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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

Was prehistory a feminist paradise?

Visions of matriarchal utopia may be wishful thinking, but there’s growing evidence of women wielding power

www.theguardian.com

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 9d

Just a couple of spaces left for this Tomorrow if you want to improve your Monday www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mining-the...

Mining The Classics: online workshop with Julia Copus

With a special focus on the cento - open up new ways of thinking in this online workshop. As part of Winchester Poetry Festival 2025.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · 9d

@poetryid.bsky.social has come of digital age; we have a #WhatsApp group! Cue swathes of photos of baby poems.

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PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · 9d

Succumbing to a little national pride at seeing a #Maltese rider in the early leading group at the men's European cycling road race championship. Excellent and witty commentary by @josebeentv.bsky.social and a John (sorry, John).

PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · 10d

#Archbishop
#SarahMullally
#CofE
#poem

Good christians are going doolally;
they've escaped the misogynist valley.
I fervently wish
you good luck, new Archbish;
hooray for Dame Sarah Mullally.

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PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · 11d

Excellent Word of Mouth, in which @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social chats to Gruffalo progenitor Jullia Donaldson. Some interesting insights into the creative process.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Word of Mouth - Julia Donaldson: A life in language - BBC Sounds

The Gruffalo author tells Michael Rosen about her writing, reading, speaking and listening

www.bbc.co.uk

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PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · 17d

It's the last weekend before @poetrydayuk.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading and hearing #poems at Hitchin Library next Thursday.
#poetry
#libraries

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 17d

RIP Tony Harrison. What came to mind when I heard the news was Gail Earnshaw telling me what a wonderful letter she had from him when her husband died. They weren't close friends and nobody would know about Harrison's kind gesture, except Gail, making it the sort of gesture I respect most.

Pic: BBC

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PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · 17d

#vss365
#scrutiny
#poem

If every life were subject to a full, forensic scrutiny,
we'd all be judged as hypocrites and turn to moral mutiny,
resulting in a sorry world, where everyone was Putiny.

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PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · 17d

Golf is tiddlywinks with sticks.

PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · 29d

Inspired by an excellent In Our Time (from the archives) on the sonnet - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/..., I wrote a sonnet about a sonnet. I hope it amuses.

#poetry
#sonnet
#poem

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · Sep 15

Our current bestsellers 📚⁣ lrb.me/6jh

A pile of the following books:

1. BOOKS – A MANIFESTO by Ian Patterson⁣
2. THE POISONED KING by Katherine Rundell⁣
3.ONE BOAT by Jonathan Buckley⁣
4. FRENCH COOKING FOR ONE by Michèle Roberts⁣
5. SO SPRUCE IN THE FOREST by Ali Smith⁣
6. A LONG WINTER by Colm Tóibín⁣
7. CLOWN TOWN by Mick Herron⁣
8. BRIAN by Jeremy Cooper⁣
9. SO LONG, SEE YOU TOMORROW by William Maxwell⁣
10. AN ARCHIVE by Edmund de Waal⁣

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PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · Sep 14

Thanks to Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3 for introducing me to the beguiling #poetry of Langston Hughes, in an episode on The Harlem Renaissance, presented by Donald Macleod, with contributions from Wynton Marsalis.

#booksky

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, The Harlem Renaissance, Rivers

Langston Hughes arrives in Harlem.

www.bbc.co.uk

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PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · Sep 14

#vss365
#flinch
#poem

I know of an absolute grinch
who folk would be happy to lynch;
though counsellors bid
to manage his id,
from meanness he never will flinch.

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PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · Sep 14

Have stepped into this delightfully bizarre and arcane interpretation of London. Brilliant, inventive prose from Mr. Moore, sprayed onto pages by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. First of a series.

#booksky
#novels
#London

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PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · Sep 14

The In Cell movement?

PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · Sep 12

An exciting proof from Icon Books of a Feb 2026 title. The book describes the exploits of Kent's 'New Messiah', John Nicholls Tom (aka Sir William Courtenay) whose agitation of the masses led to the last battle fought on English soil, in 1838. One for @gregjenner.bsky.social perhaps?

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J.S. Watts @j-s-watts.bsky.social · Sep 12

Profile 33 in my series on authors appearing #RoystonBookFair on 27 Sept 2025 - writer for stage, page and screen and the gay community, Stuart Wakefield. Just one writer left to go! #Royston #Hertfordshire #BookSky #writingcommunity www.roystonbookfair.co.uk/2025/stuart-...

Royston Book Fair - Stuart Wakefield

Stuart is an author and book coach who writes about men who love men. His work has been published by Dreamspinner Press and Vine Leaves Press, and his latest novel, Behind the Seams, was a semifinalis...

www.roystonbookfair.co.uk

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Dr Simon Elliott FSA @simonelliott20.bsky.social · Sep 12

Severus on the march again! Lovely Stabiae, broody Vesuvius in background!

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Sep 11

Sneak peek at my illustrious guests on tomorrow’s episode of BBC You’re Dead To Me, where we’re discussing a little known, but up-and-coming writer called Jane Austen

Photo of Sally Phillips, Greg Jenner, and Dr Lucy Worsley smiling in a radio studio

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J.S. Watts @j-s-watts.bsky.social · Sep 11

Profile 32 in my series on authors appearing #RoystonBookFair on 27 Sept 2025 - photographer and non-fiction writer, Stephen Calbraith. Only 2 more authors left to go... #Royston #Hertfordshire #BookSky #writingcommunity www.roystonbookfair.co.uk/2025/stephen...

Royston Book Fair - Stephen Calbraith

Stephen has more than 25 years’ experience of exhibiting and selling his photographs and has also written and published numerous books on the subject. His photography of the natural world explores the...

www.roystonbookfair.co.uk

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PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · Sep 10

#vss365
#bearable
#poem

Sisyphus Job Satisfaction Interview

'I have to say, the way things stand,
it's really very bearable;
the work is clearly outlined and
the pension is transferable.'

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PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · Sep 10

Delighted that a book from a publisher for whom I work (Icon Books) is on the @britishacademy.bsky.social book prize shortlist.

The Baton and the Cross, by Lucy Ash, describes the collaboration between Putin's regime and the Russian Orthodox Church.

bit.ly/4glo8Jo

British Academy Book Prize

The British Academy Book Prize rewards works of non-fiction, based on exceptional research and written for the general reader, that deepen our understanding of people, societies and cultures and their...

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J.S. Watts @j-s-watts.bsky.social · Sep 9

Profile 30 in my series on authors appearing #RoystonBookFair on 27 Sept 2025. Another collection of writers - the long running Royston Writers Circle. #Royston #Hertfordshire #BookSky #writingcommunity www.roystonbookfair.co.uk/2025/royston...

Royston Book Fair - Royston Writers Circle

Fred Sillence, who was editor of The Royston Crow, founded Royston Writers’ Circle in 1979. Since then it has met 10 or 11 times a year. Fred was chairman up to his untimely death in 1999. The Circle...

www.roystonbookfair.co.uk

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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · Sep 9

The @britishacademy.bsky.social Book Prize 2025 shortlist has been announced!

Find out more about the shortlisted books on our website: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/br...

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