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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 11h

Circle of life seeing a performance of Saturday Night Fever on #Strictly. When the film came out I was learning the dances from Len Goodman (oh yes) himself in his dance school over the Rumpy Bar (oh yes) in Dartford.

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Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social · 19h

@inksweatandtears.co.uk Day 3 of a celebration of Wonder, for National Poetry Day, UK

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 21h

Morning. Nero, Emily Brontë, 1841.

Painting of Emily Brontë’s pet Merlin, Nero, perched on a branch.
Dated 27 October 1841. She had rescued it from an abandoned nest on the moors.
The painting is held in the collection of the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Catching up with news with the sound down as ever, I thought Petroc Trelawny had discovered his biological father was Michael McDonald of the Doobie Bros.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A poem for National Poetry Day, Meditations in an Emergency, by Cameron Awkward-Rich. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/158592...

Meditations in an Emergency
BY CAMERON AWKWARD-RICH
I wake up & it breaks my heart. I draw the blinds & the thrill of rain breaks my heart. I go outside. I ride the train, walk among the buildings, men in Monday suits. The flight of doves, the city of tents beneath the underpass, the huddled mass, old women hawking roses, & children all of them, break my heart. There’s a dream I have in which I love the world. I run from end to end like fingers through her hair. There are no borders, only wind. Like you, I was born. Like you, I was raised in the institution of dreaming. Hand on my heart. Hand on my stupid heart.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The harvest moon over our back garden.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Very out of sync with people right now. I think to fit in I need to 1. love astroturf 2. love the hoovering of astroturf 3. cultivate a less London working class accent. That’s my list so far.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Loved that quickstep and the frock #Strictly

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Going to watch the final episode of Vigil this evening. I don’t necessarily understand but Suranne Jones I guess.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lyrics that have surprised me in my time: “what I thought was an ocean of love (ocean of love, ocean of love) was just a wee drop of rain” - I don’t blame you at all - The Miracles because of the use of “wee” as I don’t think Smokey Robinson had any Irish/Scottish connections. Banging tune btw

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

She’s so fuckin’ cool.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was trying to figure out if they were starlings or redwings when the two on the left pretended to be an owl just to wind me up.

3 birds on a tv aerial, two on left have heads together facing left and right so their beaks look like owl ears.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Skin crawling snobbery in poetry as ever which I guess you’ll not have experienced if you’re delightful and super.

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Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Calling all poets! Dust Poetry will be open next month (1st-31st October) for submissions and our theme will be WINTER ❄️❄️❄️ We’re looking forward to reading your interpretations of this theme!

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Poet voice is alive and well. It usually imitates one particular poet and does go through phases of that being different poets. It might have even sounded fine with the original poet. Why do poets do this? Is it a lack of confidence in using one’s own voice? Makes me die a little inside.

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Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh - marvellous surprise poem by Caroline Bird

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The Royal Parks @theroyalparks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Like clockwork 🕐 The autumn-flowering crocuses have appeared in the parks, including here in St. James's Park 💜 Have you spotted any in the parks? Tread carefully when taking a closer look 🙌

A cluster of purple crocus flowers blooms on a grassy field, surrounded by scattered brown leaves. More crocuses are visible in the background. The scene is bathed in natural daylight, with trees visible in the distance.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just did some dumbbells by fairy lights which cast enormous shadows of the weights on the ceiling so I hope any passers by were impressed.

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Heath milkwort from yesterday's Norfolk Flora group joint meeting with @norfolknats.bsky.social #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Cloud iridescence today, aka Irisation, a message from Iris the goddess of rainbows.

Wisps of pastel rainbow colours in clouds, centre and top right.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There are poetry mags that profess to be working class / innovative etc who so often use established middle class white straight poets for safe sales. On the other hand there are mags that don't actually profess to be edgy or different in any way but they have consistently published new poets.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Sure there was that let’s talk about sex ditty but I’ve just seen Fiona Shaw saying “let’s talk about my operas” doing a surprise rap artist sort of beckoning inwards with her hands and I think that wins for me.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I will confess I didn’t know Annie Dillard’s writing but I’m sorry to hear of her loss and this is a great example of how powerful a short poem can be I think.

QUATRAIN OF THE BODY'S SLEEP by Annie Dillard
I lure sleep. I bait sleep in with my white throat
I pretend to be asleep. Then everything happens at once
Sleep wraps me round in his dim coat;
I weep; you leap from your corner and dance.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sad sad news about the little boy Noah.

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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 16/09/2026

True story.

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour

A bare bum with music written on it. Someone is pointing at it all 'look! Arse music!'

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran looking for his support acts.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Latest poetry rejection once again showing the impossibly vague high standards set by editors. “Dear Laura Your meant to have a specific ting ting ring delight”.

Poetry rejection blackout reads:
“Dear Laura
Your meant to have a specific ting ting ring delight”.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Amy’s birthday, I think this was my favourite, written by her. youtu.be/nMO5Ko_77Hk

youtu.be

Amy Winehouse - Love Is A Losing Game

YouTube video by AmyWinehouseVEVO

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Every so often I have a hot flush of immodesty and submit a sample manuscript to both Faber and Faber. The time span for reply tumbleweed rolls by but big up to my immodesty anyway.

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p.a. morbid @marcusagonistes.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you could share this anyone, PLEASE

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Aoife @aoifeb1.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My favourite wildflowers change throughout the seasons 😊. So I have many 😉. This is Blue Eyed Grass from my holiday in Kerry. #WildflowerHour #FavouritePlant

A delicate blue flower with bright yellow centre

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Petition for all rejection letters to end ‘listen I love you, joy is coming’.

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Experiencing the carpets of wild garlic on Ashford Hangers at dawn was undoubtedly a #FavouritePlant moment from this #WildFlowerHour year

A woodland clearing entirely covered in wild garlic, looking to where the sun rises pink behind the far trees and paints the flowers rose and gold

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Two clumps of large flowered evening primrose growing from a crack across an empty car park. #WildflowerHour

Empty carpark with two yellow wildflower clumps growing spaced apart through a crack.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The invisible deer in Greenwich Park became visible.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Oh Laura McKee nee Leach we love you get up.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I thought that long list was a bit short.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 10/09/2026

It's gonna happen, happen sometime. Or 'It Might Never Happen' according to Peter Daniels. But either way, you'll get a great poem out of it. @peterdaniels.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/peter-daniel... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry

Image: men in silhouette surrounded by a haze

Text: It Might Never Happen

This is not you, but someone soaked in fake Brut
coming at me in a gesture of fake generosity.

For goodness sake, I only want a quiet life,
it’s no crime not to be a gregarious joiner.

Peter Daniels

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 10/09/2026

'Bus Pass' by Emma Farmer is a poem of connection with a familiar through line: the bus. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/emma-farmer/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry

Image: an arial shot of a bus stop surrounded by a pink border

Text: Bus Pass

I sit at the stop we used to wait at for the bus to pick us up,
but now you're three stops ahead
and the journey's been used up.

emma Farmer

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