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Wendy Pratt

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Author: The Ghost Lake Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk Editor: Spelt Magazine linktr.ee/wendypratt

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 17h
The Brontë nano molecules are amongst us wendypratt.substack.com/p/the-ghosts...
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The Brontë nano molecules are amongst us
Notes from the Writer’s Diary: Part 15
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Poor shieldbugs! The below-the-line commenters this morning don't seem to be big fans...
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This month we’re leaning into change and finding the mirror in the landscape wendypratt.substack.com/p/landscape-...
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Your life is a landscape
Writing prompts from the Dawn and Dusk Chorus
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S. Reeson / Experimental Poet @internetofwords.com · 17/09/2026
ESSENTIAL READ this morning, because it’s superbly written and I 100% agree with every word…
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Hello 👋 let me tell you about the worst review I ever had. wendypratt.substack.com/p/the-bad-re...
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The bad review that almost broke me
How it felt to have all my worst fears confirmed
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Delighted to be part of the poetry support crew for @internetofwords.com at the virtual launch of Forest Management 🥳 Get your ticket & join us on Friday 9th Oct 🥳
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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How come existential doom from AI is sexy, and existential doom from global warming isn’t?
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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“The starlings in this picture are at the halfway stage between their juvenile and adult plumage” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson ‘What to Look for in Autumn’ (1960)
A group of five juvenile starlings perched on brambles, picking at ripe blackberries 
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Lomelindi12 @lomelindi12.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Fascinating. Grim.
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This week I’m zooming in on a 1499 woodcut of the battle of Dornach wendypratt.substack.com/p/the-vulner...
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The vulnerable flesh
Notes from the research diary
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“The trouble with you, Spode, is that just because you have succeeded in inducing a handful of half-wits to disfigure the London scene by going about in black shorts, you think you’re someone. You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People.” Bertie Wooster
Daniel Thomas and his Black Shorts in London today.
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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So last year LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS came out, my first collection in eight years, and I worked really hard on getting back into the poetry scene. Teaching three residential courses, two online, lots of one-off workshops, mentoring, reviewing regularly, writing a poetry substack… 1/3
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Im delighted to be back with the poetry A Team judging this brilliant poetry competition again this year. The theme is ‘the stories that made us’ the deadline is 10th January. Get your poems in! We can’t wait to read them! www.eastridinglibraries.co.uk/festival-of-...
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Poetry Competition
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What’s going on at Notes from the Nargin this autumn? A memoir writing workshop The Dawn and Dusk Chorus writing sessions Articles galore: history, poetry, memoir, behind the scenes, writer agonising, writer diaries wendypratt.substack.com/p/autumn-at-...
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Autumn at Notes from the Margin
News about workshops and more
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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
View from Morfa Nefyn. #BlueSkyArtShow #Minimal
ICM photograph of a partly white building with hills behind, in shades of blue, grey and black.
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is just a brilliant, brilliant memoir.
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Come read my writer diary with me wendypratt.substack.com/p/i-want-to-...
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I want to show my workings out
Notes from the Writer’s Diary: Part 14
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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
So excited to be speaking in the Bronte Women's Writing Festival at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. I'm looking forward to chatting with @wendypratt.bsky.social about nature, landscapes & memoir on the Sunday afternoon. Hope to see you there... Tickets: www.bronte.org.uk/events/bwwf2... #naturewriting
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j alfred postrock @seriouslyreadmore.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My fav Mary Oliver poem.
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Una McCormack @unamccormack.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wonderful book
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Excited to be bringing my memoir, The Ghost Lake to the Brontë Women’s Writing Festival in September, alongside the brilliantly talented @nicwilson.bsky.social . See you there? www.bronte.org.uk/events/bwwf2...
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BWWF26: Nature, Landscapes and Memoirs | The Brontë Parsonage Museum
Find out how authors Wendy Pratt and Nic Wilson have approached memoir writing, and how nature and landscape helped them navigate challenging times through
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The fallout from the collapse of this glacier - a torrent of mud surging down the valley - killed hundreds of people. Gone, in a flash. Those people were wiped out by anthropogenic climate change. Our governments are simply not responding quickly enough to this disaster which is already upon us.
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In this month’s writing sessions we peeled back time to find connection points in the ancient landscape. wendypratt.substack.com/p/charged-la...
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Charged Landscape
Extracts, prompts and notes from August’s Dawn Chorus writing sessions
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S. Reeson / Experimental Poet @internetofwords.com · 20/08/2026
PRESALE LINK FOR MY BOOK IS HERE: the-flight-of-the-dragonfly-bookshop.sumupstore.com/product/fore...
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Forest Management S. Reeson - presale, signed
'A fascinating pamphlet' - Wendy Pratt; 'unflinching, inventive poems of discovery, trauma and healing' - Jen Feroze; '...candid, skilful and often unsettling poems; a forest trail that leads us throu...
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
From a self confessed lazy brain writer wendypratt.substack.com/p/the-lazy-g...
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The lazy girl’s guide to keeping research notes
It doesn’t have to be beautiful, it just has to work
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Tamsin Abbot, contemporary English stained glass artist #WomensArt
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
What is a haiku? A tiny house with three floors And seventeen doors
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
On Notes from the Margin today: the poetry of death, and a critical breakdown of my poem ‘Ny Dad on the Dark Side of the Moon wendypratt.substack.com/p/doubts-i-h...
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Doubts I had while writing poems about my dad's death
My Dad on the Dark Side of the Moon
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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Thriftstore Like @jenthorne.bsky.social I'm going with charity shop/jumble sale theme too for this:
Vintage 

I used to keep tanners
in a crochet purse
my Nana snapped up
at the jumble  in ‘63.

