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Green Ink Poetry @greeninkpress.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Our Winter Solstice edition is available digitally on our website now! Some stunning work from Green Ink regulars as well as incredible new poets! www.greeninkpoetry.co.uk/poetry-colle...

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The Winter Solstice 2024 — Green Ink Poetry

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Middletown Books @middletownbooks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today's #GNU Sir Terry Pratchett #Discworld #PratchettQOTD comes from the novel #Mort

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Hedgehog Poetry Press @hedgehogpress.co.uk · 05/12/2024

PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN: “Thoughts on Life” – Fiona Halliday Well, it is top excitement in Hogland, as we can announce that the rather awesome debut collection, planned for January from @FionaHalliday is NOW AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER Yay!

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PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN: “Thoughts on Life” – Fiona Halliday

Ah, now I have to say that this collection is a total joy, and I am more than verily chuffed to say that Pre-orders are NOW OPEN! Fiona’s collection is to be officially released on the 14th o…

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Poetry By Heart @poetrybyheart.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If you came to last night's excellent Reading for Pleasure #poetry Newsletter Live! and have more questions about #PoetryByHeart or missed it & want to know more, we're on zoom 4pm today Thursday ready to chat. Meet other teachers too and get their tips #EduSky us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Matt Guntrip @matt-guntrip-music.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Thanks to @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for including my poem ‘Landing’ in this wonderful poetry collection ‘Reels Cinematic Poetry’. Thanks so much to @alanparry83.bsky.social for the encouragement, support and these opportunities to learn, develop & contribute. #writingcommunity #writercommunity

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

9 years ago, no prize money, but my poem on a bus in Guernsey. My cousin lives in Guernsey and read my poem for me at the Poems on the Move prize ceremony. My grandad was once a bus conductor who read poetry to his kids. If I peaked with this so be it. 🥰

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Green Ink Poetry @greeninkpress.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Our final submission window for 2024 closes in 3 days! Our first annual Winter Solstice edition combines retrospective with brand new poetry - all the guidelines are on our website!

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Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

So I am thinking this is the little poem I want to give you today. Hope you like it. #poetry.

London Weekend

This city makes me greedy;
greedy to be thirty-five again
and well established
in its Barbican.
I walk and my senses prickle,
I want to consume it - all of it,
want to be everyone’s lover;
even the roar of traffic is a song -

until I see him: bags bunched
into a makeshift nest,
blanket pulled against the cold,
head dropped on chest,
hands clutching, even in sleep,
their cardboard message.

I drop the price of a hot drink
in his empty lap, draw close my coat
against the sudden chill.

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Helen Ivory 🪠🐈‍⬛ @helenivory.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thank you @burnedthumb.bsky.social for this absolutely stunning review of Constructing a Witch. My goodness! #constructingawitch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

obsessed with whomstever made a chunk of local footpath whiff delicate with guerilla mosaic

A rectangular piece of broken china - a blue old-fashioned rose on white, with leaves just as blue. It's embedded in grey stony concrete.

A broken chunk of china - a rhombus with a curved long side, probably the edge of a saucer. It has a blue outer band, and delicate blue and gold botanical stem & flower pattern dancing like old fountain penmanship. It's embedded in stony grey concrete.

A piece of colourful china, not quite oblong, with green leaves, and red-pink and blue-yellow peonies. It's embedded in stony grey concrete with gold lichen, the edges of solid blue china shards similarly embedded just seen to either side.

A section of broken white china with slightly wiggly edges. It has a delicate greyish pattern, slightly deco - central lines crossed over a circle, a scrollish border in a stylised flower shape. It's embedded in grey stony concrete, the edges of similar shards just seen around it.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 4 #BookSky 💙📚 #Books #BookChallenge #20daybookchallenge

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Jean Atkin @jmatkin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I'm adding to the chorus of poets grateful for Jack Caradoc's work with @dreich.bsky.social over the years, and proud to be in the final issues, alongside so many poets I've admired all this time. Thank you Jack!

