Amaleena Damlé
@amaleenadamle.bsky.social
Associate Prof in French, Durham University. Poet, in Acropolis, Atrium, After, Dust, Dreich, IceFloePress, Indigo Dreams, Ink, Sweat & Tears, others. Editor at Paragraph, EUP.
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Amaleena Damlé
@amaleenadamle.bsky.social
· Feb 20
⭐ Announcing the Longlisted & Shortlisted Proposals from our August 2024 Call for Submissions ⭐
@bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social
@catherineredford.bsky.social
@milenawilliamson.bsky.social
@monicadebhailis.bsky.social
🔗 READ MORE: https://buff.ly/3QeZYDU
@bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social
@catherineredford.bsky.social
@milenawilliamson.bsky.social
@monicadebhailis.bsky.social
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So pleased to have been longlisted for my pamphlet by @theemmapress.bsky.social! Congratulations to all those who made the shortlist - these all sound wonderful.
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Celebrating Student Success: Maisy Hicks Recognised in National Essay Competition - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
Celebrating Student Success: Maisy Hicks - Durham University
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September 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Celebrating Student Success: Maisy Hicks Recognised in National Essay Competition - www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
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Posting this exemplary poem by an exemplary poet, Kona Macphee, is something I love to do every few years or so. The smallness of it—but the immensity. Utterly beautiful poem-making.
July 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Posting this exemplary poem by an exemplary poet, Kona Macphee, is something I love to do every few years or so. The smallness of it—but the immensity. Utterly beautiful poem-making.
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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University
The School is inviting expressions of interest from potential candidates.
See further here:
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#postdocs #academicjobs
The School is inviting expressions of interest from potential candidates.
See further here:
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#postdocs #academicjobs
Funding Opportunities - Durham University
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June 24, 2025 at 7:57 AM
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University
The School is inviting expressions of interest from potential candidates.
See further here:
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
#postdocs #academicjobs
The School is inviting expressions of interest from potential candidates.
See further here:
www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...
#postdocs #academicjobs
I was really pleased to have been shortlisted for a Northern Writers Debut Award for Poetry, for the second year in a row. Congratulations to all the winners!
And finally, the Northern Debut Awards for Poetry offer £2000, mentoring and developmental support to three poets who have not yet published a full length collection. They were judged by @kathleenjamie.bsky.social and @alycia.bsky.social.
June 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I was really pleased to have been shortlisted for a Northern Writers Debut Award for Poetry, for the second year in a row. Congratulations to all the winners!
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✨️So honoured to be featured as this month's @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #SilverBranch poet 💎
Gratitude to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for inviting me & curating this special selection of my work.
Do take a read: includes 13 new & exclusive poems + insights on my writing ✨️
#PoetryCommunity
Gratitude to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for inviting me & curating this special selection of my work.
Do take a read: includes 13 new & exclusive poems + insights on my writing ✨️
#PoetryCommunity
The #SilverBranch series writer of the month for June. 💎 ❤️🔥
London born @vikkicwrites.bsky.social with a suite of romantic, oblique, bittersweet poems.
We’ll be sharing this creative’s distinctive work throughout the month.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1
London born @vikkicwrites.bsky.social with a suite of romantic, oblique, bittersweet poems.
We’ll be sharing this creative’s distinctive work throughout the month.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1
June 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
✨️So honoured to be featured as this month's @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #SilverBranch poet 💎
Gratitude to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for inviting me & curating this special selection of my work.
Do take a read: includes 13 new & exclusive poems + insights on my writing ✨️
#PoetryCommunity
Gratitude to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for inviting me & curating this special selection of my work.
Do take a read: includes 13 new & exclusive poems + insights on my writing ✨️
#PoetryCommunity
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'A Philosophy of Light' by Hannah Linden / @hannahl1n.bsky.social explores the quiet resilience of an octopus under a bloodmoon — a meditation on adaptation, cosmic indifference, and finding home in the dark.
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/hannah-linde...
#InkSweatandTears #Submission #Poetry
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/hannah-linde...
#InkSweatandTears #Submission #Poetry
April 23, 2025 at 8:40 AM
'A Philosophy of Light' by Hannah Linden / @hannahl1n.bsky.social explores the quiet resilience of an octopus under a bloodmoon — a meditation on adaptation, cosmic indifference, and finding home in the dark.
