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Victoria Spires
@victoriaspires.bsky.social
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linktr.ee/victoriaspires BotN nominated. Shortlisted/commended in various comps including Ledbury, Rialto (Third). Winner Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize. Pamphlet available from Salo Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/soi-meme/
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · Sep 1
Nothing comes for a while, and then you have a few bits of news at once and worry about annoying people 😅

If you will permit, another thing here, which was a lovely, happy surprise ☺️

Thank you to the Alpine Fellowship & judges Maya and Patrick.
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 9h
Sending love and support ❤️
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 10h
Quick, it's #smallpoemsunday.
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 10h
Love this Joseph, I feel that something of your cheeky spirit has transmuted itself with the martins! 😁
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 10h
Like a dose of the pox - brilliant!
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 10h
I'm so impressed you can translate like this, Jan! Of course knowing nothing of the original, but feeling somehow still you have captured the essence of it, not just the words. That "fool's pig-bladder of an oxygen bag" is inspired.
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 10h
Just brilliantly observed, Sue. I enjoyed seeing you flexing your poetry muscles with a slightly longer length, too 👏🏼
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 10h
Perfect ending, Peter!
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 10h
Just beautiful, David. So tender and true ❤️
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 10h
Well, I didn't see that coming! 😁
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 10h
The way you build the tension and the creeping feeling of judgement and shame is very well done, Rachel 👏🏼
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 11h
Perfect, Debbie. You've captured the fluster of it all so well! 🙌🏼
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 11h
The scope and ambition of what James is doing with this whole crown of sonnets 👌🏼
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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 4d
For @hool415.bsky.social and this week's #promptcombo #visitor from a ‘heroic’ crown of sonnets..about 👽..in this case the Ariel School incident. Look it up..😳
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 11h
Still love that "free-ranging strangelets"
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 11h
Yes I'd pick out that line, too! 👏🏼
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 11h
You are a master of observation. I especially appreciated here the enjambment of the "stutterful / fingers", skillfully done
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 11h
Goodness, this has an impact ❤️👏🏼 Tagging the host @hool415.bsky.social
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 11h
"Words barely felt / Lifted question marks onto the air" ... something about that rings so true, Gary 👏🏼
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 11h
As Ju says... I think the starkness of this one lands it with a real heft in those last lines. Pretty devastating, Paul 🙌🏼
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 11h
This is really fun Dean, I enjoyed your light touch and humour ☺️
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 11h
Paul, I am late to the party, but I am intrigued by this poem, and congratulations on its publication. It seems a little sparser and more terse than others of yours I've read, which usually have a certain flow of imagery. Each image here feels like it's been wrested out at great cost & drama.
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 11h
That last line is stunning... "alone in the hush of myself" ❤️
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 11h
Well, I quite literally can't claim any thanks, Phil, with @hool415.bsky.social hosting this week, but I was delighted to see your spooky poem!
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 2d
Well, that was fun. Shall we do it all again soon?!

Much love to @corinnaboard.bsky.social, @dbodepudi.bsky.social, @sophiaargyris.bsky.social, @marcellenewbold.bsky.social, @bornonadarkmoon.bsky.social for stunning reading, & all those who came to listen ❤️
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 2d
Aww no problem and thank you! Thanks for sharing it too ☺️ Hope you're ok and catch you soon xx
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 2d
#VictoriaSpiresHosts... Not sure that'll catch on! 😆
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