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Rosie Johnston @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Veiled sunshine shakes out her spangled gown over miles of silver billows. We run, crabs loose from a spilt green bucket, back to the best of childhood. From 'Safe Ground' @micapress micapress.uk/product/safe... #smallpoemSunday #writingSunday #writersofbluesky #seasidepoetry #17syllables

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

#Poetry #Art #LateAfternoon There’s a certain Slant of light... That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes – - Emily Dickinson 🎨 Edward Gordan

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Atlanta Writers Club @atlantawritersclub.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our door is always open. Please share this with friends who are passionate about writing. #amwriting #writetip #WritingCommunity #writerslife

Club members with QR code and message: “Love writing? Join the Club. Whether you’re a beginner or a well-published author, the Atlanta Writers Club has the programs and services to help you advance your craft. Scan for upcoming events.”

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Rosie Johnston @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

'Safe Ground', published by wonderful Mica Press last year, came up in conversation again today. A friend's friend needed cheering up so she sat her down & read her my poem 'Happy the Woman'. All smiles in no time. micapress.uk/product/safe... #SafeGround #Horace

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#Poetry #Art #Sunset She sweeps with many-colored brooms … And leaves the shreds behind … Oh housewife in the evening west You dropped an amber thread … - Emily Dickinson 🎨 Ludwig Munthe

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Rosie Johnston @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#smallpoemSunday This is part of the title poem from 'Safe Ground', my collection published last year by @micapress @lesbillbell.bsky.social Each stanza is #17syllables though not the usual haiku form. Enjoy your #Sunday

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Leslie (Les) Bell @lesbillbell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh, I forgot to say, my second collection of poems is out. Yes, it is self-published, because I have been too busy publishing other writers' work to have had time to seek another publisher for my own. So here it is micapress.uk/product/ragg...

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Ragged Flock, Les Bell – Mica Press

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Bizarro∙Ren @blockmind.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Shirley Jackson always knows how to start a book

Excerpt from the opening paragraph of “we have always lived in the castle”:

“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death- cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead.”

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Atlanta Writers Club @atlantawritersclub.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thanks to our great speakers Leah Keggi and Carla Hoch, our volunteers and everyone who made our September meeting a success. Join our mailing list for info on all of our events: atlantawritersclub.org/contact/. #amwriting #WritingCommunity @leahkeggi.bsky.social

Carla Hoch in front of screen with slide about fight scenes.

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A new batch of books has now reached me and they're all itching to find a reader, clamouring for me to slip them into an envelope and post them off, ready to be devoured. Would you like to lend them a helping hand?! 😜 If so, just drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy for you...

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Rosie Johnston @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Gorgeous book launches at #Rye as part of the arts festival. Lovely to hear Alex Josephy launch her 'A Little Bridge' (Pindrop Press) today - birdsong included - & to see Anwesha & Sagar's new book too. 'Rye in Light and Shade' launches tomorrow in the George's ballroom @alexjosephy.bsky.social

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Rosie Johnston @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#SmallpoemSunday 'Carnlough Bay' from my Safe Ground collection published last year by Mica Press @micapress @lesbell #Carnlough #Antrimcoast #seapoems

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The Uses of Sorrow (in my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. —Mary Oliver #SmallPoemSunday #poetry

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Rosie Johnston @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

#writingbuddies tomorrow 2-4pm at Tilly's Old Curiosity Tea Shop in Broadstairs, close to the beach, across from the little cinema. Perfect place on a lovely Sunday afternoon #startwriting #keepwriting

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Rosie Johnston @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I went down to the shore this evening with Mary Oliver's poem in my heart & a little #17 of my own from way back hovering at my shoulder. This is the most gorgeous time of year. Enjoy your autumn #MaryOliver #17syllables #igodowntotheshore

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#Poetry #Painting #Apples There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch, Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall. - Robert Frost 🎨 Vanessa Bowman

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Atlanta Writers Club @atlantawritersclub.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Want a chance to earn a contract with a literary agent or editor? Get advice about what’s right and wrong with your book? Learn more and sign up for the fall Atlanta Writers Conference at atlantawritersconference.com/the-conferen.... #amquerying #amwriting #writetip #WritingCommunity #writerslife

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Our 35th Atlanta Writers Conference on November 6-7, 2026, held in-person at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel, consists of TWELVE parts and you may participate in one, some, or all of these events …

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Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

All your mates are coming. Don’t be late.