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/hannah-linde...
#InkSweatandTears #Submission #Poetry
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/hannah-linde...
#InkSweatandTears #Submission #Poetry
Publication day for this beautiful anthology of poems about grief. Delighted to have a poem included alongside some gorgeous writing, and looking forward to reading it all. Thanks so much to the editors for all their thought and care.
#PublicationDay! #ToLaySunIntoAForest is out today. Please find out how to order this book here: sidhe-press.eu/books/to-lay... #Poems #Grief #CNF #Loss
All proceeds go to The Sameer Project, please share!
All proceeds go to The Sameer Project, please share!
April 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Publication day for this beautiful anthology of poems about grief. Delighted to have a poem included alongside some gorgeous writing, and looking forward to reading it all. Thanks so much to the editors for all their thought and care.
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A mood board video of my latest @ninearchespress.bsky.social poetry collection, Blackbird Singing at Dusk. If you’re looking for a lyrical exploration of the working class and female body within the rural, a bit of darkness, a bit of deep time, then you’ll likely like this collection.
April 8, 2025 at 9:37 AM
A mood board video of my latest @ninearchespress.bsky.social poetry collection, Blackbird Singing at Dusk. If you’re looking for a lyrical exploration of the working class and female body within the rural, a bit of darkness, a bit of deep time, then you’ll likely like this collection.
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Inspired partly by the eco-atrocity at Sycamore Gap, and partly by my admiration for the sycamore on the canal bank just beyond my garden, I'm delighted that my poem 'Sycamore's Prayer' appears at the wonderful Atrium Poetry today. I'd be so pleased if anyone fancied reading. 🌳
April 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Inspired partly by the eco-atrocity at Sycamore Gap, and partly by my admiration for the sycamore on the canal bank just beyond my garden, I'm delighted that my poem 'Sycamore's Prayer' appears at the wonderful Atrium Poetry today. I'd be so pleased if anyone fancied reading. 🌳
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Klaxon-not all gloom. Our brand new inter-uni seminar titled 'Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair' kicks off 2nd May: Paris Book Launch of Alana Lentin's The New Racial Regime.
Online speaker series next.
Coordinators at various stages of career. Cast an eye.
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Online speaker series next.
Coordinators at various stages of career. Cast an eye.
undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com
April 10, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Klaxon-not all gloom. Our brand new inter-uni seminar titled 'Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair' kicks off 2nd May: Paris Book Launch of Alana Lentin's The New Racial Regime.
Online speaker series next.
Coordinators at various stages of career. Cast an eye.
undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com
Online speaker series next.
Coordinators at various stages of career. Cast an eye.
undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com
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Extraordinary #ekphrastic poem up now on @afterpoetry.com, as Suzi Feay writes of bone made ceramic.
' ... Glass is a fluid that will flow
Slower than marrow, DNA or any
Beam in your house of meat.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/apr-13-...
' ... Glass is a fluid that will flow
Slower than marrow, DNA or any
Beam in your house of meat.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/apr-13-...
Read New Ekphrastic Poem 'Glass Bone' by Suzi Feay exclusively in After... | Poems Inspired By Other Art
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April 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Extraordinary #ekphrastic poem up now on @afterpoetry.com, as Suzi Feay writes of bone made ceramic.
' ... Glass is a fluid that will flow
Slower than marrow, DNA or any
Beam in your house of meat.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/apr-13-...
' ... Glass is a fluid that will flow
Slower than marrow, DNA or any
Beam in your house of meat.'
afterpoetry.com/poem/apr-13-...
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Here’s a new poem – the first of a set of seven exploring the ‘capital vices’ (among other things) – in the terrific new issue of @magmapoetry.bsky.social
Warmest thanks to editors @aoifelyall.bsky.social and Victoria Kennefick for taking it in all its grottiness 🩷
Warmest thanks to editors @aoifelyall.bsky.social and Victoria Kennefick for taking it in all its grottiness 🩷
March 27, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Here’s a new poem – the first of a set of seven exploring the ‘capital vices’ (among other things) – in the terrific new issue of @magmapoetry.bsky.social
Warmest thanks to editors @aoifelyall.bsky.social and Victoria Kennefick for taking it in all its grottiness 🩷
Warmest thanks to editors @aoifelyall.bsky.social and Victoria Kennefick for taking it in all its grottiness 🩷
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It's coming tomorrow! Very excited to be in the company of @wendypratt.bsky.social @rhonagreene.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @ings4words.bsky.social and Elisabeth Kelly to bring in Spring and new beginnings! Free and online from 7.00pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-beginn...
