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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶

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Bristolian. 6th collection, 'Love the Albatross', pub by Indigo Dreams Publishing. Currently writing about ADHD and nature. She/her https://theleapingword.com https://indigodreamspublishing.com/deborah-harvey

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Nov 9

Here's a link to a review, written by Chaucer Cameron & published in Ink Sweat & Tears, of my new poetry collection, Love the Albatross.

inksweatandtears.co.uk/chaucer-came...

We need to talk ... & read & write poems about ... estrangement, whichever side of the divide we find ourselves on.

Image shows book cover by artist and illustrator, Katie Marland, of a Laysan albatross and its chick, which looks, in Katie's words, as if it's been in the tumble dryer and is none too pleased about it. Book photographed against ancient stone coffin lid, covered in lichen, in local churchyard in Bristol, UK.

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 5d

Happy UK Fungus Day!

Tentative IDs (clockwise): Beefsteak fungus, Black Bulgar, Earth Star, Dryad's Saddle, Amethyst Deceiver (I think), Turkey Tail

#ukfungusday #fungi

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted to have some poems in this initiative organised by Ralph Hoyte and Bristol Libraries. Happy #NationalPoetryDay X

Bristol Libraries @bristollibraries.bsky.social · 7d

🎧 STREET! launches today on #NationalPoetryDay!
A digital poetry project placing GPS-triggered soundpools outside 12 Bristol libraries.

Walk into a soundpool & hear poems about street life, neighbourhoods & local vibes.

📱 Find out more and download the app: ralphhoyte.org/home/street/

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 8d

This is just to say, I think it's about temptation. (Should have been Adam who stole the apple.)

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 8d

It's certainly the sense of smell that hotwires the past.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 9d

Can't eat - or even contemplate - an orange without thinking of this poem by Brian Patten. RIP. 🍊💔 🍊

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · 17d

'Well, hello, Mistress Squizzle with an acorn in yer gob'

In the branches of a tree, a grey squirrel with wide eyes and an acorn in its mouth looks straight down the lens of the camera

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Sep 7

Before the thunderstorm #bristol

Dawn, in a welter of colour, above a horizon of trees and distant hills

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Sep 2

Well done, Bristol, and especially Bristol City Museum, this is the way to do it

www.bristol247.com/news-and-fea...

Bristol Museum returns ‘deeply significant’ cultural objects

The amazing collection of artefacts was donated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

www.bristol247.com

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Wavelace @wavelace.bsky.social · Aug 28

Two perfectly-formed mags are finding their way to subscribers this morning. Brimming with poetry: packed with good writing. Take yourself away from it all & get one. share.google/e1tS0ARLtyxn...

@indigodreamspub.bsky.social @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @deborahharvey.bsky.social #poetry

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Aug 26

Cwtch the Collie (the best girl there ever was) says Happy International Dog Day 2025 and why not give @niallharbison.bsky.social of Happy Doggo a follow?

A small tri border collie, with possibly a bit of terrier in there somewhere, is sitting on fallen leaves. She's wearing a turquoise harness and looks every inch the very very good girl that she is.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Aug 20

We only saw the notice prohibiting dogs during the summer months afterwards. Apologies to anyone we might have disturbed. #nodogsallowed

A small black and white border collie stands on an empty sandy beach. In the background, the distant mountains of the Lake District.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Aug 13

Remembering Andi Langford-Woods, poet, who died yesterday. Organiser of Bristol Acoustic Night, and a pivotal member of the #bristolpoetrycommunity. I think it's safe to say we'll never forget you, Andi 🎇 🎇 🎇 #bristol #poetry #poetrycommunity

Andi Langford-Woods, in green jacket, and Colin Brown holding a placard that says Poets for Corbyn, at the Jeremy for Labour rally in Bristol in 2016

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Aug 11

‪Join us at Silver Street #Poetry & #OpenMic on Friday 29th August, when our guest poet is the extraordinary Daniel Richardson.

Our event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, with entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue is St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Be sure to bring a (not epic) poem to share!

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Aug 10

It's beyond me.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Aug 10

Absolute respect for Alice Oswald

Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · Aug 9

Alice Oswald arrested this afternoon for supporting Palestine Action.

A screenshot of an Instagram post noting the arrest of Alice Oswald for supporting Palestine Action.

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Aug 4

Happiness is a warm dog on the Teignmouth and Shaldon ferry

A small tri border collie is sitting on a ferry boat, next to a woman in a red top. Both are smiling at the photographer. In the background is a red ensign at the stern of the ferry, which is blowing in the breeze, and more boats on an estuary with hills behind them.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Aug 4

It's Rippon Tor. Haytor is to the right. You can see it, with Saddle Tor between them, from the Point in Teignmouth.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Jul 25

Reading 'How the Worst Day of My Life Became the Best' by Andrea Gibson at today's Silver Street #poetry #openmic #spokenword #andreagibson

Woman with brown curly hair wearing a blue dress is standing at a microphone and reading from a piece of paper in her hand; behind her is an early 17th century tomb and eighteenth century wall monuments

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Jul 24

I'm in.

Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · Jul 24

It's time for a new kind of political party - one that belongs to you.

Sign up at yourparty.uk.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Jul 21

Even the bird poo is beautiful in the woods right now, by which I mean purple and strangely glittery

A vaguely heart-shaped blob of bird poo, stained purple by blackberries the bird has been eating and also glittery (insect wings?) lies on a fallen green leaf with an orange leaf to one side, which provides a pleasing colour contrast

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Jul 17

A wren feather, one inch long and beautiful

A tiny wren feather in shades of brown, russet and cream is held between forefinger and thumb against an out-of-focus background of earth and leaf litter

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Jul 10

A bit over-awed to be guest-poetting at Verbatim in Bishop’s Castle, Shropshire on Weds 30th July, in The Lab, just up the road from the Poetry Pharmacy. It's spacious & accessible, so if you’re local, come along with a poem to read. Start is 7.30pm; sign up for an open mic slot on the door #poetry

Poster for poetry reading and open mic at the Lab in Bishop's Castle, Shropshire. Picture gives details of accessible venue: The Lab; date: 30th July; time: 7.30pm. Also a photo of a woman in brown jacket and blue top with silver necklace, with background of moorland landscape.

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Jul 3

Feather goblin here too!

I carried it home and laid it in the garden with a weighted bowl over the top, so the foxes don't make off with it. Now it's a matter of waiting for the organisms in the earth to do their work, and then salvaging any feathers there in a few weeks' time.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Jul 3

So. One moment you're happy because the wood’s just given you another jay covert; then, moments later, on the other side of the river, you’re desolate because suddenly there’s too many.

(I need to point out our dog, Cwtch, is a gentle and caring spirit. Poor jay was like this when we got here.)

A newly dead Eurasian jay lies on the woodland floor, on earth, twigs and leaf litter. A concerned border collie nuzzles it gently.

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social · Jul 2

But I might have to vote for them if Labour carries on chasing the Reform vote!

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