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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 15h

Perfect! I will do, wasn’t sure who to email!

Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 21h

📣 Fabulous resources below from @poetrysociety.org.uk including a really lovely one on the theme of PLAY by Jon Stone
@shotscarecrow.bsky.social 📣

The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 6d

Visit bit.ly/NPC25Resources to read it, along with two other writing guides by Emma Purshouse and Anna Selby. ✍️

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 21h

Hello @poetrysociety.org.uk … thank you for posting this! It was a lovely surprise to see The Crab Man out there on NPD! I am writing under my real name now Eleanor Holmes but still @eliot_north on X
I wonder who do I speak to about trying to share the Filmpoem I made with Alastair Cook on Socials?

The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 6d

In the spirit of National Poetry Day, Jon Stone has contributed a writing resource for the National Poetry Competition on the theme of 'Play', in which he explores past prizewinning poems 'The Crab Man' by Eliot North and 'Don't Put your Daughter into Space, Mrs. Kirk' by Valerie Laws.

A quote from Jon Stone's resource: 'Don't Put your Daughter into Space, Mrs. Kirk' flies in the face of what we're told poems ought to be about, and how they ought to be written - that is, big, universal human themes, explored with sensitivity and tact. Instead, it's picking a fight - with a dead guy, at that - and doing so with glee, risking criticism for its naked agenda. What makes it especially good fun is that Valerie Laws isn't all that concerned with accurate Star Trek lore - the idea that you can pull a plug out on the Enterprise's bridge, plunging Kirk himself into darkness, is wonderfully absurd.

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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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walk · listen · create @walklistencreate.org · Aug 28

🖋️ Enter our Walking “In the Dark” competition! Stories or poems ≤250 words. Winners: writers-in-residence, € cash prize, artwork, limited chapbook. Shortlisted: published & showcase reading.
Deadline📅 20 Oct | 💻
wlc.zone/dark

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 1d

Brian Patten’s ‘Love Poems’ was one of the first poetry collections I bought. His words carry such a gift of connection, seconding this #lifttothesky

Brian Patten ‘Love Poems’ front cover image

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 6d

Congratulations are also in order for our runners-up, Nairn Kennedy and Jack Houston, as well as our commended poets, Corinna Board, Lucy Heuschen, Katharina Goda, Sam Phipps, Leah Larwood, Will Kemp, Suzanna Fitzpatrick, C.I. Marshall, Di Slaney, and Jacquie Shanahan!

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 3d

Big thanks for last week’s fierce drops on #PoemsAbout. Next up: #ImperfectMe — bruised reflections, warped mirrors, un-Photoshopped truths. The new theme starts this Friday. Sign up for prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout or get lost in the feed.

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Katie Jenkins @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social · 3d

Huge shout out to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social for bringing together such an incredible group of women. I was honoured and humbled to be among them 🙏✨🙌

The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 4d

Well, #NotJustPretty was an absolute blast. I'm a little teary after hearing @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social read my fave poem from her forthcoming collection. Compound that with the event itself, the vision from @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social wonderfully hosted! Everything we could have wanted!

a silhouette of a woman with the words girl power let 's go written on it

ALT: a silhouette of a woman with the words girl power let 's go written on it

media.tenor.com

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 5d

Oooooh the soundscape in this is brilliant Rachel… like nails down a blackboard or the squeaky balloon as it gets moulded into an animal… man my skin is crawling/ goose reading this! Again this could be my childhood, fab fab 🤩👏❤️

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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 5d

Here is Formed - my #PoemsAbout #mannequin
Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk Happy Friday!
#poetry

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 5d

What a start to a poem John!! That’s the way to get us hooked in one line, and then the perfectly measured social commentary that follows. Loved this, and your reading of it! 👏🤩

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John Chmura @johnchmura.bsky.social · 5d

#PoemsAbout #Mannequin
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#supportlocalbusiness
I will put a reel in the comments.

DAVID

The David is a dickless white guy
salvaged from a JCPenny anchor store
that shuttered at the mall in Ghost Town
during the last pandemic
who greets you at the ringing door
holds your cap or umbrella
and listens to your worst bullshit
better than your latest best friend forever
over latte and biscotti
at Michelangelo’s café and gallery
where the roast is local but not provincial
the art is organic and the word survival
is printed by hand on the bottom
of your to go cup but it’s no guarantee
because when you leave this oasis
you’re on your own in the urban desert.

