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Sarah O
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Mainly poetry (Butcher's Dog,The Madrigal, Broken Spine, BlackBough, W Moon & counting), art, glass & (theatre) people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK. Not every act of kindness is part of a plan.
Website :www.sarahowriter.com
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Dark little tale from my nether side in here...
Thirty writers, thirty winter visions. Soot & Boots brings them together in one seasonal anthology. Out soon. #SootAndBoots
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My starter pack of people associated with the #PoetryTheme #Prompt Includes @janpsolivagant.bsky.social @uhume.bsky.social @francesca-laura.bsky.social and many more. Please follow and repost if you can #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #writingcommunity
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Hookland holds the dialect word of holscad – a shadow cast by something that is patently not there, a shadow of something which was once there, but now no longer exists. #Hookland #WOTD
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Out winter anthology from last year in paperback and hardback with artwork by Emma Bissonnet 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️

www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Dark little tale from my nether side in here...
Thirty writers, thirty winter visions. Soot & Boots brings them together in one seasonal anthology. Out soon. #SootAndBoots
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A Nori Martini and a view of home. 👌
November 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Winter conducts its slow seduction. It has disrobed the trees, its cold kisses make them shiver. Revelation of their wooden bones offers us a new, intimate language. They speak of swelling dark and coming ice. They speak their lover's secret names. – #EmilyCBanting, 1981 #Winter
November 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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Many late-19th-century paintings depict people reading, a motif that symbolizes intelligence and personal introspection. For artists such as Georg Pauli, the absorbed reader offered a relatable way to express the era’s growing appreciation for private reflection.
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Had a fabulous personalised present from Gail's shop. Get creative yourself, stick a poem on a notebook.
November 22, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Last 4 places! As the cottages are full, we’ve added 2 places in Stables House for the John Glenday and Naomi Shihab-Nye retreats at Galloway House Estate (Scotland) in 2026. Dating from 1740, GHE encompasses 600 acres of fields, seashore and woodlands. DM for more info! www.gallowayhouseestate.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Goodnight from Powderhouse Lane where every door is bolted against possible intrusion by the Children-Made-of-Thorns. Goodnight from Faith Loker wondering whether to summon an ambulance before Tom’s belladonna hallucinations get any stronger. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 19, 2025 at 10:31 PM
@hookland.bsky.social Good morning from the Yorkshire blizzards... hoping the bright light has refreshed your world too. No gas fires, no chilblains.
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Squid Soup's work at City of York Art Gallery is well worth immersion. Weirdly calming.
November 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Here is a reading of my poem- 'Zephyr's Lost Winds' 🌬️
First published in The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13 🕊️
#PassageOfTime
#AllThingsMustPass
#WindsOfChange
#Poems
#BlueskyPoetry
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ZEPHYR'S LOST WINDS 🕊️ by Carmella de Keyser
YouTube video by Poetry with Carmella
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November 17, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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All I want this winter is the feeling of a warm house guarded by woods.

Today's poem is "Grove" tinyurl.com/677sr9sa

#poetry #naturepoetry #winter #cottagecore #cozycore #writingcommunity #poemsky #poets #authors
Grove
All I want this winter is the feeling of a warm house guarded by woods
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November 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Our first short-fiction release since Four Forked Tongues is nearly here. Bold, strange, tender winter tales. November release. #SootAndBoots
November 18, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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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
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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
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November 16, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Seductive Scarborough, Yorkshire, "The Glory of the English Coast" : seen here in an advert on the covers of a 1930 London & North Eastern Railway holiday guide; artwork of the castle rising above the town & bay, is by Picking. #yorkshire #holidays #graphicdesign #seaside

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November 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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With my other head on:
November 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Huge thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for once again hosting #PoetryAbout #Desire here's a little poem from 'In Free Fall' a small selection of my poetry published by www.leafbyleafpress.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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Enormously pleased to host
#PromptCombo this week. Theme is #NorthStar

Here's my poem 'Navigating a Wilderness' to kick us off.

Tag me & use the hastags to get involved, open till Friday!

@victoriaspires.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Oh this is so wise and helpful.
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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I’m delighted to have six #poems featured on the brilliant @zoomburst.substack.com’s Sixty Odd Poets site. And I’m deeply flattered by his wonderful line drawing. The link to the feature is in the post below👇(Do check out the other poets in Mike’s excellent series)
#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky
This morning #SixtyOdd Poets is proud to present a selection of the #poetry of Paul Connolly. Pour yourself a brew and take some time to read, mark and inwardly digest these six fine poems.
87. Paul Connolly
Internationally published poet with a marvellous reading voice.
sixtyoddpoets.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Goodnight from Joe Waterfield, dismissing his sighting of Corpse Friars’ lanterns as a sign he drank too much at The Windlass pub. Goodnight from William Heywall up at Palefire Farm, writing a petition to the Field Sprite to amend the terms of its blood tithe. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM