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Sue Spiers

@spiropoetry.bsky.social

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I work with Winchester Poetry Festival, Open University Poetry Society and Winchester Muse - a spoken word event in Winchester. I write poetry and sometimes it gets published. https://www.spiropoetry.com/ Hedgehog Press Pushcart nominated Dandarabilla.

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 15h

www.ditheringchaps.com/news Delighted to be on this longlist with Paisley Horizon, two of the poems in the collection have just been accepted by Pennine Press, and four are due in the next issue of Stand magazine.

News — Dithering Chaps

News and plans for future publications

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for sharing today's poem - A Celebration by Roy Marshall

Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 1d

A Celebration – Roy Marshall

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A Celebration – Roy Marshall

A Celebration . . Roy Marshall lives in Leicestershire where he works in adult education. His books are The Sun bathers (2013), The Great Animator (2017) and After Montale (2019). A new collection …

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 3d

Do you have any quotes from the French revolution about what happened to rich people?

Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 3d

The woman next to me was tipping the last contents of a bag of potato/corn snacks into her mouth. We'd only just strapped in. Luckily there were spare seats on the plane and she moved as soon as the seatbelt light went off...so she could spread out.

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Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social · 10d

A lovely evening, thank you @louisepoetical.bsky.social

Louise Longson @louisepoetical.bsky.social · 10d

My mahoosive thanks to these lovely poets with whom it was a pleasure beyond pleasures to spend 90 minutes last night #LastSaturdayPoets. Loved it. Let's do it again! Lxx

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Nigel Kent @kent-nj.bsky.social · 18d

My pleasure today to welcome Frank McMahon to my website to reflect on a poem from his latest outstanding collection.

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 19d

www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/wpf25friday Come along for this free event, stay for the headliners (I'll be reading with the Winchester Muse team)
The ARC - Performance Hall

£12 in person / £6 online

Friday Headline
Diane Seuss, Mona Arshi, Luke Kennard

Friday 10th October

8.30 - 10pm

Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 21d

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The Poetry Archive @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 The Keats-Shelley Prizes 2025-26 are now open! Celebrate 200 years of Mary Shelley’s 'The Last Man'. Free to enter.

Prizes include £1,000, with winners announced in April 2026. Details & submissions 👉 www.keats-shelley.org

(Photo credit: Hayley Madden)

Keats-Shelley Memorial Association

Founded in 1903, we maintain and support the Keats-Shelley House at 26 Piazza di Spagna, Rome, where the English poet John Keats died in 1821. As part of our ongoing committment to poetry lovers, we…

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Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social · 22d

Cover art reveal from The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press for their ‘Lines of Communication’ anthology edited by me, and Bronwen Evans.

Artwork by the lovely Bronwen. We are currently typesetting, so won’t be long!

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 25d

Written at Holland House with Second Light, tutors Jean Atkin and Sarah Westcott.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 25d

In Sue Spiers' 'Compline', the speaker explores the beauty, spiritual nature and rituals of nature itself. @spiropoetry.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sue-spiers-5/

#InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission

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Compline

A woodpigeon calls
his five-note matins.

Sue Spiers©

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 26d

Highlights of the Yorkshire Branch of Butterfly Conservation’s Members’ Day – Matthew Paul @matthewepaul.bsky.social

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Highlights of the Yorkshire Branch of Butterfly Conservation’s Members’ Day – Matthew Paul

Highlights of the Yorkshire Branch of Butterfly Conservation’s Members’ Day . . Matthew Paul hails from South London and lives in South Yorkshire. His second collection, The Last Corinthians, is pu…

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · Sep 5

'Three dreams of distress' up on atriumpoetry.com today. What I can remember of a night filled with fitful images. How disconnected!

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · Sep 3

I have some exciting news, an acceptance from a dream magazine...will tell you later when the edition is available.

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · Aug 30

Shave before you have the test.

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Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social · Aug 23

So delighted to be part of the next issue with so many talented poets, out on September the first.

Subscribe (FREE!) by sending an email to [email protected] saying simply 'Subscribe please'

THEY DO NOT SHARE OR SELL EMAILS TO ANYONE, EVER

#TheCandyman’sTrumpet #poetry

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · Aug 21

thehighwindowpress.com/category/poe... two poems in the Autumn issue, great edition of the magazine.

Poetry – The High Window

Posts about Poetry written by The High Window Review

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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · Aug 20

Send us your poems!

Submissions now open for Dust’s next issue ‘Dear World’ 💚

www.dustpoetry.co.uk/submissions

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · Aug 20

Jeez Steve Martin still looks fortyish.

Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · Aug 20

Here's another for you

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · Aug 19

I have a nike t-shirt with "just dunk it" which I like to wear when drinking tea with a delicious packet of biscuits.

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Nigel Kent @kent-nj.bsky.social · Aug 16

On my website today rising star @petitecreature1.bsky.social aka Lucy Heuschen drops in to reflect on her collection‘Daughters of Fire’. Don’t miss it.

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · Aug 5

Claudia Court for my Sealey challenge today...hilarious and those educated by nuns will really relate.

Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · Aug 5

British, Canadian and Commonwealth soldiers have given their lives for me, also women in the suffragette movement. Not sure Jesus ever gave his life for any woman given all his disciples were male, he never married and christianity has a lot of control-restrictions about enslaving women.

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