Laura McKee
@lauramckee.bsky.social
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She/her poetry, wildflowers, disco, socialism. “A very silly girl” - needlework teacher.
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Marc (with a Sea) Diamond
about 6 hours ago
Roses & Raindrops, From our garden.
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J-T Kelly
about 5 hours ago
Who is open for poetry submissions? I have a packet of three good poems looking for a home.
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Life is a
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Jo Stephen
2 days ago
Thrift, Armeria maritima, on the Chesil Beach
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Worth a listen!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Radio 4 - Bombshell: Five Faces of Marilyn Monroe, The Orphan
Who was the real Marilyn Monroe? Celebrating 100 years of an icon.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002x48l
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Photo of the blue moon reflected in an upstairs mirror where it actually did look blue! 🧞♂️
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Grass Vetchling for
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Is this the one known as scarlet shoe or somesuch…
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Yellow Vetchling for
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Meadow Vetchling for
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Possibly a Willughby’s leaf cutter bee smushing their head into a perennial pea.
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So many poppies this week, dancing in any much welcomed breeze like Kate Bush in their red dresses.
#WildflowerHour
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Lev Parikian
2 days ago
Just saw two more painted ladies. Or maybe they were potato chips.
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man judging the Bridport prize must be in want of my silly little poems.
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Grateful to the ever wise and fresh Obsessed with Pipework for including my poem! Subscribe to this gem of a mag if you care about poetry indies and poetry itself.
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My
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submissions shout out today is for Obsessed With Pipework magazine. Eclectic, wise, fresh, and usually a reasonably quick response from
@catbloke.bsky.social
and
@blossoms21.bsky.social
obsessedwithpipeworkblog.wordpress.com
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Obsessed with Pipework
quarterly of new poetry with strangeness & charm
https://obsessedwithpipeworkblog.wordpress.com/
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The Guardian
3 days ago
‘I am very serious about being silly’: children’s illustrators on the art of storytelling
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‘I am very serious about being silly’: children’s illustrators on the art of storytelling
From The Twits to the Gruffalo… Quentin Blake, Cressida Cowell, Axel Sheffler, Lauren Child and more reveal how they bring children’s books to life
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/30/i-am-very-serious-about-being-silly-childrens-illustrators-on-the-art-of-storytelling?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1780129013
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Ian McMillan
4 days ago
Off to volunteer in the tearoom at Darfield Museum later. I’ll be installing our panel of the UK AIDS quilt too. So proud to have it at the home of Maurice and Fred! See you all there; we’re open from 10.00-14.00.
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Rose Ruane
4 days ago
Please donate if you feel comfortably able able to
www.justgiving.com/page/susan-y...
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On Viewless Wings
3 days ago
I love footpaths and walking routes - love that they exist, love the Wainwright books as physical objects and the spirit of adventure they express. I've walked the coast to coast across the north of England, & I've twice run - once over 5 days, once over 4 -
www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/...
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Five stunning walks on the new King Charles III England coast path
The 2,700-mile route covering the entire English coastline is almost complete. We walked less trodden sections big on scenery and history
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2026/may/30/five-stunning-walks-king-charles-england-coast-path
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I don’t think they knew or cared that either me or one of their bredren were watching. Swollen thigh beetles in a pink poppy.
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Gustav Parker Hibbett (they/them)
5 days ago
aaaaaah thank you
@poetrydaily.bsky.social
!!!! 🪽♥️🪽♥️🪽
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Grateful to the ever wise and fresh Obsessed with Pipework for including my poem! Subscribe to this gem of a mag if you care about poetry indies and poetry itself.
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ALCS
5 days ago
We are profoundly saddened to share that our Honorary President, Maureen Duffy, has passed away. Maureen was extraordinary: a novelist, poet, playwright and critic of incredible range, and one of the founding figures of ALCS. Learn more about her legacy and impact:
https://ow.ly/yHWs50Z52Ye
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This is my Mary Delany climbing rose by our front door in the evening light, opening up in her own sweet time.
6 days ago
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34° no breeze: ughhhh 24° nice breeze: kiss me out of the bearded barley
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Joanne Harris
8 days ago
Margery Kempe (c. 1373–after 1438) was an English Christian mystic and author. She was born Margery Burnham or Brunham around 1373 in Bishop's Lynn (now King's Lynn). Her father, John Brunham, was a merchant in Lynn, mayor of the town and Member of Parliament.
