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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 3h

A recording I did of one of my poems will be on BBC Upload tonight, so if you are in the East of England, you will be able to listen to it on your local show (Three Counties, Cambs, Norfolk, Suffolk). #bbcupload #poetsofbluesky

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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social · 1d

For @hool415.bsky.social and this week's #promptcombo #visitor (s), an old TTT one I had forgotten about from around this time last year.

I've not caught up to anyone else's contributions yet but will do so before the week is out 😘

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The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 1d

It’s Wednesday. Got a WIP?

Doesn’t matter if it’s raw or rolling. If it’s yours, it belongs.

Drop a line. Share a note. Let us know where you’re at.

#WednesdayWIPs #PoetsOfBluesky #BlueskyWriters #PoemsAbout

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, Sue! Very kind of you to say, glad you enjoyed it!

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 3d

🙏🙏 Thank you so much

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you @hool415.bsky.social - I had a lot of fun with that!

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you, I really enjoyed using that 😀

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 3d

One for the #promptcombo offered by @hool415.bsky.social - this week on the theme of #visitor - #blueskypoets ##poetsofbluesky

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 4d

ICYM this publishing opportunity #poetrycommunity ##poetsofbluesky

Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 6d

The wonderful Sunday Mornings At The River have an open call for a new poetry anthology called 'For those who despair' -

www.sundaymorningsattheriver.com/submit

#poetry #opencall #anthology #sundaymorningsattheriver

Submission Opportunities — Sunday Mornings at the River

www.sundaymorningsattheriver.com

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 4d

Stumbling bleary-eyed upon this spot at dawn one day last month, adding this to my list of poetic sites I have visited!

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Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social · 5d

Lovely news last night of a nomination for Best of the Net from Gothic Keats Press for a poem in their Bryon anthology. Many thanks to Clay. Best of luck to everyone! 🌳🖊️🎉

www.gothickeatspress.com

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 5d

A poem inspired by the statue of Sappho in Letchworth Garden City, a favourite writing spot of mine.

#blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #sappho #inspiration #Hertfordshire

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 5d

In the midst of moving home
a thousand-and-one mundane
hairsplitting thoughts
chase me from bed,
I'll be running on fumes today -
but I have coffee, a notebook,
and October wind
browbeating leaves
off the trees
in oceanic whisper hymns,
beckoning the tide
of my waking dreams, in.

#poem #cantsleep

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 5d

A video poem inspired partly by dawn walks on the beaches of Catalonia last month, a Jim Morrison quote, and using an unusual narrator to answer my recurring question of "why am I up so early?" - complete with lapping Mediterranean waves and gorgeous views of Sitges.

#poetry #blueskypoets #sitges

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 6d

Seven, always!

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Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social · 7d

‘Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.’
– Pat Conroy
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 6d

The wonderful Sunday Mornings At The River have an open call for a new poetry anthology called 'For those who despair' -

www.sundaymorningsattheriver.com/submit

#poetry #opencall #anthology #sundaymorningsattheriver

Submission Opportunities — Sunday Mornings at the River

www.sundaymorningsattheriver.com

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 6d

The wonderful Sunday Mornings At The River have an open call for a new poetry anthology called 'For those who despair' -

www.sundaymorningsattheriver.com/submit

#poetry #opencall #anthology #sundaymorningsattheriver

Submission Opportunities — Sunday Mornings at the River

www.sundaymorningsattheriver.com

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 7d

Every day is National Poetry Day in this household, as my long-suffering wife and son would readily testify.

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Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · 7d

Whipping this little poem back out for #NationalPoetryDay and this year's theme #Play

Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · May 16

Sharing an old one this week for #PoemsAbout #NeverForget

Title: Play
Poem: Fold me up,
Put me away,
In safe keeping,
For another day,
Maybe then,
You'll want to play.
By Francesca L Rolle

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you so much, I really appreciate your comments - that is probably one of the most raw things I have shared in a poem that I have actually shared

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 7d

The second of two poems for #@nationalpoetryday on the subject of #play - this one is called 'Athlete' @poetrydayuk.bsky.social

Athlete
The first event I entered I won – it was a swim,
first in around 200 million, no medal for me – I had no neck;
nine months later I stood on the podium, soaking wet,
bawled my eyes out to celebrate.
Next event: Duathlon.
Stage one – a toddle across the concourse of the court
to my father and his solicitor; no idea who they were,
but at the end of my sprint my smile was returned.
Stage two was not up to me, down to a judge –
deemed me to be my father's son, in his eyes
(having failed the blood test) that was a loss,
no split decision here, it was unanimous. My prize?
£9 a fortnight for the next sixteen years, and my name,
some daddy issues, shame. It didn't feel like I'd won.
Next event: Iron man.
Fuelled by cold fusion where my heart was meant to be,
cardiovascular efficiency left no room for empathy.
caused damage on the field of play to cover myself in glory
with my ideas of what a man should be.
Maybe I should rehab my old injuries – quit competing,
take my losses graciously, throw out my expensive shoes,
hold a conference on the news, retire and live a humble life;
always take the scenic route, stop to enjoy the view,
at a pace I can enjoy, and run barefoot.

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Joseph Nutman @joseph-nutman.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you, Madeleine - tips like this help me find my way around! I know what I am going to be doing on my day off work now! 🙏

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 7d

UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development

Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years * ‘Desecration of landscape’: the fight over development in areas of outstanding natural beauty * Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day Nature and farmland equivalent in size to that of the New Forest – 604 sq km – was lost to concrete and bricks and mortar in the UK between 2018 and 2023, according to an investigation by the Guardian and European partners. In the same period the loss of some of the most protected and special natural areas in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, known as national landscapes, reached 12 sq km; equivalent to 1,680 football pitches worth of natural land. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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