hard to stop flooding in the area. We are working with the fire services and police to keep everyone safe. Traffic controls are also in place to protect the public.
While this work is carried out, customers in the following postcodes may have low water pressure or no water:
W1H, W4, W6, W8, W11, W12, W13 and W14
If you've been directly affected by flooding, please call us on 0800 316 9800 so we can offer you further support.
We know how disruptive it is if you lose your

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

#Gratitude to @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social for her poetry and wisdom: “Poets are still routinely dismissed as having their heads in the clouds, but I think it takes real power to withstand everyday stresses and big life challenges AND still sit down and still write from the heart.” #poetrycommunity

An image of a quote by the poet Jenny Mitchell surrounded by lit small electric lights reads: “Poets are still routinely dismissed as having their heads in the clouds, but I think it takes real power to withstand everyday stresses and big life challenges AND still sit down and still write from the heart.”

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

“It All Starts Here” #WriteOn #PoetryCommunity Wishing love, joy & community to all #poets, #writers, #journalists, #artists #visualjournalists & #readers for this year and the decades ahead.

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

May the #NewYear be as mysterious, strange, vivid and poignant & as moving as this fragment of a torn up note, written by an unknown writer to an unknown recipient, that I found, wet, out in my garden.

May your #NewYear be as mysterious, strange, vivid and poignant & as moving as this fragment of a torn up note, written by an unknown writer to an unknown recipient that I found, wet, and glowing, in my garden. The text in blue running ink letters reads “it because there is …-nt to me … one and think …put on this page … than you … for this opportunity…I am… I also thanks … and when nobody …truly sorry for …”

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

May your Christmas be Merry & Bright!

Embroidered line of coloured Christmas Lights with the words Merry & Bright

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Sometimes two words, chalked on a painted wall, can say it all.

In pink chalk, on a painted green wall, the word ‘ICE,’ drawn with a circle and diagonal cross-line through it, and below it, the word ‘No’ with an exclamation point.

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Ha! Your book just arrived! Will read that chapter first!

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

So happy to have my #poem ‘How Poetry Works’ included in @thebrokenspine.co.uk anthology #RitesAndTrials “A collection of coming-of-age poems stitched with class, becoming, longing, & defiance.”

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Saw this on a wall in Lisbon & just hoping you have a peaceful & restful day. Don’t worry about the ‘unpacking’ just focus on the floating & letting go!

A mosaic image from Lisbon, of a pair of male hands & arms which are tattooed/merging with veins, rivulets of delft blue into the white water of a river on which a sailboat, with a single sailor, floats calmly in the palm of the hands.

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

So happy to have my #poem ‘To Put the Words In Place’ shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social & many many congratulations to the commended & winning #poets & #writers.

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

A #Stitching friend has this #badge on her bag & I haven’t laughed so hard in ages! #NoThoughts #OnlyPotato

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

#Love & #Gratitude to @richardnskinner.bsky.social #poet & #editor of #14Magazine for including my poem ‘I Didn’t Think You Meant It’ in series 2, Issue 6

A picture of Vanguard Edition magazine on a shelf with sea shells and dawn light

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Love like a Poet! Happy National Poetry Day!

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

And just a huge wave of love & appreciation to the amazing #poet & #editor Jane Commane of @ninearchespress.bsky.social on #NationalPoetryDay

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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

And on #NationalPoetryDay I just want to share the amazing #poetry & work and teaching of @richardnskinner.bsky.social

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