Land no longer propped by miners hands - super line Paul. The contradictions within the mining industry. Well captured

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Hi @victoriaspires.bsky.social Vic, hope you're having a cracking week. My third response to your great ##promptcombo #Ancestry is from my first pamphlet, "The Fabulous Invention of Barnsley," 1993:

I didn't know if, where or when to post this poem, another old one, which 'follows' the poem I posted earlier this week, but as the other one is now up... for #promptcombo #ancestry, I've posted it here. @victoriaspires.bsky.social

"in Havana amidst ghosts of writers stand battle-worn bronzes of revolutionaries" Travel through memory, music, and longing in Alan Parry’s Neon Ghosts. Now available POD: 🔗 thebrokenspine.co.uk... #NeonGhosts #PoetryBooks

Welcome!

"Their remains tell tales to crab, fish and stones." Great Doggerland piece! 🏆😁👌🌠

Not a work-in-progress for this week's #WednesdayWIPs, but here's the genesis of the #PoemsAbout #SilentPlanets poem that became 'Cosmosis'. Just look upon it as a clutch of wordy wallpaper, out of which something useful appeared. Bring back the auto-writing muse; this is hard work. 🙂

#WIP for #PoemsAbout this week some progress…

You ever been told to tone it down? Don’t. Be loud, be raw, be here. #NotJustPretty 🗓 Oct 4 | 8pm GMT 🎟 Free (donate if you can) thebrokenspine.co.uk...#NotJustPretty@karenpgonzalez.bsky.social #WednesdayWIPs

I am thoroughly enjoying these poetry books @louloumach.bsky.social and @thebrokenspine.co.uk Truly inspiring!

Well, you know I love tales of Doggerland! "The sea now beast that harbours other trades", what a great line. Thank you Paul! 👏🏼👏🏼

I love... "imagination bound with histories!" I do enjoy the rhyming...works so well...love the story told!

Got a #WednesdayWIPs draft on chandeliers, glamour, wax tears or anything else related to the roaring twenties or jazz age? This is the month to polish and send it to #Verdigris: #PoetryOfDecay. We’re open all September:

Hi Vic, @victoriaspires.bsky.social and your wondrous #promptcombo #ancestry. Here's my second. It's from my collection: "Othernesses:"

It’s Wednesday. Got a WIP? Doesn’t matter if it’s raw or rolling. If it’s yours, it belongs. Drop a line. Share a note. Let us know where you’re at. #WednesdayWIPs #PoetsOfBluesky #BlueskyWriters #PoemsAbout

Really pleased to have my three poems selected for this October anthology of The Starbeck Orion. Huge thanks to Editor, Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social 🙏😊

Mum carried everything needed for any #eventuality in her handbag - plasters, wet wipes, lipstick and cash. The shadow of her handbook carried everything for those impossible events - interdimensional sticky tape, ectoplasm removal kit, lipstick taser and a platinum Aldebaran credit card. #vss365

ARROW OF TIME (Sonnet)

Hello #promptCombo folk! A moments reflection on #ancestry #poem #poetry “standing by”

Wrote about hitchhiking.. open.substack.com/pub/jamesmcc...

Wow, this.

📚 What can overlooked ancient civilizations teach us about connection, perspective, & the stories we choose to tell? 🏺🧪 🎙️In this episode of Curiosity Meets The Past, @digitwithraven.bsky.social shares this & more as we chat about her new book, The Other Ancient Civilisations. youtu.be/RBgL7HHsg0U

Our inheritance

Many thanks for the repost 🙏 @inkmine.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @janpsolivagant.bsky.social @marcialynnpaul.bsky.social

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

For this week's #promptcombo #ancestry with thanks to host @victoriaspires.bsky.social Not feeling inspired at the moment, so here's an old one (surprisingly long!) which I think fits.