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you 🤩 … yes I haven’t been very good at the old self-promotion there! 😂… it seems such a long time ago, when I was starting out as Eliot North. Obvs I am super proud of it by though, and the filmpoem that the Poetry Society let me work with the artist Alastair Cook to create 🥳

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 7d

As one window shuts (@iambapoet.com), another opens – and this one's for the whole of October.

If you have an 'after' or #ekphrastic poem that's looking for a home, that home could be @afterpoetry.com.

So go on. Send it in.

afterpoetry.com/submit

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Rachel 💚

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Mike, 🙏it was actually the Fish Quay in North Shields, so not far from Grimsby! I lived on Mariner's Lane & often did this walk down to the quay. Lindisfarne Seafoods let me record the visual & audio for the filmpoem, which was super cool: poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/the-cr...

The Crab Man – The Poetry Society: Poems

poems.poetrysociety.org.uk

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you Beth! 🤩🥳🎉

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Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social · 6d

Fantastic to see @eleanorholmes.bsky.social ‘s poem being used as a poetry society resource ! #poemsabout #poetsonbluesky

Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 6d

Well this is a lovely surprise for @poetrydayuk.bsky.social having my poem 'The Crab Man' 🦀 from 2014 NPC used for close reading / writing prompts on the theme of #play for NPD by @shotscarecrow.bsky.social - this is the right Jon Stone?
Hello, and thank you 🙏
poetrysociety.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The Crab Man

by Eliot North

Turn left, close the gate
Enter Mariner’s Lane.

The road to the shore
Is all salt and tar.

Go right down to
Correction House Bank.

Smell the fish guts,
Feel it pull you.

Push Gossip’s voice
Far from your mind.

Ignore the shudder
Of trains, overhead.

Down Tanner’s Bank
Pick your way.

Head held high,
Nose to the wind,

Past empty warehouses.
Go to The Crab Man.

Block out the warning
Tone of her voice.

See him in his red robes,
Inside the chainmail door.

Feel the cleaver’s rhythm
Smashed over and over.

Watch how he stills,
Cocks an ear to the sound.

The swish of metal skirts
Closing behind you.

Filmpoem of The Crab Man by Eliot North (Eleanor Holmes) on The Poetry Society website:https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poets/eliot-north/

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 6d

Oh thank you Jon! This is the first time anyone has ever done this with a poem of mine, your comments were so insightful and I loved the prompts! It would be really full circle wouldn’t it, to write from these… I might just do that!

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 6d

Well this is a lovely surprise for @poetrydayuk.bsky.social having my poem 'The Crab Man' 🦀 from 2014 NPC used for close reading / writing prompts on the theme of #play for NPD by @shotscarecrow.bsky.social - this is the right Jon Stone?
Hello, and thank you 🙏
poetrysociety.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social · 6d

Really excited that @inksweatandtears.co.uk are publishing my poem 'Longing for green' on @poetrydayuk.bsky.social on the theme of #PLAY, with such great poetic company, exploring all the multifaceted ways in which we as humans love to play.

Happy National Poetry Day!!! 💜💚🧡💛

Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 6d

Welcome to National Poetry Day!

Today we have four poets - Elena Brake, Eleanor Holmes, John Mole, Karen Downs-Barton - with different takes on this year's theme: Play.

inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat...

#InkSweatandTears #NationaPoetryDay

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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · Sep 3

Coming soon: This autumnal weather 🍂 has us excited to reveal the cover for Efa Lois’ new book ‘Gwrachod Cymru | Welsh Witches’! Publishing on 1 October, her illustrated guide to the witches of Wales is a must-read for anyone interested in Welsh history & folklore www.serenbooks.com/book/gwracho...

This cover is illustrated in Efa Lois' signature style. It shows five of the witches from the book framed by dandelions, mushrooms and animals. The text reads: Gwrachod Cymru Welsh Witches. Efa Lois.

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · Sep 4

Was I happy with this launch of #DownRiverWithLiPo? What do you think? Surrounded by fine poets from all over the world, who wouldn't be? @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @jenwithwords.bsky.social #BarryHollow @jeromeberglund.bsky.social #DennysCambarau @blackcatpress.bsky.social

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Seren Books @serenbooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

Coming soon: Laura Wainwright’s debut poetry collection is a powerful exploration of resilience in the face of ecological and human crises. Publishing 15 October. Pre-order now www.serenbooks.com/book/the-sto...

This cover shows a lino cut print of a jagged seed head bursting against a blue sky. The text reads: The Storm's Flora, Laura Wainwright

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