Sue Finch (she/her)
@suefinch.bsky.social
Poet. Coach. #ElasticBandPhotos. Loves coasts, peculiar things and the scent of ice-cream freezers. ‘Magnifying Glass’ and ‘Welcome to the Museum of a Life’ published by Black Eyes Publishing UK.
https://suefinch.co.uk/
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Monday is Blog Day where my week starts with finding out what Monday smells like, and I look for the joy that makes my heart sing. Here’s MY SOUL AS A METAL SPINNING TOP
#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
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#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
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November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Monday is Blog Day where my week starts with finding out what Monday smells like, and I look for the joy that makes my heart sing. Here’s MY SOUL AS A METAL SPINNING TOP
#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
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#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
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Today’s joy was remembering to pause for a mince pie and a cup of tea…
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Today’s joy was remembering to pause for a mince pie and a cup of tea…
Lots of things brought me to coaching. Wanting to make a difference was one of them...
November 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Lots of things brought me to coaching. Wanting to make a difference was one of them...
Today’s joy is settled in my heart from yesterday when I found a random bread roll full moon on my walk, and then got the chance to say hello in real life to Tanita Tikaram.⭐️🎵🎤❤️
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Today’s joy is settled in my heart from yesterday when I found a random bread roll full moon on my walk, and then got the chance to say hello in real life to Tanita Tikaram.⭐️🎵🎤❤️
Monday is Blog Day where my week starts with finding out what Monday smells like, and I look for the joy that makes my heart sing. Here’s ON HAVING AN UNSTABLE CONNECTION...
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#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
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#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
ON HAVING AN UNSTABLE CONNECTION (Episode 110)
ON HAVING AN UNSTABLE CONNECTION This morning a chorus of herring gulls and a crescent moon in a pale blue sky. And the air is simply ...
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November 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Monday is Blog Day where my week starts with finding out what Monday smells like, and I look for the joy that makes my heart sing. Here’s ON HAVING AN UNSTABLE CONNECTION...
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#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
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#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
Happy sixteenth birthday to ‘The Bagel of Love’!
November 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Happy sixteenth birthday to ‘The Bagel of Love’!
Many things brought me to coaching, 'The Joy of Sharing Time' is one of them...
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Many things brought me to coaching, 'The Joy of Sharing Time' is one of them...
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This week in the poetry blogs w/ @suefinch.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social 1/4
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 45
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Monday is Blog Day where my week starts with finding out what Monday smells like, and I look for the joy that makes my heart sing. Here’s THE WATER TOWER
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#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
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#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
THE WATER TOWER (Epsiode 109)
THE WATER TOWER This morning a blackbird sounds an incessant alarm call after I have hit the snooze button twice. I take ...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Monday is Blog Day where my week starts with finding out what Monday smells like, and I look for the joy that makes my heart sing. Here’s THE WATER TOWER
soopoftheday-soo.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
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#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
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Tonight at 7.15 on Radio 3. Writer’s block, dry spell, fallow period, worrisome silence, that terrifying, lonely time when you *cannot* write a poem. I speak to Liz Berry, Oliver Carmichael, Hannah Copley, Marie Howe, Vanessa Kisuule and Jack Underwood! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, When the Words Leave
The poet Caroline Bird explores the silences when it feels like the words have left you.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Tonight at 7.15 on Radio 3. Writer’s block, dry spell, fallow period, worrisome silence, that terrifying, lonely time when you *cannot* write a poem. I speak to Liz Berry, Oliver Carmichael, Hannah Copley, Marie Howe, Vanessa Kisuule and Jack Underwood! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Where is Poetry in Aldeburgh? I hear it's very good...
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Where is Poetry in Aldeburgh? I hear it's very good...
Today’s joy is a poem, inspired by words on a vending machine, on a lilac page in @eatthestorms.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Today’s joy is a poem, inspired by words on a vending machine, on a lilac page in @eatthestorms.com
There's often a typo in my blog, and I pride myself on finding it before I hit the publish button. Sometimes it sneaks through, and my wife lets me know. This week it got past us both! After a massive cringe, I had to google 'hashed browns' to make sure they weren't even a thing.
November 6, 2025 at 9:39 AM
There's often a typo in my blog, and I pride myself on finding it before I hit the publish button. Sometimes it sneaks through, and my wife lets me know. This week it got past us both! After a massive cringe, I had to google 'hashed browns' to make sure they weren't even a thing.
My Beaver Moon / Firework poem is in this week’s blog in case you like such things…
#FullMoon
#BeaverMoon
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#FullMoon
#BeaverMoon
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LIFTED (Episode 108)
LIFTED Listening Link This morning, the cool air brings the smell of hash browns as the traffic builds its familiar rush...
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November 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
My Beaver Moon / Firework poem is in this week’s blog in case you like such things…
#FullMoon
#BeaverMoon
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#FullMoon
#BeaverMoon
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If you've got 51 seconds here's THIS WAS ONCE A GOOD POEM...
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THIS WAS ONCE A GOOD POEM
YouTube video by Sue Finch
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October 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you've got 51 seconds here's THIS WAS ONCE A GOOD POEM...
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There are many things that brought me to coaching, and I am pleased that coaching itself brought me to coaching!
November 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
There are many things that brought me to coaching, and I am pleased that coaching itself brought me to coaching!
‘New Hat’ and ‘Jaguar Skin’.
(A discarded elastic band with a small stone on top under a kerb stone. A discarded elastic band on a pavement where the damp spots are like the clouds on a jaguar.)
(A discarded elastic band with a small stone on top under a kerb stone. A discarded elastic band on a pavement where the damp spots are like the clouds on a jaguar.)
November 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
‘New Hat’ and ‘Jaguar Skin’.
(A discarded elastic band with a small stone on top under a kerb stone. A discarded elastic band on a pavement where the damp spots are like the clouds on a jaguar.)
(A discarded elastic band with a small stone on top under a kerb stone. A discarded elastic band on a pavement where the damp spots are like the clouds on a jaguar.)
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The Law of Conservation of Mass, according to Marie Antoinette – Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social
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The Law of Conservation of Mass, according to Marie Antoinette – Victoria Spires
The Law of Conservation of Mass, according to Marie Antoinette . . Victoria Spires is published in Berlin Lit & The London Magazine. She has been commended/shortlisted in: Ledbury, TPW Prize, A…
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November 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The Law of Conservation of Mass, according to Marie Antoinette – Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social
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Looking forward to reading at the zoom launch for this beauty tonight @eatthestorms.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Looking forward to reading at the zoom launch for this beauty tonight @eatthestorms.com
Monday is Blog Day where my week starts with finding out what Monday smells like, and I look for the joy that makes my heart sing. Here’s LIFTED
#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
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#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
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LIFTED (Episode 108)
LIFTED This morning, the cool air brings the smell of hashed browns as the traffic builds its familiar rush. Alt te...
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November 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Monday is Blog Day where my week starts with finding out what Monday smells like, and I look for the joy that makes my heart sing. Here’s LIFTED
#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
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#SingingAsTheDarknessLifts
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Meet the final Stormer of Issue V
@suefinch.bsky.social has 2 poetry collections: Magnifying Glass, & Welcome to the Museum of a Life. Her book, Vortex Over Wave, features her #ElasticBandPhotos and poems for the full moon.
The Storms is supported by @fingal.ie & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
@suefinch.bsky.social has 2 poetry collections: Magnifying Glass, & Welcome to the Museum of a Life. Her book, Vortex Over Wave, features her #ElasticBandPhotos and poems for the full moon.
The Storms is supported by @fingal.ie & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Meet the final Stormer of Issue V
@suefinch.bsky.social has 2 poetry collections: Magnifying Glass, & Welcome to the Museum of a Life. Her book, Vortex Over Wave, features her #ElasticBandPhotos and poems for the full moon.
The Storms is supported by @fingal.ie & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
@suefinch.bsky.social has 2 poetry collections: Magnifying Glass, & Welcome to the Museum of a Life. Her book, Vortex Over Wave, features her #ElasticBandPhotos and poems for the full moon.
The Storms is supported by @fingal.ie & @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
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The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Eight features the prose poetry of @ianseedauthor.bsky.social Ian Seed:
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The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Eight features the prose poetry of Ian Seed
A Feast Of Words And Images
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November 1, 2025 at 7:36 AM
The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Eight features the prose poetry of @ianseedauthor.bsky.social Ian Seed:
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November on the calendars brings:
#LookThere Ronnie jumping for joy in Whitstable.
#ElasticBandPhotos ‘On the Diving Board’ A discarded elastic makes the shape of a person’s head, and the paving lines add the figure of a diver.
#LookThere Ronnie jumping for joy in Whitstable.
#ElasticBandPhotos ‘On the Diving Board’ A discarded elastic makes the shape of a person’s head, and the paving lines add the figure of a diver.
November 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
November on the calendars brings:
#LookThere Ronnie jumping for joy in Whitstable.
#ElasticBandPhotos ‘On the Diving Board’ A discarded elastic makes the shape of a person’s head, and the paving lines add the figure of a diver.
#LookThere Ronnie jumping for joy in Whitstable.
#ElasticBandPhotos ‘On the Diving Board’ A discarded elastic makes the shape of a person’s head, and the paving lines add the figure of a diver.
If you've got 51 seconds here's THIS WAS ONCE A GOOD POEM...
youtu.be/VNpQPN_lr8s
youtu.be/VNpQPN_lr8s
THIS WAS ONCE A GOOD POEM
YouTube video by Sue Finch
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you've got 51 seconds here's THIS WAS ONCE A GOOD POEM...
youtu.be/VNpQPN_lr8s
youtu.be/VNpQPN_lr8s
Today’s joy is my mum’s reaction to receiving this envelope. Laughing that I hadn’t even noticed, and feeling glad I have an electronic calendar to keep me on track.
October 31, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Today’s joy is my mum’s reaction to receiving this envelope. Laughing that I hadn’t even noticed, and feeling glad I have an electronic calendar to keep me on track.