I can never get over how much inventiveness you can wring out of a sonnet, Paul. It never ceases to impress me! I love the strange, gloriously other-worldly details of this and how you are able to take the un-human perspective and make us inhabit it 👏🏼👏🏼

Wow, Paul. Another superb poem from you. I so admire your command and range of language, and here how you have built the anticipation of the homecoming to such a perfect crescendo, only to puncture it entirely with the very last line. So skillfully done, it gave me an 'oof' that was v pleasing!

Thanks so much, Dave, for bringing this very personal tale to us for prompt combo ❤️ A very effective piece and I see you're continuing your exploration of new forms (or maybe you dash off trimerics all the time?!) 👏🏼

@victoriaspires.bsky.social‬ #promptcombo #ancestry #Trimeric #poem this is poem is about my Great Grandmother who fled from Kiev at the height of the pogroms where jews were being slaughtered.

Every poet involved in this (host included) is superb, and has appeared in @iambapoet.com ... or will do, soon enough. 😉 DM @victoriaspires.bsky.social, get the skinny, go along. It's a perfect night in!

Oh, Sarah! I love this! Especially the lines "I skim stones of lilting brogue / across a bitter landing". How we grasp and fail to grasp those who brought us here? ❤️

One for @victoriaspires.bsky.social #promptcombo #ancestors. Autumn term writing. Thanks.

Love it, C! The title made me smile! 😄 A witty write 🙌🏼

For #promptcombo #ancestry and host @victoriaspires.bsky.social Also for #vss365: #Reinvigorated #perhaps #2WordPrompt : #turn #design #Oulens #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetrycommunity #poems #poetry

The #promptcombo challenge this week (set by @victoriaspires.bsky.social) is on the theme of #ancestry. As luck would have it, I recently finished this little poem – a brief comment on my noticing that my late paternal grandmother's eyebrows had made their way, genetically, to my daughter's face.

Thank you so much Victoria, that’s not only kind, detailed and thoughtful but coming from a poet I respect very highly, it’s really made my day 🙏🙏🙏

I'd intended to post a recording of my #poem Homecoming, first published in @eunoiareview.bsky.social, this week. And that's a happy accident, since it touches on @victoriaspires.bsky.social's #PromptCombo theme #ancestry #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #booksky #writingcommunity #poetry

Thank you so much, Paul! What wonderful comments to receive ☺️

Totally awesome - absolutelly to the #LifttotheSky - thanks Jack for everything you are doing, it really is so exceptional, and the quick response time so appreciated. Such a wonderful project - quality poetry by email, so appreciated and excellent.

For this week’s #LiftToTheSky I’m boosting @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social whose collection ‘This Wilderness & Other Concerns’ is astounding in its scope and delivery. Do buy a copy! #poetry #poems

And on Mondays we have #LiftToTheSky and on Wednesdays we have #WednesdayWIPs - pick a day of the week, we might well come for it! 😂

This morning may I #LifttotheSky the wonderful @rosannamcglone.bsky.social , whose fascinating book on the process of poetry and the journey of different writers, from first draft to published piece, arrived on my doormat Saturday...?👌🥰

My #LiftToTheSky is for CAPS - Calling All Poets Series! www.callingallpoets.net Be The Feature is a 10 Minute Open Mic - 3rd Thursday of each month. @mjpj55.bsky.social #PoemsAbout #BlueSkyPoets Make connections with poets from around the world, hear inspiring work and let your words speak!

Just over a week to go till I’ll be commenting on #PoetryTheme poems. The theme is #AMPHIBIAN Literal & metaphorical amphibians are welcome. Details on how to post, asking for comment & timings are in the thread below. 👇 #poetrycommunity #poemsonbluesky #writingcommunity #booksky #poetry

A #LifttotheSky for the excellent Saraswati Nagpal @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social for the stunning ‘Drench Me in Silver’, published by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #poetrycommunity #PoetsSupportPoets @alanparrywriter.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @thebrokenspine.co.uk

One of the best! #LiftToTheSky

A #LifttotheSky for the brilliant @louisepoetical.bsky.social - no one does more for poetry, a very talented poet and endless supporter for us all. Organises fantastic readings with Last Saturday Poets free on Zoom - and an awesome book out too @alanparrywriter.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social