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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · 9d

He was younger than the atom bomb.

All his life he experimented with hard-boiled eggs.

He won't be home this evening, so
don't worry; don't hurry to report him missing

Brian Patten was young. That was the whole point. As you can tell, i'm a little bit cross

Black and white picture of Brian patten as a young man

Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Jul 14

'The Labour MP Helena Dollimore said it would be a “great shame” if 1066 country – the area named after the battle – was locked out of “this national moment”.'

The MP for Hastings and Rye thinks that the greatest defeat in English history was a "national moment"

Macron knows what he is doing!

Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Jun 1

Have a read of Sasha Dugdale's 'The Strogbox' which makes and updates all the connections

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · May 29

A wake up call to publishers everywhere. No matter what gendre. I couldn't stop flicking back to the cover as I read the poems. I didn't get all the connections but it was fun trying. Make Bookcovers Relevant Again!
ps there is much more to this important collection, but this one great idea

Robin Houghton @robinhoughton.bsky.social · May 28

About the cover art of The Mayday Diaries:
robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk/2025/05/28/t...

The Mayday Diaries cover art: what’s it all about?

Please click on the image for a bit of fun! Yes I know, the picture is a bit strange. Then again, perhaps you haven’t really looked at it? Understandable. Poetry books sometimes have interest…

robinhoughtonpoetry.co.uk

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · May 23

viewed from Perthshire it's called a Saltire! Thank-you for your wish which came true though we are off to the local drama club performance tonight with our macks under our sensible arms because the rain is due to start during the second act.

Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · May 23

Glimpsed past wayside pylons - an X or a kiss! I wish you a (radiant) blue morning.

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · May 16

I love that the cover picture is part of a collection in which work colleagues touch each other corporately, parents inevitably age, friends and siblings are lost and found.
@robinhoughton.bsky.social is the radiologist who in showing us more than we can see Illuminates our darkness. Precious poetry

Complex tabletop still life with flowers bottles diaries portrait photos and fruit behind a jumble of papers probably drafts on the cover of and relating to Robin Houghton's 'Mayday Diaries'

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · May 8

I buy small press poetry books a lot. I always order and buy through my local shop, The Watermill in Aberfeldy, when I can even though most presses encourage me to buy direct. I assume what I do is better for press and poet - moving books through distributers - but am I wrong?

Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social · May 8

As a poet I used to be so frustrated by the limited range of poetry in most bookshops. Now I see how the odds are stacked against booksellers ever hearing about poetry publications let alone being able to stock them without making a loss. Writers don't see their books in shops & don't know why.

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · May 6

I'm loving everty minute of 'sat with and reread'ing it.

Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · May 6

'It is a book to be sat with and reread: Dugdale is certainly performing very subtle and subversive work, writing about violence with an awareness of the flawed nature of storytelling.'
Zoë Brigley on Sasha Dugale, in Magma 91.
Get the book here: www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017408...

The Strongbox

Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 'It began with the sun appearing over the plane wing supernatural orange but no light' The Stro...

www.carcanet.co.uk

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · May 1

Yea @robinhoughton.bsky.social the wonderful Watermill bookshop got this to me in Aberfeldy on publication day.
lovely to have met you at the #poetry book fair on Saturday. this counts as my seventh purchase from that event. Looking forward to your next edition of @planetpoetry.bsky.social

Cover of The Mayday Diaries by Robin Haughton

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Robin Houghton @robinhoughton.bsky.social · Apr 26

On my way to Free Verse #Poetry Book Fair at St Columba's in London, I'll be helping out on the Frogmore Press table... See you there?

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Apr 18

I took 3 goes to get into Lapwing @hannahcopley.bsky.social but now I’m in I can't get out. My father was not like yours. I did have an arable childhood among pee-wits, skylarks and hares, but neither the wit nor courage to stitch that stubbly dangerous world into an important book. Congratulations!

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Apr 10

Deaf Republic - A book everyone should read. If you haven't, do it now!

Deborah @deborahzafer.bsky.social · Apr 9

This just gets more relevant all the time

We lived happily during the war
Ilya Kaminsky

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · Mar 30

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Apr 1

Hi @ailsamacpherson.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky - just what we had over our heads on our walk this morning in sunny bluesky Aberfeldy.

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · Mar 29

The Quakers are a really important & authentic voice for humanitarian values, have been for over 300 years. Unless the police had credible evidence that the Meeting House had been infiltrated by terrorists, this should be treated as an attack against religious freedom & peaceful protest.

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Mar 23

Got this from @rosannamcglone.bsky.social ‘s book ‘The Making of a poem’. Sarah Holland-Batt, published in the UK by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social , shows us what we could see for ourselves if we only knew where and how to look. Her insightful descriptive poems deserve to be hung in a gallery.

Cover of The Jaguar, a selection of poems by Sarah Holland Batt published in Uk by Bloodaxe

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Mar 21

Really looking forward to this dropping through the letterbox

Dr Catherine Redford @catherineredford.bsky.social · Mar 21

In what is turning out to be the best World Poetry Day ever, I received my contributor copy of @magmapoetry.bsky.social today! I’m so thrilled to be the Selected Poet for the issue, which means that five of my poems are in it 😊

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Mar 18

Quite right Rosanna this is exciting news. But what a mountain of work - she must be a glutton for it!

Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · Mar 18

Great to hear. #Regional #theatre #bringiton

The Stage @thestage.co.uk · Mar 18

Jodie Comer will revisit her role in Suzie Miller’s legal drama Prima Facie for a UK and Ireland tour 👇

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Mar 17

I don't often post about a book before I read it but I want to try to capture the frisson I feel when reading the opening pages of @sashadugdale.bsky.social 's The Strong Box which only yesterday morning she read to us at Stanza. It's exciting it's new - and it's familiar.
Now, on with the book ..

The cover of Sasha Dugdale's The Strong Box

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Mar 17

I just get home from the Stanza poetry festival in St Andrews after an intensely rich poetry weekend and look whats in my letter box! Once poetry starts perhaps it never stops.

The outer packaging of the latest parcel from the Poetry Book Society

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Mar 12

I think I still am. Please don't drop me.

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Mar 5

Great news!

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Mar 1

My last two years at school we had the Beano Album and A Hard Road and then along came Are You experienced. But it’s not Clapton, Green or Hendrix that turn me blue as I listen by chance to the Bluesbreakers playing All Your Love. It's this man and I know exactly what I’m missing.

Picture of John Mayall at his organ in full song

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Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Mar 1

Nothing prepared me for the last 5 poems in Audrey Molloy’s ‘The Important Things’.

If you havn't already, please read it; be drawn in by the straightforward honest unravelling of her life’s tapestry which is a joy, sometimes wonderfully risque, always relatable.

And then? Reader I wept.

Cover of Audrey Molloy's The Important Things

Richard Chadburn @richchad.bsky.social · Feb 25

The big poems in A God At The Door are not at all heavy because they are garnished with the magical light touch of a dancer. They are an absorbing joy to read, and to revisit over and over.

Tishani Doshi is the 2nd find (after Isabel Galleymore) I came to via @planetpoetry.bsky.social

Listen up!

Cover of Tishani Doshi's 'A God At The Door'

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