PoetryID
@poetryid.bsky.social
The North Hertfordshire stanza of The Poetry Society.
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Posts by David Birkett
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Posts by David Birkett
#poetry practitioners - have a try at the #waterford. One verse, four lines, rhyming ABBA, with 8,4,4 and 8 syllables.
@kevinmacalan.bsky.social
@kevinmacalan.bsky.social
December 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
#poetry practitioners - have a try at the #waterford. One verse, four lines, rhyming ABBA, with 8,4,4 and 8 syllables.
@kevinmacalan.bsky.social
@kevinmacalan.bsky.social
Making #Christmas things this afternoon.
December 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Making #Christmas things this afternoon.
We had a seasonal session of #poetry writing at our last #workshop for the year. The theme was winter #waterfords, a #waterford being a four-line poem of 8,4,4 and 8 syllables rhyming ABBA.
December 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
We had a seasonal session of #poetry writing at our last #workshop for the year. The theme was winter #waterfords, a #waterford being a four-line poem of 8,4,4 and 8 syllables rhyming ABBA.
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Our Christmas and winter anthology! Available in hardback and paperback 📖
🕯️ 🎄 🎅 🤶 🧝 💝 🦌 🪵 🔥
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#books #poetry #christmas
🕯️ 🎄 🎅 🤶 🧝 💝 🦌 🪵 🔥
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
#books #poetry #christmas
December 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Our Christmas and winter anthology! Available in hardback and paperback 📖
🕯️ 🎄 🎅 🤶 🧝 💝 🦌 🪵 🔥
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
#books #poetry #christmas
🕯️ 🎄 🎅 🤶 🧝 💝 🦌 🪵 🔥
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
#books #poetry #christmas
December 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of our contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025.
Next is Helen Farish's pick: The Anchorage by Bernard O’Donoghue (Faber). Thank you, Helen!
Next is Helen Farish's pick: The Anchorage by Bernard O’Donoghue (Faber). Thank you, Helen!
December 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🕰️ With the year coming to an end, we asked a selection of our contributors to give us their favourite poetry books and pamphlets of 2025.
Next is Helen Farish's pick: The Anchorage by Bernard O’Donoghue (Faber). Thank you, Helen!
Next is Helen Farish's pick: The Anchorage by Bernard O’Donoghue (Faber). Thank you, Helen!
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Next week on TopTweetTuesday (on Twitter - 16th Dec) the challenge:
Write a fresh, imagistic poem about a festive event using
- a lesser known colour shade
- 2 words that are hardly used, including an archaic word
- an extravagant simile
- a wacky or unexpected metaphor
60 words max
Write a fresh, imagistic poem about a festive event using
- a lesser known colour shade
- 2 words that are hardly used, including an archaic word
- an extravagant simile
- a wacky or unexpected metaphor
60 words max
December 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Next week on TopTweetTuesday (on Twitter - 16th Dec) the challenge:
Write a fresh, imagistic poem about a festive event using
- a lesser known colour shade
- 2 words that are hardly used, including an archaic word
- an extravagant simile
- a wacky or unexpected metaphor
60 words max
Write a fresh, imagistic poem about a festive event using
- a lesser known colour shade
- 2 words that are hardly used, including an archaic word
- an extravagant simile
- a wacky or unexpected metaphor
60 words max
#vss365
#bewitched
#poem
#limerick
Each time Ms Montgomery twitched
her nose in the series Bewitched,
I felt a strange surge,
and harboured an urge
to meet her and then to get hitched.
#bewitched
#poem
#limerick
Each time Ms Montgomery twitched
her nose in the series Bewitched,
I felt a strange surge,
and harboured an urge
to meet her and then to get hitched.
December 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
#vss365
#bewitched
#poem
#limerick
Each time Ms Montgomery twitched
her nose in the series Bewitched,
I felt a strange surge,
and harboured an urge
to meet her and then to get hitched.
#bewitched
#poem
#limerick
Each time Ms Montgomery twitched
her nose in the series Bewitched,
I felt a strange surge,
and harboured an urge
to meet her and then to get hitched.
Our last #poetry #workshop for the term tomorrow at #Letchworth Settlement. Am expecting giggling and high spirits.
December 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Our last #poetry #workshop for the term tomorrow at #Letchworth Settlement. Am expecting giggling and high spirits.
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TONIGHT! Come to our Late Shopping Evening and get 10% off all books and free gift-wrapping. We’ll be on hand to give recommendations and our neighbours at St. JOHN will also be open late for wine and their famous mince pies.
Get a free ticket here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/christmas...
Get a free ticket here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/christmas...
Christmas at the Bookshop
Join us this Christmas for late shopping evenings throughout the festive period.
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December 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
TONIGHT! Come to our Late Shopping Evening and get 10% off all books and free gift-wrapping. We’ll be on hand to give recommendations and our neighbours at St. JOHN will also be open late for wine and their famous mince pies.
Get a free ticket here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/christmas...
Get a free ticket here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/christmas...
