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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

While we're at it, can we cancel Galway Girl?

John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My holiday reading this summer was 'The Unconsoled', the only Ishiguro book I hadn't yet read, probably due to its mixed critical reception. My verdict: a masterpiece. If you've previously thrown it aside after a couple of chapters, do pick it up again. You won't regret it.

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Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Is this whole tournament going to be fixed so that FIFA hands the trophy to Trump?

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Sorry for banging on again about Magma 95 (which I'm in), but I've just discovered there a new rising star on the already impressive Belfast poetry scene, Zara Meadows, whose poem 'Detour' is a cracker. I'll not be looking at the local street murals in the same light again.

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

A subscriber copy of Magma 95 has just popped through my letter box, plus a 'contributer copy' (my poem 'Donemana' on Page 54). Huge thanks to editors Leo Boix and Stav Poleg. I also love the same page poem by Kitty Donnelly. Those 'gifted bones'.

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Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

We are delighted to announce Magma 95 'Architecture' is now published and available to buy on our website. Edited by Leo Boix and Stav Poleg. Get your hands on a copy here: magmapoetry.com/latest-issue/

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

So Omar Artan, the FIFA accredited referee and 'African Referee of the Year', is denied entry to the US, and FIFA shrugs its shoulders and says, 'Nothing to do with us. Move on'. What person in their right mind would now travel to the USA to watch football, or for any other reason?

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Just about to start reading my birthday present ...

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Slightly increase a band The Overtones

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Set on a north Donegal coastline I've loved for a lifetime, this novel by Derryman Eoghan Walls is a fabulous read, as well as a reminder of a great historical injustice.

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Just got around to leafing through my copy of the latest Poetry Review, and the fly series by Mark Waldron certainly had me smiling.

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

poetrylondon.co.uk/overheard-in... Many thanks to Poetry London for publishing this today.

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Overheard in the Waiting Room – Discover – Poetry London

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

poetrylondon.co.uk/overheard-in... Many thanks to Poetry London for publishing this today.

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Overheard in the Waiting Room – Discover – Poetry London

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Yesterday my copy of Magma 94 came through the letterbox, inside which I find a gem of a poem by Esther Lay, from a north Oxon village near us. Must drop in to the Ashmolean again soon.

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Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

We're thrilled to announce our latest issue, Magma 94 'Remix' is now published! Editors @cloudscholar.bsky.social, Lola Oh and ‪@williekinard.com said the poems they received "astounded, challenged, and delighted us" Get your hands on a copy here: magmapoetry.com/archive/magm...

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Services like BBC iPlay are so useful, but sometimes it's like handing me a huge bar of chocolate and expecting me not to devour it in one sitting. I've just done that with 'Small Prophets': an absolute delight!!

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Anyone interested in the craft of poetry, editing ones own work, and weaving a poetic pathway with input from peers, could do worse than get David Kalstone's 'Becoming a Poet - Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell'. Thanks to North Sea Poets for the recommendation some weeks back.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

What an afternoon, the terrific Stephen Rea reading Tom Paulin's poem 'Folly Bridge' #TheVerb @imcmillan.bsky.social - Here'sTom Paulin reading his poem, what a priviledge to witness this unravelling magic of words. m.youtube.com/watch?v=qq4G... #poetry.

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Tom Paulin reads his poem ‘Folly Bridge’

YouTube video by T. S. Eliot Prize

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

@atriumpoetry.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/atri... Very pleased and thankful to be published by Atrium today, such a nice early Christmas present.

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

@atriumpoetry.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/atri... Very pleased and thankful to be published by Atrium today, such a nice early Christmas present.

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The Friday Poem @thefridaypoem.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Matthew Stewart reviews 'Still' by Alan Buckley (Blue Diode Press, 2025) open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...

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Matthew Stewart reviews 'Still' by Alan Buckley (Blue Diode Press, 2025)

The Friday Poem on 5th December 2025

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Wage war on nature to build new homes: that’s Labour’s offer, but it’s a con trick | George Monbiot

The government’s new planning bill is tearing down environmental protections to benefit developers. This nation of nature lovers won’t stand for it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

This is great to see, but Ed Miliband and the whole of government now need to stop using Elon Musk’s hellsite bsky.app/profile/matt...

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

🔴 NEW - Why you should leave X Here’s the sad truth: Twitter no longer exists. X is something else entirely. It’s a megaphone for extremism, controlled by a deranged oligarch. 📝 latest Substack 👇🏻

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Why you should leave X

A rallying cry to progressives everywhere...

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𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 07/09/2025

The title of John White's #ekphrastic poem deceives. Is it about office life? Or just life? 'We floated, avatars of the open plan, by night rehearsing in the snooker dens each with a cue trained over a pack of Bensons like an extension of him, holding a heron ... ' afterpoetry.com/poem/sep-07-...

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Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'The Inexorable Sadness of Pencils' by John White exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Postscript by Seamus Heaney who died twelve years ago today

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Extract from 'No one wants what I want' by @troycabida.bsky.social , published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here: andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/n... #poetry #poems #poemoftheday

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Extract from 'Way of Going' by @johncraigwhite.bsky.social , published in Issue Seven. Read the full poem here: andotherpoems.com/2025/08/04/w... #poetry #poem #poemoftheday

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And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Issue Seven is now live! We are so excited to share this brilliant issue with you all. Thank you to all the poets who submitted. Read the full issue here: andotherpoems.com/issue-seven/ #poetry #poems

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Some really good stuff in the latest edition of Acumen (112), including this one from my old colleague from Oxford Stanza 2 and Poetryworthhearing - Kathleen McPhilemy.

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I'm grateful that @atriumpoetry.bsky.social have accepted one of my poems, due to be published in December. I always enjoy reading Atrium poems as they appear through the year. Thanks for big the support to poetry offered by @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j... Every so often Carol Rumen, for her weekly Guardian column, comes up with a poem that blows my mind. She's done it again this week ...

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Poem of the week: Salt, Snow, Earth by Naomi Foyle

The relentless cycle of human violence plays out as a brutal symbolic game

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

My copy of Issue 35 of Under the Radar just popped through my letterbox, and there it is, in print, to lift the spirit. And among such good company!

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Really pleased to get one of my own pieces into this edition, a poem about the day my mother died. Many thanks to the team at Under the Radar.

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Under the Radar Issue 35 is printing as I type, so line up your 'hot off the press' copy now: ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Under... A digital copy straight to your inbox is also available. Or consider taking out a subscription? Thanks to all our contributors, reviewers and readers.

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

I've just discovered the joys of the Merlin app (birdsong identifier) ... that's my Saturday morning taken care of! The sky here is filled with magpies, rooks and red kites, but there's all these other little creatures chirping away all around us, a right parliament of them.

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c... This is a great listen - the author of 'Being a Beast' (Charles Foster) turning his attention to human society, and how/when we got it wrong. The answer: a very long time ago!

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Podcast Episode · New Books in Psychology · 29/12/2024 · 1h 2m

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John White @johncraigwhite.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Digging through some of my former scribblings last night, I found a completed attempt at an old Welsh verse form with the most prescriptive / insane syllable count: each stanza went 1-3-9-5-7. It also rhymed, of course: aabbx. Does anyone know what the form is called, or was I just a little mad?

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