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Julian Day

@julianday.bsky.social

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Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 9d

Big bow back to the editor in chief Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com and sub-editor @rhonagreene.bsky.social for accepting my poem for publication within the forthcoming issue V of The Storms Journal. It somehow feels even more special, if that's possible, the second time round. Top of the world!

Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 10d

⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V

@julianday.bsky.social is a poet, based in Surrey, UK with work in The Storms, Blackbough Poetry, The FolkHeart Press, and Patricia's Pen and A Thousand Shades Of Green. He’s a Best Of Net nominee.

The Storms is supported by #fingalarts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social

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Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social · 2h

🎺Join us for the launch of Trumpet Issue 14🎺

Come along to hear from this issue's editor Nandi Jola and many wonderful contributors.

📆 Thursday, 30th October at 6:00pm
📍 No Alibis Bookstore, 83 Botanic Avenue, Belfast
🎫 Free Admission

Book your spot via www.eventbrite.ie/e/trumpet-is...

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Matthew Francis @mfrancispoet.bsky.social · 2h

An old poem of mine that has been having a bit of a moment on Facebook.

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Agata Maslowska @agatamaslowska.bsky.social · 2h

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 2h

This is a medlar. The Elizabethans called these ‘open arse’ .
You’re welcome.

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 2h

Congratulations & happy publication day, Rosamound! 👏👏👏 🐎🥳🎉

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Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · 3h

Happy publication day to FILLY by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social 🐎

‘Filly is a testament to the savagery and exaltation of love’ Mary Morrissy

‘Raw and poetic, tender yet unflinching’ Louise Hegarty

‘I devoured Filly in a day’ Liz Berry

‘A perfectly formed sucker punch of a book’ Jan Carson

Banshee Press @bansheepress.bsky.social · Aug 8

Now available to pre-order: FILLY, the stunning novel in verse by award-winning poet Rosamund Taylor. Out 9 October 2025 ✨

@rosamundtaylor.bsky.social

bansheepress.org/shop/p/filly...

Filly by Rosamund Taylor — Banshee Press

248 pages Paperback 9 October 2025 ISBN: 978-1-7393979-8-2

bansheepress.org

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David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social · 2h

An early review of The Poems of Seamus Heaney. I wonder if other reviews will say which phases/bits of Heaney they feel are his best, and where the real core of the achievement lies? We shall see.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 2h

Congratulations, Christina!

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Christina Tudor @christinaltudor.bsky.social · 13h

I wrote a ghost story in a @smokelong.bsky.social workshop
and it's published in the fall issue of The Citron Review just in time for spooky season!

Read my flash piece about a cranky teenager ghost & grief here: citronreview.com/2025/10/05/g...

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Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social · 21h

Events for The Poems of Seamus Heaney begin on publication day tomorrow. See below for dates and locations 🎟️

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The Irish Pages Press @irishpages.bsky.social · 22h

“He turned our disgrace into grace, our petty hatreds into epic generosity, our dull clichés into questioning eloquence, the leaden metal of brutal inevitability into the gold of pure possibility.”

~ Fintan O'Toole on Seamus Heaney
irishpages.org/product/the-...

@irishlittimes.bsky.social

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Rowan Bell @rowanpoetry.bsky.social · 13d

Fascinating review of performance poetry for the Forward Prize that includes British Sign Language performed poetry by Zoë McWhinney, a BSL and Visual Vernacular poet based in South East London @wishbonewords.bsky.social

The Friday Poem @thefridaypoem.bsky.social · 13d

Bruno Cooke looks at the Forward Prize for Best Poem - Performed 2025
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Bruno Cooke looks at the Forward Prize for Best Poem - Performed 2025

The Friday Poem on 26th September 2025

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Rowan Bell @rowanpoetry.bsky.social · 22h

Visiting Kew Gardens I came across a headless man in a black cloak riding a black charger. He rode off across Kew Green and I lost sight of him.

Man in a black cloak on a black horse on a grey road with a green lawn and hedge behind.

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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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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 22h

loneliness
seeping into the rock
cicada's voice

#haiku poems of Matsuo Basho, 1689
translator: Jane Reichhold
#micropoetry #poetry

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 2d

Stirred up seas in the wake of Storm Amy.
Sliabh Liag cliffs, County Donegal, Ireland.

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 2d

A shipwrecked By-the-Wind Sailor (Velella velella). Cast up by high tide and winds, left to dry out on the burren limestone.
County Clare, Ireland.

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Chrissy Williams @chrissywilliams.bsky.social · 22h

I love this cover so much. This collected edition is out next month!

Lauren Knight @laurenknight.bsky.social · 1d

Time-lapse of the GOLDEN RAGE: MOTHER KNOWS BEST trade cover. Trade is available in stores from November 5th! @chrissywilliams.bsky.social @sofiedodgson.bsky.social @beccasee.bsky.social @joamettegil.bsky.social @imagecomics.com

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 22h

Best wishes for your Belfast reading of NEW ARCANA @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Jess! ✨️🔮🎙

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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 22h

I'll be heading to Belfast for the last of my New Arcana launches, introduced by the wonderful Stephen Sexton, at No Alibis Books, on the 21st October. Free but ticketed- get yours here!

noalibis.com/event/poetry...

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North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social · 22h

Catch up on new writing from the #NorthSeaPoets 🌊

#amreading Tony Harrison's Study – Don Paterson on the best room

Subscribe at northseapoets.substack.com

#PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity

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Rhona Greene @rhonagreene.bsky.social · 22h

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Fresh book post!
Why
I
Wear
My
Past
To
Work
By Chris Campbell @citizen-chris.bsky.social
published by
Parlyaree Press.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Congratulations Chris ! Excited to read it now

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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 22h

Ah, you're v welcome, my dear friend 🧡🤗🧡

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 23h

The good news is someone has bought me this. The bad news is I won’t see it until 25th December

The front cover of the poems of Seamus Heaney, compendious Faber edition, edited by Bernard O'Donoghue and Dr Rosie Lavan with Matthew Hollis

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Marjorie Lotfi @marjorielotfi.bsky.social · 23h

Wednesday mornings, 30-40 writers gather online (cameras off, cameras on, always with coffee) for Marjorie’s Table. We look briefly at craft then write - poetry or prose or essay or memoir - to 3 prompts. Join us for £8 per month via Marjorie’s Table on Substack: substack.com/@marjorielot...

Marjorie Lotfi | Substack

Facilitator of Marjorie's Table Weekly Workshops, Writer (Forward Prize Best First Collection 2024, PBS Special Commendation - The Wrong Person to Ask, Bloodaxe Books), Mentoring & Retreats Galloway H...

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