February 21, 2025 at 10:16 AM
It's coming tomorrow! Very excited to be in the company of @wendypratt.bsky.social @rhonagreene.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @ings4words.bsky.social and Elisabeth Kelly to bring in Spring and new beginnings! Free and online from 7.00pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-beginn...
So pleased to have been longlisted for my pamphlet by @theemmapress.bsky.social! Congratulations to all those who made the shortlist - these all sound wonderful.
⭐ Announcing the Longlisted & Shortlisted Proposals from our August 2024 Call for Submissions ⭐
@bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social
@catherineredford.bsky.social
@milenawilliamson.bsky.social
@monicadebhailis.bsky.social
🔗 READ MORE: https://buff.ly/3QeZYDU
@bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social
@catherineredford.bsky.social
@milenawilliamson.bsky.social
@monicadebhailis.bsky.social
🔗 READ MORE: https://buff.ly/3QeZYDU
February 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
So pleased to have been longlisted for my pamphlet by @theemmapress.bsky.social! Congratulations to all those who made the shortlist - these all sound wonderful.
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Thanks to The New Statesman for publishing a brand new shiny poem
www.newstatesman.com/culture/poet...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/poet...
The NS Poem: Her Birth
A new poem by Kim Moore.
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February 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Thanks to The New Statesman for publishing a brand new shiny poem
www.newstatesman.com/culture/poet...
www.newstatesman.com/culture/poet...
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My @ninearchespress.bsky.social collection is available with free postage if anyone would like to read it - i am so very rpud of it xx
Have you read The Apothecary of Flight yet?
A heady flight into the art of #poetry itself, "a soaring, scintillating, skilfully crafted collection from a master word-sculptor", @janeburn.bsky.social
Yours with limited FREE UK post: https://buff.ly/3zrs8Gz
A heady flight into the art of #poetry itself, "a soaring, scintillating, skilfully crafted collection from a master word-sculptor", @janeburn.bsky.social
Yours with limited FREE UK post: https://buff.ly/3zrs8Gz
February 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
My @ninearchespress.bsky.social collection is available with free postage if anyone would like to read it - i am so very rpud of it xx
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My new picture 'In the Womb of the Earth' I wanted to express the importance of sheltering within art - while I'm doing it, it's safe place - how important it is to find places of shelter in nature, important to even imagine these sheltering places, imagine yourself into them. A2, inkpen.
February 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
My new picture 'In the Womb of the Earth' I wanted to express the importance of sheltering within art - while I'm doing it, it's safe place - how important it is to find places of shelter in nature, important to even imagine these sheltering places, imagine yourself into them. A2, inkpen.
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I've been lifting other writers for six years across different platforms and publications. I've never felt more invigorated! Bluesky is THE place to be if you;re a poet! Let's use it to its fullest!
#PoetsOfBluesky #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry #WriterLift
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#PoetsOfBluesky #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry #WriterLift
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#LiftToTheSky: The Poetry Initiative Bringing Writers Together on Bluesky - The Broken Spine
On Monday, January 13th, we’re kicking off something big: #LiftToTheSky, a weekly tradition where poets lift each other higher by sharing work, celebrating
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January 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I've been lifting other writers for six years across different platforms and publications. I've never felt more invigorated! Bluesky is THE place to be if you;re a poet! Let's use it to its fullest!
#PoetsOfBluesky #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry #WriterLift
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#PoetsOfBluesky #PoetrySky #PoetryCommunity #BlueskyPoetry #WriterLift
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Happy Solstice everyone. 3 poems for you today: the 1st my own & one each from @johncraigwhite.bsky.social and Stephen Keeler. Yes it's the 1st day of The 12 Days of Christmas feature from Ink, Sweat and Tears. Thanks @helenivory.bsky.social & Kate & Zhara for putting this together & including mine
On the first day of Christmas, we bring you Hannah Linden, John White and Stephen Keeler | Ink Sweat and Tears
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December 21, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Happy Solstice everyone. 3 poems for you today: the 1st my own & one each from @johncraigwhite.bsky.social and Stephen Keeler. Yes it's the 1st day of The 12 Days of Christmas feature from Ink, Sweat and Tears. Thanks @helenivory.bsky.social & Kate & Zhara for putting this together & including mine
My winter solstice poem - the moon holds fast on the longest night - written two years ago, as my littlest was starting nursery.
