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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting times as always this week in the poetry blogs with @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 40

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

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Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · 4d

A few thoughts on Tolkien's Lament for Boromir and its setting by Clamavi De Profundis, brief reference to metre followed by broader impressions: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2900

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 8d

Hey sonnet geeks, heads up. Excellent piece here by Paul Muldoon. thelondonmagazine.org/essay-scanty...

Essay | Scanty Plot of Ground by Paul Muldoon - The London Magazine

From 'Scanty Plot of Ground', Paul Muldoon on the sonnet, the most 'persistent' and 'pervasive' of poetic forms.

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 11d

An imagined history of the Green Man, anti-capitalist work poetry, the dactylic hexameter line & more with @robinhoughton.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 39

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 11d

This week in the poetry blogs with @emmalee1.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @johnglenday.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 39

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Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · 11d

Thanks Dave!

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 11d

The perfect poem, the extremes of poetry, and more with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 39

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

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Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · 11d

Eg the Lament for Boromir: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjPx...

Lament for Boromir - Enhanced Edition - Clamavi De Profundis

YouTube video by Clamavi De Profundis

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Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · 11d

I've always enjoyed the poems in Tolkien's Ring books and found several very moving but the Clamavi De Profundis group sets and sings them in a way that gives their emotional content new depth: the voices and music are beautiful but it's their sensitive feeling for the words that really makes them.

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Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · 15d

well .... all creatures." I don't know how much the notes to Share's edition will change my fundamental understanding of the poems but they're full of rewarding extensions of resonance.

Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · 15d

them, you see. He's not really doing anything, but he sees somebody walking by the hedge and he begins to dance at once, just to demonstrate to the cows what an indispensable creature he is. It is delightful, and it bears such a strong resemblance to the behaviour of young men in general and ...

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Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · 15d

I've loved the opening of Bunting's Briggflatts since uni but Don Share's annotated edition gives new delight, eg this note by BB himself:
"In spring, the bull does, in fact, if he's with the cows, dance on the tips of his toes, as part of the business of showing off, showing that he's protecting

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Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · 16d

Brief reflections on Michelene Wandor's Ergo from Arc Publications, as in issue 71 of The North: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2896

Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · 16d

Tomas Transtromer's 'Romanesque Arches' - profoundly moving in Robin Fulton's translation for Transtromer's New Collected Poems by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social. Read it aloud - in Fulton's words each phrase becomes a vividly charged moment in an arc of evolving experience.

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 18d

This week in the poetry blogs with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 38

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Gratia Léger @gratialeger.bsky.social · 29d

Today is Arvo Pärt's 90th bday. My favorite living composer.
I'm over the moon that my church choir is scheduled to sing The Deer's Cry in the spring. His De Profundis blows me away every time I listen.

I am grateful for the life & music of Arvo Pärt!

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Arvo Pärt - The Deer's Cry (2007)

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Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · Sep 10

Superb poet.

Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · Sep 10

Please join Carcanet poet @sashadugdale.bsky.social on Saturday 27th September at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, where she will be reading from some of her work.

The event is free to attend, but for more information see here:⬇️
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Sasha Dugdale, Louise Machen with music from Li Lu & Lulu Yang: 27 September 2025

Please join us on Saturday 27 September 2025, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. You will find all the information you need re…

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · Sep 9

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social @jillpearlman.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 36

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

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Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · Sep 4

And the glass houses in the Botanic Garden are enchanting even on our casual viewing.

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Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · Sep 4

College lawns were very dry on this year's visit to Oxford but the flower beds in Balliol were particularly lovely in the subtlety of their colour combinations.

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Edmund Prestwich @edmundprestwich.bsky.social · Sep 3

Fabulous photo - we're used to the marvels of macros now, but this one makes an exceptional impact by colour and composition and because the bee's intent pose seems so human.