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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 7h

#GoingsOn in Liverpool One #Halloween #Liverpool

A large, colourful inflatable spider with yellow, black, and blue patterns is displayed on the roof of a modern brick building. Pretend pumpkin lanterns populate a tree.

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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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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 1d

Cool outdoor air seems
horizontal, its stillness
shaping day's shadows...

#EveningWalk

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 2d

Hesperantha coccinea 🌱📷

#bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin #ColourADay #PinkMon

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Ben Holliday @benholliday.com · 21d

I’m trying to find ways to stay optimistic at the moment. This new Michael Rosen book is a lovely collection of ideas and thoughts which I enjoyed very much - Good Days: An A-Z of Hope and Happiness

Good Days: An A-Z of Hope and Happiness by Michael Rosen

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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 4d

Philip Hoare reviews ‘A Year With Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer’ by Jenny Uglow.

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

Gilbert White’s world of wonder | The Observer

Jenny Uglow's account of a year in the life of an 18th-century curate and his garden is a glorious celebration of curiosity and nature

observer.co.uk

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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 4d

From ‘Wind Song’ Carl Sandburg (1878–1967

Long ago I learned how to listen to the singing wind and how to forget and how to hear the deep whine,

Slapping and lapsing under the day blue and the night stars:
#poetry #wind
www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/smok...

33. Wind Song - Collection at Bartleby.com

33. Wind Song LONG ago I learned how to sleep,In an old apple orchard where the wind swept by counting its money and throwing it away,In a wind-gaunt orchard where the

www.bartleby.com

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Eleanor Buffam @eleanorbuffam.bsky.social · 4d

Horseradish Flowers
Cyanotype on Arches Aquarelle

#cyanotype #horseradish

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 5d

On Wednesday 8th October, join Claudine Toutoungi in London (or online) for The Poetry Review's Autumn launch readings!

The event is free to attend, but requires registration. For the in-person event:⬇️
poetrysociety.org.uk/event/the-po...

To watch online:
poetrysociety.org.uk/event/the-po...

The Poetry Review Autumn 2025 launch (in person) – The Poetry Society

The Poetry Society is delighted to present the launch readings for the Autumn 2025 issue of The Poetry Review, edited by Wayne Holloway-Smith, with guest readers Safa Khatib (video), Matthew Dickman, Joelle Taylor, Claudine Toutoungi and Safia Elhillo (video).

poetrysociety.org.uk

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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 5d

‘Screenshot’ ‘Painters and Painting’

‘2025 marks 250 years since the birth of #JMWTurner - the great 19th century landscape artist, whose expressive, atmospheric paintings transformed British art’

Brilliant broadcast: interview with Timothy Spall too!

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 🎨

Radio 4 - Listen Live - BBC Sounds

Listen live to BBC Radio 4 on BBC Sounds

www.bbc.co.uk

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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 5d

A Merseyside flavoured #FreeThinking this evening: + Fergus Butler Gallie, Dr Rachael Wiseman @livuninews.bsky.social bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
21:00 on BBCRadio4www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...q8 📻

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, What is a good life?

Matthew Sweet and guests explore what it means to live a good life.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 5d

I'll be at Birmingham Literature Festival on 11th October with some great names, brilliant writing workshops, events for children and much more.

Come if you can!

Link here www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org

Photo of Birmingham Literature Festival audience, young people, middle aged people and older people sitting in seats listening to an event.

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 6d

We've put together a quiz for National Poetry Day with questions provided by an array of playful poets! Successful participants will be entered to win a free Poetry Society year-long membership or 1-2-1 session with a poet of their choice. 👀

Want to try your hand? bit.ly/PlayPopQuiz

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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 6d

‘This Labour government …seems to have no problem treating with contempt the people who voted for it and to be courting at the very same time the people who didn’t vote for them and never will.’

Yanis Varoufakis #Newsnight

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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 6d

Exterior window,The Mitre Hotel
Shambles Square, 1-3 Cathedral Gates, #🐝🍻Manchester

A windowbox, an arched shape window, columns.

