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Café Writers @cafewriters.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Details of our next Zoom event with @gosspoems.bsky.social & Christina Thatcher (+ open Mic) are in the newsletter link below: preview.mailerlite.io/preview/1366...

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CW on Zoom 14th September: Rebecca Goss, Christina Thatcher & open mic!

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Isn’t it weird when you’re listening to a podcast and the host suddenly starts talking as though you can see them?! You can’t see through headphones!

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Halima Cassell sculptures are ace!

A rust-coloured, tall sculpture by Halima Cassell in the garden of the Hepworth Gallery, Wakefield, with Stu - a blonde haired person squeezing their face in the corner for a selfie

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

@elizabethlovatt.bsky.social I’m ❤️ing your Lesbian Line book! Got about 80 pages left & am a bit narked that I have to go to work tomorrow instead of finishing it.

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I read Galatea by @madelinemiller.bsky.social yesterday and then watched Mannequin again.

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

I read #NinaSimone ‘s Gum by @warrenellis.bsky.social today. Fabulous book i have meant to read for ages. Just gone for a run listening to her Philips recordings and heard Pirate Jenny in a whole new light. Wondering if the recording of the Meltdown concert has appeared yet.

Title page of the memoir’Nina Simone’s Gum’ by Warren Ellis, signed by the author

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Café Writers @cafewriters.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

please join us tonight to celebrate our competition winners! details in the link! mailchi.mp/d6293af64caa...

Photograph of Esther Morgan, the First prize winner of the 2025 Cafe Writers open poetry competition

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

One of the best sounds in the world is that of books dropping from a letterbox! Have just received these from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social ! Read poetry! Support small presses! Literacy is power! @rushikawick.bsky.social @arainbowpoet.bsky.social #HelenTaithCurtis

Four books on a yellow tablecloth next to a pair of glasses: exit Strategy by Patrick Wright, Tides Elemental by Helen Taith Curtis, infections of loss, by Rushika Wick, Opening Line, ed Aaron Kent.

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

My mum died of alzheimer’s early Tuesday. My head is a mess. I wrote this poem after visiting the @foundlingmuseum.bsky.social @poetrywales.bsky.social published it. It’s weird to be posting this. I am reading Joyce’s Dubliners at the moment, in a roundabout way it has prompted me to do so.

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Interesting conversations in our house when Ricken from Severence gets confused with Dicken from The Secret Garden

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Café Writers @cafewriters.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Tomorrow night we have @pascalepetit.bsky.social and @simonmaddrell.bsky.social with us! How cool is that?! Details in the link: mailchi.mp/e0187a65a6b8...

The poet Pascale Petit looking fabulous in a red floral top and matching beads

The poet Simon Maddrel looking fabulous in a blue floral shirt and chain necklace accessories. Reading aloud from a book

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Some pics from @listencambridge.bsky.social last night. Elliot Galvin, Ruth Goller, Sebastian Roachford & Mandhira De Saram made some incredible sonic art! The original congregation of the beautiful Unitarian Church would be amazed to hear such sounds from instruments they recognise.

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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

We're not in Narnia anymore. #CSLewis's 'modern fairy tale for grown-ups' warns of a world where technocrats are kings. That Hideous Strength, dramatised by Melissa Murray, with a great cast led by Anneika Rose & Joel MacCormack 3pm Sun 9 Feb @BBCRadio4 #audiodrama www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - CS Lewis: That Hideous Strength, The people from NICE

Lewis's 'modern fairy tale for grown-ups' warns of a world where technocrats are kings.

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Just received a brilliant print of #OscarWilde by the artist Katherine Anteney. ❤️ do you recognise it @hazardpressuk.bsky.social ?!

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Please celebrate our Cafe Writers winners!

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Hmm, should give Porco Rosso a watch again soon #Ghibli

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I saw Joan of Arc’s signature and the surviving MS of Julian of Norwich’s first MS yesterday, and i went to the Moomin shop so that was a good day! Thank you @britishlibrary.bsky.social thank you #MoominShop

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🎵 Danger is great joy. Dark is bright as fire.

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This company are working to reduce stigma & raise the visibility of adult survivors of CSA. They’re encouraging survivors & allies to wear Zebra print on Friday. If the usual silence on this subject is questionable to you, please take a look. www.vivgordoncompany.co.uk/blog/zebra-d...

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ZEBRA DAY CSA SURVIVOR PRIDE 2025

WEAR & SHARE ZEBRA ON FRIDAY, 31st JANUARY 2025. Bring an end to stigma, bear witness to the scale and impact of child sexual abuse, stand alongside survivors in solidarity and celebrate our...

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Café Writers @cafewriters.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Expect more from us in here in the next few weeks, like the results of our poetry competition & details of our events!

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John McCullough @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

One of my recent poems on class and queerness - love performing this.

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

We have lots of cookbooks in the house. These are two of the best

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Got this print of ‘Girl In the Woods’ by Su Blackwell, happily commemorating that time I was in Poetry Review

‘A Girl In The Woods’ by Su Blackwell an opened book forms the floor of this diorama where a cut out young woman sweeps cut-out words from the ground surrounded by paper trees.

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

The #TSEliotPrize readings are now up (shall link in due course), but you can watch my short reading at the Royal Festival Hall via the link. Good lord, I am a bit theatrical … and the poem dedicated to terrified trans siblings … oh my … #poetry #trans youtu.be/FdQCm4SAU-M?...

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Rachel Mann reads from 'Eleanor Among the Saints'

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

This will clearly be an excellent course & a fantastic treat for those who get on it!

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

We're thrilled that The Snow Globe by Jenny Pagdin has just won the Poetry Category at the East Anglian Book Awards. Congratulations Jenny💙 Thank you @writerscentre.bsky.social and judge Jessica Streeting. Buy this award-winning book in our online January SALE ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Janua...

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Tomorrow I will start one of these: which should it be?

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 20/01/2025

He will steal, sir, an egg out of a cloister. For rapes and ravishments he parallels Nessus. He professes not keeping of oaths; in breaking ’em he is stronger than Hercules. He will lie, sir, with such volubility, that you would think truth were a fool.

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Live Canon @livecanon.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

“Hope is the thing with feathers” Whether you’re a big fan or you’ve never heard her poetry before, Emily Dickinson is what you need. Check out our Emily playlist here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Letters spell out the word hope vertically, with coloured feathers falling from them.

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Does anyone else get disproportionately annoyed when MS Word tries to correct your grammar?

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It took me a scarily long time to realise there are no ads on here!!!

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Propel is def one of the most interesting uk poetry magazines at the moment!

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Cat Woodwood is ace, so go to this I say!

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I walked past 2 school kids this morning, one was teaching the other the lyrics to Baggy Trousers. It was exactly the right boost of hope needed for a January morning.

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Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I will almost certainly post more than once on here in 2025

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