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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

First poem is This is not a poem by Síofra McSherry from Midnight Masses with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social (Tech issues lost the introduction)

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Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My poem Apricot which I read on Line // Breaks on Loose fm last night hosted by @sarahocwrites.bsky.social, Galia Admoni and Anna Kibbey. It is from my @serenbooks.bsky.social book, Portrait in Mustard, which also features poems about Peaches, Des’ree and A Male Curator 🩷

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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/07/2026

“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Two weeks to the next edition of #LineBreaks on Loose.fm 6pm Tuesday 28th July. Line up to follow! @galiamelon.bsky.social #poetry #booksky #loosefm

A flyer for Line Breaks on Loose FM. 6pm, Tuesday 28th July. Poets talking poetry Live on Loose.fm
At the bottom of the screen is the email address linebreaks.loosefm@gmail.com
The background photo is a stone rhino statue nestled among greenery. In the foreground a sign reads Please do not climb on the rhinoceros.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Two weeks to the next edition of #LineBreaks on Loose.fm 6pm Tuesday 28th July. Line up to follow! @galiamelon.bsky.social #poetry #booksky #loosefm

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Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Performing a full performance of Galia’s book with Galia Admoni, Ed Roffe, and @sarahocwrites.bsky.social at The Groucho Club.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Fabulous evening at the book launch for @galiamelon.bsky.social Someone should have pressed record - out now from #strangeregionpress

A man & 3 women stand in front of a deep blue wall beneath an exit sign. They are holding manuscripts & smiling in a pink glow.

Galia Admoni and Joe Vaughan sit behind a table with copies of the book Somebody should have pressed record stacked on it

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Tonight! Some excellent poets coming up on #linebreaks 8pm on loose.fm #poetry #booksky

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Tonight! Some excellent poets coming up on #linebreaks 8pm on loose.fm #poetry #booksky

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

Jar of Moles (Grant Zoology Museum, London)
crittery dozened things each pink snout snootling
formaldehyde up it's bamboozler which poor fuck
had to collect them out in the dirt with a shovel
here moley moley BONK . I’m only gonna
put you in a jar and let tourists go eww at you
for the next two hundred years god look at me
for two hundred years I’d do anything look
mummy, one of them’s licking the glass—
honey it's dead velvety sweet sardined hope
their ghosts are friends teeming in a molish
afterlife dark and circular everything worm-
flavoured tasty buggy snackerels what if
you smashed the mole jar? vinegared
moles spilling out flaccid & swimming
everyone screaming someone saying Freddy
you gotta get us a new jar of moles—
—goddammit boss I never asked for any of this

A jar of wet preserved moles, the jar is very full and all the little hands, feet and snoots mark it as both upsetting and fascinating

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Sitting in the sunshine, putting the finishing touches to our playlist for the next #LineBreaks 📻 Weds 24th 8pm on #LooseFM #poetry

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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I wrote about this yesterday, you know. A brief history of 'legitimate concerns' (and who decides what those are) jrnl.ie/7069404

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A brief history of 'legitimate concerns' (and who decides what those are)

The evolution of the phrase into a dog whistle is, frankly, a concern.

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 10/06/2026

We must take on the hateful forces that seek to divide us. My statement on recent events in Belfast.

The knife attack in Belfast on Monday was truly horrific. My thoughts are with Stephen Ogilvy and his family, who deserve justice.

Targeting and terrorising innocent people because of the colour of their skin, including setting fire to their homes, has nothing to do with justice or a desire to keep communities safe, however. It is racist mob violence, which has been organised, enabled and whipped up by those seeking to profit politically and financially from hatred, fear and disorder.

Social media platforms who give money and reach to these individuals to promote their hate need to be held to account. They cannot be allowed to continue pouring petrol on the flames.

The disgraceful violence is a direct consequence of the normalisation of vile, racist rhetoric across the UK, which needs to be challenged far more robustly in our political discourse.

