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Tara Wheeler

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Co-Editor at Dust Poetry, writer, researcher, mother of two small people. She/her 🪴

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Tara Wheeler @tarawheeler.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
We’ll be highlighting a poem every day from Dust’s new issue, starting today
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
A Poem A Day from the new issue begins today with I Clean Up by Linda Laino: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/i-clean...
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Tara Wheeler @tarawheeler.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Writing to the world today. We’re so proud of the work in this issue! 🧡✨🌱
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Sarah Wallis @wordweave.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
That arrived fast! @dustpoetry.bsky.social Dear World issue out tomorrow, with a little breakfast from me...
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Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I’m so excited to see this issue go live tomorrow! We have some amazing poems to share with you 💛
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Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana @corrintachibana.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Delighted to have my poem, ‘Flight’ included in issue 15, Dear World, of Dust Poetry. With thanks to the editors, Tara and Catherine.
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Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Delighted to be in the latest issue of Dust Magazine — risking life & limb exposing a national treasure… www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/human-b...
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Human Being Erasure by Simon Maddrell
found commentary from The Green Planet, Human Worlds episode The relationship between plants  humans  and humans is extra-ordinary. We’ve been adapting to each other for as long as we’ve ...
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Joshua Seigal - 'YAPPING AWAY' out now! @joshuaseigal.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Delighted to have a poem published in the fabulous @dustpoetry.bsky.social check it out #poetrycommunity www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/flowers...
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Flowers by Joshua Seigal
FlowersSomeone should probably tell the kidto stop picking those flowers. Someoneshould probably tell him that they wereplanted with a loving hand, in this little space,for everyone to enjoy. I don’t ...
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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Thank you so much @dustpoetry.bsky.social for publishing my poem My Daughter is a Gannet. It is part of a trilogy of birds - and just for family harmony … my other two fledglings are beautiful too! 😂 #poetry #blueskypoets www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/my-daug...
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My Daughter is a Gannet by Rachel Burrows
My Daughter is a Gannet With blue sea-eyes meticulously lined, and fixed on the horizon,she soars above us.The sun crowns herflawless feathers -a golden bequeathment.Streamlined and focussed, she swoo...
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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I really enjoyed this poem Simon- such a clever use of the form
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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I loved it! Such beautiful images-/the cliff edge 🌊 / 😍
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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
This is gorgeous Joshua - what an ending! 😂 I’m totally with you - it’s a conflict I feel all the time!
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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
It’s such a cool poem Alex! ✈️ x
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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Thankyou so much to the wonderful editors @dustpoetry.bsky.social for selecting my poem on antenatal counselling and prematurity for the very moving Dear World Issue www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-tin... #poetsonbluesky #poemsabout
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The Tiny Nappy by Elizabeth Osmond
The Tiny Nappy I find it helps to show, so I takeone of the tiny nappies with me.Smaller than the smallest panty liner-you cannot find them in Tescos.I hand them around at lecturesa palm-width slip of...
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Philippa Bowe @philippabowe.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
That is such a lovely poem - so much love in there, congrats! 🙌
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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Such a touching poem - the fragility you convey is amazing. Your poems always leave me knowing and thinking more! 👏👏👏
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DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk · 22/11/2025
Congratulations, Elizabeth. Gorgeous cover art.
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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
The whole thing is gorgeous - congratulations!
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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Have a Poem published in the latest edition of @dustpoetry.bsky.social about microplastics www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-mic...
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The microplastics in my body unionised by Ross McCleary
The microplastics in my body unionised while I was staring at the ocean;they took matters into their own hands,making pickets in the alcoves ofmy prefrontal cortex, replacingfuzzy void yesterdays with...
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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
MY NAME IS❗A poem I wrote about otherization, has found a home in the beautiful new issue of DUST POETRY. It forms part of a collection of 30 poems entitled DEAR WORLD... 🌍 Thank you to editors Tara Wheeler & Catherine Redford.✌🏼 #DearWorld #Projection #Otherization dustpoetry.co.uk/post/my-name-i…
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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I’m delighted to be included- just finished my first read through (will return often I expect) it’s a thing of beauty! The poems talk to each other in surprising and deep connections and the result is a real temperature-check of our time. Congratulations 🙌🏻
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Julie Weiss (she/her) @colourofpoetry.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Thank you to the wonderful editors of @dustpoetry.bsky.social for selecting "After a Stranger Called This a Hobby" for their Dear World Issue! I wrote this poem after a tweet of mine went viral a while back, and not long after my dad passed. www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/after-a...
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After a Stranger Called This a Hobby by Julie Weiss
After a Stranger Called This a Hobby In one hour, the clock has ticked off eightwords. The moon yawns. The stars clear their throats, but I need to wrap tonight´sgrief in a metaphor, all glitter and r...
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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Thank you, I feel honoured to be part of the Dust family. 🤍
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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I read a poem at The Book Bag Open Mic @paulwritespoems.bsky.social called My Owl Child. @helenlaycock.bsky.social This is another one of the trilogy! You said you’d like to read it - I thought I’d wait til it looked like this! 😂 @dustpoetry.bsky.social www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/my-daug...
