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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · 9d

Good afternoon and Happy National Poetry Day! This is the very first post from Poets for the Planet here on Bluesky. We are very glad to be here. To start us off here's Wendell Berry's classic, The Peace of Wild Things #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry, A Poetry Film by Charlotte Ager & Katy Wang

YouTube video by The On Being Project

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 9d

For #nationalpoetryday ‘Autumn Uprising’ - on the subject of #play - this year’s theme, published in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🐻 🧍‍♀️ 🐝 🤠 🍂
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#toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn

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Clarissa Aykroyd @stoneandthestar.bsky.social · 9d

On National Poetry Day the theme is 'Play' so I'd like to recommend Hit Points by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social , an anthology of poems about video games. My poem about Ultima IV is one of them. share.google/rOTLs3R7qnQ6...

Hit Points, An anthology of video game poetry | Broken Sleep Books

Released May 31st 2021 // 100 pages // Red or green variants Video games and poetry may be an unlikely seeming match, if video games are one of the most popular imaginative forms in contemporary cultu...

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Clarissa Aykroyd @stoneandthestar.bsky.social · 13d

Saw a post about someone being concerned that a friend was using ChatGPT for personal advice & wondering how to talk to them about it.

I have a feeling plenty of people I know are using ChatGPT in many irresponsible ways (for factual info, as a counselor) & almost don't even want to know.

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 13d

Reminder we will be launching Bloodaxe’s September books on Tuesday- really looking forward to it

Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 16d

Our three September books will be launched online at our joint event on Tuesday 30 September, 7pm. Emilie Jelinek, Clare Pollard & Jessica Traynor will be reading from their books and discussing them with Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley.

Watch live or later via YouTube.
www.youtube.com/live/He4JaXN...

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Clarissa Aykroyd @stoneandthestar.bsky.social · Sep 11

Yes, you are right about the differences between thematic & telling a story. "Thematic" can vary a lot from a very light undercurrent, to extremely prominent.

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Clarissa Aykroyd @stoneandthestar.bsky.social · Sep 11

Poets, UK or otherwise: do you think the trend of the past decade for poetry books to almost *have* to be heavily thematic/conceptual/telling a story is declining a bit, or is it as strong as ever?

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Clarissa Aykroyd @stoneandthestar.bsky.social · Sep 6

His poetry is just utterly amazing to me & his letters were terribly funny cause he just writes a lot about chasing girls (& doing crazy things in the war)

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Clarissa Aykroyd @stoneandthestar.bsky.social · Sep 3

I think Keith Douglas was a bit of an enfant terrible but maybe just in the average way of a guy in his 20s. He was only 24 when he died. I adore him.

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Clarissa Aykroyd @stoneandthestar.bsky.social · Sep 3

I always feel a bit bad about Mayakovsky because physically he was so jaw-droppingly hot that I tend to just objectify him & not pay a lot of attention to his poetry 😂😂😂

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poemakontsa @poemakontsa.bsky.social · Aug 30

This gash is deep,
I warm it with my last blood.
Feel my side
It is far truer

Than poems.

- Poem of the End, Marina Tsvetaeva, Tr. Nina Kossman

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Clarissa Aykroyd @stoneandthestar.bsky.social · Aug 16

I have had similar thoughts to hers recently. As for reaction, people tell on themselves & assume the implications is that they & their friends aren't particularly good poets. I don't think that was the gist of the article but the people reacting that way are probably right about themselves 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social · Aug 15

Where Have All the Great Poets Gone? My North Sea Poets substack... open.substack.com/pub/northsea...

Where Have All the Great Poets Gone?

Kathleen Jamie on the Giant Tortoises

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Jeremy Tiang @jeremytiang.bsky.social · Aug 5

"Do maintain a robust social media presence; aim to post between 1 and 1,000 times a year."

Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is

wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

A Primer on Pitching Translations - Words Without Borders

Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher.

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Clarissa Aykroyd @stoneandthestar.bsky.social · Jul 31

I ask myself whether it was the temper of their souls or the sympathy of their imagination that made them so wonderful, so worthy of my undying regard.

-Joseph Conrad, 'The Shadow-Line'

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · Jul 7

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @garybarwin.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @kathrynanna.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @mariapopova.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social 1/3
www.vianegativa.us/2025/07/poet...

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 27

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

www.vianegativa.us

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Dr. David Pecotić @djp1974.bsky.social · Jul 2

Most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.

- #Rilke

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · Jun 25

‘Even if the last move did not succeed, the inner command says move again.’
– Seamus Heaney
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

Two people walking across field in hilly landscape

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · Jun 20

flock and roll

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Clarissa Aykroyd @stoneandthestar.bsky.social · Jun 25

I can maybe write with classical music, but usually not, to be honest. & definitely not with vocal music. Although I certainly have written poems inspired by pieces of music (vocal or non-vocal), so they're probably playing faintly in the background of my mind when I do that.

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Clarissa Aykroyd @stoneandthestar.bsky.social · Jun 25

The word "dystopian" is overused these days, but...it is.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jun 25

The part in the sci-fi story where the villain explains that the only way they could create their monster was to destroy millions of books.

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

Company hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”…

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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · Jun 6

Langston Hughes

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · May 31

Paul Celan,Timestead; tr. Pierre Joris

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · May 31

High fashion has met high art at the Louvre for the first time – and the results are so eye-popping, @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social‬ hardly knows where to look

The Louvre puts on its first fashion show | Apollo Magazine

High fashion meets fine art for the first time in an exhibition at Paris museum. Irina Dumitrescu finds it difficult to know where to look

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Clarissa Aykroyd @stoneandthestar.bsky.social · May 31

Tbh, Daddy convinced me for years that I didn't like Plath. I still don't like it. Except for Lady Lazarus, it was generally the only Plath that was presented to teens in Canada (or maybe to anyone!). When I started reading her more extensively, I realised how good she was

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