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Imogen Wade @imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

My first book on the shelves 🥰🌞

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Poetry Wales @poetrywales.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Poetry Wales Spring 2026 / Poets On the Lyric Available to pre-order now: poetrywales.co.uk/product/spri...

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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

It was an honour serving as a judge for the Harlow Open 2026 together with Imogen Wade. @imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social Reading the poems over the past few weeks was a beautiful reminder of how much heart is out there! Congrats to all the winners & thank you to the organizers. 🤍 #HarlowPoetry

The Harlow Poetry Open 2026 took place at the Harlow Playhouse and was judged by poets Imogen Wade and Carmella de Keyser.

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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I am reading 'Girl Swooning' by Imogen Wade. It's beautiful! ✨ Highly accomplished, intelligent writing of huge depth and sensitivity. Congratulations to her on a stunning collection of poetry. @imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social #HighlyRecommended #NewReleases #Poetry #PoetryCollections #MustRead

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Imogen Wade @imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

What an amazing experience to judge the Harlow Open Poetry Competition 2026 with @carmellapoetry.bsky.social, with an award ceremony today at Harlow Playhouse. I also ran community poetry workshops at Harlow Museum. Entries increased since last year, as poetry is a thriving art form in Harlow!

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Have you joined our Human Authored scheme yet? We've been delighted with the response so far, so thank you all for your efforts. We're processing everyone as fast as we can. Sarah Hall, author of Helm, is absolutely right; we must protect the integrity and cultural value of creators.

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Imogen Wade @imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I’m so pleased to confirm that my debut poetry collection (and first book!) GIRL, SWOONING will be published 5 March 2026 by Corsair Poetry, a Hachette imprint. It’s available to pre-order now. www.waterstones.com/book/girl-sw...

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Girl, Swooning by Imogen Wade | Waterstones

Buy Girl, Swooning by Imogen Wade from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 23/08/2025

💭 To help inspire your entries for this year's National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society will be releasing a series of prompts throughout the competition. Today's prompt comes from Imogen Wade, who won the 2023 National Poetry Competition and was longlisted in 2024. Thank you, Imogen!

Poetry prompt from Imogen Wade. "Choose a famous fictional character and write a poem from their perspective. What do they really want? What misconceptions would they like to clear up? What are their off-screen secrets? If they had a stage to themselves to give a monologue, and you were the only one in the audience, what would they say?"

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Imogen Wade @imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

‘Argos’ from The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2024, which arrived last week 🌼 #poetry #poem #writer

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Imogen Wade @imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

A bit of Ada Limón to keep you company 🩷

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Imogen Wade @imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Congratulations to Fran McMahon, our 18+ winner of the inaugural Harlow Open Poetry Competition, as well as our eight other poets ✍🏻 How amazing to have supported community arts in my hometown! Thank you to the other judges Carmella de Keyser, Ruth Stickley and Kasey Brazier 👏🏻 #harlow

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Imogen Wade @imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

I found a signed copy of ‘Dwell’ by Simon Armitage, illustrated by Beth Munro, in The Edge of the World Bookshop in Penzance. What a tender and important book 🍃 🌳

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Imogen Wade @imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

I’m so happy to be part of Seashells Magazine, honouring creative women with a connection to Cornwall, edited by Claire Wilde. I’m honoured to be featured alongside other female artists spanning two hundred years 💛

Messages From Heaven

Boscawen Park, Truro

I live next to a pond and have spent
three years carefully studying its inhabitants—
geese, mallards, pintails, swans.

I’ve seen them fight; howl cacophony like
an opera; fall in love; fall in hate; become entangled
in murderous conspiracies; kill each other’s
babies; call out the names
of those who’ve wronged them.

But I’ve never seen them bother with the stars.
It’s human beings who pray—which is unfashionable
but everyone does it anyway.
We all worship something and
only the moon knows quite what.

I think, unlike me, birds sense the quiet apathy
of the world. Or maybe all that exists for them
is pond, river, sky. Or maybe they wrestle
with the all-knowing rain.

Leaving Cornwall

Did you hear that I’m leaving
the turquoise sea, the cairns,
the white lighthouse, a round
castle, a lounge level with the
trees; the gorse that my friend
says smells like coconut if you
crush it, but I never crushed it;
graves, yes, even the graves
and dolmens under the moon?
Did you hear that I’m leaving
the silver stars and buzzards
poised in question; temples of
rainforest; clear water; purple
flowers sprouting from cliffs;
hills of clay; mine chimneys
like exclamation marks over
the fields? The high tide sings
like ellipses and I’m a comma
trapped inside a raindrop. Oh,
I say, like a refrain in an old
poem—oh, I say, I’ll miss you
like the honeybees miss sun.

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

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Imogen Wade @imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

‘Message’, first published by The London Magazine 🦗 🌙

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Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

we’re going to have to talk sensibly and honestly about the ramifications of this very soon. for literature, for publishing, for the assessment of talent, for the creative writing degree. Anyway - first time I’ve read any AI fiction or poetry and thought: Oh. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

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‘A machine-shaped hand’: Read a story from OpenAI’s new creative writing model

Posting the piece online, OpenAI’s Sam Altman said this is the first time he has been “really struck” by AI writing

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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Isn't it wonderful that our National Poetry Competition Winner Imogen Wade has joined Bluesky?! This horizon will now glow even brighter with her words in it! 🙂 Let's welcome her! 🩷💫🩵 @imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/the-ti...

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