Caroline Davies
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Poet and poetry enthusiast
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@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social
May 8th 2026 is a very special day. It’s David Attenborough’s 100th birthday. On May 8th
@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social
invite you to post a poem on social media to honour him. It could be your own poem or a published poem by someone else. And please spread the word.
3 months ago
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Together Alliance
10 days ago
🚨 Right now, Tommy Robinson is in London claiming to speak for us. It’s the ultimate distraction from the very real problems we face. But we know the truth: migrants aren’t the problem, far-right billionaires are. ✊ Share this post to make it clear: Tommy Robinson does not speak for us.
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Spirits
We’d lift gin from your mother’s cabinet / and walk the hallways of Robert Asp Middle
https://poets.org/poem/spirits-0?utm_source=The+Academy+of+American+Poets&utm_campaign=3bca58f47e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_12_07_39_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c667c90d2e-368592379&mc_cid=3bca58f47e&mc_eid=fbafc5046d
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Milton Keynes Literary Festival
about 1 month ago
Delighted that
@mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social
's Crowd Voltage is
@poetrypharmacy.bsky.social
Book of the Month: review below. See him with Isabelle Baafi in
#miltonkeynes
this Sat: tickets (inperson/zoom) on website.
poetrypharmacy.co.uk/blogs/newsle...
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
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I'd rather be starfish than the sun
This evening, Saturday March 28th marks Earth Hour, a simple, shared gesture that circles the globe each year. For one hour, at 8.30pm local time, lights are dimmed, switches are turned off, and the b...
https://poetrypharmacy.co.uk/blogs/newsletter/id-rather-be-starfish-than-the-sun
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Milton Keynes Literary Festival
about 1 month ago
Poem of the week at
@faberbooks.bsky.social
is The Way You Say Pen by Isabelle Baafi, who'll be reading for us in-person on or livestream next Saturday - tickets available on our website.
#isabellebaafi
#poetry
#miltonkeynes
www.faber.co.uk/journal/poem...
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Poem of the Week: 'The way you say pen' by Isabelle Baafi
This week, our Faber Poem of the Week is ‘The way you say pen’, from Chaotic Good, Isabelle Baafi's piercing debut about how we are made, how we get lost and how we find new selves.
https://www.faber.co.uk/journal/poem-of-the-week-the-way-you-say-pen-by-isabelle-baafi/
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Lots of excellent poems. My favourite so far is Last Poem for Erin by Amy L King
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about 2 months ago
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#NaPoMo
#poetry
Every poet needs a treasure hoard says
@hollyhopkins.bsky.social
youtu.be/v1xfNTXzwjE?...
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Holly Hopkins - build a treasure hoard
YouTube video by The Poetic Licence - Jo Bell
https://youtu.be/v1xfNTXzwjE?si=znxeVSXVC-WUpKoZ
about 2 months ago
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Evan Gore
about 2 months ago
For National Poetry Month, during war time.
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Bloodaxe Books
about 2 months ago
John McCullough (
@mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social
) will be reading from his just-published fifth collection Crowd Voltage
@mklitfest.bsky.social
on 25 April, alongside Isabelle Baafi.
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Scottish Poetry Library
2 months ago
🎙️ NOTHING BUT THE POEM Our much loved poetry podcast hosted by
@samueltongue.bsky.social
will be published on 1st of each month. Last 6 poets featured have been: 🔥 Jane Hirshfield 🔥 Jack Gilbert 🔥 Andrea Gibson 🔥 Isabelle Baafi 🔥 Thomas A Clark 🔥 Juana Adcock Who's next? Clue: Booker nominated...
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Ian Hagues
about 2 months ago
@longbarrowpress.bsky.social
I'm going in👍
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Bloodaxe Books
2 months ago
Last night's excellent online launch reading with Lily Blacksell, Rita Ann Higgins and John McCullough is now available to watch on YouTube:
youtube.com/live/p_0hOeo...
All three poets' new books are available to order now from the Bloodaxe website:
www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/new_titl...
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The English Oak Project
2 months ago
Say hello to my little friend 🤗
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walk · listen · create
2 months ago
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Scrambling for maps
March 2026 we are holding 3 online Map Scrambles, in which artists will be discussing when and why they use maps or mapping to document their walking art. Map Scramble 1 (Monday 23 7pm GMT) Map Scramble 2 (Wednesday 25 7pm GMT) Map Scramble 3 (Thursday 26 7pm GMT) Each events part of the
http://dlvr.it/TRgcCg
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walk · listen · create
2 months ago
Walking artists from the Walking Artists Network share how and why they use maps to document their walking works. Join the discussion. Don't miss it. Starts tonight! 23, 25 and 26 March. LINK:
http://dlvr.it/TRfHB3
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NationCymru
2 months ago
S4C’s latest series, Stori’r Iaith continues tonight. Presented by Sarra Elgan, the series offers viewers a fresh and emotive exploration of the Welsh language - its history, and the people who keep it alive
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Stori’r Iaith celebrates Welsh identity through the power of sport
S4C’s latest series, Stori’r Iaith, presented by the much‑loved broadcaster Sarra Elgan, offers viewers a fresh and emotive exploration of the Welsh language – its history, and the people who keep it ...