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Chris Routledge @chrisroutledge.bsky.social · 9d

Photographed earlier tin the summer, this reminded me very much of the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg in The Great Gatsby, only in this case the giant, staring eye welcomes travellers from the train at Lime Street Station. I think it's a cosmetics ad. #Liverpool #BelieveInFilm

A giant eye, lids pulled back, stares from a billboard with St John's Beacon, Liverpool, in the background. Black and white photo.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 8d

To mark its anniversary, we approached the Leeds-based theatre company Slung Low, with Harrison’s encouragement, about organising a live reading in Holbeck Cemetery, the place that inspired ‘v.’

On Sunday 12 October, we invite you to experience ‘v.’ with us:

www.slunglow.org/v-a-homecomi...

Poet Tony Harrison sits in front of a tomb stone, with text promoting 'V. A Homecoming', a live reading of his poem, organised by the London Review of Books and Slung Low theatre company.

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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 6d

‘Julia Donaldson: A life in language
Word of Mouth’

‘Julia Donaldson, author of ‘The Gruffalo’ and many other beloved children's books, tells Michael Rosen about her own writing, reading, speaking and listening.’

📻#BBCRadio4 at 15:30 today

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, Julia Donaldson: A life in language

The Gruffalo author tells Michael Rosen about her writing, reading, speaking and listening

www.bbc.co.uk

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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 8d

A cat’s tail topples
vacant milk bottles. Dustbins
manoeuvre. It’s night…

#evening

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Grace Thomas @gracerethomas.bsky.social · 8d

A fantastic achievement and a first for @mancathedral.bsky.social!

Manchester Cathedral @mancathedral.bsky.social · 8d

If you were around on Sunday, you may have heard something very special!

In what's believed to be a 1st for Manchester Cathedral, we had a successful all-female quarter-peal

A quarter-peal is a performance of change ringing taking 50 mins on our bells and consisting of around 1,250 unique changes

Pictured are those who took part on this very special occasion standing in front of the wooden doors of the cathedral

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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 8d

‘The sound of ships foghorns on the Mersey and the rattle of freight trains passing through the darkness were the lullabies of my childhood. At night those sounds comforted me. I was stationary, safe, cocooned.’ Brian Patten (1946-2025) introducing ‘Pipe Dream’.

www.brianpatten.co.uk/poetry.html

Brian Patten | Brian Patten's Poetry |

www.brianpatten.co.uk

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Pies, Puddings and Pottages @piespuddings.bsky.social · 13d

Kent is famous for its cobnuts, a cultivated variety of hazelnuts, which are harvested in the Autumn. This cake is lovely served with an autumn tea by a roaring fire.

You can find the recipe at piespuddingsandpottages.com/recipe-post/...

#britishfood #foodhistory #baking #recipe #cakes #cobnuts

Ginger cobnut cake with one slice horizontal on wooden plate surrounded by cobnuts and oak leaves.

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Bloodaxe Books @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · 11d

We are immensely saddened by news of the death of Tony Harrison, aged 88, who had been unwell for some years. A tribute has been published on our website.
www.bloodaxebooks.com/news?article...

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Mark Richards @fellranger.bsky.social · 11d

Low Sizergh Barn cafe and shop. Spotted this poster on a noticeboard inside. It highlights our ‘Forty Farms’ Countrystride podcast with Alison and Richard.

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Barb Milne @barbmilne.bsky.social · 11d

‘The poet-critic Sean O’Brien has observed that Harrison’s printed verse “insists that it is speech rather than page-bound silence”, and this vivid verbal quality led logically to writing words for performance by others.’ Mark Lawson

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/s...

‘The man who came to read the metre’: Yorkshire poet Tony Harrison was the National Theatre bard

Harrison, who has died aged 88, wrote copiously for the stage, both as an ingenious translator and dazzlingly original dramatist

www.theguardian.com

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