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Green Ink Poetry @greeninkpress.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Issue 2 from our incredible friends @librelit.bsky.social will go live soon! An incredible mag, check them out! #poetry

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

A recent photo of the river Exe and some trees in the mist. Sorry, I apologise for posting Exe/tree/mist views on Bluesky.

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

15 intrepid souls are embarking on a 2-hr workshop this Wednesday focused on writing plans for the next 12 months - focusing on goals and what needs to be done to get there. FOCUSED! Join us - we don't mind a few more bookings. £25 pp. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-get...

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"Thin" from 'Consolamentum' (@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social) by @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social. A collection which I had the joy of previewing & providing a testimony for. Beautiful elegiac poems exploring a breathtaking historical landscape against the tenor of humanity 🔥 #books #poetrycommunity

'Consolamentum' by James McConachie. Published by Black Bough Poetry.

"Thin" from 'Consolamentum' by James McConachie. Published by Black Bough Poetry.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 19/11/2024

A place for every Storm ⚡️ The Horse who Died in Thomas Street is a poem by Séamus ua Trodd featured in The Storms issue 4. Minutes after leaving Thomas street last Sunday, I found quite a few horses, all still alive & kicking, inhaling the Guinness air eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...

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Marjorie Moorhead @skybluepoems.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I once landed in workshop w/ Sophie Cabot Black, who’d quote Stanley Kunitz, saying the line must read as a cohesive thought, standing on its own. I guess that is always in my mind at editing stage. Not saying we need to follow rules or advice every time tho. Thanks! I like craft discussions :)

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Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I have a poem up on the wonderful Ink Sweat and Tears today. Massive thanks to editor Helen Ivory for selecting it. inksweatandtears.co.uk/julia-webb-3/

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Julia Webb | Ink Sweat and Tears

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 19/11/2024

The Saturday from 5pm, on most podcast platforms, the #poetry #podcast Eat the Storms is playing host to a luscious league of poets including @moraganderson.bsky.social @scyflynn.bsky.social & Koss sharing work from new or recent collections On Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Podbean & more

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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Here in Aotearoa it's Trans Day Of Remembrance. Every year, we light the candle Cate was gifted in Thailand, pour love & memory into the flicker & smoke, let it reach the dead. And we cry. This year, in the current shadow, more than ever. Friends, how we love you. Stay with us, any way you can.

A candle with three wicks, all alight. Its edge, picked opaque with light, is a green wax leaf with distinct veins, as if the whole is wrapped in foliage. The centre with the wicks is pale orange. To the right of the candle is laid a deep red rose. Strong shadows lend this picture solemnity and quiet.

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Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Delighted to have one of my favourite poems - Red Earth Returning - in Last Light: Apocalypse Poetry. An eclectic, beautiful and brilliant collection Huge thanks to @brokenspinearts.bsky.social and @alanparry83.bsky.social amzn.eu/d/1VYg5Qc #Slimlines #poetry #apocalypsepoetry #brokenspine

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audrey g. @audgee122.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I should probably share my #poetry collection on here, even if it was written under a name now on life support. The majority of these were written on the doorstep of starting a medical transition bookshop.org/p/books/poem...

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Poems on a Conditional Form a book by Blake Gibson

A collection of 21 poems ranging on race, gender, family, music, culture, and tenuous understandings of astrology.

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Wheelofchange (Tara) @wheelofchange.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I have been working on a long poem called "rag doll" for "songs of earth (take two)" to appear in 2025. This is a snippet of it. Enjoy ... youtu.be/fuf_yp2FISk?...

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Snippet from "rag doll"

YouTube video by Tara “Ghost in the Machine” Vanhonacker

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Peter Lilly Poetry @plpoetry.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Introducing my 2nd poetry collection "A Handful of Prayers", and reading the poem "Fallow 2". You can pick up a copy through the Publisher Wipf & Stock, or any online retailer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Y1...

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A Handful Of Prayers: Fallow 1

YouTube video by peterlillypoetry

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Green Ink Poetry @greeninkpress.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

A bright, but misty Monday helps us greet the week - what have you been reading and writing over the weekend? #poetry

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S.C. Flynn @scyflynn.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Still Book of the Month for a few more days! #poetry

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