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Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

My short story, Coracle, has been published in New Writing, Volume 23, Issue 3, and is now available for access via Taylor & Francis Online. 50 free copies are available on this link: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CJSJK...

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Coracle

Published in New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing (Vol. 23, No. 3, 2026)

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

YT Poem of the Week: 'Facing the Music' by Mairead Byrne yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Your attribution is right, Rachel: it is called Castle Hill, and is known as such in the area. My point really was for the benefit of anyone seeing the picture ...it's an ancient site, but the tower, or 'castle', is a Victorian addition.

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Great picture, Rachel. I hail from very near there and it isn't actually a castle - it's a tower that was constructed to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1899. It's built on the site of Bronze Age workings and it's visible from all over Huddersfield.

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

YT Children's Book Review: 'Peas on Your Knees - A Life in the Poems of Michael Rosen' @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social @walkerbooksuk.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Revi...

Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Wonderful, moving homage to the value of books, Jonathan. Lovely, measured reading too.

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I entirely agree, Rachel. He can be very droll, too, alongside the sadness. Thanks for the repost!

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

YT Poem of the Week: 'From Cheshire' by Kit Wright yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

If you could take a minute to read this and, if it takes your fancy, then re-post it… I’d be so grateful. 🙏🏻 I’m doing my utmost to #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax & far beyond, and I need all the help you lovely lot can give me. Thank you! x www.canncomms.co.uk/post/actor-a...

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Actor and long-standing Patron, Reece Dinsdale fronts new campaign to save Halifax’s Square Chapel Arts Centre

Photo credit: Reece Dinsdale in the cinema/studio space at Square Chapel (photo by Ant Robling)Reece Dinsdale leads Square Chapel rescue mission: “It’s time to bring it home”Award-Winning Actor, Write...

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

'Challis’ poems dealing with his relationship with fatherhood are among the finest of a universally compelling collection.’ – @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social, in the Yorkshire Times, on The Green Parcel. A wonderful close reading of John Challis's second collection. yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Unde...

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The military bloat of the massive SUVs on the school run is getting ridiculous. You're there to take a child home for tea, not transport a pallet of shrinkwrapped banknotes through the fall of Basra.

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

YT Poem of the Week: 'Among the Talk and the Laughter' by Norman MacCaig yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Noggin the Nog was broadcast so long ago that early episodes were in Old English www.youtube.com/watch?v=l69h...

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Noggin the Nog in Old English

YouTube video by Old English and lyre with Russell

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

YT Poetry Review: Understanding the Stone - 'The Green Parcel' by John Challis @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Unde...

Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

YT Poem poem of the Week: 'Soiree' by Peter Reading yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I have more meetings in Halifax today. 🤞 I’m doing all I can to save this place for the Arts and the good people of West Yorkshire… and even further afield. In saving such places, we ALL win! 🙏🏻 Please RT. Thank you. #SaveSquareChapelArts #Halifax

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

You're very welcome, Carmella...it's a lovely poem!

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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Please RT! 👇 🙏🏻 X

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

YT Poem of the Week - Children's Special! : 'Catamaran Smile' by Carmella de Keyser @northernjim.bsky.social @carmellapoetry.bsky.social yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Chil...

Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Lovely, Rachel...like a Haiku rendered by Hopkins.

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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A poem from Issue 5 of @underbellypress.bsky.social - for those going back this week! 🌰🌰🌰🤬 #autumnterm #teaching #poetry #conkers

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It is...thanks for reposting, Rachel.

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

YT Poem of the Week: 'Hilltop' by Ruth Sharman yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

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Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

It’s now 10 years since an earthquake devastated Amatrice in central Italy. I visited the site shortly afterwards and saw the devastation and spoke to aid workers there. The village has still not been fully re-built and people are still living in temporary accommodation. Here’s the poem I wrote.

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

YT Poem of the Week: 'Pretending not to Sleep' by Ian Hamilton yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I can only echo that sentiment, Rachel!

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

YT Poem of the Week: 'Trust Me' by Mary Ruefle yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

YT Review: Citizens of Nowhere - 'Journeys of Hope: The Letters of Meyer and Sonia' by Alison Marshall yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Citi...

Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

YT Poem of the Week: 'The Pheasant' by Ali Lewis yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Good news Graham...please drop me a line when it appears.

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Great review, Jonathan...good for her!

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Fine thank you, Graham....trust you are too.

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 19/07/2023

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Me too, it's a belter. The collection is just nicely published...last week, I think.

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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

her shroud like washing / blown onto the grass Carol Ann Duffy

CAROL ANN DUFFY
Wish
But what if, in the clammy soil, her limbs grew warmer, shifted, stirred, kicked off the covering of earth, the drowsing corms, the sly worms, what if her arms reached out to grab the stone, the grooves of her dates under her thumb, and pulled her up? I wish. Her bare feet walk along the gravel path between the graves, her shroud like washing blown onto the grass, the petals of her wreath kissed for a bride. Nobody died. Nobody wept. Nobody slept who couldn't be woken by the light. If I can only push open this heavy door she'll be standing there in the sun, dirty, tired, wondering why do I shout, why do I run.

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

YT's Poem of the Week: 'Heredity' by Thomas Hardy yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

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Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 06/07/2026

Publication day! 🎉 Bill Broady's There's No 'F' in Wonderful is out now – a hilarious, unsettling dive into 1970s Leeds clubland, Northern Soul, casinos and the radiant, unforgettable Christine. 'Live! Live! Live!' 📖 £10.99 → www.saltpublishing.com/products/the... #PublicationDay #NorthernSoul

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

YT's Poem of the Week: 'The Old Pantry' by Peter Scupham yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...