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EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her. https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · Nov 16

A few bits & bobs about me:
I like to write eco poetry. I live in Oxfordshire and grew up on a farm. My debut pamphlet “Arboreal” was published in January 2024. I have poems in various places (see my linktree above if you’d like to read them!)
Here’s my most recent one:
#poetsonbluesky #ecopoetry

Worship

surely the people is grass - Isaiah 40:7

If we let it in—a green religion.
If a voice in the sky said:
This grass is your home, & we listened.
City of grass /grass as body; a hive mind connecting fields of possibility.
Grass as revolution,
as the answer to the question,
finding its voice; language of grass— grass-tongue. splitting
into endless variations:
soil-talk, root-talk, beetle-talk, & so on.
Grass song, its green hymn-a meadow, dancing.
Grass as memory / history / truth, swishing in the wind.
Unforgotten, or, perhaps, simply remembered.

Corinna Board

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Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social · 1d

Very excited for this, and reading with @sophiaargyris.bsky.social, @dbodepudi.bsky.social, @corinnaboard.bsky.social and @bornonadarkmoon.bsky.social. Hosted by the lovely @victoriaspires.bsky.social 💫💫. Poetry of place and memory 💫💫

Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Happening this Friday!! 🚨

Let me know if you want the zoom link. You're not going to want to miss these incredible readers ❤️

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 2d

🚨 Happening this Friday!! 🚨

Let me know if you want the zoom link. You're not going to want to miss these incredible readers ❤️

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks very much Paul!

Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Mark, congrats everyone!

𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫... 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐦𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐭 @afterpoetry.com · 3d

**PUSHCART PRIZE NOMINEES ANNOUNCED**

Please join @afterpoetry.com in congratulating K Roberts, @corinnaboard.bsky.social, Suzi Feay, @arainbowpoet.bsky.social, Matt Cariello and @victoriaspires.bsky.social on their nominations for the next edition of the @pushcartprize.bsky.social.

Promotional poster announcing the six nominees for the 51st edition of The Pushcart Prize, as chosen by the editor of online ekphrastic poetry journal After...

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 4d

A busy week! Really looking forward to delivering a #free #poetry #workshop at The Rabbit Hole, a fab indie bookshop, in Brigg. Can't wait to meet local poets 😁 @caitymay16.bsky.social @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social #Lincolnshire #NELincs #Brigg #poets #poetrycommunity

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you Elizabeth! xx

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 5d

Fantastic news, Lucy. Love this poem which definitely has a touch of Margaret's toughness.
Big congrats, too, to you Corinna @corinnaboard.bsky.social Lovely to see names I recognise on the list 🎊

Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social · 6d

The @poetrysociety.org.uk Stanza Comp 2025 results are in & I'm honoured to be commended for the second year in a row! Judge Jonathan Edwards has chosen beautiful poems that play with the theme of "play". 💗Congratulations to Marilyn, Nairn, Jack and all the commended poets too! #NationalPoetryDay

POPCORN
By Lucy Heuschen
Commended in the Poetry Society's Stanza Competition 2025

The first time he calls me popcorn I take it like a compliment.
A little caramel, a little salt. Enough sweetness to make me
open my mouth. Popcorn is not served at the club like port
and cigars. He tries hard to show me, make me understand.
It takes years for me to understand. To fashion a dolly, first
she must be stripped. I yield. String myself light as Christmas
trim. I am (of course I am) popcorn. I deserve to be popcorn.
Will never be anything more. Cheap as poor man’s cocaine,
thrilling on the tongue. A sugar rush, consumed in the dark
long before the credits roll. I forget. I forget my kernel, the wild
grass I stem from. How to green myself with rain, stretching
my fingers skyward. I forget my spikelets, my silk, my tassels,
my gold. How to cocoon, how to butterfly. Swelling, scorched, splitting like a wound, I rise— strike my hellish racket—
bangbangbang— into his speechless face, that sweet, livid O!
I’ve let them think I’m popcorn ever since. If it serves me,
I wear it. Popcorn still pulls them in. At night I unzip my skin,
shrug it off, step from its folds, clean. If I can’t sleep, can’t sleep,
can’t sleep, I count all the men, all the mouths I’ve burned.

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 4d

Such a stunner of a poem! And thanks Rosanna! x

Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you Julie! xx

Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Paul!

Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks Julian! xx

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you @poetrysociety.org.uk and Jonathan Edwards for commending ‘You find a fox skull’ in the 2025 Stanza competition! Congratulations to the winner, runners-up and other commended poets! 🙏🏻❤️

YOU FIND A FOX SKULL – The Poetry Society: Poems

poems.poetrysociety.org.uk

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you! X

Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you so much! x

Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations everyone, and Happy National Poetry Day! 🎉

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The Poetry Society @handle.invalid · 6d

Drumroll please..! 🥁 As part of our National Poetry Day celebrations, The Poetry Society is delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 Stanza Poetry Competition as 'Dinosaurs' by Marilyn Longstaff, selected by judge Jonathan Edwards!

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks so much! Nothing and then it all happens at once! 😆 x

Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks Sarah! xx

Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you Julia! xx

Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 6d

Some lovely news! ❤️❤️❤️

The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 6d

Delighted that the work we've been publishing in our micro-journal, Carmen et Error, is getting the recognition it deserves! @corinnaboard.bsky.social's brilliant poem 'A dunnock's prayer' was highly commended in this year's Forward Prizes!

Forward Prize 2026 Highly Commended Congratulations to Corinna Board!
For
‘A dunnock’s prayer’, published in Issue 9.0 Carmen et Error

A dunnock’s prayer
by Corinna Board

O wingless wun,
god o’ smæl bridds,
spære my nest,
my fīf blue eggs.
Bright sky-keeper,
bringer o’ frost,
maker o’ hip an haw,
can ye hear my
tseep tseep tseep
in the hecg?
I sing for ye
in the blackthorn
an the dogrose,
in the hazel
an the rowan.
I, this tyne spearwa
so smæl in yur hand.

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The Poetry Society @handle.invalid · 6d

It's National Poetry Day! We'll be celebrating all day - stay tuned to our socials so you don't miss a thing 👀🎉

Wherever you are, The Poetry Society wishes you a very happy National Poetry Day in the company of poetry.

The official graphic for National Poetry Day 2025 on the theme of 'Play'. It's an 8-bit, pastel background of a cherry blossom tree against a blue sky with books being thrown into the air. In large, alternating pink and blue text in the centre of the image, it reads: National Poetry Day / 02.10.2025 / PLAY

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Paul McGrane @paulmcgrane.bsky.social · 6d

You ask for a poem
I offer you a blade of grass

The late, great Brian Patten wishes you #HappyNationalPoetryDay

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 6d

Can’t wait to get my copy of this, Michael’s reading last night was fantastic!

Magma Poetry @magmapoetry.bsky.social · 16d

Really looking forward to the online launch of ‘The Man Who Made Up Trees’ by Michael Greavy - the winner of Magma’s 2024 pamphlet competition on Wed 1st Oct 7-8pm.

Discounted copies available on the night!

Register your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pamphlet-l...

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 7d

I have some lit mag starter packs on my profile!