Lucy Furlong
@lucyfurleaps.bsky.social
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writing ~ mapping ~ walking ~ snapping clew~ (Hesterglock Press) Villiers Path, Sward, Amniotic City 2nd ed. (Sampson Low) Setting Sundays lucyfurlong.substack.com Amniotic City film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E25IOgfD4Q www.lucyfurlong.com
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lucyfurleaps.bsky.social
Thanks so much for following me! I'm not here much but will catch up with you eventually... 🙏
Me walking around a labyrinth in Sussex Oct 2023
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nataliakubica.bsky.social
Feeling inspired by @zackpolanski.bsky.social's performance on #BBCQT?

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poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social
"a rush of leaves lost early" wonderful poetry from Jane Griffiths, back in 1988! #poetrysky
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It's #ThrowbackThursday! We're going back in time to show you excerpts of prizewinning poems throughout National Poetry Competition history. 🕰️

Today's comes from 'Side-tracked' by Jane Griffiths, which was highly commended in the 1988 National Poetry Competition.
He was somehow lost in the dust of late summer,
On such an afternoon when he could without trouble
Believe in a month of Sundays, all things being equal. 
A cloud straying across the sun, not the light
But the shadows were lost, diffused, and the breeze
Slopping past brought a rush of leaves lost early.
Crisp but pale, falling short of an autumnal blaze.
The breeze eddying, undecided back and forth and
forth again
Trailed memories faded as year-old rose-water,
And the thought "This year I must - must what?"
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christopherbrown.bsky.social
The paperback edition of A Natural History of Empty Lots is out today from Timber Press @hachetteus.bsky.social! Thanks to all the readers who have picked up the hardcover and ebook over the past year (or listened to the audiobook) and spread the word 🙏📖💚
Paperback editions of A Natural History of Empty Lots in a box
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poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social
Back in August this year, Jemma Borg wrote a blog for our website titled 'What Do We Mean By Hope' in which she says: "And here is where I think poetry can help – it can help us find courage..." read the whole article and her wonderful poem 'Willow sonnet'.
poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/what-do-we-m...
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josephwells.bsky.social
Nature needs you!!! Together we can fight for our protected species and save them from extinction!

Credit: @danicapriest.bsky.social

#TeamBat #TeamNewt #TeamSnail #Labour #Reeves #RachelReeves #Nimby #Nature #ProtectNature
lucyfurleaps.bsky.social
Just gone on the never-ending must visit list!
smpierce.bsky.social
Spent a morning clearing vegetation around one of Dartmoor’s strangest oddities - the Rev Bray’s inscribed stones. 200 years ago he decided to carve poets’ names into boulders in the Cowsic valley. Some of the stones also have lines from the poems and others have Bardic runes….
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emmabolland.bsky.social
💚 heart co-editing intergraphia with @rachelartsmith.bsky.social. We'll be at Conway Hall in the heart of Bloomsbury for this year's amazing @smallpublishers.bsky.social on the 24 & 25 October. Come say hello!
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thegibbon.bsky.social
The stuff in the Baltic isn't really getting the traction over here it might. We're currently doing seabed surveys off Gdansk in Poland but have lost well over a week now to GPS jamming and spoofing originating in Kaliningrad making the vessel's systems show it as being off Sweden.
journalistjon.bsky.social
Russia's grey-zone conflict against the West is escalating at sea as well as in the air, as evident in drone incursions in Denmark and a the boarding of Boracay by France
This week in @economist.com we look at the threat posed by Russia's shadow fleet, and NATO efforts to counter it. A short 🧵 1/3
lucyfurleaps.bsky.social
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kbgreens.bsky.social
In case you missed it this weekend

Want to be part of the Green team

#RealHopeRealChange

join.greenparty.org.uk
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johnreppion.bsky.social
#DailyGhost
5) HORSE EELS
In 1960 a trio of Catholic priests from Dublin were fishing in Lough Ree lake. There they saw a monster. 6 feet long with flat head "like a python's". The name Horse Eel dates from the early 20th century when farmers claimed to often see similar beasts come ashore to graze
Paranormal Ireland by Dara deFoíte (2002)
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johnreppion.bsky.social
I have a lot of books about ghosts and hauntings on my shelves. So, as we countdown to Halloween 2025, I'm going to pick a book and a ghost/haunting from that book and post a little bluesky sized summary of that on here.
#DailyGhost
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davidatkinsonpoet.bsky.social
I am going to need a bigger boat...

#poetry
#amwriting
#quoteoftheday