Paul Ings
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Liz Field (she/they)🏳️⚧️🇺🇦❤️⚡️💙
5 days ago
Happy spring equinox to those of us in the north! This day always makes me think of this poem by e.e. cummings
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Such a joy to have a couple of poems selected for this beauty. Thank you editor Carole Baldock for your kind patience.
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Carmella de Keyser
about 2 months ago
A huge thank you to these fantastic people & poets
@johnkenny13.bsky.social
@jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
@ings4words.bsky.social
@pdevonald.bsky.social
@peterthabitjones.bsky.social
@samszanto.bsky.social
for launching Chasms
@alienbuddhapress.bsky.social
with me!🙏🏼❤️
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Matthew Stewart
2 months ago
"As a study of footballers at the lower end of the professional game, these twelve poems are unique, and must be among the very best ever to be written about the beautiful game..."
wildcourt.co.uk/measured-eco...
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Measured economy: ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’ by Matthew Stewart – Wild Court
https://wildcourt.co.uk/measured-economy-on-matthew-stewarts-whatever-you-do-just-dont/
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Matthew Stewart
6 months ago
Rogue Strands on Richard Meier's After the Miracle... "In these poems, apparently simple words portray a maelstrom of life events. They provide a lesson in how to meet intense experience head-on, and turn it into art..."
roguestrands.blogspot.com/2025/10/rich...
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The Madrid Review
7 months ago
Don't miss this amazing FREE poetry event in London in October with
@roguestrands.bsky.social
@hannahcopley.bsky.social
@jonathandavidson.bsky.social
@fionalarkin.bsky.social
@matriches.bsky.social
at The Devereux Pub in Temple.
#poetry
#reading
#london
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Matthew Stewart
7 months ago
Please do share the news of this free event...!
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Matthew Stewart
7 months ago
Who said there's no poetry to be found at a car boot sale?! I have a new poem in this week's issue of The Spectator...
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Kathleen Jamie
8 months ago
Arresting the poets are we? Not a good look.
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Matthew Stewart
8 months ago
The emotional significance of objects sends ripples through our lives, which is why this is often my final poem when I give a reading. It's taken from my second full collection, Whatever You Don't, Just Don't. If you fancy a signed copy, drop me a DM and I'll sort one out for you...
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Sam Szanto
9 months ago
Anyone got a book to promote? I have space on my blog for a couple of interviews - check out
samszanto.com/blog
and get in touch if interested
#writingcommunity
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Matthew Stewart
9 months ago
It was a summer evening after a day of Andalusian sun just like today, all set in the counterpoint of the cool Atlantic Ocean, menories that were captured forever...
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Carmella de Keyser
9 months ago
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#LiftToTheSky
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@brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Please may I highlight Paul Ings for his uniquely observational collection-ONE WEEK ONE SPAN OF HUMAN LIFE
@ings4words.bsky.social
& Julie Stevens for her candid &powerful collection FOREST GIRL
@jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social
Two fantastic poets! 👆💥🙌
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Sam Szanto
10 months ago
I'm so honoured to have my poem 'Dear' included in this beautiful edition of Dust Poetry
@dustpoetry.bsky.social
💗
www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/dear-by...
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Dear by Sam Szanto
Dear What’s it like there?I imagine youplaying tennis with Auntie Helen,learning Hungarian from your grandma,going to the café with Sarah: colafor you and whisky for her (a double,she doesn’t have...
https://www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/dear-by-sam-szanto
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Matthew Stewart
10 months ago
This poem might have a seemingly satisfying, neat and circular ending, but it then opens out beyond its modest limits to invite the reader to consider their own stories.
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Carmella de Keyser
10 months ago
'One Week, One Span, of Human Life'. By Paul Ings. I had to get this - such an intriguing title and I'm looking forward to reading it soon.🩶
@ings4words.bsky.social
#mustread
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Matthew Stewart
10 months ago
Here's the second part of my visit to the Poetry Bath podcast, just out today...!
www.buzzsprout.com/2257615/epis...
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Matthew Stewart (Part 2) - The Poetry Bath
Surrey-born, Sussex & Spain-dwelling Matthew Stewart reads more poems from Whatever you do, just don't and talks to me about the delicate process of writing about grief. He also tells me about his...
https://www.buzzsprout.com/2257615/episodes/17232513-matthew-stewart-part-2
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Longbarrow Press
12 months ago
And like this, this reservoir walled with stone and thistle reflecting ourselves back to ourselves, or how shame sits at the centre of things, like the first cuckoo in spring. 'The Blue Hour' Angelina D'Roza Out now from Longbarrow Press
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚
12 months ago
A fable-like book written by a Czech during Soviet times. The main character is someone whose job is to pulp and destroy books, but who also rescues books and lines his apartment with them. Comic, surreal, scatalogical. Relevant for our age of book bans. 💙📚💙📚🖋️📚🖋️💙
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Too Loud a Solitude
Haňtá has been compacting trash for thirty-five years. …
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/868410
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Mia Farrow
about 1 year ago
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Matthew Stewart
about 1 year ago
Poetry comes alive when it's shared. That's why I'm so excited by my upcoming events in the next few days in Faversham, Chichester and Cowden Pound, by letting my poems change in so many different ways as they cease to belong to me and find their readers...
