Beth Brooke
@bethbpoet.bsky.social
Poet, Quaker, retired teacher, socialist, runner (just) , proud Omi . She/her
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I’m over the moon to have a second Pushcart nomination, this time from Dami and Rhona @eatthestorms.com
It’s been the most wonderful poetic experience being involved in so many aspects of this wonderful #poetry journal. ❤️
It’s been the most wonderful poetic experience being involved in so many aspects of this wonderful #poetry journal. ❤️
November 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I’m over the moon to have a second Pushcart nomination, this time from Dami and Rhona @eatthestorms.com
It’s been the most wonderful poetic experience being involved in so many aspects of this wonderful #poetry journal. ❤️
It’s been the most wonderful poetic experience being involved in so many aspects of this wonderful #poetry journal. ❤️
Gloriously good poem
For this week's Sunday poem, I want to share the opening piece from my newest collection, Smatterings of Cerulean, published by @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social The 50 poems in this collection are each accompanied by a sensational photograph from @kenwhytock.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Gloriously good poem
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Past the cutlers, halfway over the Don
I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter
slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone,
cutting shingle.
'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
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I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter
slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone,
cutting shingle.
'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Past the cutlers, halfway over the Don
I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter
slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone,
cutting shingle.
'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter
slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone,
cutting shingle.
'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
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A perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life this Christmas. Or for your lover who mistakenly thinks poetry's not for them!
Drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy...!
Drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy...!
November 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A perfect gift for the poetry lover in your life this Christmas. Or for your lover who mistakenly thinks poetry's not for them!
Drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy...!
Drop me a DM and I'll sort out your signed copy...!
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Twenty-five years a foot-soldier,
pensioned to this high scrape
of heather and bracken.
Build stone walls
against the slow march of hills.
Pace out the acreage:
Nethergate, Uppergate, Knoll.
'Tithes', James Caruth, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
pensioned to this high scrape
of heather and bracken.
Build stone walls
against the slow march of hills.
Pace out the acreage:
Nethergate, Uppergate, Knoll.
'Tithes', James Caruth, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Twenty-five years a foot-soldier,
pensioned to this high scrape
of heather and bracken.
Build stone walls
against the slow march of hills.
Pace out the acreage:
Nethergate, Uppergate, Knoll.
'Tithes', James Caruth, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
pensioned to this high scrape
of heather and bracken.
Build stone walls
against the slow march of hills.
Pace out the acreage:
Nethergate, Uppergate, Knoll.
'Tithes', James Caruth, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
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Great to see our Lead Editor, DG Herring, featured on the Guest Poet page of the Acumen Website with his poem 'Thoughts on Crater 308'.
acumen-poetry.co.uk/guest-poems/
#LiteraryMagazinesToSubscribeTo
acumen-poetry.co.uk/guest-poems/
#LiteraryMagazinesToSubscribeTo
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Great to see our Lead Editor, DG Herring, featured on the Guest Poet page of the Acumen Website with his poem 'Thoughts on Crater 308'.
acumen-poetry.co.uk/guest-poems/
#LiteraryMagazinesToSubscribeTo
acumen-poetry.co.uk/guest-poems/
#LiteraryMagazinesToSubscribeTo
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Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
November 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC
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Children. Teens. Pregnant women. Victims of domestic violence. Anyone from an ethic minority. Care home residents. People with disabilities. The list of overlooked vulnerable groups goes on & on.
The lesson is to build processes that include them next time.
Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.
The lesson is to build processes that include them next time.
Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Children. Teens. Pregnant women. Victims of domestic violence. Anyone from an ethic minority. Care home residents. People with disabilities. The list of overlooked vulnerable groups goes on & on.
The lesson is to build processes that include them next time.
Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.
The lesson is to build processes that include them next time.
Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.
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Amazing photo! @carlbovisnature.bsky.social
What it looks like when a Blue Tit flies straight at you! 😳😁😍🐦
Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊
#birds 🪶
Please browse my shop for great Christmas present ideas for nature lovers, including calendars, books, jigsaw puzzles, tea-towels and more.. here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦❤️
Taken yesterday at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😊
#birds 🪶
Please browse my shop for great Christmas present ideas for nature lovers, including calendars, books, jigsaw puzzles, tea-towels and more.. here;
www.carlbovis.com/shop-3 🐦❤️
November 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Amazing photo! @carlbovisnature.bsky.social
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I offer this for #poemsabout #dogtags @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #StayCreative #PoetsSupportPoets
November 21, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Our NEW ISSUE featuring 30 remarkable new poems and stunning cover art by printmaker Molly Lemon is LIVE.
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
Issue 15, Dear World
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Our NEW ISSUE featuring 30 remarkable new poems and stunning cover art by printmaker Molly Lemon is LIVE.
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
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The dog refuses to eat. I keep filling her bowl
anyway: new kibble on top of old, hoping
that it will suddenly becoming tempting.
—Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
anyway: new kibble on top of old, hoping
that it will suddenly becoming tempting.
—Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Things That Happen During Pet Sitting … by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz - Rattle: Poetry
The dog refuses to eat. I keep filling her bowl anyway: new kibble on top of old, hoping that it […]
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November 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The dog refuses to eat. I keep filling her bowl
anyway: new kibble on top of old, hoping
that it will suddenly becoming tempting.
—Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
anyway: new kibble on top of old, hoping
that it will suddenly becoming tempting.
—Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Grandson and his parents are all still poorly and the little one is clingy but we have sent mummy and daddy out for lunch and managed to get Robyn to go to sleep. Result!
November 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Grandson and his parents are all still poorly and the little one is clingy but we have sent mummy and daddy out for lunch and managed to get Robyn to go to sleep. Result!
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The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…
November 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Covid inquiry’s findings are shocking but unsurprising now, so the main thing it left me thinking is that without a vaccine we wd’ve been utterly screwed. & if you worked round the clock to make a thing that saved millions of lives globally, to see that legacy trashed by anti-vaxxers…
Commotion in the garden turned out to be a sparrow hawk trying its luck
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Commotion in the garden turned out to be a sparrow hawk trying its luck
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“The most influential plans for rebuilding Gaza start from the premise that Palestinians have no right to determine their future.”
Sara Roy, author of Unsilencing Gaza, writes for @nybooks.com: What ‘Day After’ for Gaza?
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Sara Roy, author of Unsilencing Gaza, writes for @nybooks.com: What ‘Day After’ for Gaza?
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
What ‘Day After’ for Gaza? | Sara Roy
On Friday, October 10, when Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire in Gaza, I heard from a Palestinian friend in the Strip. Gaza had been celebrating
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November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“The most influential plans for rebuilding Gaza start from the premise that Palestinians have no right to determine their future.”
Sara Roy, author of Unsilencing Gaza, writes for @nybooks.com: What ‘Day After’ for Gaza?
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Sara Roy, author of Unsilencing Gaza, writes for @nybooks.com: What ‘Day After’ for Gaza?
www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Had a surprise video call from my not quite 2 yr old grandson. Seeing him for real tomorrow. He’s very chatty!
November 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Had a surprise video call from my not quite 2 yr old grandson. Seeing him for real tomorrow. He’s very chatty!
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John Major is well and truly to the left of Kier Starmer now
John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
November 19, 2025 at 7:33 PM
John Major is well and truly to the left of Kier Starmer now
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I remember John Major's government. If you told me that in 2025 he'd be a voice of sanity I'd have hurt myself laughing, and yet here we are.
John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I remember John Major's government. If you told me that in 2025 he'd be a voice of sanity I'd have hurt myself laughing, and yet here we are.
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This is the _real_ Publisher's Clearinghouse, and I'm licking those stamps and pasting up my entry already.
And please add to the pot, whether you enter or not.
#WritersofSky #SkyPoets #FreeVerse
And please add to the pot, whether you enter or not.
#WritersofSky #SkyPoets #FreeVerse
This year is almost over, and we’re inches away from making something incredible happen. A free-to-enter poetry award with real cash prizes. The finish line is in sight. Can you help us get there? 🔗
A Poetry Award That Puts Poets First – And You Can Make It Happen - The Broken Spine
Poets deserve more than empty prestige. They deserve real recognition, real opportunities, and real support. That is why I am launching The Broken Spine
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November 20, 2025 at 5:44 AM
This is the _real_ Publisher's Clearinghouse, and I'm licking those stamps and pasting up my entry already.
And please add to the pot, whether you enter or not.
#WritersofSky #SkyPoets #FreeVerse
And please add to the pot, whether you enter or not.
#WritersofSky #SkyPoets #FreeVerse
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“And what is home if not the choice – over and over again – to stay?”
Marjorie Lotfi – winner of the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK – on becoming a writer, from fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 to arriving in Scotland
writersmosaic.org.uk/people/marjo...
Marjorie Lotfi – winner of the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK – on becoming a writer, from fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 to arriving in Scotland
writersmosaic.org.uk/people/marjo...
Marjorie Lotfi | WritersMosaic Magazine
Forward Prize winner 2024 for The Wrong Person to Ask, Lotfi moved to Tehran as a baby from the US and fled during the Iranian Revolution
writersmosaic.org.uk
November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
“And what is home if not the choice – over and over again – to stay?”
Marjorie Lotfi – winner of the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK – on becoming a writer, from fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 to arriving in Scotland
writersmosaic.org.uk/people/marjo...
Marjorie Lotfi – winner of the 2024 Forward Prize for Best First Collection for THE WRONG PERSON TO ASK – on becoming a writer, from fleeing Iran as a child in 1978 to arriving in Scotland
writersmosaic.org.uk/people/marjo...
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There's just one week to go until our next #BookTrustRepresents virtual author workshop, with the amazing Abiola Bello!
It's not too late to book your school's free spot - and if you already have, make sure you've downloaded the activity sheet to accompany the event 📝 👇
https://bit.ly/3XB050e
It's not too late to book your school's free spot - and if you already have, make sure you've downloaded the activity sheet to accompany the event 📝 👇
https://bit.ly/3XB050e
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
There's just one week to go until our next #BookTrustRepresents virtual author workshop, with the amazing Abiola Bello!
It's not too late to book your school's free spot - and if you already have, make sure you've downloaded the activity sheet to accompany the event 📝 👇
https://bit.ly/3XB050e
It's not too late to book your school's free spot - and if you already have, make sure you've downloaded the activity sheet to accompany the event 📝 👇
https://bit.ly/3XB050e