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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

One year ago today I made an epic, unforgettable City church crawl. Very grateful to everyone who followed me as I live-tweeted my trek to 45 churches. Relive it here👇

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Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

A late poem by the great Jeremy Hooker, who died on 26 December, and whose loss is hard to bear.

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

So very sorry to hear this news, Seán. I became acquainted with Jeremy’s poetry while compiling Building Jerusalem. I loved his late collection, Scattered Light.

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

‘After inexplicable music in the sky, … the screams.’ John Heath-Stubbs remembers the slaughter of the innocents.

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Robert Lowell remembering the Holy Innocents in 1945. ‘The world out-Herods Herod.’

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

That sounds lovely. We’re having our son and daughter-in-law tomorrow. Good thing Christmas is 12 days!

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Many thanks! Hope it was a great day for all the Selfs!

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Many thanks! Hope it was a great day for all the Knotts!

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

‘Christmas Night’ by the much-missed Peter Scupham

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

A happy Christmas to you and yours, Graeme!

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

A happy Christmas to you and yours, Rishi!

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Always a contender for my favorite AT poem

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Many thanks. Drawn by my friend, Kyong L. Kim.

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Delighted to see my new selected edition of Anthony Thwaite’s poems (At the Garden’s Dark Edge, published by Baylor University Press) featured by George Szirtes in the Eastern Daily Press. www.edp24.co.uk/news/2557097...

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Poet and archaeologist who was part of the fabric of Norfolk life

‘This is the simple poem,’ wrote Anthony Thwaite OBE, poet, archaeologist, teacher, broadcaster, television presenter, traveller, critic,…

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

👍🏻 I was lucky enough to have a preview, and it’s fantastic.

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Renard Press @renardpress.com · 27/10/2025

Something rather exciting is coming in three short weeks – a beautiful collection of excerpts, poems, short stories, scenes from all the authors we’ve published in our first five years. 📚 All proceeds to our Bookbanks scheme. renardpress.com/books/renard... #beautifulbooks #booksky

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I’m very much looking forward to this collection. You can whet your appetite with my review of Graeme’s excellent chapbook, Last of the Coalmine Choirboys, wildcourt.co.uk/from-the-shi....

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From the shires: on Greening, Richardson, Branfoot, Self, & Nevett – Wild Court

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Very excited for you, Rishi - and for myself, since I get to read it!

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

My pleasure! Your collection deserves many readers!

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

My pleasure! Hope your collection makes its way to many shelves!

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

My new review essay of collections by @betarish.bsky.social, @tomsastry.bsky.social, Michael Vince, and Kieron Winn is published today in Wild Court. Find out why I like them so much: wildcourt.co.uk/a-hobby-of-exi….

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

One quick scroll through Robert Galbraith’s replies and you can see he’s the face of everything wrong with Blue Sky.

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Lunatics, the lot of them. It’s a book review, for God’s sake.

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

It’s a fair review, despite the outrage and pother and hand-wringing it has provoked on other social media. It’s scrupulously candid and objective in its criticism, which is all we should ask of a reviewer.

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Thanks for posting about this, Ian. Looks like a terrific book. I must put it on my Christmas list!

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

And he managed to get all four of his kids home at the same time for the occasion, so it was a very good day for him.

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

A very happy birthday to my dad, who turns 97 today!

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The third figure isn’t winking, is she?

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Nebulosa da Chama ♀ @br4zuc4br.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Reading this delightful book by @fugitiveink.bsky.social on Kindle in Brazil and instantly transported to Norfolk. 🌘🪾🦉⚓️🪦🕯️🌬️ (also astonished to find out Jack O' Lantern's Toby and I share a mother)

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Simon Knott @simonknott.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

As well as today being Larkin's birthday, this year it's 70 years since the publication of his first mature volume, 'The Less Deceived'. The poems in it were mostly written during his five relatively happy years in Belfast, and the volume would be published in 1955, the year he moved to Hull. 1/2

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Creamed Meat Quickie, anyone?

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Who indeed? and who are Edward Knoblock, William Archer, Sutton Vane, Rudolf Besier, Mordaunt Shairp, and Lawrence Housman?

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Indeed! I think this was 1942, and I knew half the names well, a couple others vaguely familiar. Mordaunt Shairp was someone entirely new to me, but with a name like that I’m going to have to read something by him!

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Sixteen Famous British Plays 🤔

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Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Delighted to have this latest from @greeningpoet.bsky.social and @renardpress.com. Contents are even more intriguing than this brilliant cover design!

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