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Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social · 1d

Eclairton Senna

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Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/y_1AVqirnH0?... 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

This GOCHUJANG Tofu Rice Bowl Will Change Your LIFE!

YouTube video by Aaron and Claire

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Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social · 3d

And YES! Another submission opportunity!
We've opened up for our new anthology - Poetry for Protest.
Check out the website for submission details...
roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/

Submissions

We are open for submissions for Poems for Protest and The Rough Diamond Poetry Prize We are open for poetry submissions for our next poetry anthology “Poems for Protest” Send us 1-5 poe…

roughdiamondpoetry.com

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Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social · 3d

We have opened for our very first poetry prize!
Check out our website for full submission details
roughdiamondpoetry.com/the-rough-di...

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Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social · 5d

Now playing: Can x MF DOOM

Incredible track from the Tom Caruana Inner Space remix album.

tomcaruanamashups.bandcamp.com/track/mf-doo...

MF DOOM, by Tom Caruana

from the album Inner Space

tomcaruanamashups.bandcamp.com

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Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social · 5d

Colour is on brand!

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Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social · 7d

If you're really curious about the poem you can scroll back through my posts here and find it.

Here's a photo of a swan to inspire you.

A photo of a single swan chilling out the back of the RAI exhibition centre in Amsterdam

Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social · 7d

On #NationalPoetryDay I’m super happy to share that my poem “Wasting time on the internet again” has been included in the latest anthology from @rough-diamond1.bsky.social :)

Wanna read the poem? Go buy the book! It's called “100 poems for the 21st century”. and you can get it on Amazon.

100 Poems for the 21st Century

Buy 100 Poems for the 21st Century by Cosgrove, Miss Charlotte (ISBN: 9798267508162) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

www.amazon.co.uk

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Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social · 10d

EXCITING NEWS!
Our newest print anthology - 100 poems for the 21st Century - will be available from Amazon within the next 72 hours!

Thank you so much to our amazing poets who have really brought this book to life😍💎😍

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Sarah Lyons @citymystic.bsky.social · 16d

open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

Wrote about the radical act of returning to one's body in a digital age designed to detach us from them.

You Don't Need to Log off, You Need to Become Sensual

The digital world the wealthy are creating is designed to detach us from our bodies

open.substack.com

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Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social · 17d

It’s a truly astonishing culinary achievement. I tried making my own aubergine pickle once — not even remotely close to Patak’s.

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Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social · 23d

“Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes;
More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.”

open.spotify.com/track/4fcxK8...

Gibbons: The Silver Swan

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 26d

Don't miss this, poets – the new wave, AND your chance to appear in a future one. I have two years' worth of spaces to fill. Help a publisher out? 🥹😉

𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 @iambapoet.com · 26d

Fewer than two days now till wave twenty-three of @iambapoet.com arrives on screens large and small.

There's also only a week left until YOU can audition for your place in the journal in either 2026 or 2027.

Find out what you need to do, and be ready to submit next week. 🤞🏻

iambapoet.com/audition

Audition for poetry journal iamb in Sept 2025

Audition to be part of quarterly poetry journal iamb between the 20th and 27th of September 2025.

www.iambapoet.com

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Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social · Sep 7

💛 Two yellow floofs 💛

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Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social · Sep 4

Now playing: Wu-Tang & Jimi Hendrix - Wind Cries.

A straight up banger from the Tom Caruana Black Gold remix album.

youtu.be/SCSJUBUkpGA?...

Wu-Tang & Jimi Hendrix - The Wind Cries Mary

YouTube video by 🎶Psy-Op Music🎶

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Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social · Sep 3

"...what the computer people don't realize..."

#dancinganimals #vonnegut #fart

Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:

"Oh, she says well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.

I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around.

And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals."

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Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social · Sep 2

More power to you, I noped out a while back.

Ben Blench @benblench.bsky.social · Sep 2

Obviously fuck what Twitter has become but thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for doing the TopTweetTuesday thing on Bluesky.

Here’s one of mine.

#writing #poetrycommunity #writers #poet #poetic #poetrylovers #writingcommunity