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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you for sharing this @ianbharlow.bsky.social ! 🙏🏻An incredible poem - a timeless poetic warning!

The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 8d

Happy National Poetry Day 2025! 🎉
Here is WENDY COPE reading SPARED.
2001
#NationalPoetryDay
#WendyCope
#Spared
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Wendy Cope poetry reading for Oxfam CD

YouTube video by BushnellMark

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 8d

Happy National Poetry Day 2025!
Here is the profound MICHAEL ROSEN reading FASCISM.
#NationalPoetryDay
#MichaelRosen
#ProfoundPoetry
#PoetryMatters
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
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Fascism - Michael Rosen For Adults

YouTube video by Michael Rosen For Adults

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 8d

Check out this multi - talented creative and Harlow community champion! 👇🏻

Ian Beckett @ianbharlow.bsky.social · 8d

Inspired by the picture by Eleonor Dan, I wrote “Bang Goes Beauty” on #NationalPoetryDay 2025, for @harlowstanza.bsky.social and THE WORLD

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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 8d

Happy National Poetry Day 2025! 🎉🎉🎉
Here is JOHN AGARD reading CRYBABY PRIME MINISTER
#JohnAgard
#PoetryLovers
#NationalPoetryDay
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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 8d

Happy National Poetry Day 2025!
Here is Sir Ian McKellen reading -
On Westminster Bridge, 1802, by William Wordsworth. 🎉
#NationalPoetryDay
#WilliamWordsworth
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Sir Ian McKellen reading "On Westminster Bridge", by William Wordsworth

YouTube video by MdMPoetix

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 8d

Happy National Poetry Day 2025!
How will you be celebrating? 🥳
We will be sharing both classic and contemporary poems throughout the day. Kicking off with EDITH SITWELL and STILL FALLS THE RAIN, 1940 👇🏻
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Edith Sitwell reads "Still Falls the Rain"

YouTube video by Don Yorty

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 9d

Is everyone getting excited for National Poetry Day tomorrow??
How will you be celebrating? 🥳
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 9d

#MustSee
#PoetryID

PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · 13d

It's the last weekend before @poetrydayuk.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading and hearing #poems at Hitchin Library next Thursday.
#poetry
#libraries

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Paul McGrane @paulmcgrane.bsky.social · 20d

"This form of poetry gives everyone a voice"... Max Terry Fishel, one of our Poems Not Bombs regulars, speaks out on the delights of the poetry open mic in the Guardian today

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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 14d

So proud that I and other members of our beautiful poetry stanza family will be performing a live acoustic set at Harlow Pride 2025!
#HarlowCircleofPoetry
#StanzasForPride
#HarlowPride
#StrongerTogether
#CommunityMatters
#BigUpHarlow
#NationalPoetrySociety

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The Poetry Society @handle.invalid · 14d

Thanks to all who came along to Past Margins into Wilds: A Malaysia-UK Poetry Showcase last night at The Poetry Cafe! We enjoyed readings from Nina Mingya Powles, Suyin du Bois, Yee Heng Yeh and L Kiew as well as poetry films from the Peat on Earth project - and delicious treats from Makan bakery!

Poets L. Kiew, Suyin du Bois, Yee Heng Yeh and Nina Mingya Powles taking part in a discussion. They are sat in a row in the Poetry Cafe and L. Kiew holds a microphone. All are smiling.

The audience at the Past Margins into Wilds event in the Poetry Cafe. They are smiling and applauding.

Poet Yee Heng Yeh performs in the Poetry Cafe. He wears a blue shirt and stands behind a microphone. A pink banner saying The Poetry Society is in the background.

Three people smile and eat cake in the Poetry Cafe.

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Ian Beckett @ianbharlow.bsky.social · 15d

All Our Yesterdays:
Harlow 1981 - my monthly blog for Your Harlow.Com www.yourharlow.com/2025/09/25/a...

All Our Yesterdays: The Harlow Town Show of 1981 - Your Harlow

All Our Yesterdays – a monthly look at Harlow in years gone by.By Ian Beckett ANYONE who was born or lived in Harlow during the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s is likely to have fond memories of the Town Sh...

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 15d

📢 Happening Today! 🙌🏻🎉🩷
Harlow poets unite! 💪🏻
#ThePoetrySociety
#HarlowStanza
#PoetryInHarlow
#FreeCommunityGroup
#CommunityMatters
#WritersSupportingWriters
#PoetryLovers
#PoetryIsForEveryone
#PoetryInEssex
#HarlowPoetry

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Jonathan Humble @northernjim.bsky.social · 15d

On the Dirigible Balloon dirigibleballoon.org you'll find a cornucopia of wonderful poems imagining the future. They're free, they're safe, they'll take you to fantastical places, they'll make you smile, they'll make you think ... what are you waiting for?
#PoetryForChildren #ImagineTheFuture

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PoetryID @poetryid.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks to Composer of the Week on BBC Radio 3 for introducing me to the beguiling #poetry of Langston Hughes, in an episode on The Harlem Renaissance, presented by Donald Macleod, with contributions from Wynton Marsalis.

#booksky

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BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, The Harlem Renaissance, Rivers

Langston Hughes arrives in Harlem.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you for sharing! @ianbharlow.bsky.social

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 20d

You too have a lovely weekend!

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 22d

Gentle reminder that our next stanza meeting is on the 25th September at 17.00-19.00.
Our theme - BORDERS and BOUNDARIES.
Please see details below 👇🏻
#PoetryStanzas
#EssexPoetryStanzas
#WritersSupportingWriters

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 21d

Thank you @rodmannix.bsky.social @writingcommunity.bsky.social @mitchellsquid.bsky.social for sharing this, hope you have a lovely day! 🔆

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · 22d

Gentle reminder that our next stanza meeting is on the 25th September at 17.00-19.00.
Our theme - BORDERS and BOUNDARIES.
Please see details below 👇🏻
#PoetryStanzas
#EssexPoetryStanzas
#WritersSupportingWriters

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Jonathan Humble @northernjim.bsky.social · 22d

#Teachers #Schools #Families
#NationalPoetryDay2025 is coming.
This way for high quality, safe, thought provoking, informative and funny poems for key stage 2 and 3 children >>> dirigibleballoon.org
#PoetryForChildren #DirigibleBalloon 🎈

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The Harlow Circle of Poetry @harlowstanza.bsky.social · Sep 7

We are PROUD to be supporting Harlow Pride this year! Harlow stanza poets we need your poems! Will be making a list of whoever would like to volunteer to read on the 18th of October at our next stanza meeting!
#HarlowPride
#HarlowCircleofPoetry
#HarlowPoetry
#EssexPoetry
#PridePoetry

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The Poetry Society @handle.invalid · 27d

The Poetry Society is delighted to present the launch readings for the Autumn 2025 issue of The Poetry Review, edited by Wayne Holloway-Smith, with guest readers Safa Khatib (video), Matthew Dickman, Joelle Taylor, Claudine Toutoungi and Safia Elhillo (video).

Reserve your spot via our website! 🎤

Details: Wednesday 8 October, 7:00pm - 8:00pm, Zoom or The Poetry Cafe, Free to attend, donations welcome!

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Jonathan Humble @northernjim.bsky.social · Sep 7

The Dirigible Balloon is a free-to-use poetry bank for children, families and schools which is safe, devoid of pop-ups and hosts over 2000 excellent poems from 500 poets worldwide. #Education #Teachers #Poetry
Come and see >>> dirigibleballoon.org 🎈

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