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Angela Arnold

@angelaarnold777.bsky.social

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Poet, artist & creative gardener. Collection In Between (our inner landscapes/relationships). Lefty, Quaker, environmental campaigner, worrier for our future.

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Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social · Nov 15

Not good at self-promo but if, if, if you're into poems about inner states and relationships...

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Gill Barr @gillbarr.bsky.social · 7h

Today’s the day. Launching my debut poetry collection @sladersyard.bsky.social in West Bay Dorset. Couldn’t be more excited!

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 7h

Publication day for BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social
A remarkable, meditative journal of caring for ageing parents, composed throughout with striking clarity of image and compassionate observation. A beautiful, finely resonant book.
Congratulations Caroline 💚
ninearchespress.com/publications...

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Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social · 6h

We may have mentioned we are #crowdfunding our next book an epically slow start means we've barely reached 19% with abt 10 days to go. no funds=no book. #ecopoetry and meetings with dead #poets in the lungs of London www.kickstarter.com/projects/147... pls share and help if you can

Meeting John Clare at High Beach

a book of poems from Epping Forest by Michael Shann

www.kickstarter.com

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Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · 1d

One book sale in seventeen days. Yikes. Help us to avoid the worst of all possible fates - the crowdfunder - by buying our scrupulously edited, meticulously designed, handsomely produced and fastidiously packaged books here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

Ten Longbarrow hardbacks, stacked on a diagonal, spines facing outwards.

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 2d

On October 7th, we hold in our hearts all those whose lives have been lost and those who are still suffering, and pray for a just peace.

A prayer for 7 October

Find out about Quakers and how our faith translates into action.

www.quaker.org.uk

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Bex Hainsworth @poetbex.bsky.social · 5d

It's October! 🍂

If you're looking for an autumnal read, Circulaire, my new pamphlet, features cosy cooking, bonfires, and benevolent hauntings 🎃

You can grab your copy from @writtenoffbooks.bsky.social here: tinyurl.com/4cw3e27r 🧡

Or drop a comment for a signed copy (£10 via PayPal) ☕️

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Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social · 7d

Looking forward to reading the whole anthology, my poem Saw-See-Saw in there somewhere - strange title, you think? Well, only one way to find out...😊

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Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social · 7d

love damsons - love porridge - you can keep the cream😂

Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social · 8d

Very happy to have a couple of poems included in this fabulous issue. Thank you, Maudie and Brandon🙏

Audi Locus @audilocus.bsky.social · 8d

The Witness issue of Audi Locus is live!

We’re honored to share work from so many powerful voices. Art is resistance, and this issue holds poems, artwork, and songs that refuse silence.

Read here: www.audilocus.com/volume1-issue2

Cover art by Carolyn Schlam

Volume 1, Issue 2 ✦ Audi Locus

www.audilocus.com

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · 16d

As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour.

Find out more about Quaker Week and this year’s theme: www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Quaker Week 2025: Love Your Neighbour - a call for compassion in a divided world

As tensions rise and divisions deepen across the UK and beyond, Quakers are inviting everyone to pause, reflect, and act on one simple but radical idea: Love Your Neighbour.

www.quaker.org.uk

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Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social · 23d

Love it!

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Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this.
Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature handsoffnature.eu/take-action/...

Take Action - Hands Off Nature

handsoffnature.eu

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · Aug 19

“We do not own the world, and its riches are not ours to dispose of at will. Show a loving consideration for all creatures, and seek to maintain the beauty and variety of the world” – Advices and Queries 42

Sign the letter now to make polluters pay: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Open letter to the UK Government: Make Polluters Pay

We're asking the UK government ahead of the UN climate talks, COP30: Make wealthy polluters pay for the harms they have caused to people and planet. Dear Rachel Reeves and David Lammy, United by a c...

docs.google.com

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · Aug 19

✨ New Opportunities for Poets - open calls, competitions, and awards! Browse our website for opportunities with August & September deadlines!

✏️ Discover the full list of Opportunities for Poets here: www.poetryireland.ie/writers/oppo...

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Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk · Aug 12

Quakers are invited to join the Interfaith Wellbeing Festival on Monday 25th August in London.

The Festival will focus on wellbeing as a unifying theme, creating space for meaningful interfaith encounters and shared joy.

Find out more and book tickets www.interfaithfestival.org

WELCOME | The Interfaith Wellbeing Festival

Join hundreds of runners and spectators from diverse faith & belief communities for the Interfaith Wellbeing Festival.

www.interfaithfestival.org

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Pete Green @petegreensolo.com · Aug 12

Look, I'm not saying you should buy my collection from @saltpublishing.com just because my work has been praised by the poet laureate, but I'm not *not* saying that either

www.saltpublishing.com/products/the...

"Pete Green's poems combine an environmental and at times pastoral sensibility with a lyrical dexterity that can include rhyme and pattern, but there's also a mischievousness and irony at play in the fragmented thoughts and magnified imagery to prove Green is a poet alive to the challenges of the post-modernist era" – Simon Armitage

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Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social · Jul 31

your verific ation process refused my perfectly legit debit cards, two of them! i don't have any credit cards, which is maybe what it is looking for? :(

Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social · Jul 31

This is beautiful, I just love it!

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Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social · Jul 29

tried now - both my debit cards have been refused! Well I don't have a credit card, if that's what they want...can't be a proper adult them - stuff them!

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Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social · Jul 29

Seems you only 'need' to do it if you want to watch porn here, so maybe we'll give it a miss, then?😂

Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social · Jul 16

Wow - 3 acceptances in one day! Must be dreaming, surely?

Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social · Jul 14

absolutely Jewish people are now in the position that Muslim people were in (still are) after 9/11

Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social · Jul 14

Will be with you in spirit from Wales.

Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social · Jul 9

totally cheered

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