Peter Devonald
@pdevonald.bsky.social
Multi award-winning poet /screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Winner HoHx2, Waltham Forest & FofHCS | Second Shelley Memorial & N2tS 2024 | Nominations BoNx2, Forward Prize & Children's Bafta
thank you so much - and congratulations to you too, meant to tag you, but having one of those days!
January 21, 2026 at 9:59 AM
thank you so much - and congratulations to you too, meant to tag you, but having one of those days!
wow that is awesome (Natural yohurt, homemade granola, nuts, kiwi fruit, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, dried orange slice and a honey drizzle.)
January 19, 2026 at 3:11 PM
wow that is awesome (Natural yohurt, homemade granola, nuts, kiwi fruit, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, dried orange slice and a honey drizzle.)
So many excellent poets, so delighted to be a part of this
January 19, 2026 at 11:52 AM
So many excellent poets, so delighted to be a part of this
How wonderful, excellent poets
January 19, 2026 at 10:52 AM
How wonderful, excellent poets
If true - Corbyn must have blown their minds!
January 16, 2026 at 10:19 AM
If true - Corbyn must have blown their minds!
Awesome news, congratulations, so deserved
January 15, 2026 at 11:24 AM
Awesome news, congratulations, so deserved
Awesome you, huge congrats to you - that is so exciting and going to be so ace xx
January 13, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Awesome you, huge congrats to you - that is so exciting and going to be so ace xx
That was the title of the literary magazine I set up at Lancaster University - The Cracked Mirror
January 13, 2026 at 11:08 AM
That was the title of the literary magazine I set up at Lancaster University - The Cracked Mirror
Fantastic work - so look foward to future issues
January 12, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Fantastic work - so look foward to future issues
Always such an honour to be a custodian of this wonderful page
January 11, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Always such an honour to be a custodian of this wonderful page
Ours was only started 6 years ago - Heaton Post at first, now spread across Manchester and beyond with 7 papers all printing this Poetry Corner and other poems
January 10, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Ours was only started 6 years ago - Heaton Post at first, now spread across Manchester and beyond with 7 papers all printing this Poetry Corner and other poems
Thank you for your talent and marvellous words, so appreciated
January 10, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Thank you for your talent and marvellous words, so appreciated
So shocking and terrible - what a tragedy for no reason xx
January 10, 2026 at 8:54 AM
So shocking and terrible - what a tragedy for no reason xx
Very tricky. This popped up - change again at the end rather than stops - but highly effective
January 9, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Very tricky. This popped up - change again at the end rather than stops - but highly effective
Plath breaks the structure in the final stanza allpoetry.com/poem/8498387...
Years by Sylvia Plath at Allpoetry
Comments & analysis: They enter as animals from the outer / Space of holly where spikes / Are not thoughts I tu
allpoetry.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:44 PM
Plath breaks the structure in the final stanza allpoetry.com/poem/8498387...
there must be others, but can't think of any I'm afraid. Something to do at some point for sure!
January 9, 2026 at 4:41 PM
there must be others, but can't think of any I'm afraid. Something to do at some point for sure!
In a way this --- certainly shatters the sentence structure
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57041/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57041/...
Mid-Term Break
I sat all morning in the college sick bay Counting bells knelling classes to a close. The baby cooed and laughed and rocked the pram When I came in, and I was embarrassed By old men standing up to sha...
www.poetryfoundation.org
January 9, 2026 at 4:13 PM
In a way this --- certainly shatters the sentence structure
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57041/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57041/...
thank you so much - feels like a huge step forward
January 8, 2026 at 9:43 AM
thank you so much - feels like a huge step forward