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Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Don’t say that - it looks nice!
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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
clip from the Rough Trade Books showcase at the Queen Elizabeth Hall - collaboration with Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap) - ‘the body of a teenage girl’ (very nearly titled ‘Miracle Sauce’ ✨
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The Rialto @rialtopoetry.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
New pamphlet now available. The Naming of Hunger by Rachael Davey. £7 inc P&P (UK) www.therialto.co.uk/pages/produc...
The cover of the pamphlet featuring a black and white print on a cream background
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Ver Poets @verpoets.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Kathy Pimlott's poem, "How I do the grieving a few years on", was commended in the Ver Poets Open Competition 2025, judged by Rory Waterman. To enter this year's competition, which will be judged by Vanessa Lampert, go to verpoets.wixsite.com/verpoets/com.... The closing date is 30th April.
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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
'Technically, the human walk is an interrupted fall.' I could fall into a morass of adjectives while trying to praise @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social 's new collection, 'Crowd Voltage' @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social . Instead, I will simply say that it is an uninterrupted walk into joy.
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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Considerations – Peter Raynard atriumpoetry.com/2026/03/10/c...
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Considerations – Peter Raynard
Considerations . . Peter Raynard has three books of poetry, latest Manland (Nine Arches Press, 2022); pamphlet ‘The Harlot & the Rake: poems after William Hogarth; and academic essay on w…
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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
These people have no plan or endgame.
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Katalin Halmai @eublogo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The U.S. State Department is set to fund MAGA-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to spread the Trump administration’s policy positions. We eagerly await the patriots'/sovereignists' strong indignation and their demands for investigations to be carried out! 🕵️
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US government to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities in Europe
State department grants to spread ‘American values’ are part of Washington’s 250th anniversary celebrations
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Follower of Rembrandt van Rijn, A Man Seated Reading at a Table in a Lofty Room, ca. 1628-30
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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 05/02/2026
Atrium Poetry @atriumpoetry.bsky.social (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. duotrope.com... #amwriting
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Re-opening: Atrium Poetry
Atrium Poetry @atriumpoetry.bsky.social (Poetry; non-paying) opened to poetry submissions. https://duotrope.com/magazine/atrium-poetry-22300 #amwriting
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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 05/02/2026
The arms trade is a root cause of human suffering, facilitating deadly conflict and the suppression of human rights around the world. Quakers joined other peace campaigners in two days of protest to draw attention to the SDSC-UK arms fair hosted by Birmingham's NEC. Video credit: Zoe Broughton
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Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Mike Okuda @mikeokuda.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Warm air masses in the atmosphere rise upward, causing cooler air from neighboring areas, sometimes from the arctic, to rush in. This is how atmospheric heat powers storms. In other words, global warming causes colder, more intense winter storms. www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxo...
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Exxon's Own Models Predicted Global Warming--It Ignored Them
Scientists working for the oil giant Exxon in the 1970s and 1980s estimated temperature increases with remarkable accuracy. Those findings could now be used as evidence in climate litigation
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Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Wonderful
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Many don't realize that the most vulnerable or immune compromised depend on the rest getting vaccinated properly to keep diseases from spreading out of control. It's not just “my body, my choice” when it comes to saving lives.
Screenshot of a NewsWire post on X displaying a headline stating that U.S. vaccination rates are declining and that no county in Idaho, Louisiana, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, or Wisconsin has reached kindergarten herd immunity. The headline cites The Washington Post and appears on a plain background without an accompanying photo.
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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
What really scares me about Reform is the way their heads are all mutually interchangeable.
Dog looking at a pair of twats.
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 27/12/2025
On the Seventh Day of Christmas we bring you @pennyblackburn.bsky.social , @fionalarkin.bsky.social, @ruthhiggins.bsky.social. Read their work here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/on-the-seven... #InkSweatAndTears #FeaturedPoem #ChristmasPoem #12DaysOf
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On The Seventh Day of Christmas.

