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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

www.lulu.com/shop/sue-spi... Released into the wild...Lulu.com are now listing, search in their bookstore under Sue Spiers and find my other babies too.

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A Trunk of Creature Poems

The creatures in this collection are sometimes symbols, sometimes fascinating to behold, often just themselves.

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The Proof Copy of My New Collection is (fingers crossed) free of typos and omissions and there's info on the spine, so I'm off to click the release button and order some copies for sale at readings. with Lulu.com, search for Sue Spiers.

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Winning (winning???) poem with VERVE's poem of the month Thank you so much, especially given the shortlist, thrilled. I'm collating more creature poems and have had to update the blurb on the collection's acknowledgements. Coming in about a month to Lulu.com (A Trunk of Creature Poems).

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

In case you're missing the sun.

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Two poems in the 3rd edition of @jawbonecollective.bsky.social thank you Peter Roe and Izzy Darkwood. Here's a sonnet from it

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Been at Holland House on a writing week.

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Leaf 10 contribution (The Daily Haiku magazine)

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Jay Waters @jaywaters.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The President of the United States is a liar.

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Writing workshop with Jawbone, exploring a forest

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Larry Mitchell @drlarrymitchell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The two ICE agents who murdered a civilian in Biddeford, Maine today. Let's make them famous.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 08/07/2026

You will find something wriggling and alive in 'Eels' by Sue Spiers / @spiropoetry.bsky.social, the thing you find may or may not be eels. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sue-spiers-7/ #Poetry #InkSweatandTears

Image: an eel swimming in clear water surrounded by a dark teal background. Text: Eels/ I wrote a metaphone using eel/ for blue--light reflections in the water/ on a flooded motorway/ and mentioned glittering scales/ Sue Spiers

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

A poem called Unicorn in here, I made up Equus cornu as its latin name.

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

HURRY UP PLEASE, IT'S TIME! Last call for our FREE online launch tomorrow (Wed 10th June, 6.30pm, UK time) on Zoom of 'Shored Fragments...' shorturl.at/asE2f #eliot #spokenword #poetrylovers #poetry #poet #poem #modernism

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Snacks in the Glass House on Ventura

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Mary II palace in Porto, now used as commercial assocation headquarters.

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Make sure you get the summer's hottest poetry anthology in 2026, 'Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot's The Waste Land': www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

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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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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Have you got precious poems waiting for the right competition? Look no further than Buzzwords Poetry! Judged by the discerning Penrlope Shuttle, your poem could win £600 (or a special prize of £200 if you live in Gloucestershire )! Closes 29 August! Why not enter this Bank Holiday? LINK IN COMMENTS

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

If you enjoyed #fragmentsfriday please support Black Bough by buying and showing off ‘Shored Fragments’, our latest anthology. Let’s call it a tip! 🪙 💵 www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Eliot and Smith show off ‘Shored Fragments’: Poems in Response to T. S. Eliot’, which you can order right now! www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Flight of the Dragonfly took my Pere La Chaise poem about Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas for their Destinations anthology...Brighton University publishing course work....Go Students!

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

A poem in The Alchemy Spoon, thanks Roger, @marymulholland.bsky.social and Diana, brilliant cover Janina.

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

At poetry chart position no 7 between Carol Ann Duffy and Wendy Cope. 📖 🖊️ 🔥 🙏 ‘Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot’s The Waste Land’. www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Boost your spring and summer reading with ‘Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot’s The Waste Land’. 📚 www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Please support our projects by picking up a copy of out latest anthology ‘Shored Fragments’ - every copy makes us a little more sustainable across Black Bough, #fragmentsfriday and TopTweetTuesday 🙏 👇 👇 👇 www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Reading a couple of poems for Pompey Poetry Party's evening of Acts of Resistance.

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Richard Skinner @richardnskinner.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Hi @everyone Submissions are now open for this year’s edition of 14 magazine. Send us your best 14-liners! If you do submit, please do consider buying a copy of the magazine. Click on the link and scroll down for details. richardskinner.weebly.com/14-magazine....

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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My Owl Child has taken flight! Thank you so much Wee Sparrow Poetry Press and @emteepoetry.bsky.social for welcoming her! A huge congratulations to poetry pal @carolynthomas.bsky.social for her beautiful winning piece Blodeuwedd in Flight open.substack.com/pub/theweesp...

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Ekphrastic Challenge 14

The winning poem and a selection chosen by editor and judge, Emily Tee

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Spending Saturday at Artfulscribe Festival: This to attend in the evening - Tickets from MAST Southampton

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I do poetic impressions and here, for your delectation, is my evocation of the great British poet, #TedHughes 🦊 ❄️ On the eve of our Ted and #SylviaPlath themed TopTweetTuesday on Twitter ‘The Thought-Fox’. Give it a share, if you will. #poetry #spokenword

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Electric Fences Mock Me by @suefinch.bsky.social

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

fragility symbolised when pesticide and hunting ravaged bald eagle population, recovery slow and uncertain. #fragmentsfriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #poetry

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Thank you John Whale for homing 4 poems, magnificently thrilled!

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Thank you Obsessed With Pipework, Charles and Penny, most kind of you to home a poem.

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Hello! You might be interested to hear that we will be opening a one week submission window on Monday. Full details of how to send us your poems will magically appear on the site then.

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 26/01/2026

The Free Verse Prize 2026 is now open for entries! The Prize runs alongside the Free Verse Poetry Book & Magazine Fair, run each year by The Poetry Society. The judge this year is Nina Mingya Powles, with a closing date of 6th March. To enter and for more details go to the link in bio

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

How many Americans know where Greenland is, or where Denmark is?

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

A poem in Acumen issue 114 - thank you Danielle Hope for giving my pome a home.

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

‘Salads dwindle and soup steams’ 🥣 ‘Making layers of summer’s T-shirts’ ☀️ Sue Spires’s ‘Three Ways into Winter’ ❄️ www.blackboughpoetry.com/news @spiropoetry.bsky.social

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Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Today is the final day to send us your submissions for consideration for Issue 109! ⏰ What are we looking for? Check out all our submission slots mslexia.co.uk/submit-your-... #amwriting #writingcommunity #writers #writing

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Submissions : Mslexia, a magazine for women's writing and women who write.

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

It's taken a while, hanging about for the poetry magazine posts I know are still there, but I just deleted my Twitter (X) account.

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Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

So delighted to have eight poems in the wonderful #ifmas - available now @dreich.bsky.social and there is a fantastic paperback edition Huge thanks to Jack - subscribe free email jackcaradoctct@gmail.com and write subscribe please. Merry Christmas/ ifmas to each and every one of you! xxx

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

www.blackirispoetry.com/father-im-mick Delighted to be a part of this

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Father i.m. Mick — Black Iris

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