Daniel Duggan
@danieldugganwriter.bsky.social
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Pushcart nominated, published writer pouring words in the Scottish Borders
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Alice Roberts
23 days ago
Domination is now available as an audiobook - read by me!
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Thumb Stars by Daniel Duggan
#poetry
about 2 months ago
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Love is lumpy
#poetry
about 2 months ago
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Victoria Spires
2 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
3 months ago
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It's too good not to share by me...Daniel Duggan.
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4 months ago
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Faultline flowers by Daniel Duggan
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4 months ago
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Leigh Goodwin
4 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
5 months ago
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Become a landmark
#poetry
5 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
6 months ago
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I miss looking up to dad, seeing the underneath of his chin
#FathersDay
6 months ago
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Helen Mort
6 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I share unpublished short stories about women in bars on my Substack for paid subscribers (there are about 8 or so of them up there now).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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Alice Roberts
7 months ago
Everyone needs a Bacchus on (and in) their fridge…
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Everyday moments are never everyday
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7 months ago
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Spring poetry
#poetry
7 months ago
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Care bears
#poetry
7 months ago
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You are not defined or confined by the slant skin that you shelter yourself in.
#poetry
7 months ago
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I wish I could wear light as easily by Daniel Duggan
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8 months ago
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They'll wait
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8 months ago
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The Broken Spine
8 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
8 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
8 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
8 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
8 months ago
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Poem for
#mothersday
8 months ago
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Let yourself buy something slant, askew, something that leans...
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8 months ago
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Robert Macfarlane
8 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
8 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.
lithub.com/robert-macfa...
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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
9 months ago
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Will you be at Stanza Poetry Festival tomorrow? I will
9 months ago
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Helen Mort
9 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
9 months ago
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A Spring
#poem
10 months ago
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Take a look out the window at the birds.
#nature
10 months ago
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On this
#valentines
weekend, I have tried for a more anatomical poem
@profaliceroberts.bsky.social
10 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.
10 months ago
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For
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social
I have taken
#betweenthesheets
and carved this ... Pile On
#poetry
10 months ago
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Wanna read a poem? Here you go!
#poetry
10 months ago
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This is called Diaphragm. Thank you to Emily Dickinson for the last line inspiration.
#poetry
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Alice Roberts
10 months ago
And just because…
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Will Ferrell hijacks Ryan Reynolds' performance of Mika's 'Grace Kelly'
YouTube video by T i k T o k
https://youtu.be/7w-9xLoi85s?feature=shared
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I either say nothing or too much. Growing up, people wanted me to be Zippy from Rainbow so they could mute me. The river stops running, only to wince hobble from source to me.
#poet
#poets
#RiverPollution
10 months ago
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For
#burnsnight
10 months ago
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A seed, the size of you. There is a daydream, a notion, nooked up inside you, and it deserves sunlight.
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10 months ago
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A quickie, because I must sleep.
#poetsofbluesky
11 months ago
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This piece is inspired by the prompt of Mythology... Blindspot
#poetry
11 months ago
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Don't shallow breathe life. This is called Death in his slippers
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11 months ago
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An
#untethered
piece for
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social
rts.bsky.social
@alanparry83.bsky.social
parry83.bsky.social
for today’s
#poemsabout
#poetry
#poetsofbluesky
#writingcommunity
This is called Slideshow
11 months ago
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No matter what you do, I'll always be myself. This poetry piece is called Glass Jar.
12 months ago
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