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My Daughter is a Gannet by Rachel Burrows
My Daughter is a Gannet With blue sea-eyes meticulously lined, and fixed on the horizon,she soars above us.The sun crowns herflawless feathers -a golden bequeathment.Streamlined and focussed, she swoo...
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RRRMMM @strongmisgiving.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Obviously check the rest of the issue here 👇 cracking stuff
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Sarah Wallis @wordweave.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
That is a stunning cover by Molly Lemon, love it, can't wait to dive in and spend time with these pieces, the new issue of Dust, out now!
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R.J. Breathnach @rjbreathnach.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
You can now read my poem "Democracy Dies" in the latest issue of @dustpoetry.bsky.social! I wrote this poem for the journalists of Gaza, bravely documenting the genocide of the Palestinian people 🇵🇸 #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/democra...
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Democracy Dies by R.J. Breathnach
Democracy Diesfor all the journalists of Palestine There used to be a qualifieron the end of that phrase.Something to reassurethat democracide only occursin limited circumstances. That journalistic su...
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Our NEW ISSUE featuring 30 remarkable new poems and stunning cover art by printmaker Molly Lemon is LIVE. You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ... We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
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Issue 15, Dear World
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Dr M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig @whatisaletter.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
How gorgeous is that!
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Tara Wheeler @tarawheeler.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
“They tried to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds!” We feel so honoured to feature this work by printmaker Molly Lemon on the cover of Dust Poetry and we can’t wait for you to read its poems! Out on Saturday! 🧡✨🌱
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
✨COVER REVEAL✨ Here it is, the cover for Dear World, Issue 15! Featuring this stunning work by printmaker, Molly Lemon “They tried to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds” feels so apt for this issue and we can’t wait to share its 30 new poems with you on Saturday! 🧡✨🌱
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
COVER REVEAL:
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
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Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I’m delighted to announce that my debut poetry collection, ‘The Way the Water Held Me’, will be published by The Emma Press in the Spring. Available to pre-order now!
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Pre order a copy and read three poems from the collection below! theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/...
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The Way the Water Held Me - The Emma Press
A moving debut poetry collection exploring love, loss, and the resilience of the human heart.
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
“Across poems of heartbreak and honesty, memory and mourning – and through unlikely companionship with a widowed Mary Shelley – Catherine Redford’s debut collection is visceral, profound and alive with what it is to be human, to have lost and to find ways to continue to love.”
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
SOME NEWS: Huge congratulations to our brilliant Co-Editor @catherineredford.bsky.social, whose debut poetry collection ‘The Way the Water Held Me’ will be published in March by @theemmapress.bsky.social
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 13/11/2025
The Emma Press has acquired a ’heart-wrenching’ debut poetry collection about young widowhood by Catherine Redford, entitled The Way the Water Held Me, scheduled for March 2026 👇 #BookSky
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The Emma Press signs debut poetry collection about young widowhood
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Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana @corrintachibana.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Delighted by my first Pushcart nomination from Dust Poetry magazine. Sincere thanks to @dustpoetry.bsky.social editors @catherineredford.bsky.social and @tarawheeler.bsky.social
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Alice Stainer @alicestainer.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
This was such a lovely surprise!Thank you to @catherineredford.bsky.social & @tarawheeler.bsky.social for this vote of confidence 🤩
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
✨Happy National Poetry Day!✨ We’re working our way through submissions for the next issue, which is out next month. In the meantime, you can read every single issue of Dust for free here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk
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Tara Wheeler @tarawheeler.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Congratulations to our Best of the Net nominated poets this year! 💖✨
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Tara Wheeler @tarawheeler.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Congratulations to our Best of the Net nominated poets this year! 💖✨
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations: Paul Short, Laundry Day Amy L. King, Fade Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone? Ryan O’Neill, LDR Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room Antonia Kearton, Sanico Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
SOME NEWS: Dust will open for submissions 20th August - 20th September. This will be for our fifteenth issue which will have the title and theme ‘Dear World’. We can’t wait to read your poems 💛 (Poems sent before 20.08.25 won’t be read)
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
“Grass explodes from the lawnmower & the bluejay twinning himself in the birdbath dreams of feathery heavens as the green hose spritzes tuberoses” Today’s poem is Stolen Earrings by Rob McClure: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/stolen-...
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Stolen Earrings by Rob McClure
Stolen Earrings Grass explodes from the lawnmower& the bluejay twinning himself in the birdbathdreams of feathery heavensas the green hose spritzes tuberosessmell buttery under an eyelid slice of sun....
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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
And here lies a remnant of drop and swing a piece of soul fossilised and here a breath of life congealed on ruby lips chandelier and marble steps Today’s poem is Roulette by Scott Elder. Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/roulett...
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Roulette by Scott Elder
Roulette     And here lies a remnant of drop andswing   a piece of soul   fossilised and here   a breath of life   congealedon ruby lips   chandelier and marble steps flick and spin   a creature in bi...
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