https://nation.cymru/sport/storir-iaith-celebrates-welsh-identity-through-the-power-of-sport/
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Rishi Dastidar
2 months ago
The Jalak Prize shortlists are out:
www.jhalakprize.com
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Jhalak Prize - Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour
First awarded in March 2017, the Jhalak Prize, seeks to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers.
https://www.jhalakprize.com/
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Matt Beany
3 months ago
Like what this means in Czech.
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Simon Maddrell
6 months ago
Delighted to be in the latest issue of Dust Magazine — risking life & limb exposing a national treasure…
www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/human-b...
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Dawn Balmer
3 months ago
Final visit for the Winter Bird Survey on my square in Thetford Forest this morning. Nice to watch a pair of Crossbill with nesting material going into a tree. Yellowhammers have arrived back in the forest for the breeding season and singing
#NorfolkBirding
@bbs-birds.bsky.social
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Andy Jackson
3 months ago
We’re off on running with the fourth of our
#SonnetChains
. This time it’s Sophie Herxheimer and Nancy Campbell on co-editing duties. Sophie starts us off with one of her trademark works of poetic appliqué. More to come every fortnight!
newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/a...
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Art Sonnet Chain, 1: Sophie Herxheimer
Sophie Herxheimer is an artist and poet from south London. Her work has been shown at Tate Modern, The Museum of Liverpool, and along the sea-front at Margate. Her collections include Velkom to Ink…
https://newbootsandpantisocracies.wordpress.com/2026/02/21/art-sonnet-chain-1-sophie-herxheimer/
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Maggie Stiefvater
3 months ago
"Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass" from my current read (T. S. Eliot, Poems 1909-1925)
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Rishi Dastidar
3 months ago
A cherry blossom lemonade as a way to get you to pre-order the book? Ok then:
ninearchespress.com/publications...
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@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social
May 8th 2026 is a very special day. It’s David Attenborough’s 100th birthday. On May 8th
@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social
invite you to post a poem on social media to honour him. It could be your own poem or a published poem by someone else. And please spread the word.
3 months ago
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Jeremy Noel-Tod
3 months ago
First Gent: My lord, what news from Norfolk? Second Gent: The prince, the king's own brother, is detained At Aylsham. First Gent: Marry, it will *ail* the king Full sore if this be truth and not a *sham*. Second Gent: (beat) My lord, are we really doing this
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Dr. Han VanderHart
3 months ago
America, where all the accidents are built to last Reginald Sherpherd
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Thanks to the folk
@modpo.bsky.social
especially Dan Bergmann who are running a slow poetry SloPo week of poems by
@aestallings.bsky.social
We began with A Postcard from Greece and I'm loving reading these poems
3 months ago
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Rishi Dastidar
3 months ago
More showing off, but I've been alerted to the fact that my pamphlet 'the break of a wave' is a staff pick at the National Poetry Library at the mo. If you're near the Royal Festival Hall, pop in and see the foldout zine-iness.
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The Poetry School
4 months ago
🎓 Interested in taking your poetry to a higher level? Our MA in Writing Poetry Open Day takes place on Saturday 14 March! To register your interest in attending, please contact
[email protected]
. More info here 👉
poetryschool.com/our...
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Ian McMillan
4 months ago
I like this poem of loss and detail by Jennifer Wong from her
@ninearchespress.bsky.social
collection Light Year. ‘A life so loved and rented…’
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Recommended reading - two terrific poems by Jessica Mookherjee
www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/2-poems...
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2 poems by Jessica Mookherjee
Cervix I listened to Professor Robert Sapolsky on a podcast and rememberedlife is a process of remembering. I am epigenetically stressed— my grandmother's famine coded in my cells. Everything is heati...
https://www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/2-poems-by-jessica-mookherjee-1?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
4 months ago
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Karen Goodwin
4 months ago
Thanks
@poetrysociety.org.uk
for the new issue of Poetry Review. Featuring a fabulous new poem by
@mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social
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Jeremy Noel-Tod
8 months ago
WCW: Sure, as I've said, I did eat the plums but Chotiner: The plums that I was saving for breakfast WCW: Which you were *probably* saving for breakfast Chotiner: I bet they were delicious, right WCW: You've got to understand I eat a lot of things from the icebox Chotiner: So sweet and so cold
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Bruce Springsteen
4 months ago
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
https://youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w?si=7ciYwNLv34RrdD1p
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4 months ago
This is "The Art Class Room" by Elwin Hawthorne from 1928. It is available as a greeting card or print &, along with all our cards & prints, it is currently available with 40% off all orders placed now, but only until 23.59 next Monday, 1st February here:
eastlondongroup.co.uk
#ElwinHawthorne
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Bookshop.org
4 months ago
While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
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Ian McMillan
4 months ago
I like this poem of winter and possible recovery by the late Glyn Hughes from his 2011 collection A Year in the Bull-Box from Arc Publications which detailed time writing in an isolated stone cottage whilst living with illness.
