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Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Apr 1

A new poem appears in @propelmagazine.bsky.social Issue 14, partly inspired by this painting. The issue is full of great poems & edited by @susannahdickey.bsky.social - you can read the whole thing here - www.propelmagazine.co.uk/issue-14-con...

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Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Feb 14

A poem about love, from the new manuscript draft

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Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Feb 9

Glorious stairwell sign at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social

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Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Jan 30

Loved doing this, @artreview.bsky.social
are running an exciting new series where they ask poets to respond to contemporary works of art.

I chose Mika Tajima’s Art d’Ameublement series.

thanks to @alexanderleissle.bsky.social

artreview.com/art-dameuble...

‘art d’ameublement’: A Poem by Lucy Mercer

‘When the island / appeared to me / it was a beautiful / one, one I could / not think in’

artreview.com

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Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Jan 27

Have really been enjoying Wallace Stevens recently.

Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Jan 23

Do you agree?

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Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Jan 13

New poem

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Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Jan 10

Met a celebrity today

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Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Dec 16

Thanks pal ! 🧡

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Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Dec 16

A new poem published today, up on @perversemag.bsky.social 🧡

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Amy Key @amykey.bsky.social · Dec 11

I'm now able to offer a handful of mentoring opportunities

I'm often asked I offer mentoring or manuscript review. I’m now able to.

My fee is £300 for one session which will include:

·Review of up to 10k words of your work in progress ahead of meeting with you
·A one-hour online meeting to discuss your work in progress, with advice on how to develop it further
·Opportunity to ask questions and get tips on preparing submissions to agents, pitching to magazines, developing book proposals etc
·A personalised, recommended reading list
·Option to book further sessions at a discounted rate.

If you’re interested please email me amy_vk1@hotmail.com, sharing with me what you’re working on and what you hope to get out of a mentoring relationship. I can only take on a handful of mentees so please get in touch early if you want to work with me.

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Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Dec 4

I seem to suddenly have a lot of new followers! While I’m not a VERY active member of this community - I thought I’d say hi. I occasionally send poems out on my Substack, which you can subscribe to here: selectedpoems.substack.com

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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social · Dec 1

So enjoyed chatting - and singing - to @ellafrears.bsky.social and @mapesburyroad.bsky.social on Ella’s unique Tears for Frears

Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · Dec 1

Tomorrow 7-9am on Soho Radio - last Tears for Frears of the year with special guests @ruthpadel.bsky.social & @mapesburyroad.bsky.social - music, poetry, chat and even some singing 🥹💙 catch up on previous shows here: ellafrears.com/editorial/

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · Dec 1

Tomorrow 7-9am on Soho Radio - last Tears for Frears of the year with special guests @ruthpadel.bsky.social & @mapesburyroad.bsky.social - music, poetry, chat and even some singing 🥹💙 catch up on previous shows here: ellafrears.com/editorial/

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · Nov 26

You can listen back to Monday’s Stress Test with these cuties ( @joedunthorne.bsky.social & @mapesburyroad.bsky.social ) here: www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/ro... chat, music, poems written live on air 🫠

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Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Nov 24

Gloomily visited Sappho yesterday

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Derek Beaulieu @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hey poets! Check out BERNADETTE MAYER's list of poetry experiments/prompts. Blow your mind and never be stuck again: www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Maye...

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Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Nov 22

Eventually I will get into the habit of posting on here but, in the mean time, here is an old poem & my old face.

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Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Nov 21

I’ve made this feed for UK-based writers, poets, publishers, booksellers, critics & academics & book workers

if you wd like to be added to the list that generates it please lmk as have only just started adding ppl.

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social · Nov 19

Recorded a very good ep of Tears for Frears yesterday with Ruth Padel & Alex Macdonald 💘 out 2nd December on Soho Radio - until then you can listen to the previous shows here: ellafrears.com/editorial/

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Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Nov 16

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Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Oct 18

I wrote about Louise Glück for Art Review

artreview.com/remembering-...

Remembering Louise Glück (1943–2023), Master of the Interior

The Nobel-Prizewinning poet made the most of poetry as a form of private communication

artreview.com

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Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Oct 4

Can’t help but think of Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield with one chapter called ‘none but the guilty can be long and completely miserable’ followed by the next chapter ‘fresh calamities’

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Alex MacDonald @mapesburyroad.bsky.social · Oct 2

Another old poem, one I forgot I wrote

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Lucy Mercer @lucymercer.bsky.social · Sep 28

Excited to announce a new literature x ecology online reading series am running over the next 8 months

Will be in conversation with:

~ Daisy Lafarge
~ Sylvia Legris
~ Karen McCarthy Woolf
~ Forrest Gander
~ Rachael Allen
~ Anthony Vahni Capildeo
~ Brenda Hillman
~ John Wedgwood Clarke

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