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A community of kindred poets, performers, artists and creative activists raising their voices to engage with climate emergency. poetsfortheplanet.org.uk www.facebook.com/groups/poets4thepl… Image credit: Henny Beaumont

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Lucy Furlong @lucyfurleaps.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
#poetrysky
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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
An inspiring and creative way to mark Earth Hour next Saturday!
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Join us on Sat 28 March for Earth Hour: Writing by Candlelight. We'll meet at 8pm GMT on Zoom for readings & inspiration before lighting candles & switching off for Earth Hour 8.30-9.30pm GMT. email poetsfortheplanet@gmail.com with the subject: Earth Hour & we'll send you the link the day before
notebook and pen on table lit by candle
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Caroline Davies @carolinemdavies.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social May 8th 2026 is a very special day. It’s David Attenborough’s 100th birthday. On May 8th @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social invite you to post a poem on social media to honour him. It could be your own poem or a published poem by someone else. And please spread the word.
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Great poem!
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Lucy Furlong @lucyfurleaps.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Delighted to be part of this Solstice film, along with a fine array of walking artists. Huge thanks to @kelarrowsmith.bsky.social for the provocation & the curation. This is the first piece of my visual work involving walking a labyrinth & many more to come #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCZZ...
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Solstice December 25 final cut
YouTube video by Kel Arrowsmith
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Congratulations to Poets for the Planet's own @susiecampbell.bsky.social - this looks wonderful!
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON (Palestine Environmental NGOs Network and a branch of Friends of the Earth). Can you help? #poetrysky poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...
Blue and white water colour painted logo for Poets for the Planet by Henny Beaumont
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David Atkinson @davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
As we start a new year Brendan Kennelly gives us a poem of hope, of finding joy in small things, of promises & choices & dreams There is resilience & determination ‘that we will forever begin’. Start from where you are, with what you have, & trust that this is enough #poetry #poemoftheday #NewYear
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Lucy Furlong @lucyfurleaps.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Please click through and read about the ecocide in Palestine and how PENGON are helping - and can you help with the event? #poetrysky
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON (Palestine Environmental NGOs Network and a branch of Friends of the Earth). Can you help? #poetrysky poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...
Blue and white water colour painted logo for Poets for the Planet by Henny Beaumont
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Lucy Furlong @lucyfurleaps.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Please like and share - we are hoping to raise awareness of the devastating ecocide and funds to support PENGON - read the blog below for more info. Thanks! #climatesky
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Lucy Furlong @lucyfurleaps.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Morning all, this is wonderful! I love Edwin Morgan anyway but backed by Trio!? Genius. Get in #poetrysky
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Congrats @suejohns.bsky.social !
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
We are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON (Palestine Environmental NGOs Network and a branch of Friends of the Earth). More info here and how you can get involved! poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...
Blue and white Poets for the Planet logo, in watercolour by Henny Beaumont
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Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery @naturerecovery.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🔊New Podcast out now: a conversation with @david-farrier.bsky.social on how we might learn to live in “The what ought to be.” He talks about adaptation, resilience, and what nature can teach us about recovery in a changing world. 🎧https://naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk/podcasts/ @ecioxford.bsky.social
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Terri Windling @terriwindling.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Today in Chagford (Dartmoor, Devon, UK) at 5:30 pm:
The poster for: Hope in the Darkness, a Winter Solstice celebration presented as part of the 'Celebrating the Earth' series of events inspired by nature and folklore. Tuesday, 16 December, 5:30 - 6:30 pm, at the old medieval church in centre of Chagford (Dartmoor, Devon, UK). This is an in-person event; it's free and all are welcome. The poster art, of fairies holding lanterns beneath animate trees, is by Arthur Rackham.
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Brand new on the blog today - please read and share and see how you might be able to support: "Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON" #poetrysky poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...
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‘If there are no olive trees, there can be no olive branch’ – Poets for the Planet
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Brand new on the blog today - please read and share and see how you might be able to support: "Poets for the Planet are currently setting up an event to raise not just awareness of the underreported ecocide in Gaza, but to raise funds for PENGON" #poetrysky poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/if-there-are...
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‘If there are no olive trees, there can be no olive branch’ – Poets for the Planet
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Happy St Lucy's Day www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVk-...
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A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day by John Donne (read by Richard Burton)
YouTube video by Zsuzsanna Uhlik
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Dr Briony Hughes @brihughespoet.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
So excited to receive the Winter issue of Bat News from the Bat Conservation Trust (@batconservation.bsky.social) 🦇This copy features a 3 page (!!!) interview where I discuss the unique role poetry can play in increasing public interest in protecting bat species 🦇🦇🦇
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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Next week, following the launch of Night Vision, Jean Sprackland will be appearing on BBC Radio 4's Start the Week, when she'll be discussing the dark with Jasper Goodall, Christine Riding, and Tom Sutcliffe. Tune in on Monday: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, The Dark
Shadows in art, photography, poetry and our fears: Tom Sutcliffe's guests discuss darkness
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Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Join us as we launch the Raising Voices StoryMap with poems and stories of MK. www.mklitfest.org/raisingvoice... #creativewriting #poetry #shortstories flashfiction creativenonfiction writingcompetition
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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
J.R. Carpenter, Le plaisir de la côte / The Pleasure of the Coast / @pamenarpress.bsky.social @jrcarpenter.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/12/jr-c...
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J.R. Carpenter, Le plaisir de la côte / The Pleasure of the Coast
between the ship and the quay lies two metres of incompressible ocean  two metres of light between the edge of the sea and the horiz...
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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Delighted to have my poem featured on the Front Page of Open Arts Forum openartsforum.com/toad-flax-le...
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Open Arts Forum | Toad Flax Leaf Beetle: The Life
Poetry by Paul Brookes
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Please support this great initiative if you can. #cerneabbas #grassland #restorenature www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...
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Donate to the Cerne Abbas Nature Appeal
Donate to the Cerne Abbas Appeal so together, we can help restore the land, habitats and species that live there.
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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Lots of sponges and whelks egg cases washed up after stormy weather. Also some red frayed plastic, masquerading as seaweed with egg cases and shells attached. A rainbow too! #beachfinds #beachwalks
Orange sponge with brown seaweed on sandy beachYellow whelk egg case on sandy beachRainbow above a sandy beach with grey skyRed frayed plastic with egg cases attached
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This is wonderful! #poetrysky
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Beautiful - a wonderful quote to start the day - thanks @susannacrossman.bsky.social
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
A lovely read to start the day!
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Our August Digging in the Dirt #ecopoetry masterclass with @mklitfest.bsky.social raised £800 for Give Peat A Chance. A special ebook of the #poems it inspired is now available for £2 (all profits to Give Peat A Chance). #poetrysky www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...
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Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry - The Anthology | MK Lit Fest 2025
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry is an anthology of original ecopoetry written in response to prompts set by Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Jess Mookherjee and Rishi Dastidar during an online e...
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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
“Can a timeless moment of consciousness be ever adequately conveyed in a medium that depends on time, i.e., language? This is the mystic's and the lyric poet's problem.” -- Charles Simic
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Past the cutlers, halfway over the Don I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone, cutting shingle. 'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing' thefooting.wordpress.com
Greyscale image of 'The Footing', a walking-themed anthology published by Longbarrow Press
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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
RODDY LUMSDEN The Roddy Lumsden Archive is now open to the public for consultation at University of Edinburgh. The collection consists of the papers of Scottish poet Roddy Lumsden, dating mostly from his time in Edinburgh from mid-1980s to mid-1990s. archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories...
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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Proud to have my poem Belemnite in this brilliant anthology for the campaign #Givepeatachance get a copy here and raise money! www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social
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Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry - The Anthology | MK Lit Fest 2025
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry is an anthology of original ecopoetry written in response to prompts set by Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Jess Mookherjee and Rishi Dastidar during an online e...
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Milton Keynes Literary Festival @mklitfest.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Our August Digging in the Dirt #ecopoetry masterclass with @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social raised £800 for Give Peat A Chance. A special ebook of the #poems it inspired is now available for £2 (all profits to Give Peat A Chance). www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe... #poetry #anthology #GivePeataChance
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Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry - The Anthology | MK Lit Fest 2025
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry is an anthology of original ecopoetry written in response to prompts set by Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Jess Mookherjee and Rishi Dastidar during an online e...
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Caroline Davies @carolinemdavies.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social @mklitfest.bsky.social Give Peat a chance poets Eileen Anderson, Anne Cooper, Rene Crouch, Hilary Dunn, Caroline Gill, Richard Law, Nichola May, Michelle McGrane, Elizabeth Osmond, Judy Smith, Dave Wakely and Gail Webb. www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...
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Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry - The Anthology | MK Lit Fest 2025
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry is an anthology of original ecopoetry written in response to prompts set by Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Jess Mookherjee and Rishi Dastidar during an online e...
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Catching up - this looks great!
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Caroline Davies @carolinemdavies.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
One of my favourite places to read. The National Poetry Library @southbankcentre.bsky.social
Outside view of National Poetry libraryA reading den outside the National Poetry Library in London
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Brrrrr....perfect for today! 👻 🎃Happy Halloween!
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Everything quietens and slows. Some live on; some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores. We are rich with life and can’t outrun it. From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Orpheus returned to the world songless and broken. 
People watched and said nothing, knowing
his wife was lost. One day they’d tell stories:
how he chased her beyond death, brought her
out of the earth and clutched her to him

