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Jodie Duffy

@jodieduffy.bsky.social
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Poet, writer, wonderer, wanderer

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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
A poem for New Year’s Eve
Threshold

Fireworks crack and crackle
in the distance, outside the bubble
of silence that rests over our
pensive house. I listen for stirring
from my daughter’s bedroom,
but the stillness holds firm
against the booming sky. 

Flashes shoot through the gaps
at the edges of the curtain, 
tagging the shadows, who turn,
then return to their slumber.

I lower my feet onto the carpet,
gently replace the duvet,
then soften my knees to descend
the stairs. At the front door,
the key turns with a click,
the handle shudders, 
the metal cold on my skin.

The night breathes on my face.
I step aside to let the old year pass;
hold the door open wide
to welcome the new year in.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 20/11/2025
‘The UK’s refugee protection regime has always involved hypocrisy, as successive governments trumpet their adherence to humanitarian principles and the international order while doing their best not to incur the costs and obligations of those commitments in practice.’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
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Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...
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annasaund.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Just one day left to send your poems to the @cheltenhampoetryfestival Festival's International Poetry Competition! We welcome poems from all over the world! To enter and find out more info visit: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
things i have to do today: think, ponder, wonder, analyze, ruminate, reflect, speculate, dwell on, imagine, question,
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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
At a foodbank near you. 😢 The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP. #poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
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The Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🧱 Class, Work and the Politics of Poetry Ruth Beddow asks who really gets to write — and how class, time, and labour shape the poetry we make. A powerful reflection on access, identity, and creativity in a working world. 🔗 poetryschool.com/the...
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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
❛ A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight... Ursula K. Le Guin, born #OTD in 1929.
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The Moth Magazine @themothmagazine.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this. A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Congrats to the winners and I look forward to reading all the poems in the anthology!
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Yay! 🥳 Very happy to have 2 poems longlisted in this competition.
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
At Cheltenham Literature Festival this morning for Pathfinding: Motherhood and Freedom
Room with speakers on stage, with screen with session title ‘Pathfinding: Motherhood and Freedom, in front of audience
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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Mid-August submission deadlines alert! 44 literary journals, competitions, publishers and residencies all with deadlines by 1 Sept, 14 of which are closing over the next week. Don't miss out! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
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Writing & Poetry Competitions, Submission & Opportunities in August 2025 — WORDBOX
Over 150 calls for literary competitions and submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, and more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or ...
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Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Poem of the day: Mist by the marvellous Alice Oswald who was arrested yesterday in the Palestine protests. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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How to be hopeful: Alice Oswald’s poem Mist
The poet on the startling wonders of the natural world
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Black Cat Poetry Press @blackcatpress.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Competition time! Our latest competition is on the theme of Turning Points judged by Rebecca Watts. All info available on our website. #poetrycompetition #poetry
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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Body-swap – Lesley Curwen @elcurwen.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/07/25/b...
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Body-swap – Lesley Curwen
Body-swap . . Lesley Curwen is a poet and broadcaster from Plymouth. She won the Molecules Unlimited Poetry Prize and was a finalist in Wales Poetry Award. Her pamphlet ‘Rescue Lines’ i…
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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006. She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.” With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy. www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
'In my garden' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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Anthropocene @anthro-poetry.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Today on Anthropocene new poetry by @julwe1.bsky.social 🦢🔮🦢
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https://www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/reasons-by-julia-webb
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
A Teasmade Museum, for it is International Tea Day. Teasmade.uk
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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'Nurse at a Bus Stop' by Simon Armitage www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...
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Poem Of The Week: <i>Nurse at a Bus Stop</i> By Simon Armitage
Nurse at a Bus Stop The slow traffic takes a good long look.
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
It’s so good!
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Ooh love this!
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
This was a great find in the Oxfam bookshop this week
Cover of 52 ways of looking at a poem by Ruth Padel
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Sarah Doyle @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
In light of yesterday's guilty verdict for the two men who felled the magnificent old tree at Sycamore Gap, I'm re-sharing my poem, 'Sycamore's Prayer', published by the wonderful @atriumpoetry.bsky.social. 🌳💔🪾
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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Unsolicited writing advice: no.2167 That thing you always wanted to do. That novel, that poem, that piece of art. Start it now. Don't wait. Make time. Give yourself permission to start. It will never be easier than it is now: maybe harder, but never easier.
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Heading to Bristol for @lyrafest.com this afternoon 😊 Looking forward to the Women Poets Network open mic and @pascalepetit.bsky.social Fran Lock & @concordmoose.bsky.social
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Here’s a poem for Earth Day. It’s called ‘Birdsong’.
Birdsong
 
There is a bird who sings to me,
each morning from the old lime tree.
I wonder what he’s trying to say?
Stop fucking up. It’s not too late.
 
It’s such a happy, joyous sound!
Little bird who chirps so loud
And brightens up my day with song.
Stop standing there. You’ve not got long.
 
I wish I could translate your words,
my faithful, a cappella bird,
who sits upon the lime tree bough.
And still you wait. You must act now.
 
