Happy UK Fungus Day! Tentative IDs (clockwise): Beefsteak fungus, Black Bulgar, Earth Star, Dryad's Saddle, Amethyst Deceiver (I think), Turkey Tail #ukfungusday #fungi

Delighted to have some poems in this initiative organised by Ralph Hoyte and Bristol Libraries. Happy #NationalPoetryDay X

Can't eat - or even contemplate - an orange without thinking of this poem by Brian Patten. RIP. 🍊💔 🍊

'Well, hello, Mistress Squizzle with an acorn in yer gob'

Before the thunderstorm #bristol

Well done, Bristol, and especially Bristol City Museum, this is the way to do it www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Two perfectly-formed mags are finding their way to subscribers this morning. Brimming with poetry: packed with good writing. Take yourself away from it all & get one. share.google/e1tS0ARLtyxn... @indigodreamspub.bsky.social @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @deborahharvey.bsky.social #poetry

Cwtch the Collie (the best girl there ever was) says Happy International Dog Day 2025 and why not give @niallharbison.bsky.social of Happy Doggo a follow?

We only saw the notice prohibiting dogs during the summer months afterwards. Apologies to anyone we might have disturbed. #nodogsallowed

Remembering Andi Langford-Woods, poet, who died yesterday. Organiser of Bristol Acoustic Night, and a pivotal member of the #bristolpoetrycommunity. I think it's safe to say we'll never forget you, Andi 🎇 🎇 🎇 #bristol #poetry #poetrycommunity

‪Join us at Silver Street #Poetry & #OpenMic on Friday 29th August, when our guest poet is the extraordinary Daniel Richardson. Our event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, with entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue is St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Be sure to bring a (not epic) poem to share!

Absolute respect for Alice Oswald

Happiness is a warm dog on the Teignmouth and Shaldon ferry

Reading 'How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best' by Andrea Gibson at today's Silver Street #poetry #openmic #spokenword #andreagibson

I'm in.

Even the bird poo is beautiful in the woods right now, by which I mean purple and strangely glittery

A wren feather, one inch long and beautiful

A bit over-awed to be guest-poetting at Verbatim in Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire on Weds 30th July, in The Lab, just up the road from the Poetry Pharmacy. It's spacious & accessible, so if you’re local, come along with a poem to read. Start is 7.30pm; sign up for an open mic slot on the door #poetry

So. One moment you're happy because the wood’s just given you another jay covert; then, moments later, on the other side of the river, you’re desolate because suddenly there’s too many. (I need to point out our dog, Cwtch, is a gentle and caring spirit. Poor jay was like this when we got here.)

My Labour MP @chazelgrovemp.bsky.social voted to cut benefits to disabled people. We might as well have her Tory predecessor back; at least we knew where we stood with him. I find myself wondering what she's in the job for. #taxtherich

Say her name: Louisa Dunne www.channel4.com/news/louisa-...

Two blue treasures - a shard of willow patterned pottery telling me what it is via its backstamp, in case I didn't recognise it, and a jay covert. Aren't urban woods lovely and generous?

A barn owl primary feather - what a beautiful gift of summer

@chazelgrovemp.bsky.social Hi Claire - don't need to sit in the pub or over a cup of coffee to tell you my partner, my disabled adult children & I hope very much that you'll rethink your support for the proposed cuts to PIP & join your fellow MPs backing the motion opposing them - or lose our votes

Crafty Crows Poetry Zoom on Wednesday 2nd July 7pm - 9pm with me as guest poet. Email [email protected] for an open mic slot More details here: www.facebook.com/events/39310...

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Join us at Silver Street #Poetry & Open Mic on Friday 27th June, when our guest poets will be Bristol's own IsamBards. Our event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, with entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue is St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Be sure to bring a (not epic) poem to share!

Nature will always win Tree eating a Victorian pillar box at junction of Morlais Street and Ninian Road in Cardiff #wales #pillarbox

Today I visited Curley Oak in Wales. It’s between 500 & 1000 years old. I always get sentimental over ancient trees, today even more so, as Curly was my father’s nickname & the name he was called by his grandchildren. I would have liked to have known about it 30 years ago; I’d have taken him there.

A poem for Neurodiversity Pride Day 2025, and a post about my family's autism and the difficulty of diagnosis #neurodiversityprideday #neurodiversityprideday2025 #autism #ADHD #poetry deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-po...

I have a canopy of bright leaves in my head, waiting to join those that are growing in my breast. My own lilac forest; a naked heart. @indigodreamspub.bsky.social @ronniegoodyer.bsky.social @deborahharvey.bsky.social @annasaund.bsky.social

Five female mallards: from the right, one standard, one leucistic, and three displaying phenotypic masculinisation - the development of male-like plumage - following the loss of ovary function. Ducks showing humans how it's done.

Finding myself on the Thames path at Binsey last week, I just had to sit down on the riverbank & read Gerard Manley Hopkins' lament to the eponymous, replanted poplars & the sky & the cows seeking shelter from the sun & the river & the minnows or whatever it was darting about at its edges #poetry

Two brimstones so enamoured of each other they tangoed straight into my leg #butterflies #insects #wildlife

Most jay feathers I spot turn out to be polypropylene rope fibres; likewise, a willow-patterned shard is often just a sweet wrapper. Today, it was the reverse. A broken lens from, at first glance, a pair of sunglasses was, in fact, this Beautiful Demoiselle - dead, of course, but still gorgeous.

Little Ted, 2009 and big brave Cwtch, 2025, at Blaise Castle, #Bristol I want all the rest of my life to have dogs in it

Common blue butterfly on moon daisy #butterflies #insects #wildlife

Hooray! 'The Labour government must now pass a new right to roam act to defend and extend the public’s rights to access nature in England.' #dartmoor #righttoroam www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A #poem about #estrangement after #Rumi From 'Love the Albatross', published by Indigo dreams

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

Join us at Silver Street #Poetry & Open Mic on Friday 30th May, when our guest poet will be Wiltshire poet, Jeff Phelps. Our event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, with entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue is St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Be sure to bring a (not epic) poem to share!

Reading at Bristol's Mud Dock during a poetry walk by the IsamBards, as part of the 2025 Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival #poetry #bristol #lyrabristolpoetryfestival deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2025/05/fift...

I’m excited to announce that you can now order my new collection’Sent’ from website. www.nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com

Many thanks to @kent-nj.bsky.social, for his perceptive and empathetic review of 'Love the Albatross', my #poetry collection about #estrangement. You can read it here: nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/r...

Come and hear how Paleolake Flixton and its immense story map layered and mirrored my own small story as a person living at its edges. Tomorrow, as part of Filey Literature Festival, come and see me talk about my nature-landscape memoir, The Ghost Lake. wegottickets.com/event/643570/

I'm indebted to @kent-nj.bsky.social for publishing my short essay on 'The counsel of hares', a poem from my collection, 'Love the Albatross', (pub by @indigodreamspub.bsky.social), prior to publishing his full review next week. You can read it here: nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/2025/05/03/d...

Accidental selfie during #poetry reading with @tomsastry.bsky.social at the Barrel Hall, Totnes (but look at the fabulous venue!) deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2025/05/poet...

This collection by Catherine Ayres has clambered its way to the top of my to-read pile and it's every bit as good a read as the cover promises; poems brimming with truth, love and an unflinching generosity. Published by Indigo Dreams.

Last night I dreamt a shaman's costume was excavated in an archaeological dig. There was a broad collar or mantle, like a Pharoah might have worn, made up of enamelled rectangles of gold. It looked fabulous, except the piece right at the front was bare, apart from the words ‘Your advert here’.