I welcome the steps the Prime Minister has taken to work with police and the First Minister of Northern Ireland. We must stand together to prevent further disorder, and to take on the hateful forces that seek to divide us.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

2 weeks until the next edition of #LineBreaks on #LooseFM with #AnnaKibbey & @galiamelon.bsky.social. Amazing poetry coming up from Jack Underwood, @kymdeyn.bsky.social Boris Snider, Ada Limon plus this time some #classics too. Weds 24th 8pm, loose.fm listen in!

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Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day · 07/06/2026

this is 100% true but it also made me imagine a much happier world with "emergency poets" you can call out on a sunday, and they'd arrive, take one look at your sad poetry disaster, and after a sharp intake of breath would tell you: "okay, let me go back to my van and fetch the iambic pentameter"

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

A steady stream of poems have been making their way into our inbox the last few days, but there's still time...

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Kate Macdonald 📚 🧶 @kateem.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

There is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on the media to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

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Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name

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Natalie Whittaker @natalie-whittaker.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

You can listen to #LineBreaks on SoundCloud now, featuring a poem from my @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social collection The Point Is You Are Alive, and loads of amazing city poems ❤️

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Submissions OPEN from NOW until midnight Sunday 24th May. atriumpoetry.com/submission-g...

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This morning for the first time pulling out a book of poetry on the tram caused a small child across the aisle to blurt out "oooh Mum, what's *she* reading". Excellent cover @kymdeyn.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social Excellent contents too 👏🙌

An almost neon bright, lime green book cover. Snaking across the cover is a black & white illustration of a scaly, hairy, monster worm. The title Folkish runs down the side of the snake. It's by Kym Deyn via Nine Arches Press.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Join us tonight! 8pm! Live on loosefm.com Poems to make you love your city #poetry #booksky #LineBreaks

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Natalie Whittaker @natalie-whittaker.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I'll be reading from my @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social collection 'The Point Is You Are Alive' on #LooseFM next Tuesday! 📻

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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

“That the universal credit cut will affect new claimants says the quiet part out loud: anyone can become disabled or ill. And every time governments slash the safety net, we can’t know if it’ll be us, a loved one or stranger who will fall through it.” Today’s col www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan

If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist France...

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404 Ink @404ink.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

📢 THE 404 INK BURSARY FOR UK-BASED SMALL PRESSES NOW OPEN Applications are now open for our bursary to support small presses in the UK. There are 2 strands you can apply for: donating £1,000 towards creative projects, or £500 towards hosting an intern. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Apply for the 404 Ink Bursary

404 Ink is the award-winning independent publisher, founded in 2016 to ‘publish loudly’, run by freelancers Heather McDaid and Laura Jones-Rivera. We will be closing the company on our tenth birthday ...

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Lots of fun, and only a few fluffs operating my first sound show since about 2013 😬😆 I'd almost forgotten how much I love diving into great poems with @galiamelon.bsky.social & #annakibbey

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Gearing up for this new poetry radio hour - tonight @8pm on #LooseFM www.loose.fm Lend us your ears 🙏💙📚

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Putting the final touches to this. Have a listen on #Loosefm from 8pm tomorrow

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Mostly very excited & only marginally terrified to host this new poetry radio show on #LooseFM with @galiamelon.bsky.social & #AnnaKibbey. Join us at #LineBreaks for some excellent readings from @karanchambers.bsky.social @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social @zosiasamosia.bsky.social 🎙️📻💙📚 #booksky #poetry

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

My friends at Poetry at Leeds University have opened the Brotherton Prize up for submissions; it's open to anyone in the world over the age of 18 who hasn't yet published a full collection of poems. Full deets &c here: poetry.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-p...

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Brotherton Poetry Prize | Poetry@Leeds

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I didn't realise I needed to read this article today but I did 🙏❤️

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I read this cover to cover today and it is just as beautiful, present & moving as I thought from Natalie's reading. Full of life and language and craft ❤️📚💙

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