#CelebratingWomen
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Orla
9 days ago
Thrift on Achill with the Atlantic wind
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The so very pink cutleaf cranesbill is on tour right now with its
#WildflowerShow
for
#WildflowerHour
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Lentil vetch putting on a tiny
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The bluebells have moved over to let this lovely red (pink!) campion have its own
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Holly blue butterfly on goats rue leaves today.
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Today I went to take a photo of a a peacock butterfly on the ground. It was as big as my hand so when it flew up maybe subconsciously I held out my hand. Instead it chose to settle on my arm for a few seconds before flying off into the bushes in embarrassment because I was not a flower.
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Petition to allow my disrobedness.
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When Beth Gibbons said “Just…” on Glory Box and when Carly Simon whispered “Son of a gun” on You’re so Vain, that’s the sort of thing I’m aiming for in poetry. Apparently I am failing but hey.
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Saw this angel today.
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britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk/butterfly/es...
Essex Skipper
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Essex Skipper - Britain’s Favourite Butterfly
The Essex Skipper is one of the 60 beautiful butterflies found across the UK. Will it be Britain's Favourite Butterfly?
https://britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk/butterfly/essex-skipper/
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Peace & Justice Project
12 days ago
We welcome news that City Hall has blocked a deal between the Metropolitan Police and Palantir. The government and local authorities must go further and completely remove Palantir from our NHS and public services.
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London mayor Sadiq Khan blocks £50m Met police deal with Palantir
Exclusive: Scotland Yard had been in talks to use Palantir’s AI technology to automate intelligence analysis
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/21/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-blocks-met-police-deal-with-palantir?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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The Guardian
13 days ago
Aardvark calf born at Chester zoo is ‘doing brilliantly’ after bottle-feeding
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Aardvark calf born at Chester zoo is ‘doing brilliantly’ after bottle-feeding
Births of the mammals extremely rare in captivity, say keepers, with ‘Womble’ only the second calf born at Chester Inside a heated incubator at Chester zoo, a wrinkled newborn aardvark nicknamed “Womble” spent its first weeks being bottle-fed milk through the night by keepers determined to keep the rare calf healthy. Named after the creatures in Elisabeth Beresford’s children’s books and the subsequent animated TV series, the nocturnal animal is only the second aardvark born at the zoo in its 94-year history. Keepers say births of the species are extremely rare in captivity, with the last aardvark calf born in the zoo in 2022. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/20/aardvark-calf-womble-chester-zoo-bottle-feeding?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu
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Nigella Lawson
13 days ago
🐝Given it’s World Bee Day, I thought
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just had to be this Honey Chocolate Cake!
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Honey Chocolate Cake
I was once in Dean & DeLuca in New York and saw a little chocolate cake decorated with sugar bees. Having gone through a Biedermeier period earlier on in my life, I have something of a weakness for be...
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/honey-chocolate-cake
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I do love a red tailed bumblebee so I was happy to see one today on
#WorldBeeDay
. Like a soot sprite from Studio Ghibli if they had sat in some orangey red paint.
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Paul Connolly
13 days ago
@bethosmond.bsky.social
’s Hatchery arrived. Highly recommended. Contributing to a rich tradition of physician creatives, apothecary Keats, doctors Bulgakov & Chekhov, the poetry’s controlled mix of historicism, professional observation & personal engagement reaches beyond memoir towards universality
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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ,
14 days ago
Autism defined by Autistic people:
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Booked in on yet another Stav Poleg Poetry School course because apparently I am obsessed.
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I’m not sure about this Strictly, no more of Johannes dancing? Still processing give me time.
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this crown of sonnets could've been a limerick
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Zoë Ryder White
15 days ago
Today is the birthday of the poet
@hanvanderhart.bsky.social
. Please read every single one of their poems. They are gorgeously-wrought, clear-eyed poems of breathtaking longing, and they make a kind of magic that reminds me what poems are for. Happy birthday, Taurus! 🌱🪻🫛🌻💙
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Latest poetry rejection: "Dear Laura McKee you try your best gerl"
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My camel looks so tired It's hardly worth my while
#Later
It’s dawning on me that when I met Glenn Tilbrook because he came up to the upstairs soul counter I ran in Our Price Lewisham we were both in our twenties ffs
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At this point I'm not sure if this was sheep or common sorrel, but it does have tiny flowers for
#TinyPlants
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Musk storksbill in one of the bursts of sunshine between bursts of giant hailstones this week.
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