All’s quiet in the tree today.
I think perhaps he’s moved away.
There’s silence these days everywhere,
the ghost of birdsong in the air.
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VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Submissions are open for VERVE’s Poem of the Month This month’s (optional) theme: everything is weird & that’s ok £100 prize £3 per poem / £5 for 3 Max 3 poems No AI. Just YOU. Closes 20th April. Submit now: [insert link] #Poetry #PoetsOfBluesky #CallForSubmissions #PoemoftheMonth #VERVE
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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Thank you to everyone who has signed our petition, 6,000+! Authors deserve to have a livelihood and compensation from their work, if you haven't signed do so now 👇
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Sign the Petition
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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We Can Make an Impact.
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Louise Bourgeois, Maman #Mother, 2009 #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a large sculpture of a spider towering over a figure on a riverside paved area
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Submissions are OPEN until 31 March for Propel 15, edited by Sanah Ahsan >> propelmagazine.submittable.com/submit/32293...
Propel Issue Fifteen May 2025
Edited by Sanah Ahsan
Submissions open to 31 March 2025
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun" - Katharine Hepburn #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph of a whire woman with long hair wearing a suit sitting sideways on the arm of an armchair
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Congratulations! Beautiful poem
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Maya C. Popa @mayacpopa.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
There’s a reason we revisit this beauty by Tess Gallagher:
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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
We are running our poetry course for the second time! Each week, attendees will participate in online workshops led by a different Broken Sleep Books authors, covering various aspects of creating a poetry manuscript. www.brokensleepbooks.com/coursesandwo...
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Broken Sleep Books 2025 Poetry Course

Featuring: Fran Lock, Aaron Kent, Hannah Copley, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, 
Stuart McPherson, Jessica Mookherjee, James Byrne, JLM Morton

Applications close March 7th, 2025
Cost: £499 (2 bursary spaces available)
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Issue Thirteen is NOW LIVE! Edited by Helen Mort, Issue 13 marks our return after the hiatus around the Anthology launch and we're psyched to be back. With thanks to Helen and all our contributors – we hope you enjoy reading: propelmagazine.co.uk/thirteen
Cover of Propel Issue Thirteen, January 2025 Ed. Helen Mort. A contributor list runs across the bottom - listing the poets in the next two tweets in this thread, below an issue card and a grainy black and grey image of a projectile moving toward the right of frame. Propel logo runs up the left hand side, all on an off-white background. CONTENTS
Introduction by Editor Helen Mort

Abhijeet Singh, Reading Emily Dickinson

Rency Jumaoas Raquid, To The Tall Man in Queen’s Library

Nia Broomhall, I won't tell you this

Daniel Nixon, Axe Edge

Ger Duffy, Baile an Ghoilin / Burnham East

Julie Kennedy, Change of Purpose

Nasim Luczaj, her father 

Laura Strickland, When My Body Remembers

Becky May, Lessons with Conchita

Sallyanne Rock, Matthew 10:29

Helen Bowell, Is That the Moon

Nia Solomon, When My Hair Was a Blonde Bowl

Maria Isakova-Bennett, My father is a complicated sentence 

Ben Verinder, Lavender

Rochelle Hanslow, A Body of Text

Brad Beau Cohen, cyanotypes

Godelieve de Bree, Study from the Human Body, 1949

Bella Rona, Rorschach Test

Barnaby Harsent, Half-light

Helena Fornells Nadal, Ships Came from Cuba
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Kent and Sussex Poetry Society @kandspoetrysoc.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Polish up your poems to enter our annual comp - judged by the wonderful Kit Fan. You’ve got until the 31st and we can’t wait to read them! More info via our bio.
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Angela T. Carr @angelatcarrpoetry.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Over 160 calls for submissions of poetry, fiction, flash, non-fiction, art, photography & more - competitions, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or with deadlines in January 2025. Best of luck & pls share! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
Winter-themed border of blue snowflakes on a pale grey background. Text reads: Publishing Your Work | Poetry & Writing Calls for Submissions January 2025: Journals, Competitions, Bursaries, Residencies.
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
A little poem on the Paper Swans poetry advent calendar on Insta today 🩷❄️
beneath candy floss clouds
trees topped with sherbet frost
our breath turns to icing sugar

by Jodie Duffy
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Finally got some time to enjoy some of the poetry on my tbr pile
The book Signs, music by Raymond Antrobus resting on a person’s lap
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Congratulations!
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Congratulations Corinna!
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Propel Magazine @propelmagazine.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Hi, we're Propel, a journal featuring the work of UK/IE-based poets who've yet to publish a first full collection. Launched in 2022, we publish 6 online issues a year, each with a different guest editor – as well as a print Anthology & a Membership program. propelmagazine.co.uk
Propel logo over a grainy b&w image of a round motion blurred projectile moving to the right of frame, on an off-white background with a mid-blue vertical bar up the left
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Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
My 5 #PoetsOnBluesky for today💙 Fellow alum of Wildfire Words (creative writing ezine from Frosted Fire). #poetry Pass it on! @irisannelewis.bsky.social @carolsheppard.bsky.social @jodieduffy.bsky.social @abigailottley.bsky.social @coliverpoet.bsky.social wildfire-words.com/open-submiss...
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Open submissions poetry
“I write only becauseThere is a voice within meThat will not be still” Sylvia Plath Open Submissions 1 From 1st January 2022 until 28 February, we featured our first open submissions window which w…
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Wonderful! Thank you!
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BookTrust @booktrust.org.uk · 21/11/2024
We're sending 18,000 festive book parcels to children who are in care or visiting a community food bank this year. They feature a super book and goodies from the fab Liz Pichon ❤️ Donate here if you'd like to share the #MagicOfBooks at Christmas and beyond: donate.booktrust.org.uk/xmas3?utm_so...
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Jodie Duffy @jodieduffy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I loved this too!
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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Two poems by @jlmmorton.bsky.social, from our last issue badlilies.uk/jlm-morton
Curse Tablets
Takedowns from the British Celt (an imagined translation)
Everyone who ever loved you was wrong.
May your mind be an utter bungalow.
May you go the many miles you need to reach unexceptional.
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