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Anna Iltnere
4 months ago
I started this year by merging
beachbooks.blog
and
sea-library.com
into one site. From now on there will be only Sea Library site with blogs, letters and books all in one beautiful place. Now I even have a landing page! Although I'd prefer a more sea related term. How about a docking page? Check out
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Sea Library
borrow a book, read about the sea, send the book back & borrow another one:
[email protected]
https://beachbooks.blog
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Norm Charlatan
5 months ago
My anger at having to stand outside my kid’s school for two hours to ensure none of their classmates, parents, or teachers get kidnapped by my own government is only slightly tempered by the amazing outpouring of support from other parents and especially neighbors who stand against this bullshit.
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Dr Toby Driver
5 months ago
Final cycle of 2025 this morning with my cycling buddy, round the quiet backlanes of Ceredigion as the sun rose. Looking forward to some more touring adventures in 2026 🌞🌞🚲
#cycling
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Linda Dunn
5 months ago
Every Christmas Eve, the Icelandic people practice something called 'jolabokaflod,' which translates to Christmas book flood. Jolabokaflod involves giving books as presents on Christmas Eve, so that friends and family can spend the cozy night in curled up with a good story.
#BooksAsGifts
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or you can read it
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David Wojahn:
Recorded by David Wojahn for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on December 23, 2025. www.poets.org
https://soundcloud.com/poets-org/david-wojahn-inauguration-day?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fpoets-org%252Fdavid-wojahn-inauguration-day
5 months ago
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Poetry Translation Centre
5 months ago
🔥 PTC Holiday Giveaway! 🔥 Win a bundle of 3 Arabic poetry books, a notebook + 12 postcards! How to enter: ⭐ Like 🔁 Repost ✨ Follow UK residents 18+. Enter on IG, FB + LinkedIn for extra chances (each platform = 1 entry). Closes Mon 12:00 UK. Links + T&Cs in our Linktree! 🎁
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Anna Iltnere
11 months ago
Happy to announce a new long-term project based in slow time, snail mail &love for handwriting & the sea “Write a Letter to the Sea”. Katrīna Ģelze’s beautiful illustration will be sent as a postcard to those who participate. First letters published on sea-library.com
beachbooks.blog/2025/05/23/w...
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Call to sea community around the world: Write a Letter to the Sea
Seven years ago, on June 4, a small room near the Baltic Sea opened its doors to stories about salt water, sea creatures, adventurous spirits, and deep secrets. The Sea Library began with books — a…
https://beachbooks.blog/2025/05/23/write-a-letter-to-the-sea/
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@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social
@mklitfest.bsky.social
Give Peat a chance poets Eileen Anderson, Anne Cooper, Rene Crouch, Hilary Dunn, Caroline Gill, Richard Law, Nichola May, Michelle McGrane, Elizabeth Osmond, Judy Smith, Dave Wakely and Gail Webb.
www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...
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Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry - The Anthology | MK Lit Fest 2025
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry is an anthology of original ecopoetry written in response to prompts set by Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Jess Mookherjee and Rishi Dastidar during an online e...
https://www.mklitfest.org/digginginthedirt-anthology
6 months ago
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Alison Brackenbury
7 months ago
Goodbye, Poetry in Aldeburgh, and warm thanks to all!
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Eve Ellis
7 months ago
Looking forward to reading at Poetry in Aldeburgh next Friday with fellow
#ignitionpress
poets Clementine Burnley & Alicia Pirmohamed! Tix at
bit.ly/ignitioninaldeburgh
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Dr Chris Higgins
7 months ago
A wonderful day at Lambeth Palace Library yesterday. The librarians could not have been kinder or more helpful. I still miss the old library, but the new wing — light, calm, beautifully designed — is a joy.
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Nigel Kent
7 months ago
On my website today a drop-in by doctor-poet Judith Wozniak reflecting on a poem from her latest pamphlet Case Noted. Check it out.
#poetry
#poetrycommunity
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One of my favourite places to read. The National Poetry Library
@southbankcentre.bsky.social
7 months ago
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