Published in the wonderful The Dirigible Balloon, and soon to appear in their anthology, Sky Surfing: Excellent Adventures in a Poetry Balloon @northernjim.bsky.social
Published in the wonderful The Dirigible Balloon, and soon to appear in their anthology, Sky Surfing: Excellent Adventures in a Poetry Balloon @northernjim.bsky.social
December 21, 2024 at 3:29 PM
My winter solstice poem - the moon holds fast on the longest night - written two years ago, as my littlest was starting nursery.
Published in the wonderful The Dirigible Balloon, and soon to appear in their anthology, Sky Surfing: Excellent Adventures in a Poetry Balloon @northernjim.bsky.social
Published in the wonderful The Dirigible Balloon, and soon to appear in their anthology, Sky Surfing: Excellent Adventures in a Poetry Balloon @northernjim.bsky.social
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A poem for the shortest day, when we have almost forgotten what light looks and feels like. I'm grateful to Damien B Donnelly for publishing this in 'The Storms Journal' in autumn 2023.
December 21, 2024 at 11:31 AM
A poem for the shortest day, when we have almost forgotten what light looks and feels like. I'm grateful to Damien B Donnelly for publishing this in 'The Storms Journal' in autumn 2023.
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Say hi to...
@daraghfleming.bsky.social, Dion O'Reilly, @gclifford1.bsky.social, Jane Ayres, @kevingrauke.bsky.social, Laura Lewis-Waters, Marie Marchand, @pamthompson240.bsky.social, Polly Walshe, Rachel Smith, Rowan Lyster, Sharon Phillips, Simon Alderwick, T S S Fulk and @wendypratt.bsky.social.
@daraghfleming.bsky.social, Dion O'Reilly, @gclifford1.bsky.social, Jane Ayres, @kevingrauke.bsky.social, Laura Lewis-Waters, Marie Marchand, @pamthompson240.bsky.social, Polly Walshe, Rachel Smith, Rowan Lyster, Sharon Phillips, Simon Alderwick, T S S Fulk and @wendypratt.bsky.social.
December 1, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Say hi to...
@daraghfleming.bsky.social, Dion O'Reilly, @gclifford1.bsky.social, Jane Ayres, @kevingrauke.bsky.social, Laura Lewis-Waters, Marie Marchand, @pamthompson240.bsky.social, Polly Walshe, Rachel Smith, Rowan Lyster, Sharon Phillips, Simon Alderwick, T S S Fulk and @wendypratt.bsky.social.
@daraghfleming.bsky.social, Dion O'Reilly, @gclifford1.bsky.social, Jane Ayres, @kevingrauke.bsky.social, Laura Lewis-Waters, Marie Marchand, @pamthompson240.bsky.social, Polly Walshe, Rachel Smith, Rowan Lyster, Sharon Phillips, Simon Alderwick, T S S Fulk and @wendypratt.bsky.social.
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I was honoured to be part of #Wave1 of #TheWhiskeyTree, a visionary project showcasing writing talents for the long term.
Read on & learn how you can get involved in this dynamic project pioneered by @alanparry83.bsky.social EiC of @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/12/15/w...
Read on & learn how you can get involved in this dynamic project pioneered by @alanparry83.bsky.social EiC of @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/12/15/w...
Want to Make the Cut for The Whiskey Tree? Here’s How You Get Noticed - The Broken Spine
Listen up, poets. I’m going to let you in on something: The Whiskey Tree isn’t your average poetry gig. It’s not a fleeting moment of glory, not a 'Hey, we
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December 16, 2024 at 7:03 AM
I was honoured to be part of #Wave1 of #TheWhiskeyTree, a visionary project showcasing writing talents for the long term.
Read on & learn how you can get involved in this dynamic project pioneered by @alanparry83.bsky.social EiC of @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/12/15/w...
Read on & learn how you can get involved in this dynamic project pioneered by @alanparry83.bsky.social EiC of @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/12/15/w...