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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · Aug 26

I don't know how to untangle joy from all the rest. But here's a joy: my debut poetry book is coming out with Orison & it has a cover & I'm pretty sure my mom beat you all to pre-ordering it. But if you'd like a copy, that'd mean the world to me. Here's the link:
www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...

Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books

Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Bestpoems by Jane Zwart *available for pre-order* Orison Bookspaper / $18.00ISBN: 978-1-949039-68-9Publication Date: March 3, 2026 ABOUT THE BOOK As its title...

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Pryscilla Hebel @phebel.bsky.social · 5d

Early screen exposure reshapes our brains, alters our ability to form interpersonal bonds, and disrupts emotional growth. Blending #neuroscience and #psychology and backed by research, @danielnemo.bsky.social reveals disturbing insights into what it means to grow up with screens. A must-read:

The Swift Bird of Digital Detachment

Neurodevelopmental Impacts of Screens on the Developing Brain

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 5d

Just ONE WEEK until the Winchester Poetry Festival. so much going on. Book now! www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

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Jane Zwart (she/her) @janezwart.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you, @danielnemo.bsky.social & @phebel.bsky.social, for nominating "Market Forces" for the Best of the Net Anthology. I'm a great fan of @amsterdamreview.bsky.social, as well as a grateful recipient of your kindness.

The banner image for Amsterdam Review's website, featuring a black and white photo of several pedestrians, as well as some bicycle action, on a stone bridge.

For a more accessible version of this poem (and one other!):
https://www.amsterdamreview.org/two-by-jane-zwart.html

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 9d

@janezwart.bsky.social @sjane.bsky.social @danielnemo.bsky.social @nualamcevoy.bsky.social

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 9d

Congratulations to this year's Best of the Net nominees!

#poetry #fiction #nonfiction #art #writingcommunity

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 13d

"It’s not enough, anymore, to say of course / I would’ve liked to know / how it ended."

A poem by 𝗔𝗮𝗿𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗹𝗼𝗶𝗿𝗲 in the Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/birthday-poem-by-aaron-magloire.html

#poetry #poetrycommunity

Once the rain let up I was sure
the East River’d have a new tributary
to show for it. Instead, more of the same,

and a new subspecies of kingfisher
last night; I dreamt it, but couldn’t
make out its eyes. It dripped dark green

from a black marsh tree, and it was large, looked
large, even in its large tree. That’s how
you can tell. It might’ve flown

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Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social · 14d

Winchester Poetry Festival is approaching. online events are so important for accessibility, but they’re also costly to run & we haven’t sold many online tickets yet. Just wanted to shout that our headline events are
live-streamed and BSL interpreted! 1/3 www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/what-s-on

What's on - Winchester Poetry Festival events in 2025

Details of our forthcoming events and collaborations. Winchester Poetry Festival runs 2-12th October

www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · 23d

"She’s not just limp / but thin from hunger, from / scavenging among the ruins, / not a flutter in her delicate / cage of ribs, neither the oath / nor allegiance of oxygen."

Four poems by 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝘀 in Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/four-by-gary-geddes.html

#poetry #poetrycommunity

How can there be laughter,
how can there be pleasure, when
the whole world is burning?

I found these words in a book
called Buddha’s Teachings,
translated from the Pali by

Juan Mascaró. It startled me,
at first, by its contemporary
relevance, Gaza in flames

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 23d

Reading with @notjustdancing.bsky.social & Louise Machen on Saturday 27 September with music from Li Lu & Lulu Yang. What fabulous company!! 🤩https://poetsandplayers.co/2025/09/04/sasha-dugdale-louise-machen-with-music-from-li-lu-lulu-yang-27-september-2025/

Sasha Dugdale, Deryn Rees-Jones & Louise Machen with music from Li Lu & Lulu Yang: 27 September 2025

Please join us on Saturday 27 September 2025, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. You will find all the information you need re…

poetsandplayers.co

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

We're delighted to announce that Kris Johnson's debut collection Ghost River, published by Bloodaxe in 2023, has been shortlisted for the @englishassociation.bsky.social's Michael Murphy Poetry Prize for a distinctive first volume of poetry in English.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · Aug 28

🚨Launch details for New Arcana!🚨

I'll be in Galway, Dublin, Belfast & online. Please do come along if you can, & spread the word.
🔮✨️🐍🃏

@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @gutterbookshop.bsky.social

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · Sep 3

POETRY IRELAND 146 LAUNCH
Join Poetry Ireland, editor Stephen Sexton, and contributing poets for the launch of #PIR146 in Belfast!

📅 Tuesday, September 23rd at 5:30pm
📍 Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's
📩 Book (free) via Eventbrite here: www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/lau...

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

Great reviews in the Poetry Book Society Autumn Bulletin of @poetclare.bsky.social's sixth collection Lives of the Female Poets and @jesstraynor.bsky.social's fourth collection #NewArcana, both out this month from Bloodaxe.

Many thanks to reviewers @shashtrevett.bsky.social and Nasim Rebecca Asl.

