Anne Bailey
@anne-bailey.bsky.social
Poet - ‘What the House Taught Us’ Emma Press 2021. Member of ‘Café Writers’ Committee organising monthly poetry events live in Norwich and on Zoom.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:50 AM
3 Days - There’s still time!!! Send your poems - help us to promote poets and poetry. profits go to pay poets to read at our events:
www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...
www.cafewriters.co.uk/home/poetry-...
SO THRILLED to be in the ‘poetry rupture’ that is The Aftershock Review Issue2. Thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
SO THRILLED to be in the ‘poetry rupture’ that is The Aftershock Review Issue2. Thanks @maxwallis.bsky.social
Didn’t stay in Bill - I’m always ‘in’ - just thrilled to see my poem published!
A little later this week in posting - we hope you didn’t stay in all day waiting for delivery…
@anne-bailey.bsky.social returns with a prose poem focussing on the unchanging and yet not eternal living room:
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#GhostFurnitureCatalogue
@anne-bailey.bsky.social returns with a prose poem focussing on the unchanging and yet not eternal living room:
ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/a...
#GhostFurnitureCatalogue
Anne Bailey: Living Room
The bureau, the sideboard, the drop-leafed table stood on varnished floorboards like hardwood teeth in a jaw clamped shut. Aspirations had envisaged modernisation: central heating, flush doors, a f…
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July 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Didn’t stay in Bill - I’m always ‘in’ - just thrilled to see my poem published!
My poem ‘Living Room’ has made it into The Ghost Furniture Catalogue today - such a good place for it - thankyou @billherbert.bsky.social : ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/a...
Anne Bailey: Living Room
The bureau, the sideboard, the drop-leafed table stood on varnished floorboards like hardwood teeth in a jaw clamped shut. Aspirations had envisaged modernisation: central heating, flush doors, a f…
ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com
July 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My poem ‘Living Room’ has made it into The Ghost Furniture Catalogue today - such a good place for it - thankyou @billherbert.bsky.social : ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/a...
Thanks Bill for choosing my poem!
Another in our occasional series of ‘Two Chairs’, these two specimens being magnificent Victorian gentlemen Dalek armchairs by @anne-bailey.bsky.social:
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Anne Bailey: Two Armchairs
Lewisham 1973 Outside on the pavement by the bridge,£5 for the two – a bit ‘Victorian’,but sturdy, compact – a bit‘gentleman’s club’ but not grand.Like two Daleks, pleased with themselv…
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April 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Thanks Bill for choosing my poem!
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My little poem in The Ghost Furniture Catalogue today - Hurray!
My little poem in The Ghost Furniture Catalogue today - Hurray!
Anne Bailey: Two Armchairs
Lewisham 1973 Outside on the pavement by the bridge,£5 for the two – a bit ‘Victorian’,but sturdy, compact – a bit‘gentleman’s club’ but not grand.Like two Daleks, pleased with themselv…
ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com
April 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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My little poem in The Ghost Furniture Catalogue today - Hurray!
My little poem in The Ghost Furniture Catalogue today - Hurray!
14th April 2025: Cat Woodward, Leah Larwood and Daryl Fraser | Cafe Writers
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April 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Just seen this poem by John McCullough in Broken Sleep’s ‘Opening Line’. It has stopped my heart - it’s like it was written just for me!
April 2, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Just seen this poem by John McCullough in Broken Sleep’s ‘Opening Line’. It has stopped my heart - it’s like it was written just for me!
Thrilled to have my poem ‘Counting Dead Women’ in issue 34 of @allegropoetry.bsky.social
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Issue 34 March 2025
Editor's Comments Welcome to Issue 34 of Allegro Poetry Magazine which sees a selection of poems both from poets who are new to Allegro an...
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March 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Thrilled to have my poem ‘Counting Dead Women’ in issue 34 of @allegropoetry.bsky.social
today www.allegropoetry.org/p/issue-34-m...
today www.allegropoetry.org/p/issue-34-m...
Absolutely thrilled to have my poem ‘Song of the Teenager’ in Episode 30 of Poems Worth Hearing today: www.poetryworthhearing.biz/post/poetry-...
Poetry Worth Hearing: Episode 30
The prompt for this episode was rule-making and/or rule breaking, an idea which occurred to me after reading a sonnet sequence by Claire Cox and reading her account of how the poems were generated by ...
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February 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Absolutely thrilled to have my poem ‘Song of the Teenager’ in Episode 30 of Poems Worth Hearing today: www.poetryworthhearing.biz/post/poetry-...
Enjoying the ‘Ghost Furniture Catalogue’ ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/home/about-t... from @billherbert.bsky.social and @sophieherx.bsky.social - poems that are distinctive, spooky and random!
About ‘The Ghost Furniture Catalogue’
A Ghost Moth, at home The Ghost Furniture Catalogue is a putative anthology of poems about furniture, devised by Bill Herbert and Sophie Herxheimer. Our sideboards began a promising dialogue in 201…
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December 13, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Enjoying the ‘Ghost Furniture Catalogue’ ghostfurniturecatalogue.wordpress.com/home/about-t... from @billherbert.bsky.social and @sophieherx.bsky.social - poems that are distinctive, spooky and random!
@carrieetter.bsky.social extremely moving reading at Cafe Writers event last night - just wonderful - thankyou Carrie!
December 10, 2024 at 8:45 AM
@carrieetter.bsky.social extremely moving reading at Cafe Writers event last night - just wonderful - thankyou Carrie!
Reposted by Anne Bailey
The Unpicking is a gripping read and The Process of Poetry is absolutely FASCINATING whether you write poetry or prose. Please support this indie press! 🎁🎄
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December 8, 2024 at 3:01 PM
The Unpicking is a gripping read and The Process of Poetry is absolutely FASCINATING whether you write poetry or prose. Please support this indie press! 🎁🎄
It’s tonight - hope to see you there!
My last reading of Grief's Alphabet for 2024--and it's online! Tickets still available: www.cafewriters.co.uk/9th-december...
9th December 2024 Carrie Etter and Craig Martin Getz | Cafe Writers
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December 9, 2024 at 10:39 AM
It’s tonight - hope to see you there!
It’s only been a few days for me but already this feels like a very positive sharing community!
December 5, 2024 at 9:41 AM
It’s only been a few days for me but already this feels like a very positive sharing community!
That’s a piece of work Hannah - amazing! Thanks for putting me on the list x
December 5, 2024 at 8:31 AM
That’s a piece of work Hannah - amazing! Thanks for putting me on the list x
Fantastic line-up at CaféWriters next Monday 9th December 7.30pm on Zoom! Check it out here: www.cafewriters.co.uk/9th-december...
9th December 2024 Carrie Etter and Craig Martin Getz | Cafe Writers
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December 4, 2024 at 7:48 AM
Fantastic line-up at CaféWriters next Monday 9th December 7.30pm on Zoom! Check it out here: www.cafewriters.co.uk/9th-december...
Hi There - this is my first post - I am looking forward to sharing poetry news and views with other poets and poetry people.
December 4, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Hi There - this is my first post - I am looking forward to sharing poetry news and views with other poets and poetry people.