What the Woodcutter
Knows About Midwinter
Penny Blackburn

The Approach
of the Cailleach
Fiona Larkin

At the year’s midnight
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Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Thanks so much for that!
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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Poet & @poetrylondon.bsky.social editor Niall Campbell was @robinhoughton.bsky.social & @peter-kenny.bsky.social's guest on the Christmas edition of @planetpoetry.bsky.social. He was reading from and discussing his 3rd collection The Island in the Sound. planetpoetry.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...
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Sound | Shadow - with Niall Campbell - Planet Poetry
Never mind the baubles... Here's the magic from Niall Campbell, who shares spellbinding poems from his Bloodaxe collection The Island in the Sound, which blend unique elements from his South Uist upbr...
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Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Do hope so. Happy Christmas!
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Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Congratulations Gill!
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Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana @corrintachibana.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
It’s a privilege and lovely to be featured on the Two Way Poetry podcast by Chris Jones, poet & Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University. You can find us here, talking Kimiko Hahn, the Japanese zuihitsu form, and many other things poetry! twowaypoetry.podbean.com/e/alexandra-... poetry!
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Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana on Kimiko Hahn's poem 'Compass' and her own poem "Madam Gout' | The Two-Way Poetry Podcast
In this episode, I talk to Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana about Kimiko Hahn’s poem ‘Compass’ and her own poem ‘Madam Gout’. We discuss all things zuihitsu - reflecting on Kimiko Hahn’s own approach to the...
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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Christmas 1984 by Moira McPartlin
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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The Mistress Replies – Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/12/16/t...
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The Mistress Replies – Ruth Higgins
The Mistress Replies . .
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Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Thanks for publishing this one, Atrium!
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lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk
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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
A gift for the season 📖 💝 🎁 Our Christmas and winter anthology. Get it now, before Christmas! Hardback and paperback versions. 🦌 ❄️ 💫 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
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Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Delighted to have my sightly ranty poem about being a difficult woman over at Atrium today!
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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Are you afraid you might be difficult? – Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/28/a...
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Are you afraid you might be difficult? – Julia Webb
Are you afraid you might be difficult? . . Julia Webb is a neurodivergent writer/editor based in Norwich. She has four collections with Nine Arches Press: Bird Sisters (2016) Threat (2019) The Tell…
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
"More winter rain has flooded makeshift tents housing displaced families in Gaza as Israel continues to restrict the entry of aid into the strip"
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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Structural engineer Roma Agrawal & historian of sex @k8lister.bsky.social share A Good Read with @harriettsg.bsky.social 3pm @BBCRadio4 - The woman who took on Georgian Britain's worst husband and won; an artist's childhood & a novel about a Sri Lankan architect. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Roma Agrawal and Kate Lister
A structural engineer and a historian of sex share favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
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Ver Poets @verpoets.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Don't forget our poetry open mic at 7.30 pm tomorrow (Wednesday 19th November) in The Saint & Sinner, St Albans, when our featured poet will be Estelle Price. It's free and open to all. Sign up on the night from 7.00 pm, if you want to read.
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 16/11/2025
“And what is home if not the choice – over and over again – to stay?” Marjorie Lotfi – winner of the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK – on becoming a writer, from fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 to arriving in Scotland writersmosaic.org.uk/people/marjo...
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Marjorie Lotfi | WritersMosaic Magazine
Forward Prize winner 2024 for The Wrong Person to Ask, Lotfi moved to Tehran as a baby from the US and fled during the Iranian Revolution
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perversemag @perversemag.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The first poem in PERVERSE 9F is 'The leaflet with the lightbulb says do not swallow' by Em Gray @em-words.bsky.social. Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9f
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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
If you want – need – an argument as to why Reform and this incarnation of the Tory party are just horrible, look no further than this: they want shot of Poems on the Underground: www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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'TfL 'splurges £72,000 on poetry in Tube carriages instead of driving down fares
EXCLUSIVE: Transport for London has defended the ‘Poems on the Underground' scheme despite criticism over spending priorities.
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Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Read this. This is America. poems.com/poem/the-inc...
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The Incognito Lounge
They’re perfectly visible this evening, about as unobtrusive as a storm of meteors, these questions of happiness plaguing the world.
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Anne Bailey @anne-bailey.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
SO THRILLED to be in the ‘poetry rupture’ that is The Aftershock Review Issue2. Thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social
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ottilie mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I really enjoyed reading this review. I wish it had mentioned Krasznahorkai's translators. George Szirtes translated The Melancholy of Resistance. I translated Herscht 07769, the book under review here. Even a simple byline at the top. 'Translated by...' It's important.+
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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
R.I.P. The Bay Horse – Carole Bromley @carolebromley.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/11/07/r...
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R.I.P. The Bay Horse – Carole Bromley
R.I.P. The Bay Horse . . Carole Bromley is a York-based poet who writes for both adults and children. Winner of a number of prizes, including the Bridport, Hamish Canham and the Caterpillar prize, …
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
But nothing to see here if your news comes from the UK media….
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Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Good to hear - know it’ll be fruitful! X
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Some are querying whether Andrew can renounce a dukedom without an Act of Parliament. But you can parse a duchy and he’s left outside. Good night.
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Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Thanks so much, Atrium, for publishing this one.
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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Fireweed – Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/17/f...
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Fireweed – Ruth Higgins
Fireweed . . Ruth Higgins has published poems with  Alba, Arachne Press, Ink Sweat & Tears and Strix Magazine. A poem was commended in the Verve Festival competition 2025.
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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Words and music for a wounded network – Dominic Fisher @domfishpoet.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/10/14/w...
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Words and music for a wounded network – Dominic Fisher
Words and music for a wounded network . . Dominic Fisher lives in Bristol, was a co-editor of Raceme magazine, was highly commended in Poetry Wales Award 2025, is widely published, and sometimes br…
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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This... try reading it out loud to yourself. Fantastic work @leiabutler.bsky.social 👏
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John Glenday @johnglenday.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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On What The Angel of History Might See
Niall Campbell writes a first part on private histories
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Ruth Higgins @ruthhiggins.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I’m so sorry I sent a bungled entry for the iamb auditions - tech incompetence!
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ten million hardbacks @10millionhardbacks.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Haven't read anything by László Krasznahorkai (yet!) BUT I can recommend The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus by Gábor Schein from Seagull Books' Hungarian list, also translated wonderfully by Ottilie Mulzet @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social 10mh.net/2020/07/08/t...
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The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus review - 10mh.net
The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus review: from Seagulls Books, Gabor Schein's book is translated by Ottilie Mulzet and Adam Z. Levy
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Goodnight, all Reading to My Father by Jorie Graham www.divasofverse.com/2018/04/read...
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Reading to My Father by Jorie Graham
Reading to My Father I come back indoors at dusk-end. I come back into the room with your now finished no-long...
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