I have become interested in the #waterford recently, a four line #poem of 8,4,4 and 8 syllables, rhyming ABBA. See @waterfordrhyme.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I have become interested in the #waterford recently, a four line #poem of 8,4,4 and 8 syllables, rhyming ABBA. See @waterfordrhyme.bsky.social
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If you're ticking off a gift list (or just want to treat yourself), BookKind are currently offering a discount on the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist – buy all six books for £75, saving over £28 on the full value.
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Booker Prize 2025 Bundle
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December 5, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If you're ticking off a gift list (or just want to treat yourself), BookKind are currently offering a discount on the Booker Prize 2025 shortlist – buy all six books for £75, saving over £28 on the full value.
bookkind.co.uk/the-booker-p...
bookkind.co.uk/the-booker-p...
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Get your free tickets for our Christmas and winter anthology launch on Sunday 14th December!! 🎫 💝 🎄 ❄️ ⛄️
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Black Bough Christmas and Winter Anthology LAUNCH
Join us to celebrate the launch of our festive anthology!
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December 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Get your free tickets for our Christmas and winter anthology launch on Sunday 14th December!! 🎫 💝 🎄 ❄️ ⛄️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-boug...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-boug...
Delighted to be in the new edition of @mugwortmagazine.bsky.social - an Autumnal wreath of poetry, prose and pictures.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Delighted to be in the new edition of @mugwortmagazine.bsky.social - an Autumnal wreath of poetry, prose and pictures.
mugwortmag.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
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#vespertine
#vss365
#poem
So, 'vespertine' means evening-like
according to my computer;
and not a young Italian tyke
who's fond of a brand of scooter.
#vss365
#poem
So, 'vespertine' means evening-like
according to my computer;
and not a young Italian tyke
who's fond of a brand of scooter.
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
#vespertine
#vss365
#poem
So, 'vespertine' means evening-like
according to my computer;
and not a young Italian tyke
who's fond of a brand of scooter.
#vss365
#poem
So, 'vespertine' means evening-like
according to my computer;
and not a young Italian tyke
who's fond of a brand of scooter.
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Oh, this is such an EXCELLENT choice! Misha Glenny is the new host of BBC Radio 4's flagship show In Our Time, replacing the retiring Melvyn Bragg www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
Misha Glenny to present BBC Radio 4’s In Our Time
The much loved series returns on 15 January 2026
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December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Oh, this is such an EXCELLENT choice! Misha Glenny is the new host of BBC Radio 4's flagship show In Our Time, replacing the retiring Melvyn Bragg www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
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Win a set of signed copies of the Booker and International Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted books - just in time for Christmas. 🎄🎁
Enter here ⤵️
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Enter here ⤵️
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Win a set of signed copies of the Booker and International Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted books | The Booker Prizes
We’re offering you the chance to win one of five brilliant bundles that include signed copies of all 12 shortlisted books from this year’s Booker and International Booker Prize shortlists, plus a limi...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Win a set of signed copies of the Booker and International Booker Prize 2025 shortlisted books - just in time for Christmas. 🎄🎁
Enter here ⤵️
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Enter here ⤵️
thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
Our #poetry workshop is fortnightly, so in the intervening weeks, I have to choose a theme and write several poems about in, each in the voice of a different @poetryid.bsky.social member. It's a tough gig.
December 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Our #poetry workshop is fortnightly, so in the intervening weeks, I have to choose a theme and write several poems about in, each in the voice of a different @poetryid.bsky.social member. It's a tough gig.
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Tomorrow! I’ll be performing at Soho Poly alongside the poetry-forces-of-nature that are Joelle Taylor and Will Harris. Tickets here: sohopoly.co.uk/events/soho-po…. Hosted and curated by the brilliant Hannah Copley @hannahcopley.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Tomorrow! I’ll be performing at Soho Poly alongside the poetry-forces-of-nature that are Joelle Taylor and Will Harris. Tickets here: sohopoly.co.uk/events/soho-po…. Hosted and curated by the brilliant Hannah Copley @hannahcopley.bsky.social
#booksky Good Front Row tonight, on BBC Radio 4, featuring the enduring popularity of A #Christmas Carol (including new adaptations) and the funniest ever novel.
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Front Row - Updating A Christmas Carol; new sculpture exhibition by blind artists and curators; 2025’s funniest novel - BBC Sounds
Updating A Christmas Carol; new exhibition by blind artists; 2025’s funniest novel.
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December 2, 2025 at 11:32 PM
#booksky Good Front Row tonight, on BBC Radio 4, featuring the enduring popularity of A #Christmas Carol (including new adaptations) and the funniest ever novel.
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I seem to be compulsively writing #limericks about #maths. The mind is a curious thing.
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I seem to be compulsively writing #limericks about #maths. The mind is a curious thing.
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On the lookout for gift ideas? We asked the Booker Prize 2025 judges for their recommendations.
What are your go-to books to give as a gift?
What are your go-to books to give as a gift?
December 2, 2025 at 5:33 PM
On the lookout for gift ideas? We asked the Booker Prize 2025 judges for their recommendations.
What are your go-to books to give as a gift?
What are your go-to books to give as a gift?