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Just over three hours to go...!

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Colorful Crow Publishing @ccpublishing.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

TODAY IS PUBLICATION DAY for The Mountains Don’t Forget by Pat Walker Johnson! Follow a young woman whose journey takes her far beyond the mountains she calls home in search of freedom, independence & love. #DebutNovel #HistoricalFiction #AppalachianFiction #StrongWomen #BookClubFiction 💙📚 #booksky

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026

[Exit Queen.]

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Rosie Johnston @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Thunderstorms all day here on the north Kent coast and fabulous skies. The poem is #Seasalter from #SafeGround published last year by Mica Press micapress.uk/product/safe... Seasalter is along the coast a bit from #Whitstable & each stanza is a micropoem of #17syllables because I love them

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Good to see Rosie Johnston on here ( @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social ), a fine poet who's well worth a follow.

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La Chica del Bonet 🍉 @chicabonet.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

90 años de su asesinato. Este homenaje que le hicieron a Lorca en la serie El Ministerio del Tiempo sigue siendo un mar de lágrimas. Es una escena preciosa 😭❤️✨

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

#Poetry #Painting #Nightime So comes to us at times, from the unknown And inaccessible solitudes of being, The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 🎨 Kaoru Yamada

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Agustina Pérez @maguspe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Los libros van siendo el único lugar de la casa donde todavía se puede estar tranquilo. JULIO CORTÁZAR

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Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Happy Birthday, Li-Young Lee. Here he is on food and family, from Rose (1986). #poetry

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The Last Carry has now hit 1,800 likes on here! If you've enjoyed it, please do grab a copy of the collection it's taken from, Whatever You Do, Just Don't, which was a Poetry Society Book of the Year in 2023. Drop me a DM for more details...

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Here's a terrific example of how Bluesky connects poets with readers...

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Dennis O'Driscoll here uses deceptively simple language to construct a powerful poem that reaches out far beyond its modest physical constraints...

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Colorful Crow Publishing @ccpublishing.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

It's Giveaway Time! The Mountains Don't Forget is featured in a Goodreads Giveaway! One woman's courageous journey to find her own path. Enter August 2–14 #GoodreadsGiveaway #TheMountainsDontForget #HistoricalFiction #AppalachianFiction #SouthernFiction #Booksky 💙📚

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Atlanta Writers Club @atlantawritersclub.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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Conference Activities

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John Kenny @johnkenny13.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Many thanks to Eamon Mag Uidhir for selecting this poem for inclusion in the new issue of Flare (#31). It's my second appearance here and I'm delighted to be sharing pages with Maurice Devitt, Ross Hattaway, Una Ni Cheallaigh, Daniel Wade, Insaf Yalcinkaya and a host of other wonderful poets.

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John Kenny @johnkenny13.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Very happy to see three of my poems featured in The Starbeck Orion today. You can read them here: the880.substack.com/p/welcome-to... And Paul at Starbeck is looking for submissions, so have a look at his guidelines while you're there. #poetry #TheStarbeckOrion

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Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Fifty Days Of Poetry And Artwork. Day Forty-Eight featuring the work of John Kenny

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John Kenny @johnkenny13.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I'm delighted to have two poems featured in today's New Irish Writing page in the Irish Independent: #poetry #NewIrishWriting #IrishIndependent

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Hel S @helstweets.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A good review of a great book! Highly recommend reading both.

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