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Laura Theis @lauratheis.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you so much for my 'BEST OF THE NET' nomination and huge congratulations to all fellow nominees...

Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:

Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico

Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨

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Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely delighted and honoured to be nominated for Best Of The Net for Laundry Day. Congratulations to my fellow nominees 🙏

Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:

Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico

Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨

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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:

Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico

Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨

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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

✨Happy National Poetry Day!✨

We’re working our way through submissions for the next issue, which is out next month. In the meantime, you can read every single issue of Dust for free here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

Lovely to see our @hollyannepoet.bsky.social with a poem nominated by @dustpoetry.bsky.social in their Best of The Net selections!

Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:

Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico

Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨

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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

🧀💛✨

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Holly Magill @hollyannepoet.bsky.social · 6d

This has cheered me up immensely on
#NationalPoetryDay

Many thanks to Tara and Catherine at @dustpoetry.bsky.social for including my cheese poem in their Best of the Net nominations. You can read all the poems in the links attached to their post below.

Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:

Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico

Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨

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Holly Magill @hollyannepoet.bsky.social · 6d

My poem, as chosen by @dustpoetry.bsky.social as one of their Best of the Net nominees.

This one was rejected numerous times before it found a home with Dust (if at first we don't succeed, etc). Also a relative recently complained I've no 'joy' in my poems. Cheese = joy.

Cheese in a budget hotel room by Holly Magill

Cheese in a budget hotel roomWouldn’t do this at home – naked and plateless.Here is different. We set it on the bed, a decisivewedge of intent, local and organic. Reverently weundress it from waxed pa...

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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 6d

✨Happy National Poetry Day!✨

We’re working our way through submissions for the next issue, which is out next month. In the meantime, you can read every single issue of Dust for free here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk

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Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social · 6d

I up the ante.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 7d

Copper Beeches, 2013, painting by Yorkshire-based artist Kate Lycett. #WomensArt

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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you Claire! 🧡

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Claire Walker @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

What a fab list - congratulations to all (especially lovely to see brilliant @hollyannepoet.bsky.social here!) 🥳

Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:

Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico

Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨

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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

@antoniakearton.bsky.social

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@hollyannepoet.bsky.social

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@lauratheis.bsky.social

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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/sanico-...

Sanico by Antonia Kearton

Sanico Visiting my father, I bring peachesfrom his local supermarket.They’re reduced in price, spotted with bruises,but rich and sweet as those we atein the steep meadow of an Italian summeralmost for...

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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/cheese-...

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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/ldr-by-...

LDR by Ryan O’Neill

LDR on church street we fizz flawed promises from the rooftop bar / bare legs caged heat / may’s rain summer’s early religion / casts us in wine / bathroom mirror stretches my reflection / smoke sting...

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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

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Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone? by Laura Theis

Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone? I guess that’s what I must be, because I couldnot walk across a graveyard without being assailed by old dead friendswanting to tell me their latest gossip...

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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/fade-by...

Fade by Amy L. King

FadeIn school, I was one of those girlswho could sit on her hair.Dad didn't mentionmy short back and sides,when I came home for Christmas.There was a time my body was softenough to slip into velvet.A ...

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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

And here are their fantastic poems!

www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/laundry...

Laundry Day by Paul Short

Laundry DayBudget industrial-strength detergent has ridthe world of your scentreplaced it with cruel ‘cotton wind’.Your pyjamas are folded, retail ready crispevery crease of your shapelost under...

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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · 7d

Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:

Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico

Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨

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Philippa East (Author) @philippaeast.bsky.social · 18d

The first #Lincolnshire workshop is on Tuesdays 7pm-8:30pm with Jeanette Burton.

Join poet and creative writing tutor Jeanette Burton for fortnightly online creative writing workshops via Zoom.

beyondthespectrum.uk/for-adults/j...

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Jeanette Burton - Beyond The Spectrum

Chris Cambell's writing workshop for Autistic adults as part of Writing East Midlands's Beyond The Spectrum creative writing programme.

beyondthespectrum.uk

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 18d

Come and join me next Saturday to take up space and explore the ways in which we connect, physically, to the landscape.

www.eventbrite.com/e/finding-yo...

Finding Your Self in the Landscape

A narrative non-fiction online workshop

www.eventbrite.com

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