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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · Aug 7

📚 It's August, which means the #SealeyChallenge is now underway! To help you on your journey to read a book every day this month, The Poetry Society has gotten in touch with poets we've recently worked with for some recommendations.

Today's recommendation comes from Vasiliki Albedo, who was (...)

Vasiliki Albedo recommends 'The Snow Globe' by Jenny Pagdin. She says of the book: "With beautifully crafted, nuanced, lyrical poems rooted in the perosnal experience of postpartum psychosis, the collection traverses a stark emotional landscape giving way to glimpses of recovery, light, and love."

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · Jul 19

💭 To help inspire your entries for this year's National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society will be releasing a series of prompts throughout the competition.

Today's prompt comes from Vasiliki Albedo, who was longlisted in the 2024 National Poetry Competition and commended in the 2018 (...)

A poetry prompt from Vasiliki Albedo which reads: Take a couple of poems you have almost given up on. Isolate images from each that strike you as interesting, arresting or surprising. Past those into a document and see if you can find an emotional through-line that connects them, perhaps in an unexpected way. Free write around your thoughts and draft some of these fragments into a new poem.

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Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr.bsky.social · Mar 21

thank you so much! 💕

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Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr.bsky.social · Mar 20

♥️♥️

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · Mar 20

"And just as we know the dancing woman is dying
in the next scene, the villain doing a good deed

is dying in the next scene, and the playing kitten
is only practising to kill, we both know

what’s coming."

#TodaysPoem #poetry by Vasiliki Albedo (@minorroarr.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/ctcj2s22

3 poems by Vasiliki Albedo

I lay a thick black forestI lay a thick black forestcake on its tray and wolfit with my eyes, emptyan entire salt pigon the frosting beforeI bin it. Someonetaught me to do this, onlineor in therapy or...

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Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr.bsky.social · Mar 20

thank you so much Vicki 💗🙏

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poemtoday.bsky.social @poemtoday.bsky.social · Mar 20

Insanity

My mind blew open so wide, I couldn’t trust the sun to set

Jenny Pagdin

briefpoems.wordpress.com/2016/01/07/s...

Image courtesy @minorroarr.bsky.social

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · Mar 18

People who change your life:
Ted Schmidt taught highschool to my punk rock bandmates. When our band went on the road Ted gave us books on social justice and how to turn faith into action.
He has been part of my life ever since.
He is in his 80s and holds a weekly vigil on Kingston road for peace.

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Dillon Jaxx @jaxxi.bsky.social · Mar 6

Apologies if the initial post was unclear; this competition is open to ALL persons who identify as female or non binary.
There is an ADDITIONAL category for emerging poets over 40 who have yet to publish a pamphlet or collection.
Any questions please email us 🍀 [email protected]

Dillon Jaxx @jaxxi.bsky.social · Feb 28

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Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr.bsky.social · Mar 3

my dreams are becoming more pedestrian- I dreamt I was making pizza and arguing with my family 😑

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Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · Mar 2

Read 'The Bittersweet' by @minorroarr.bsky.social badlilies.uk/vasiliki-albedo

The Bittersweet
I speak only desire that summer, recite Anais Nin, Carson's Eros the Bittersweet, suffering the heat, my centre pulsing like a magnet.
Sixteen, lodging with friends of the family, sweet on the son— brown eyed, freckled, biting his lip as he reels in a fish
from the cliff where we burn through afternoons and I pray nothing catches, for the chance to linger after sunset.
All night on the viscid sand our bodies
soak in brine, as we watch ships bloat into focus, a frenzy of water behind them, until the sparrows awaken, their song more bait than romance.
And I have wanted him so much to kiss me all that summer on Skiathos, with its inlets and pine forests, where the Greek flag was raised
for the first time. Look at him, the Aegean at his fingertips swelling and splitting its body at his lightest touch.

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Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr.bsky.social · Mar 2

thank you so much @badlilies.bsky.social 🌸🌸

Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social · Mar 2

Read 'The Bittersweet' by @minorroarr.bsky.social badlilies.uk/vasiliki-albedo

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · Feb 28

Meanwhile, by way of light relief, a cat poem, in today’s @badlilies.bsky.social Also a photo of ‘my tangerine Miranda’, clearly unaware she’s been such an inspiration.

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Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr.bsky.social · Mar 1

🙏💜💗🫶

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Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr.bsky.social · Mar 1

sorry for the typo, I was running out the door, Vicki!

Vasiliki Albedo @minorroarr.bsky.social · Mar 1

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Vicki Ziegler @bookgaga.bsky.social · Mar 1

"biting
his lip as he reels in a fish

from the cliff where we burn through
afternoons and I pray nothing catches,
for the chance to linger after sunset."

#TodaysPoem #poetry
The Bittersweet by Vasiliki Albedo (@minorroarr.bsky.social) (2025 @BadLilies.bsky.social) tinyurl.com/44zv6hd5