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Karen Jane Cannon @karenjanecannon.bsky.social · 15h

So delighted to be included here! Good luck to everyone on the longlist!! Many thanks to the lovely editors of Dithering Chaps!

Dithering Chaps - submissions open @ditheringchaps.bsky.social · 17h

We’re pleased to announce our longlist of poets under consideration for publication in May 2026!
The full list of longlisted poets is on our website: www.ditheringchaps.com/news
Our shortlist will be announced on 15th October.
Thank you to everyone who submitted - your work matters!

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Jean Atkin @jmatkin.bsky.social · 17d

Recommended!

Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · 17d

FREE! The Kindle edition of Village', my non-fiction book is FREE today Sun 21 Sept. Next offer may be in winter! You can spend autumn with my 'witches' & shoemaker's daughters: real & cheerful village survivors. Kindle Edition readable on phone/computer! LINK IN COMMENTS!

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 20d

Tomorrow at 7pm, join Moya Cannon as she reads from some of her Carcanet poems, as part of Culture Night at the Workhouse in Dunfanaghy.

For more information, see here:
dunfanaghyworkhouse.com/

OUR STORY - The Workhouse

Welcome to the Workhouse Fáilte go dtí an Teach na mBocht The Workhouse is a community heritage centre situated just South West of the village of Dunfanaghy, 250m from Holy Cross Church. The Workhouse has been a centre for heritage and cultural events for the community and a central tourist information hub for visitors since

dunfanaghyworkhouse.com

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 25d

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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Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social · Aug 14

I'll be reading at #northcornwallbookfestival on Sat 27 Sept with @pascalepetit.bsky.social & running a workshop on writing from the body on Sun 28 at 10 am. Booking open now via #endelientaarts
endelienta.org.uk/whats-on/ncb...

#poetry
#batteryrocks
#danceasif
#beast
#poetryincornwall
#festival

NCBF 2025: Poetry with Pascale Petit & Katrina Naomi - Endelienta Arts

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · Sep 3

Teachers & poet-educators, getting ready for National Poetry Day and looking for ideas? Join our poet-teacher network, Cloud Chamber, for a free online CPD session!

✨ Zoom
✨ 16 Sept, 4-5pm
✨ FREE
✨ Ideas for activities & resources on the NPD theme 'play'

bit.ly/CloudChamberPoetry

Text reading: Tuesday 16 September, 4-5pm, Zoom. Join The Poetry Society’s poet-teacher network for a free online CPD session on this year’s National Poetry Day theme, ‘Play’. We’ll share activities and resources you can use to explore the theme in the classroom. Free to attend, open to all teachers and poet-educators.
Email aboutus@poetrysociety.org.uk for the link.
A light blue background with a pink star saying 'National Poetry Day theme: Play!'. Logos for Cloud Chamber and The Poetry Society.

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · Sep 4

⭐ The Poetry Society Annual Lecture/ Liverpool University Allott Lecture 2025 ⭐

Burlesque Picaresque in the Rural Midwest: My Education in Poetry with Diane Seuss

More info below...

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Acropolis Journal @acropolisjournal.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are open for proposals with Acropolis Journal Projects through September. We're also looking forward to getting back to submissions for our next issue in early 2026, stay up to date with our site:

acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjou...

Poetry | Acropolis Journal

acropolis journal, poetry, artwork, magazine, zine,

acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com

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Emma Lee @emmalee1.bsky.social · Sep 4

My review of Huw Daniels’ “Debris” (Carcanet) emmalee1.wordpress.com/2025/09/03/d...

“Debris” Daniel Huws (Carcanet) – book review

Daniel Huws Debris book cover “Debris” collects poems from Daniel Huws’ first two books, Noth (Secker, 1972) and The Quarry (Faber, 1999), alongside a substantial selection of new poems…

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Flight: A Literary Sampler @flightlit.bsky.social · Jul 19

Welcome to Flight: a Literary Sampler!

We’re a literary journal, publishing four interconnected pieces in each edition.

You can learn more about us at our website: flight-literary.ghost.io

Flight: A Literary Sampler

flight-literary.ghost.io

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James Harding-Morris @bsbicountries.bsky.social · Aug 24

In two days I'm back in Cambridge and giving a talk on the species unique to Britain.

🗓️ 26 August at 6pm

I’ll share stories from the book and extra tales that didn’t make it into print, including a spotlight on Cambridge’s very own endemic buttercup! 🌼

📍 Tickets: tinyurl.com/36aamfsw

Endemic: Discover the hidden wildlife found nowhere else on Earth

In his book, Endemic, naturalist James Harding-Morris explores Britain’s rarest and most remarkable native species.

tinyurl.com

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Karen Jane Cannon @karenjanecannon.bsky.social · Aug 19

Just finished reading this. Breathtaking, devastating and deeply moving. A confluence of environment justice, philosophy and personal/physical journey, with indigenous wisdom at its heart.

Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · May 1

Is A River Alive? is published today, 1 May.
It’s about the lives, deaths & rights of rivers—& how our fate flows with that of water & always has.
To the people, places & rivers whose ideas run through its pages, thank you so much.
I think it’s the book I’ve been learning to write all these years.

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Dr Penny Hay @penahay.bsky.social · Aug 10

'a flavour or feeling builds up, almost a sculptural shape that could be a living creature, or a dance or a painting'.
Alice Oswald 🦋

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Forest of Imagination® @forestofimaginatn.bsky.social · Jul 29

Forest of Imagination has not been granted Arts Council funding.

So we are calling out to the community to people interested in supporting: pls donate! It’s beautiful, life changing work, shining a light on nature, community & collective imagination. Pls share! 💚🌈

localgiving.org/fundraising/...

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · Aug 12

Otters for 1 ¾ Miles – Alice Stainer @alicestainer.bsky.social

atriumpoetry.com/2025/08/12/o...

Otters for 1 ¾ Miles – Alice Stainer

Otters for 1 ¾ Miles . . Alice Stainer teaches English Literature and Creative Writing to visiting undergraduates in Oxford. Recent work appears in Dust, Bad Lilies and Under th…

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Justsmudge @justsmudge.bsky.social · Aug 12

🌿☕Morning🌞

Fluffy honey bee stalking this morning on the nasturtium

In ancient Egyptian mythology it was said in the Salt Magical Papyrus that honey bees were believed to be born from the tears of the Sun god, Ra

Seems apt today that we expect 31°C in Cheltenham today & lots of☀️🌞
#bloomscrolling

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · Aug 12

Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers like lots of woodland, but not woodland management and forestry. Interesting implications for the remaining populations in Britain: expanding unmanaged (or lightly managed) natural native woodland seems helpful. #ukbirding #ornithology

BOU @bou.org.uk · Aug 11

Effect of habitat quality and quantity on the occurrence and persistence of the lesser spotted woodpecker (Dryobates minor) across two time periods | doi.org/10.1016/j.bi... | Biological Conservation | #ornithology #conservation 🪶🌎

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Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social · Aug 11

Second wave of bluetits! I'm glad I left the rose hips in place, as they seem to be harbouring insects for the birds...

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · Aug 9

💭 To help inspire your entries for this year's National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society will be releasing a series of prompts throughout the competition.

Today's prompt comes from David Keplinger, who was longlisted in the 2024 National Poetry Competition. Thank you, David!

Poetry prompt by David Keplinger which reads: Tell a story about a childhood memory. In the middle of the poem, ask a question about its significance, but don't tell your readers what it is. Begin by describing the exact mental photograph that comes to mind when you remember this story. Let the very order in which you remember the events be the intelligence of the poem, embellishing nothing, explaining nothing.

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · Aug 3

Good morning

The Book of Bogs - edited by Clare Shaw and Anna Chilvers

Publishing September.

Nature writing at its finest.

With some brilliant words from the legendary Patti Smith too!!

@thebookseller.com
@theguardian.com
@horatioclare.bsky.social

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Angelisa Fontaine-Wood (she/her/phd) #amquerying @angelisawood.bsky.social · Jul 24

"and there was the night, too: but the night was fondest of wandering & wandering among all the bright & gentle kinds of flowers which you & i call ‘stars’ because we don’t know what they really may be "

fairy tales by e. e. cummings

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Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social · Jul 24

Another day at my desk, another day of reminding myself not to bite the beautiful and delicious-looking seaglass which is on my desk.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Jun 19

Pink sand and sandpipers pink in the setting
sun and pink granite and the pink swirl
of green waves…

—“Camas Tuath”, by poet, playwright & novelist Tom Buchan (1931–1995) – born #OTD, 19 June
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/camas-t...

Camas Tuath
Tom Buchan

Pink sand and sandpipers pink in the setting
sun and pink granite and the pink swirl
of green waves: no mediterranean relics
here, no ruined amphitheatres, no amphorae,

no half-submerged statuary – only the
children’s wet sand-pies and a standing
stone, a druidic lingam standing for nothing
anyone knows about nowadays, a stony

finger, green with years, specific of an idea
which was no doubt straight, strong and complex
once, but is now obliterated by the hysterical
cries of children and the birds’ pink squealing.

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Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social · Jun 16

Particularly good poetry in the latest @mslexia.bsky.social selected by @sarahwestcott.bsky.social My faves include 'Genesis' by Rachael Davey &
Greta Stoddart's story 'Light green rain' #newwriting

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Karen Jane Cannon @karenjanecannon.bsky.social · Jun 15

Wonderful to have two poems in this bumper 30th anniversary edition of the gorgeous and timeless Stravaig. Worth a wander through its pages www.geopoetics.org.uk/wp-content/u...

www.geopoetics.org.uk

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