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Louise Longson
about 1 year ago
It's coming tomorrow! Very excited to be in the company of
@wendypratt.bsky.social
@rhonagreene.bsky.social
@hool415.bsky.social
@ings4words.bsky.social
and Elisabeth Kelly to bring in Spring and new beginnings! Free and online from 7.00pm
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-beginn...
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Louise Longson
about 1 year ago
Just over a week to go before I am joined by these wondrous, thunderous poetry voices
@wendypratt.bsky.social
@rhonagreene.bsky.social
@hool415.bsky.social
@ings4words.bsky.social
and Elisabeth Kelly - free, online event Saturday 22 February at 7.00pm
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-beginn...
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Sídhe Press
about 1 year ago
Next Thursday, tickets still available! You are very welcome to join us, even if you can´t donate to the hospice right now.❤️
#Poetry
#Hospice
#Fundraiser
#Remembrance
#SidhePress
#AlwaysFire
#TheCrowGods
#PoetryCommunity
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Louise Longson
about 1 year ago
Two weeks to go and I'm already over-excited to be reading with these fabulous poets! Online, free and unleashed!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-beginn...
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Louise Longson
about 1 year ago
Look at the loveliness of these poets around me, then get a ticket to hear them read their astoundingly wonderful words
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-beginn...
massive thanks to
@wendypratt.bsky.social
@rhonagreene.bsky.social
@hool415.bsky.social
@ings4words.bsky.social
& Elisabeth Kelly for doing it.
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Matthew Stewart
about 1 year ago
99% of U.K. poetry exists beyond social media. This is especially true outside the big cities, at readings above pubs or in arts centres in provincial towns, where people attend and buy books through a pure love of the genre. These people are my readers.
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A brilliant book, so glad to be in possession of it at last. A worthy winner. Congratulations
@louisepoetical.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
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Beth Brooke
over 1 year ago
A poetry collection you all need
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Sam Szanto
over 1 year ago
Just a few copies of this little stocking filler left 😁 Let me know if you'd like to buy one!
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POLITICO Europe
over 1 year ago
Ukrainian boxing icon Wladimir Klitschko accused American podcaster Joe Rogan of spreading Russian propaganda on his show — and dared Rogan to invite him on for a chat.
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Wladimir Klitschko jabs Joe Rogan for spreading Russian propaganda
Legendary Ukrainian boxer wants an invite onto the top U.S. podcast to rebut pro-Kremlin narratives.
https://www.politico.eu/article/wladimir-klitschko-jab-joe-rogan-spread-russia-propaganda-war-ukraine/
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Matthew Stewart
over 1 year ago
I wrote the following short article for the Madrid Review,
@madridlitmag.bsky.social
, discussing how life in Spain has affected my poetry and how identity is at the core of all poetry. This article, plus three of my poems, is in Issue Two. Download it in full via this link:
themadridreview.com
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Louise Longson
over 1 year ago
It's here!
ballerinibookpress.ch/product/thes...
I have 30 copies to sign and send directly to you, or you can order via the link (unsigned or link to signed at bottom). DM me for details if you would like one directly from me.
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Matthew Stewart
over 1 year ago
Taken from my second full collection, Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), this poem speaks of making a fresh start... ...the building's lost stories finding a voice again, blending old plots with new...
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Lawrence Moore
over 1 year ago
Delighted to have this poem featured in the
@dreich.bsky.social
100 series (I'm in 100 C). It arrived through my door today and will be treasured, thanks Jack! You can read about and buy chapbooks from the series here:
hybriddreich.co.uk/dreich-100th/
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#poems
#poetry
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Matthew Stewart
over 1 year ago
I was the guest for the Madrid Review podcast last week. Grace Caplan was the interviewer with all sorts of challenging questions on belonging and estrangement in my poetry. You can have a listen via Spotify...
open.spotify.com/episode/0MRH...
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Matthew Stewart
The Madrid Review · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0MRH3rtuMxIkIXjww7SCkL?si=a6c09a7dd2054a98&nd=1&dlsi=ccf4ddf48ed446ad
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DrNaturegirl
over 1 year ago
Thanks for all the new follows here. Catching up with following back. Please bear with me! I’ll be posting photos again tomorrow but for now have a wee Sunday poem. I wrote it for a
@brokenspinearts.bsky.social
challenge earlier in the year and think it has potential
#poetry
#poem
#blueskypoetry
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Greetings all. Here for the poetry. If you are too I'm glad to meet you.
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