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Hilary Watson poet
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Poet, dog lover, feminist. Editor at Bending The Arc (https://bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/). www.hilarywatson.co.uk.
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Did you know? Swifts eat, sleep, drink, mate, & even bathe on the wing...rarely landing except to nest.

They can switch off one half of their brain to rest, drink by gliding low over water to take sips, & fly through rain to bathe! 🌧️

#SwiftAwarenessWeek

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July 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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i am running into a new year By Lucille Clifton i am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that i catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what i said to myself about myself when i was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six even thirty-six but i am running into a new year and i beg what i love and i leave to forgive me
December 31, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Tis the season to manifest a brighter, joyful future. If you fancy submitting to #BendingTheArcMagazine in January, find all the details and read Edition 1 and 2 here: bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com/p/can-you-wr.... Submissions open: Monday 12th January to Sunday 1st February 2026. Can't wait!
Christmas ornament of books image with text: can you write our future? Festive greetings and submissions window open soon. 'Hello! thank you for reading Bending The Arc. We're so glad to have you with us on this journey into the future. BendingTheArcMagazine.Substack.com.
December 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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💚 The final offering of #BendingTheArcMagazine Edition 2 is out today. Catch up on the last week of posts 🌏 open.substack.com/pub/bendingt... #Thrutopia #ThrivingFutures
Orange substack post says 'final saturday round-up. Farwell for now' Bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com.
November 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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This Edition's #EverydayActions is all about Waste into Wellbeing, a fantastic initiative in the South Lakes run by local volunteers - open.substack.com/pub/bendingt... #Thrutopia #BendingTheArcMagazine
Everyday actions' waste into wellbeing. Regular feature by our editors highlighting one easy, practical action. Bending the arc editor and poet Ilse Pedler's recommendation for action is: find your local food larder or food redistribution organisation. White text on orange background.
November 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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We hope you're enjoying #BendingTheArcMagazine Edition 2. Today's post is about what we're looking for in #submissions when they open for Edition 3 in January. #Thrutopia #ThrutopianWriting
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Ink drawing in black and white of trees, the sun, grasslands. Writing says call out for submissions for Bending the Arc 3: Submissions open in January 2026.
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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In today's #BendingTheArcMagazine, find extract from Donna M Cameron's Australian novel 'The Rewilding'.
#Thrutopia open.substack.com/pub/bendingt...
Orange backround that reads - Grasshoppers are older than dinosaurs - novel extract from The Rewilding by Donna M Cameron.
November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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#BendingTheArcMagazine - here's a fantastic review from Sophie Buchaillard on Vanessa Machado de Oliveira's two books 'Hospicing Modernity' and 'Outgrowing Modernity'. #Thrutopia open.substack.com/pub/bendingt...
Front cover of Outgrowing Modernity by Vanessa Mochado de Oliveira _ navigating complexity, complicity, and collapse with accountability and compassion. Five browning leaves loose on the cover. Orange with white writing: Death doulas for modernity - review: writer and academic buchaillard inspects Vanessa machado de Oliveira's book 'Hospicing Modernity' and 'Outgrowing Modernity' to see how Modernity is faring.
November 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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#BendingTheArcMagazine - check out our hybrid piece We Are Resilience: A #Thrutopian Approach to Flooding: JBA Consulting, who specialise in flood risk and water management, and poet, Sophie Kirtley - with audio of the poem open.substack.com/pub/bendingt...
Image of birds (they look cormorant like) over the sea and the words: we are resilience - a thrutopian approach to flooding - hybrid piece: jba consulting who specialise in flood risk and water management, and poet, sophie kirtley, explain their unusual collaboration and the inspiration for her poem, 'We are resilience'.
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Saturday roundup klaxon📣 : catch up on Week 2's posts for Edition 2 of #BendingTheArcMagazine 💚 - open.substack.com/pub/bendingt... #Thrutopia
Saturday round up for week 2 - swirling green with small words like carve glacial bodies of water / carve scary river channel. swirling with small words like carve glacial bodies of water / carve scary river channel
November 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Manifest the future! Here, the mighty Katherine Stansfield shares her manifesto poem and sets an exercise so you can manifest your own. open.substack.com/pub/bendingt... #HowToFuture #Thrutopoem #BendingTheArc
Very colourful graffiti bus with how to manifesto the future - writing a manfesto poem by Katherine Stansfield.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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#BendingTheArc - ready to settle in for a thrutopian short story? Here's the fantastic Fireflies by Megan Mills #ThrutoFiction #Thrutopia
man bending down to look at lights glowing in bracken. Text: fireflies by Megan Mills - a short story
November 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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The fabulous poet Elizabeth Lewis Williams shares her thrutopian cluster poem with us at #BendingTheArc today #thrutopoem open.substack.com/pub/bendingt...
November 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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It's important to find hope in the world - hear from Mike Berners-Lee in conversation with co-editor Ilse Pedler about his new book 'A Climate of Truth' #BendingTheArc #Thrutopia open.substack.com/pub/bendingt...
Finding Hope in a Climate of Truth - feature Mike Berners-Lee in convo with Ilse Pedler about his new book a climate of truth. The image is the book cover. It says Why we need It and How to Get It (relating to the book title)
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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#BendingTheArc What are the possibilities for thrutopian elements in novels? Check out our piece on Alison Layland's novel After the Clearances open.substack.com/pub/bendingt... #AfterTheClearances #Thrutopia #ThrutoFiction
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Ah Saturday. Perfect for catching up on Bending The Arc from the week so far: open.substack.com/pub/bendingt... #BendingTheArc #Thrutopia
Saturday Roundup - a handy guide to edition 2 so far - linked with Bending the Arc on Substack
November 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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Want to know why thropian punks don't just burn it down? Check out our feature by Rachel Pryor at Bending The Arc Magazine open.substack.com/pub/bendingt... #ThrutopianPunks #Punks #Thrutopa #BendingTheArc
Owl illustrations with More than a Mohawk: Why thrutopian punks don't just burn it down - linked to bending the arc on substack. Feature by Rachel Pryor
October 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Bending The Arc: Yes to this fantastic poem today from Nia Solomon open.substack.com/pub/bendingt... #Thrutopia #Thrutopoem
Forest photo that says Grove of Titans - Poem by Nia Solomon Bending The Arc Magazine Substack
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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🌍 Edition 2 of #BendingTheArc is here! 🥳 From Oct 29-Nov 15 we'll be sending posts about the thriveable, livable future from everyday examples in 2025, that we can manifest into being! Join us at bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com

#SustainabilityDay #Thrutopia #ThrutopianMagazine #Thrutopoetry
Colourful post with swirls, stars, circles. Bending The Arc logo is in teal in the middle & the text reads 'we've been to the future and you'll love it! edition two oct 29 - nov 15 Bending The Arc publishing stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth. This is a subscribe graphic from Substack with the Bending The Arc logo.
October 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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🥳The wait is almost over! Excited to share Edition 2 of positive futures in #BendingTheArcMagazine from tomorrow, launching on #SustainabilityDay Wed 29 Oct. Subscribe & get every post. Plus, you can check out Edition 1 bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com #Thrutopia #ThrutopianMagazine #Thrutopoetry
Bending The Arc | Bending The Arc Magazine | Substack
publishing stories, poems and features that bend the arc of the possible towards a thriving future on Earth. Click to read Bending The Arc, a Substack publication.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Hilary Watson | wave 23 | iamb ~ poetry seen and heard
Hear poet Hilary Watson read poems exclusively for iamb. If you like The Poetry Archive, this poetry site is for you.
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September 14, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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I'm absolutely thrilled to have 3 peoms featured in iamb. Check out Accountability Badger, Excuse, and Pygmy Hippo at iambpoet.com/wave/23
September 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Note to self: Be more Red Kite. 🔥💅

📷 Paul Browning
A Red Kite stands with talons crossed like it’s on a catwalk, chest out and feathers glowing in the light. Its piercing stare and effortless poise make it look like the embodiment of self-assurance, the kind of confidence mere humans can only aspire to.
August 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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You have until 31 July to submit to thrutopian magazine Bending The Arc for Edition 2! bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com! 😍
Orange with white writing. one more week to submit - submissions are open - 7 - 31 July. Our inbox is shimmering with your personal visions of thriving, entangled, kin-rich cities and rewilded lands, with stories of resilient foodwebs and compassionate politics. Please add your voice to this rising choir by sending us your thrutopias. BendingTheArcMagazine.substack.com The words 'one more week to submit - submissions are open - 7 - 31 July, 2026 bendingthearcmagazine.substack.com' bursting out of a sunshiny image in hopeful teal and orange rays
July 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Many thanks to @modronmagazine.bsky.social for publishing my conversation with @zoebrigley.bsky.social about my poem Chafer modronmagazine.com/2025/06/28/t...
The More Than Human Perspective in Environmental Poetry: A Poem and Interview with Hilary Watson
This interview features poet Hilary Watson discussing her creative process influenced by her interactions with insects. She addresses human perceptions of disgust and superiority over these creatur…
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June 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM