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Peter Devonald
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Multi award-winning poet /screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Winner HoHx2, Waltham Forest & FofHCS | Second Shelley Memorial & N2tS 2024 | Nominations BoNx2, Forward Prize & Children's Bafta
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MY NAME IS❗A poem I wrote about otherization, has found a home in the beautiful new issue of DUST POETRY. It forms part of a collection of 30 poems entitled DEAR WORLD... 🌍
Thank you to editors Tara Wheeler & Catherine Redford.✌🏼
#DearWorld
#Projection
#Otherization
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November 22, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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The online launch of RISE OF THE BADGER AND THE GREAT SHRUBBERY can be watched on the Gloucestershire Poetry Society

Delighted to have poetry in this wonderful collection

YouTube Channel: youtu.be/a7AYRkq640M

Hosted by Josephine Lay & Peter Lay of Black Eyes Publishing UK
RISE OF THE BADGER AND THE GREAT SHRUBBERY Online Launch November 2025
YouTube video by The Gloucestershire Poetry Society
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November 26, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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So delighted to be in this wonderful anthology which is out now

Great review here: Thanks to Greg Freeman for posting it and also Tim Fellows for making this wonderful anthology

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Coalface scars: poetry anthology marking strike anniversary looks at mining's past and its aftermath | Write Out Loud
Coalface scars: poetry anthology marking strike anniversary looks at mining's past and its aftermath
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November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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We didn’t get Books Council Wales funding, it would've meant 5 years of stability. It’s a blow, and it means a rockier road ahead, but our commitment to ambitious, inclusive, working-class publishing stays firm. If you want to help: buy a book, spread the word, or donate:

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Dear friends, I’m writing with some difficult news. We recently applied for long-term revenue funding through the Books Council of Wales, support that would have secured stability for Broken Sleep Books for the next five years and helped us continue publishing the ambitious, risk-taking, inclusive work we believe in so deeply. Unfortunately, we were not successful. It’s disappointing, of course. We put forward a strong application, had a positive interview, and genuinely believed our publishing programme where we champion low socio-economic status authors, working-class authors, and marginalised authors, while widening access to the arts and degentrifying the arts, reflected the cultural values Wales should be proud to support. Clearly, our idea of cultural value doesn’t fully match the Books Council’s. Sometimes decisions go another way. What hasn’t changed is our commitment. Broken Sleep Books will carry on publishing with the same determination, ambition, and care that has always sustained us, just with fewer resources and a much harder road ahead. If you value what we do, there are meaningful ways you can help us weather this moment: 📚 Buy a book, or a few Every purchase directly supports the press. Browse the catalogue here: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/books 🎁 Consider our books as gifts With the holidays approaching, this makes a real difference. 💬 Spread the word Tell a friend, share our books online, recommend us to a bookshop, or forward this newsletter. ❤️ Make a donation (if you’re able) Some readers have asked how they can help directly. If you’d like to support our work with a small donation, we’ve set up a simple option here: https://ko-fi.com/brokensleepbooks (Please only give if you’re in a position to do so, we know times are hard for many.) Broken Sleep has always been a community effort, powered by readers, writers, booksellers, and supporters who believe in literature that takes risks and makes space for voices that don’t always find a home elsewhere. Thank you, sincerely, for sticking with us. Your support means everything, especially right now.
November 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Issue 66 is now live

Welcome to the ACCUMULATION issue of HAUS-A-REST.

...artists and writers explore the forces that gather, pile, repeat, and overflow in our lives.

@jennafox.bsky.social @hausarest.bsky.social

​https://www.haus-a-rest.com/issue-66-writers-corner
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Guys, buying from small publishers and indie bookshops, instead of Amazon is the best way to support publishers, booksellers and authors and to keep small presses alive 👇
Please buy, too, from my lovely publisher @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 7d
Update: we have sold a total of eight books this month. "The books go to their readers, one by one, quickly, slowly, halfway around the world or halfway across the city. There is no supply chain, only the postal network, irregular events, direct sales to bookshops, and local distribution."
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 8d
It may well be the case that small, independent presses are the lifeblood of literature, and a vital feature of our cultural landscape, providing an essential service in a complex ecosystem, like wrasses or shrimps. What is undeniably the case is that we have sold a total of five books this month.
November 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Delighted to be in this wonderful new anthology from N2tS - all the recent winners including my poem that was 2nd place.

Huge thanks to Richard Howitt

Available at Waterstons and others inc. www.new2thescene.co.uk/product/new2...

#New2theScene #BookLaunch #PublicationDay
New2theScene: 2025 Collection
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November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Huge thanks to all the writers who make this such a joy each month

And thank you to the wonder @postcommunitynews.bsky.social for publishing these to a total distribution of over 35,000 copies per month.
November 9, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Thrilled to be included in Issue 5 of @UnderbellyPress which is out today!

Huge thanks to Lucy Huddlestone and all the amazing poets, writers and artists including @ghostlyverse.bsky.social
☆ Owen Townend ☆ Paul Callus ☆ @rburrows.bsky.social

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November 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Delighted to have an Honourable Mention Small Space, Deep Impact — Dark Poets Club

#DarkPoetsClub #poetry
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Delighted to be longlisteded with so many excellent writers!

@alicestainer.bsky.social
@jenratcliffe.bsky.social
@elizafevwrites.bsky.social
@lauratheis.bsky.social
@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social
@eleanorholmes.bsky.social
@sarahraybould.bsky.social

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November 6, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Issue 66 - Accumulation

Some of my recent work as resident poet at @hausarest.bsky.social

See the full poems on our website launch soon …

#ArtZine #ContemporaryArt #PoetryCommunity #accumulation #zine #artcollection #archive
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Coming in one week - the rather wonderful @underbellypress.bsky.social Issue Five

#underbellypress #underbelly #poetry
November 1, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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Autumn Poetry Contest closes tomorrorw - last chance for entries

So looking forward to reading your poems.

www.whisperingwisdom.co.uk/competitions...

#whisperingwisdom #poetry
Poetry | Whispering Wisdom
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October 30, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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This wonderful anthology is a hit! Thank you so much for everyone who has purchased this lavish beautiful collection of poetry and artwork.

Huge thanks to the wonderful editor/ publiser Peter Lay and @blackeyespub.bsky.social

#RiseOfTheBadger #poetrycommunity #poetry
October 23, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Wonderful new poetry book from one of the best poets around --- coming at the end of the year
brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · Oct 21
Stuart McPherson’s The Aureate Trophies of Profit & Loss is a furious, darkly surreal excavation of life under late capitalism, rendered in a language that seethes, mocks, and mourns.

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Beige cover with bold black sans-serif text; author “STUART MCPHERSON” top left and “Broken Sleep Books” top right above a thin rule; large centered title “The Aureate Trophies of Profit & Loss (and other lyrics for a cold world)”; below, a wide graphic of tightly spaced horizontal black bars forming an equalizer-like grid with three taller central columns. Anti-Poem You are here and so is that rope. Not to advocate for it, but against it, like inverse policing or the way coordinated rocket launches might dislodge a guillotine sharpened by the ceiling of the sky. It is arguable if this is the best way to start a poem, but so too it can be argued that the best way to calculate waste is to watch hungry pigs wallowing frictionless in their own slurry. If this is outrage then let it be climbed inside, into the uneaten remnants by the butcher’s block, the lungs, the heart. Many breaths have been stolen and so has our love. I’ll send it to you in the form of an empty street full of fool’s gold, or the light of a kitchen where knives in a drawer vibrate and feet drag across the laminate. If you thought a basement was the lowest place, then you’ve never stood upon a skyscraper, with its urinals and well-tailored suits. Ghosts, flesh, or figments of our imagination. To cast generalizations on the top percentile is a survival tactic learned by those who have lived in the grips of a vice, its mechanism, often observed by the wielder as heavy metallic object, is unilateral, or said differently from a tongue of specific tastes, is best used when tightened in one specific way.
October 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Thrilled to say that The Process of Poetry is now on its fourth print run🤩🤩🤩Thank you so much for buying it🙏If you liked it, do consider the sequel,The Making of a Poem. Bio link @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social #poetry #poems #poetrycommunity #poetrysky #poets #redraftingpoetry #craft #UK #Australia
Purple book cover, scrumpled up piece of white paper with letters from the alphabet falling out, under the title The Process of Poetry. Rosanna McGlone. Quote i pink to the right from Nigel Kent. Piece of red wattle with green leaves in the centre of book cover, The Making f a poem written in white on a black background. Handwritten poem draft and typed final version of the poem.
October 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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If you have an hour to spare on Saturday 25 Oct why not treat your ears to some of the best poetry going?
@hool415.bsky.social @meggiepoet.bsky.social
@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social @spiropoetry.bsky.social
@jahshabby.bsky.social & Katrina Moinet, Zooming free! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur...
Last Saturday Poets : October
The Last Saturday Poetry salon is joined by Katrina Moinet, Margaret Royall, Barnaby Harsent, Saraswati Nagpal, Julian Cason and Sue Spiers
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October 22, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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So delighted to have three poems in this new anthology of poetry, prose and art that is released tomorrow!

What pheonix will rise from the ashes of the human race?

Huge thanks to the wonderful editor/ publiser Peter Lay and Black Eyes Publishing UK

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/191319538...
October 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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Two more weeks to enter!

Theme: Love
Deadline: October 31, 2025
Entry fee: £5 for the first poem, £4 for each additional poem
Prize money:
1st place: £100
2nd place: £25
3rd place: £25
Word/Line limit: Up to 15 lines (excluding title and line breaks)

www.whisperingwisdom.co.uk/competitions
October 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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// NOW LIVE Issue 65 - Memorabilia //

Four new poems as part of being poet in residence at haus-a-rest, alongside amazing art and writing from so many fabulous artists exploring the topic of memorabilia.

Now live at www.haus-a-rest.com/issue-65-wri...

#artist #poetrycommunity #hausarest
HAUS-A-REST — issue 65 - writers corner Memorabilia
Memorabilia are not only objects—concert tickets, photographs, letters, keepsakes—but also fragments of memory, gestures, words, and feelings that we cling to, reimagine, or transform. For artists and...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Delighted to have work in the group show ‘SEASONS’ at The Addenbrooke’s Gallery/ Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ 11 October 2025 – 31 January 2026 .

Huge thanks to Monica Perez Vega and the Small Works Gallery

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October 15, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Delighted to be shortlisted for the very prestigious Wells Festival Of Literature Open Poetry Competition 2025 with "God is an Armadillo". Congratulations to all the marvellous poets

Prize-giving 20th October.

Huge thanks for everyone at Wells

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Open Poetry | Wells Festival of Literature
Here's a chance for poets worldwide to show off their talents and enter our Open Poetry 2025 competition. Your poem needs to be with us by 30 June to avoid disappointment.
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October 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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Something Gothic this way comes… Submissions are OPEN for The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry. We want poems of neon dread, fractured love, haunted minds.

Closing date: October 31st

#PoetrySubmissions #SubmissionWindow #TheHavishamSteps #ModernGothicPoetry
Something Gothic This Way Comes: Submit to The Havisham Steps: Modern Gothic Poetry - The Broken Spine
Submissions Open Throughout October 2025 | Publication in 2026
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October 9, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Delighted to have work in Broken Spine’s wonderful Rites & Trials: Coming-Of-Age Poetry — coming soon

Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk. Amazing poets include Sam Szanto, @louisepoetical.bsky.social, C. Oulens, Susan Richardson, Paul Brookes and many more
@brokenspinejournal.bsky.social #brokenspine
October 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM