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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 48m

My dream life would involve three things:
1. Writing books.
2. Pottering about.
3. Reading books.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 1d

Devastating.

Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 1d

#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe
Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk for nudging me into discomfort writing. Started life in @wendypratt.bsky.social workshop,been festering.

Poem called Face Cream by Sarah O'Grady.

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 2d

This is a medlar. The Elizabethans called these ‘open arse’ .
You’re welcome.

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 2d

Xxx

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 4d

Interesting times as always this week in the poetry blogs with @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social 1/3
www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...

Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 40

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

www.vianegativa.us

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 2d

The true diary of a writer

open.substack.com/pub/wendypra...

My Writing Diary: Part One

Return to the Underworld

open.substack.com

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 4d

Nobody talks about the struggle of trying to find a place to knit a scene into a historical fiction novel that both remains vaguely historically accurate, introduces a main character AND benefits the literary structure of the novel. The pain is real.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 5d

“A full harvest moon is rising, though it is still only twilight”

Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Writer: EL GrantWatson

A barn owl is perched on a wall at dusk. A full moon has risen in the still blue sky above a small village.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 7d

This year is beginning to seem endless.

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Sirens @sirensconference.org · 8d

On being in conversation with our books...

Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 9d

On today’s Notes from the Margin, I’m defacing books with no apologies.
open.substack.com/pub/wendypra...

I deface my books because I am in conversation with them.

Do not be afraid to abuse your books*

open.substack.com

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 9d

My Substack post for October is live! The usual soul-baring stuff from me, including what I did in the Moomin Museum... Also some book chat and details about my forthcoming workshops for the poetry-haters!
open.substack.com/pub/victoria...

Rejections, Spinsters and Hating Poetry (joke!)

Things I'm writing, things I'm reading, things I'm teaching...

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The Unhurried Reader 📚🦊🇺🇦 @theunhurriedreader.bsky.social · 9d

Notes from the Margin on ... notes in the margin and the power of a pastel highlighter. There's terrific, enquiring, connecting energy in this piece by @wendypratt.bsky.social.

Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 9d

On today’s Notes from the Margin, I’m defacing books with no apologies.
open.substack.com/pub/wendypra...

I deface my books because I am in conversation with them.

Do not be afraid to abuse your books*

open.substack.com

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you

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Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social · 9d

Great piece from @wendypratt.bsky.social on reading as conversation. I've always loved how unpredictably creative and evocative this process is - whether reading for academic writing or poetry.
open.substack.com/pub/wendypra...

I deface my books because I am in conversation with them.

Do not be afraid to abuse your books*

open.substack.com

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 9d

On today’s Notes from the Margin, I’m defacing books with no apologies.
open.substack.com/pub/wendypra...

I deface my books because I am in conversation with them.

Do not be afraid to abuse your books*

open.substack.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development

Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years * ‘Desecration of landscape’: the fight over development in areas of outstanding natural beauty * Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day Nature and farmland equivalent in size to that of the New Forest – 604 sq km – was lost to concrete and bricks and mortar in the UK between 2018 and 2023, according to an investigation by the Guardian and European partners. In the same period the loss of some of the most protected and special natural areas in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, known as national landscapes, reached 12 sq km; equivalent to 1,680 football pitches worth of natural land. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 9d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 11d

This is wonderful

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Country diary: An unexpected vista of sky-light and symmetry | Amy-Jane Beer

Yorkshire Wolds: What a difference a few years makes – this used to be an expanse of wet mud, now it’s a precious chalkland pond

www.theguardian.com

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 12d

Stopping in to Mrs Lofthouse’s Emporium to sign some copies of The Ghost Lake. Such a thrill.

Wendy is wearing a bright blue coat and standing at the cash desk signing copies of her book.

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 14d

Ready to run this morning’s Finding Your Self in the Landscape workshop

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Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social · 16d

I'm starting the reading for my upcoming online book group, 'Reading Like A Writer', which kicks off on Thurs 9th Oct with Catherine Lacey's BIOGRAPHY OF X - described by the Guardian as “an impressive and enchantingly strange novel”. A few places left - details here: victoriamackenzie.net/teaching/

Photo of book, BIOGRAPHY OF X by Catherine Lacey.

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 16d

Hope it goes ok xx

S. Reeson @internetofwords.com · 16d

Dentistry shortly. Taking @wendypratt.bsky.social's poetry prompt from her Substack with me as waiting room distraction...

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