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · Sep 1

"When did news become advice / Bury invitations, plant ancestral / Relics in plain blight / You don't need to tell anyone"

A few poems by 𝗟𝗮𝘆𝗻𝗶𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲 in Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/selected-poems-by-laynie-browne.html

#poetry #poetrycommunity

When every part of me does not want to go

What I knew I didn't

The mind's ceaseless games to avoid the actual

Counting days, reasons not to detach

Was it the day of my perpetual headache—you went

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · Aug 25

Read "Sweetest Perfection: Depeche Mode's Hyperreal Pop" by 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗡𝗲𝗺𝗼, only in Amsterdam Review.

www.amsterdamreview.org/sweetest-perfection.html

#DepecheMode #music #popculture #philosophy #essays

Depeche Mode emerged in the 1980s as unlikely philosophers of the postmodern age. What might at first resemble catchy new wave tunes conceals a profound reaction to Postmodernism and its discontents.

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · Aug 19

Join us on Tues 30 Sept, 7pm for our next online launch reading with Clare Pollard, Jessica Traynor & Mslexia Pamphlet Competition winner Emilie Jelinek!

www.bloodaxebooks.com/events?artic...

@poetclare.bsky.social
@jesstraynor.bsky.social
@emiliejelinek.bsky.social
@mslexia.bsky.social

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · Aug 19

"How easily it happens. You would walk home / along the canal with your arms folded / across yourself"

A poem by 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮 𝗕𝘆𝗿𝗻𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝗮𝗻𝗲 in the Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/concrete.html

#poetry #poetrycommunity

So you take some symbol, like
the overcoat the pockets
an obscure tangle of thread & air
so any weight dropped there went right
to the lining:
that strange mix
of discretion & batwing billow – no buttons
either, or maybe there once were
one or two
across the front, the whole thing
angles, panels. This is overexplaining.

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Amsterdam Review @amsterdamreview.bsky.social · Aug 15

"I remembered my kin who long ago / sailed this way, all plunder and panic"

A poem by 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗟𝗼𝘂𝗱𝗼𝗻 @esloudon.bsky.social in the Amsterdam Review

www.amsterdamreview.org/nausea.html

#poetry #poetrycommunity

Even when I fainted on the dockside
I wanted to do it with grace –
a limp swan folding its wings among reeds.
I remembered my kin who long ago
sailed this way, all plunder and panic.
Who died here on this ragged edge of land.

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Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · Jul 17

Nazaret Ranea writes of her journey from being one of the Scottish Poetry Library's Young Makars to having her first poetry collection published by Drunk Muse Press.

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/07/my-j...

My Journey from Scotland’s Next Generation Young Makar to Published Poet

Nazaret Ranea write of her journey from being one of the Scottish Poetry Library's Young Makars to having her first poetry collection published by Drunk Muse Press.

www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk

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

For the @sealeychallenge.bsky.social day 9 Matthew Hollis’s ‘Earth House’ @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

‘I am giving my life to you’

#poetry #writing #readers #poetic #books

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · Aug 6

Posting this in the spirit of early-bird-catches-the-worm: October is still a way off but please put this in your diaries as Oksana is a star ⭐ and it will be enlightening to read and talk with her
harriman.columbia.edu/event/women-...

Women Writing War: A Joint Reading and Conversation

Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a discussion with Sasha Dugdale and Oksana Maksymchuk. Moderated by Mark Andryczyk.

harriman.columbia.edu

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · Aug 4

🌿 2025 Laurel Prize Finalist 🌿

We are delighted to announce that #KatrinaPorteous has been named one of the five finalists for The Laurel Prize 2025 for her fourth poetry collection #Rhizodont.

#LaurelPrize2025 @poetryschool.bsky.social
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

The panel picture shows a photo of poet Katrina Porteous taken by Tony Griffiths. The text above reads '2025 Laurel Prize Finalist' and below reads 'Katrina Porteous'. The background is grey-green marbling. Panel picture by the Poetry School.

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Jane Clarke @janeclarke.bsky.social · Aug 1

As a child I lived among the raised bogs of the midlands, now I live among the blanket bogs of the mountains and these bogs feature in each of my collections @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social.

Tóchar Community Stories @tocharstories.bsky.social · Aug 1

We asked our guest speakers at last weekend's 'Bogland - between the sights of the sun' public conversation in @nlireland.bsky.social to share that the bog means to them - here's poet @janeclarke.bsky.social 's response
#Spéirghorm @communitywetlands.bsky.social
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Bogland - Between the sight of the sun with poet Jane Clarke

Tóchar Community Stories brings together artists and community leaders to respond to the changing value of our boglands in Ireland, taking Seamus Heaney's…

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · Aug 1

📚 It's August, which means the #SealeyChallenge is now underway! To help you on your journey to read a book every day this month, The Poetry Society has gotten in touch with poets we've recently worked with for some recommendations. (...)

Fiona Larkin recommends 'alphabet' by Inger Christensen. She says of the book: "Alphabet by Inger Christensen is a rhapsody for the natural world and an urgent call to protect it from human threats. Although those are of its time (the Cold War, and the legacy of the atomic bomb) her message and its urgency ring true even more strongly today."

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