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Anteroom (formerly The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Today’s excerpt features the moving and inimitable @sophiaargyris.bsky.social with her poem, "The Blackbird is Stuck on Alarm." To read the whole poem, how she effortlessly blends the ecological and the personal, come and find us at wingedmoon.com/biophilia #poetrycommunity #poetry #poems

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Well, that was fun. Shall we do it all again soon?! Much love to @corinnaboard.bsky.social, @dbodepudi.bsky.social, @sophiaargyris.bsky.social, @marcellenewbold.bsky.social, @bornonadarkmoon.bsky.social for stunning reading, & all those who came to listen ❤️

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Finished Creatures Poetry Magazine @finishedpoetry.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Submissions are now open for issue nine. The theme is Trespass: rights and wrongs; encroachment and colonisation; faults and forgiveness. Please see the website (link in bio) for information and guidelines. Window closes August 31st. 🕊 xx

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Our Black Bough book of the month by Sophia Argyris - ‘Heronless’ @sophiaargyris.bsky.social Review by @victoriaspires.bsky.social 🤩 www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

''Heronless' sees her tackle big themes with her characteristically exacting language and emotional intelligence.' Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social inspires with her review of Sophia Argyris's 'Heronless. @sophiaargyris.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...

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Sophia Argyris @sophiaargyris.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Thank you so much @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and the brilliant @victoriaspires.bsky.social for this review of Heronless (Palewell Press). "I find it hard to liken Argyris’ work to that of another poet – her voice is sober, curious, precise and non-judgmental."

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Sophia Argyris @sophiaargyris.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I have two poems in this issue of @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social magazine, a home for art and experimental poetry. You can get a free copy at the link below!

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Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Look what just arrived! The new Abridged Umbra Sumus issue! See you at @ccadld.bsky.social on Saturday night!

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Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Our donations button is working again if you can spare Abridged a penny or two. All of our magazines and projects are free but we do have costs. You can donate (or get some back issues) here: www.abridged.zone/obtaining-ab... Thanks!

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Obtaining Abridged / Donating to Abridged | Abridged Zone

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Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

We never stop. We'll be @ccadld.bsky.social on the 28th June for the launch of our Umbra Sumus issue. Here's a sneak peak of some of it's art by @aideenbarry.bsky.social Locky Morris and Louise Manifold. More news soon. www.abridged.zone #poetry #poetrymagazine #ireland #northernireland

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eche poetry @echepoetry.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

From ‘In Response to Your Latest E-mail’ by Sophia Argyris @sophiaargyris.bsky.social read the full poem at www.echepoetry.co.uk/one

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Jai Michelle Louissen @jaimichellepoet.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Our theme is BIOPHILIA over at the winged moon and we have made a few tiles to lay it all out for you 🪾

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Sophia Argyris @sophiaargyris.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Lovely to be included in issue one of Eche Poetry! There are so many great poems in there ❤️

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

PREORDER (31.07.2025, @richardnskinner.bsky.social): Richard Skinner’s Undercurrents is a hybrid essay collection that brings together literary criticism, memoir, cultural commentary, and music writing in a loose, associative structure. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...

A book cover with a pale blue background. At the top, the title Undercurrents is written in dark blue serif font, with the author’s name, Richard Skinner, beneath it in a smaller, bright orange serif font. The central artwork is an abstract geometric composition in shades of blue, orange, pink, and white, evoking the shapes of musical instruments like a guitar, trombone, and tambourine, intertwined with circles and angular forms. At the bottom, the publisher’s name, Broken Sleep Books, appears in small pink serif text

The Narrative Triangle

In every text, there is a set of three relationships – that between the narrator and character, between character and the reader, and between the reader and the narrator. According to whichever one of those three relationships you wish to highlight, you will have to use your narrator in different ways and to different degrees.
So, if you want the closest possible relationship between character and your reader, you will have to use your narrator like a stenographer – someone present in the story-world whose sole job is to relay to the reader what the characters say and do. The narrator-as-stenographer has no voice of their own, they offer no opinions or value judgements on any of those words or actions, they are just silent recorders.

The early short stories by Hemingway that feature a character called Nick Adams are a good example of this kind of role for the narrator. In story after story, we see Nick Adams go hunting, or fishing, putting up a tent and taking it down the next morning. We are offered no commentary on any of this by the narrator – the stories are pure transcripts of word and action. If we want to know what Nick Adams is thinking or how he feels, we will have to infer it for ourselves purely from what Nick Adams says and does. In this type of narration, we have direct, first-hand access to what the characters say and do. There is no ‘interiority’. This is ‘showing’ at its purest – so stripped down and without any narratorial comment, Hemingway’s early stories could almost read like a film scripts. Dashiel Hammet’s stories and novels are another good example. Acting purely as a pane of glass, the narrator-as-stenographer is nowhere to be seen or heard. A good, more recent example of this style of narration is John William’s fine novel Stoner.
At some point, however, the narrator may pierce the body of a character and enter their hearts and minds, revealing to the reader what the character is feeling and thinking. This could be done only occasionally, and very briefly, via ‘free indirect style’, those moments when the narrator climbs inside the head of a character and allows us to hear what they are thinking. Take this extract from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway:

He dropped her hand. Their marriage was over, he thought, with agony, with relief. The rope was cut; he mounted; he was free, as it was decreed that he, Septimus, the lord of men, should be free, alone (since his wife had thrown away her wedding ring; since she had left him), he, Septimus, was alone, called forth in advance of the mass of men to hear the truth, to learn the meaning, which now at last, after all the toils of civilization – Greeks, Romans, Shakespeare, Darwin, and now himself – was to be given whole to…

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Poetry Wales @poetrywales.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

We are over the moon to share the 13 shortlist poets for the Poetry Wales Award 2024-25, sponsored by Literature Wales and judged by Jeremy Dixon. You can read the full collection on our website: poetrywales.co.uk/poetry-wales... Stay tuned for information about our online Awarding Ceremony.

