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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 1d

Reaching Rainbows

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The Toy Press 🍩🦜🍑🌻🪐🛼 @thetoypress.bsky.social · 3d

Hello, here is your #wordoftheweek!

#writingcommunity #writingforchildren #writingprompt #poetryforkids #PoetryCommunity #poetryforchildren #kidlit

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 3d

Well, I read some parts of Dante's Inferno, then Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet, and now I'm on R.F. Kuang's Katabasis. So it's been a real hellish time.

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Rebecca Chaney @rebeccajchaney.bsky.social · 3d

It's always exciting to see pics of your book in the wild, especially on the other side of the world! STU AND THE SKETCHY TIME STOPS has found his way to Marlow Library in the UK! TY @ianbrownlie.bsky.social for sharing this pic!

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks, Gary

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 5d

My edible offering for @thetoypress.bsky.social #WordOfTheWeek #Bake.

It's a little late as I didn't hear the oven timer go off, and after cutting off the burnt edges only a limerick was left.

#WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryCommunity #PoetryForKids #KidLit #WordPrompt

There once was a baker from Goring
Whose cakes were a little bit boring
He baked rainbow iced buns
And stacked them high as twelve suns
Which people had more trouble ignoring

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Jim Beckett @jimbeckett.bsky.social · 5d

I taught at the school that Katharine traduces in To Miss With Love, (Penguin 2011 - it was on Radio 4 too). She and I worked closely together, on the school magazine for example. She left the school in 2009 when it came out that she had been secretly blogging about her colleagues 1/4

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks, Alan. Yes, that line is certainly where things start to turn!

Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 5d

I think if this poem were to have an alternate title, it would be:

silence of the iambs

Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks. I toyed with the idea of reining the ending in a bit, but mannequins just feel a bit creepy so I stuck with it.

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks!

Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you!

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks. I probably watched that episode from hiding behind the sofa when I was far too young for it! Though I only actually remember doing that for the also-terrifying blank-faced people episode of Sapphire and Steel...

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Duotrope @duotrope.com · 5d

Today's listing of the day is: Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry @audilocus.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

Listing of the Day

Today's listing of the day is: Audi Locus: A Journal of Poetry @audilocus.bsky.social #WritingCommunity

duotrope.com

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 6d

For this week's #poemsabout
#mannequin
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
@alanparrywriter.co.uk

watching all the pretty mannequins dance

i dress them
place them
set them spinning

a line of mannequins
imperfect in their various stages
and states

costumed to suggest personalities
that i assign
and will shine through
their blank expressions
so that i can picture their dreams

look at them

i want nothing more than this
though need
yes need still exists

and the only real dream
that each mannequin has
is to make it back to their loved ones
alive

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 6d

Also delighted to have a poem (the show) in the new issue of the wonderful Audi Locus! It has been a very busy #NationalPoetryDay. Going to relax and enjoy the rest of the issue now...

www.audilocus.com/volume1-issu...

Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks to @streetcakemag.bsky.social for publishing my poem, titled:

don't panic
the number of people i've killed has been greatly exaggerated

So a nice cheery one for celebrating #NationalPoetryDay

www.streetcakemagazine.com/issue.html

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you!

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 7d

Happy #NationalPoetryDay! Let's #Play with 'The Ball'.

And in video form: www.youtube.com/shorts/2rUEf...

First published in the Dirigible Balloon by @northernjim.bsky.social #WritingCommunity #WritingForChildren #PoetryCommunity #PoetryForKids #KidLit

The Ball by Ian Brownlie

The ball moves quickly through the air,
Surprising Dwight, who, unaware,
Is standing (sadly) in its way,
Soon to find it’s not his day.

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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 7d

Happy #nationalpoetryday #play Have a wonderful day, however you’re celebrating! Here’s a poem from @thetoypress.bsky.social to launch you into the day! 🚀Illustration by Evelyn Marsh
#poetry #poetryforkids #kidlituk

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 7d

So delighted to be nominated for this. Huge thanks to @shinepoetry.bsky.social and its amazing Editor @samanthaterrell.bsky.social

#Pushcart #PushcartPrize #PoetryCommunity

SHINE Poetry @shinepoetry.bsky.social · 7d

SHINE is pleased to announce this year's Pushcart nominations.

A big thank you to all of SHINE's contributors -- keep writing, keep shining! ✨

#shinepoetry
#pushcart
#poetrycommunity
#internationalcommunity

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Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 8d

Wow. If only you'd scrolled down the page a bit.

Screenshot of the BBC Sports page clearly giving a big clue to the fact that Aston Villa won the European Cup. I mean, really.

Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social · 9d

Off sick from work today, so was able to finish The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington. I wouldn't advise anybody in less than prime condition to read the last 50 pages of this book, but that's how the poisoned fudge crumbles sometimes. (With thanks to @backlisted.bsky.social anyway. Loved it.)

Book cover of The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington (Penguin Classics)

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Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 10d

Re-sharing an old poem for this because it fits the theme and the seasonal vibes.

#writingcommunity #writingforchildren #writingprompt #poetryforkids #poetryforchildren #poetrycommunity #Kidlit

A screenshot of a poem which reads:

INTERGENERATIONAL RECIPE

Take apples,
Crumble topping,
Lashings of autumn spice.
Bake until
Golden topped, then
Gold-topped again,
Pour on cream.
Taste summer meadows
And promised snow days.
A balanced meal,
Suspended between seasons
And devoured with ready spoons.

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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · 12d

Worth taking a look at the poems here for @PoetryDayUK! I have a couple on the site myself. scaryness.com

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