till at dawn a neighbour found them in the garden 
inarticulate. Autumn has come down from the north 
with its poems and shadows, its old memories.
Each year we shrink from the journey,
gather like moths round lamps, dance at the dark.

Everything quietens and slows. Some live on; 
some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores. 
We are rich with life and can’t outrun it. 
Better to settle as the toad settles,
believing in his end and his endless nativity.

From 'Sapo' by Rob Hindle
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Sounds like a must listen!
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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Between buses in Trowbridge I found some nice #PavementPlants for #WildflowerHour Hemp Agrimony, Common Mallow, Thornapple (a lot of it about this year), Michaelmas Daisy and a Snapdragon.
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Congratulations @susiecampbell.bsky.social !
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intergraphia @intergraphiabooks.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
An ace day hanging out at @smallpublishers.bsky.social
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Lovely - just right for this time of year! #poetrysky
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Dr Victoria Xiaoxiao Ma @victoriaxiaoxiaoma.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Saturday #afternoonread #JohnClare
From John Clare: Bird Poems. Wood engravings by Thomas Bewick
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Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Looking forward to Wastelands @guillemotpress.bsky.social at @smallpublishers.bsky.social tomorrow and to visiting all the wonderful presses and book artists represented there! Just a reminder that I will be reading upstairs in the library at Conway Hall tomorrow from 12.30pm! Do come and say hello!
Crowds of people looking at books at rows of bookstalls
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