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Own Sweet Time, CB editions Sovetica, CB editions Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions https://minorliteratures.com/2025/01/09/the-complimiment-caroline-clark/ https://sublunaryeditions.com/magazine/nosta-and-senti-a-homecoming-essay-caroline-clark

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · Jan 31

My thanks to @minorliteratures.bsky.social and editor @roughghosts.bsky.social for publishing this essay and giving me such a boost at the start of the year.

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Jan 9

"Still, you were a poet. If you ever tried to write a line of narrative it bored you so intensely you felt drained. You could only do what you could do. You came to your notebook and wrote what came to you ..."

The Compliment — @cclarklewes.bsky.social

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The Compliment — Caroline Clark

1. The compliment came in swift and stayed with you your whole life. You in your blue sweater with the cowl neck. You with your dark hair. Montreal’s Grande Bibliothèque: glass fronted, deeper and …

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 13h

sweet treats

These white star phlox flowers open in the evening and through the night. You have to get close but they smell of sherbet and are called ‘midnight candy’. Such a lovely discovery.

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 22h

last rose

Last beauty in white of the season. Thinking of Rilke’s rose.

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 22h

yesterday‘s last light

Blaze of setting sun, orange sky, through wooden field fences.

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 2d

She’s up.

Full moon minus one day rising in pinkish skies. Over hills and rooftops.

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 2d

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 4d

my two are indoctrinated

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 4d

I assume you’re a fan?

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 4d

Rain-slop screaming crunchers

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 4d

Brain-whop milking dusters

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 6d

Merci! 🙏🤩

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 6d

‘Signed presentation copy: "Dear Will, I hope you find something you like here. With warm wishes, Caroline. September 2012, Lewes." Original publisher's wraps in blue, lettered white with a modern art illustration on the front cover. Poetry. ISBN:9781908527042.
About fine. Signedes.

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 6d

On this celebratory day I’d like to let you know that I have some copies of my first collection SAYING YES IN RUSSIAN and can post you one in the UK for £10 p&p included. I won’t sign it unless you ask so as to avoid this happening: follow link. I forgive you W.

www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Sear...

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 6d

If you break open the dry stems of certain plants /
you will find a snoozing grub.

from All Particles and Waves

By David Spittle from @blackheraldpress.bsky.social

Black cover with grey-toned montage of photos and drawings, surrealist in spirit

Back cover:

1 perplex other people... I infect them also with the perplexity I feel myself: as if to echo Socrates' words, David Spittle's poems make us look for what, inside language, we did not necessarily know we were looking for. In each poem, precariously poised as Spittle is between syntactical newness and each free act of the mind, he purges us of our anticipation of what
• the creative act is. Thus, in the same manner as John Ashbery, whose poetry came to him in fits and starts and by indirec-tion', Spittle's poetry reveals itself behind the multiple (and mostly involuntary) disguises that reality for him, from one poem to the next, takes on. Hence we find a poet writing always amid the struggle of birth and re-birth, identity and non-identity, a poetry testing itself perilously at the frontiers of both verbal experiment and perception.

Poem 1 from ‘All Particles and Waves’ sequence

A three-legged dog barks
In a falling storm
A three-legged dog barks
Unheard in the vault
Undeterred and biting
In a falling storm
Of feathers
A three-legged dog barks
As all around
Is softly exploding

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 6d

Poor old indies.

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 6d

‘There is no charge for entering, but by entering publishers of the shortlisted titles agree to contribute £3,000 each towards the marketing of the prize and 15 extra copies of the book. The publisher of the winning book agree to contribute an additional £5,000 towards marketing.’

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 6d

Collected Works by F. van Dixhoorn translated by @astridalben.bsky.social from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 8d

Yes I did.

Stunning calm sea in which I did briefly bathe.

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 9d

rose ‘n hip

soft pink rose with one red hip against blue sky

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 11d

last light over the roofs

those hills in last light, foreground roofs in the shadows

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 11d

David Rose short story alert 👇

Salt Books @saltpublishing.com · 11d

New in House Magazine

Three poems by Julian Stannard
Anna Woodword explores Poetry on the Platforms
A new short story from David Rose: ‘Wormsong and Descant’

Read and share!
#BooksSky
#WritingCommunity
#Poetry
#Fiction

House Magazine

The House Magazine | Read Salt authors, staff, and fellow readers in our vibrant house magazine.

www.saltpublishing.com

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 11d

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 11d

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 16d

I'm hoping for a millpond sea one day in October for a final swim.

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 16d

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 17d

nothing nicer…

…than a pile of conkers popping creamily from their shells