The very same day Kennedy was shot.
She swore.

With every night bus missed
we strode towards dawn.
Crises? What crises?
Tabloids were so much chip paper.

Now we are too old to make mistakes.
Lipstick kisses blot on Kleenex,
butterfly wings of Sherbet Vice
or Almost Nude.

We replay our youth in curated sound
headphone solace required as we fuck the truth
that the planet is stuffed 
with bargains we struck long ago.





Sarah O’Grady
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Maybe do not do thys?
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A massive amount of my working day today was spent trying to convince my computer that my printer was in the room with us. I feel like I’ve been conducting some sort of seance.
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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Are you doing the #SealeyChallenge this month? Here's a bit of help - our BIG Summer Sale is on and the perfect place to pick up some #poetry bargains: ninearchespress.com/shop
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
One from the archives open.substack.com/pub/wendypra...
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From the Archives: Rejection doesn't happen in an emotional vacuum.
On shredding the clinical negligence letters alongside the lit mag rejection slips.
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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
open.substack.com/pub/thewinge... Lovely to be published in @anteroompoetry.bsky.social today. Thank you.
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NEW POETRY 26 (2)
Martin Baxter Sara O'Grady
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The Harvest, 1908 by Broncia Koller-Pinell, Austrian Expressionist painter #WomensArt #Monday
Painting featuring a view over a golden crop field as a group of farm labourers work by traditionally collecting the harvest by hand
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Spydere Man, Spydere Man Doth al things a spydere kan Sondry webbes he kan weaven Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man!
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I hope you are failing well open.substack.com/pub/wendypra...
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I hope you are failing well
Notes from the Writer's Diary: Part 13
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
“The ex-chief exec of Southern Water has been charged with three others over an alleged plan to manipulate water quality tests to avoid paying financial penalties of about £45m” 😡 Why are we not surprised that this sort of thing might have been going on
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Ex-Southern Water boss charged over alleged plan to manipulate water tests
Matthew Wright is accused alongside three others of trying to save the firm millions in penalties.
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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
These stunning books are the first 5 titles from us this year. Are you missing any from your shelves? Take advantage of FREE UK postage across our shop and stock up on #poetry by @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social @kymdeyn.bsky.social & @jaxxi.bsky.social ninearchespress.com/shop
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Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Pleased to announce that my new collection of poems, Red River Valley, is coming out from Carcanet Press in October. You can pre-order it from your local independent bookshop, ask your library to stock it, or take advantage of Waterstones giving a discount if you pre-order in the next 3 days.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Fresco, Pompeii.
Black bird perched on handle of urn. Fresco.
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
My husband is in an agony of joy and regret ⚽️
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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A symphony in four movements, Steve Ely's 'Eely' explores the themes of power, conflict, biodiversity and eels as they converge and ramify in the Yorkshire fenlands (and beyond). Available as a beautifully produced hardback, with £2 off for the next week: longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Five copies of 'Eely' by Steve Ely
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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A thrill to see BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social on the 2026 @forwardprizes.bsky.social Best Collection Shortlist 🌟 Thank you to the prize and Judges for this exciting honour. Congratulations to Caroline and the other listed poets 📚 Net yourself a copy now ninearchespress.com/publications...
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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
TONIGHT - still time to sign up for our Triple Online Launch with #poetry by Daniel Sluman, Dillon Jaxx @jaxxi.bsky.social & Shagufta K Iqbal TUESDAY 14 JULY 7-8pm BST Join us to celebrate these books Recording link also sent to ticketholders Pay what you can www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
TrebuchetBurger will see your "smashburger" and rayse you a "burger we throwe hundredes of yardes wyth a trebuchet and thenne it doth hitte the walle of a castle." A TrebuchetBurger franchyse ys openinge near thee, anon!
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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
My guided book group for writers, ‘Reading Like a Writer’, will be running again from September 2026. We’ll read 6 books (fiction/essays/memoir) over 6 months, discussing what we can learn from them as writers. Fee: £125. Dates on my website. victoriamackenzie.net/teaching/ Do join us!
Pile of books: 
Rebecca Solnit – A Field Guide to Getting Lost (non-fiction)
Nussaibah Younis – Fundamentally (novel)
Ian Maleney – Minor Monuments (essays/memoir)
Geraldine Brooks – Year of Wonders (novel)
M. John Harrison – Wish I Was Here: An Anti- Memoir (memoir/anti-memoir??)
Toni Morrison – Jazz (novel)
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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
@thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Powercuts One for this week whilst I'm away, waiting for the storms over water.
Storm Pending

There is a block of light on the landing
solid as Mother,
lux spread thick over lino
constant as her hum
in the yard below,
all chores done.

Static sweeps electric, birds breathe
to a count of three…
then spill.
Dust richochets full stops
against her white sail sheets
then the power cuts.

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Thank you @emmalee1.bsky.social for your thoughtful review of PAIN SONGS by Daniel Sluman. "Sluman writes from a place of compassion and acute observation without sentimentality or pity. His poems demonstrate the human need for connection and understanding."
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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Re reading Klara and the Sun right now open.substack.com/pub/wendypra...
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Sometimes I just want someone to tell me a good story
What I'm Re-reading: Klara and the Sun
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