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Sophia Argyris @sophiaargyris.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

It's possible to be both heronful and heronless at the same time. I have a last few copies of Heronless left. If anyone would like one please send me a message. You can also buy one from Palewell Press directly. Thanks so much to everyone who has already bought Heronles 💕

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Tom Hirons @hironstom.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Psst. As many of you’ll know, I’m the lead editor for Clarion Poetry Quarterly. Issue 4 is launching in May, but this is a heads-up to all you poets: CLARION 5 submissions are open! Find out more at clarionpoetry.com/submissions

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The Rialto @rialtopoetry.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Ink Sweat & Tears are here. Give them a follow, go on. @inksweatandtears.co.uk

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Sophia Argyris @sophiaargyris.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

If you ever ask yourself can poetry help people, or help the world, here is your chance to make some difference by buying a book of poems written in Gaza during genocide. All profits go directly to the poet and her family. Order from @outspokenpress.bsky.social

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Sophia Argyris @sophiaargyris.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Now that Heronless is fully launched I'm very happy to say that my next pamphlet, Blood Tundra, will be published by the brilliant @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social in 2026. I'm excited to work with Aaron and the team. More news on this next year.

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Sophia Argyris @sophiaargyris.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

A few photos from last night's launch of Heronless. Thank you @dronealoneprods.bsky.social @benedictan.bsky.social and Alan Buckley, and everyone who came along

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Sophia Argyris @sophiaargyris.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A hobby of mind is buying poetry books whenever I can, and I've pre-ordered this one from @betarish.bsky.social @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

This is a chance to support Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social in their bid to survive. Why not buy just one book - there's loads in their online shop at affordable prices.

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EveryHeron 𓅣 @everyheron.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

No Bittern here. (yes Bitterns are Heronkind too)

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Sophia Argyris @sophiaargyris.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Thank you everyone who came to the online launch for Heronless! The in person launch will be on the 8th April in Oxford, with guest readers Alan Buckley and @benedictan.bsky.social and music from @dronealoneprods.bsky.social Get your free ticket www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-pam...

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Poetry pamphlet launch: Heronless, Sophia Argyris

Come celebrate the release of Sophia Argyris' poetry pamphlet "Heronless" with us!

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aJazzNoise @ajazznoise.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Daily Tune #2752 - "Shadowcaster" by he didnt dronealoneprods.bandcamp.com/track/shadow... - rumbling guitar drone... the sound of the horizon approaching... drone alone productions

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Shadowcaster, by drone alone productions

from the album he didnt - Distraction Threshold

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Unchartered Streets @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

I don't know what the death of civilised America is going to sound like; but the dull metallic stamp of a pneumatic drill breaking up the Black Lives Matter mural on 16th Street yesterday morning felt like some sort of premonition.

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Gregory @gregorykearns.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Another glorious episode of The Poems We Made Along The Way dropped today. Gather yourselves around the wireless and listen to my conversation with the legendary @helenmort.bsky.social.

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Episode 9: Helen Mort

The Poems We Made Along The Way · Episode

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Poetry London @poetrylondon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

This upcoming Sunday (!) - it would be great to see folk there to toast the new issue: southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/poe...

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Poetry London Spring Readings | Southbank Centre

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Dillon Jaxx @jaxxi.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This competition is open to all women and non binary writers aged 18 and over. There is an additional prize category for an Emerging writer over 40.🍀

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Sophia Argyris @sophiaargyris.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

This looks like a great way to spend an evening for those in London

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Sophia Argyris @sophiaargyris.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Thank you Jane Hirshfield for selecting Love In A Time of Extinctions as a finalist in the Mslexia competition. It's the first time I'm been published in Mslexia.

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Sophia Argyris @sophiaargyris.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

thank you @janeburn.bsky.social @jobellwriter.bsky.social @corinnaboard.bsky.social for these very lovely endorsements for my new pamphlet Heronless. Launch details in the last photo ☺️

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Dillon Jaxx @jaxxi.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I'd love to fill the last few places in my next workshop. The first week is all about starting new work and getting ideas down, in the second week we'll meet up again, listen to each other's poems and give and offer constructive feedback within a supportive space.

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

North Sea Poets is live! We offer online masterclasses, webinars, workshops for poets everywhere (novice or adept) and readers, because poems sing in the dark times. Hope you'll join us. Pls see website. Do share. northseapoets.com 🌊 @northseapoets.bsky.social

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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We got rejected for Arts Council funding again, but at least they're being honest about the fact they have no money. If you wanna buy our books, please do: www.brokensleepbooks.com/books

We decided not to fund your application this time because:
- our funds are limited, we decided to fund a mix of

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patwelshpoolpoetry.bsky.social @patwelshpoolpoetry.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

welshpoolpoetryfestival.org.uk Fri 6th & Sat 7th June Tickets already selling fast! Open Comp judged by Helen Mort is taking entries from Mon 3rd March, 10 free single poem entries available!

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Home - Welshpool Poetry Festival

A celebration of contemporary poetry for all. 6 to 7 June 2025 in Welshpool.

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