Daniel Duggan
@danieldugganwriter.bsky.social
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Pushcart nominated, published writer pouring words in the Scottish Borders
Grief is a trail of smudges.
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2 days ago
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Coin under a sheet of paper.
#poetry
13 days ago
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Roger Hare
13 days ago
I didn't know Simon Armitage has a new series of his 'Shed' podcast up-&-running. Great first episode with Frank Skinner & looking forward to the others 🤗
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The light is rising.
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14 days ago
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I've been tomb cold all day, mainly because I'm still wearing shorts to work in the forest
#poetry
15 days ago
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Alice Roberts
15 days ago
I was so delighted to join Dan, James and Andy for this edition of Fish!
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No Such Thing As Pudsey's Passport
Podcast Episode · No Such Thing As A Fish · 01/01/2026 · 56m
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/no-such-thing-as-a-fish/id840986946?i=1000742472971
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Victoria Spires
17 days ago
Sharing this little-read (by me) poem from my
@salopress.bsky.social
pamphlet Soi-même, in honour of last night's
#SuperWolfMoon
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They scream sap as they fall.
#nature
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Victoria Spires
23 days ago
Hello from deepest Lincolnshire. Happy
#smallpoemsunday
. Two spoils. One by me, one by Cavafy (spoils of my Christmas book haul).
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Robert Macfarlane
28 days ago
Hell of a title & last line, Daniel
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On the
#Solstice
I've written this piece called A Dying Star Inside My Mouth. The thin veil will thicken from now. This day always prods me... It brings
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
to mind, because in turn he makes me think of Susan Cooper's book The Dark Is Rising.
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Be yourself
#poetry
#poem
#poet
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This piece is called I can't look at you
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about 2 months ago
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Alice Roberts
2 months ago
Domination is now available as an audiobook - read by me!
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Thumb Stars by Daniel Duggan
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3 months ago
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Love is lumpy
#poetry
3 months ago
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Victoria Spires
4 months ago
#poetsofbluesky
#promptcombo
#poemsabout
Hope you don't mind a polite shout-out for this zoom event happening soon! Would love to see many of you there to hear these fantastic poets. DM me for zoom link x
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For
#SuicidePreventionDay
4 months ago
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It's too good not to share by me...Daniel Duggan.
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5 months ago
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Faultline flowers by Daniel Duggan
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5 months ago
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Leigh Goodwin
6 months ago
The heron Its heart is an old compass pointing off in four directions. Ascending tall ladders that walk to the edge of dusk. Surely that would be considered miraculous almost anyplace 🪜
#poem
excerpt: Louise Erdrich
#art
Karl Mårtens
#resist
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As the nightjars fill the air sings.
#poetry
6 months ago
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Become a landmark
#poetry
7 months ago
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For
#promptcombo
subject
#hidden
with
@victoriaspires.bsky.social
I've cobbled a short piece into being. This is called What You Didn't Get To See
7 months ago
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I miss looking up to dad, seeing the underneath of his chin
#FathersDay
7 months ago
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Helen Mort
8 months ago
I share unpublished short stories about women in bars on my Substack for paid subscribers (there are about 8 or so of them up there now). Sometimes they even include a brief heron, spider or - like this one - an unexpected goat.
open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
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https://open.substack.com/pub/helenmort/p/mythos?r=9hfqn&utm_medium=ios
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Alice Roberts
9 months ago
Everyone needs a Bacchus on (and in) their fridge…
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Everyday moments are never everyday
#poetry
9 months ago
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Spring poetry
#poetry
9 months ago
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Care bears
#poetry
9 months ago
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You are not defined or confined by the slant skin that you shelter yourself in.
#poetry
9 months ago
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I wish I could wear light as easily by Daniel Duggan
#poetry
9 months ago
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They'll wait
#poetry
10 months ago
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
10 months ago
This week’s
#PoemsAbout
theme is
#Saltwater!
🌊 🖋 Write your poem. 📅 Share it Friday for feedback from @alanparry83.bsky.social. Let’s create poems that
#TakeRisks
&
#LeaveScars!
#Authentic
#EndOnAnImage
#LightAndDark
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Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* on sale
10 months ago
These newsletter prompts are 😱🔥 this week. Be difficult not to write at least three of them. Thanks
@alanparry83.bsky.social
#poemsabout
A huge amount of work goes into putting that out for us I'm sure, and it really does work for me each week.
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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN)
10 months ago
Helen Mort reflects on identity, place, and the intersections of human experience in her poetry. 📖 Read her interview:
thebrokenspine.co.uk...
#PoetryOfPlace
#HelenMort
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Dog Ear Feature - Interview with Helen Mort - The Broken Spine
https://youtu.be/ClklJkyVa5k
https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/2021/03/31/dog-ear-feature-interview-with-helen-mort/
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Alan Parry He/Him
10 months ago
Oh yeah, my book releases today. You can buy print copies here:
#PeelingApples
Much love to
@darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social
for believing, &
@maryearnshaw.bsky.social
@ellierees23.bsky.social
@paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social
@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
&
@lozzawriting.bsky.social
amzn.eu/d/jcjXddq
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A poem about a chipped mug, or is it?
#poetry
10 months ago
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Poem for
#mothersday
10 months ago
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Let yourself buy something slant, askew, something that leans...
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10 months ago
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Robert Macfarlane
10 months ago
Happy publication day to
@danzep.bsky.social
for this banger of a book. It's funny & moving & generously various in its voices –– a journey after dark in two senses.
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Robert Macfarlane
10 months ago
Hello––Nan Shepherd's slender 1940s masterpiece The Living Mountain is published in a US edition for the first time this week, with a foreword by me & an afterword by Jenny Odell. I wrote here about how Shepherd re-imagined & re-made mountain literature.
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Robert Macfarlane on the Beauty and Urgency of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain
The Cairngorm Mountains of north-east Scotland are Britain’s Arctic. In winter, storm winds of up to 170 miles per hour rasp the upper shires of the range, avalanches scour its slopes and northern …
https://lithub.com/robert-macfarlane-on-the-beauty-and-urgency-of-nan-shepherds-the-living-mountain/
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stAnza Poetry Festival was a gob full of ink.. astonishing...#poetry
10 months ago
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Will you be at Stanza Poetry Festival tomorrow? I will
10 months ago
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Helen Mort
11 months ago
Then in May we have the wonderful Roy Macfarlane - 6.30 - 8pm at Manchester Poetry Library.
www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-libra...
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Poetry Reading Series: Roy Macfarlane in conversation with Helen Mort, 29 May 2025
Reading, Manchester Poetry Library
https://www.mmu.ac.uk/poetry-library/whats-on/events/detail/poetry-reading-series-roy-macfarlane-conversation-helen-mort
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For
#Spring
, for today, for all the seasons. This
#poem
is for those who climb, who walk, and who daydream
11 months ago
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A Spring
#poem
11 months ago
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Take a look out the window at the birds.
#nature
11 months ago
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On this
#valentines
weekend, I have tried for a more anatomical poem
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
11 months ago
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Advice please - writer's retreats uk? If you had to book one that ended beofre the end of March.. which would you pick? Scotland or Northern England preferably.
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