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Dave Kurley

@badvibrations62.bsky.social

More blogwork - this time about the book launch. We did it! The place was packed, the j oint was jumping, there was applause, there was laughter, there were many, many readers.
It. Was. Awesome. www.davekurley.net/blogstuff/op...
#blog #writers #openmic #booklaunch #greatnight #wordplay

A superb book launch on Saturday - the place was packed, the joint was jumping! Here are some of the readers...

Book Launch - Writhing: An Anthology — Stuff by Dave Kurley

November 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM

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The Broken Spine

@thebrokenspine.co.uk

Two new drops before month’s end. Couldn’t be more different. Couldn’t be more us.

#SootAndBoots – our first seasonal fiction set – hits in hardback & paperback. Wintry stories with dirt under their nails.

#RitesAndTrials Coming-of-age poems stitched with class, becoming, longing, & defiance.

November 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM

Dave Kurley

@badvibrations62.bsky.social

More bloggage - this week, about the launch of 'Writhing: An Anthology', a collection of 40 pieces by the Wordplay Writers Club (I've got three pieces in there). If you're anywhere near Caldas da Rainha on Saturday, it would be great to see you!

#writing #writhing #Poetry #shortstories #blog

This Saturday (22/11/25), if you’re anywhere near Caldas da Rainha, central Portugal - why not come to a book launch at the Palco Café, Centro Cultural e Congressos?

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November 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM

Dave Kurley

@badvibrations62.bsky.social

87. Paul Connolly

Internationally published poet with a marvellous reading voice.

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Twenty featuring the poetry of Tim Ellis

November 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM

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Alan Parry He/Him

@alanparrywriter.co.uk

This is the full text of #IWant — a poem from my WIP #FuckMeLikeGraffiti, which dives headfirst into the sexual self. It’s about love, lust, and the edges of intimacy. You can hear me read it over on TikTok.

#PoemsAbout #Desire #Sexuality #AltLit #SpokenWord #IndiePoet #PoetryCommunity

A poem titled I Want appears in black text on a white background. The poem reads:

I Want

you
pulling
at the edges of me

i want us
to forget our names

i want to see
videos of you
tying yourself in knots

i want
your red flowers
pinching my breath

i want
senseless talk
& you playing
goofy with me

i want
your leg against mine

i want
your hand
at the back of my neck
feeling the pulse

i want
your head
on my chest—
asleep

i want you
thinking of me
all day

A continuation of the poem I Want is shown in black text on a white background, spread across two columns. The text reads:

i want
the idiot hots
& your filthy mouth

i want you
to hand yourself over
to be filled &
overcome

i want
a comfortable silence
to fold around us
like bedsheets

i want
weekends spent
lying on each other

i want
the small things
to sit at your feet
to watch you eat

i want
to hold your waist

i want
your hair
wet & messy
in a hotel room
in tallinn

i want
you to tell me
how we oughta
spend the night

i want
to know the one thing i said
you can’t let go of

i want
the migraines
& the hard-ons

i want
the marks
you leave

i want you
naked & tired
with dark circles
around your eyes

i want you
sweaty & stressed

i want you
to wear me down
like water
on stone

slow
& smooth

i want
to drown in
your ocean-floor eyes

i want us
to become
shadows on the wall

i want you
to take fistfuls of me
to shake my teeth loose

The final lines of the poem I Want appear in black text on a white background. The text reads:

& i want
to wake up
sore

November 14, 2025 at 5:05 PM

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Alan Parry He/Him

@alanparrywriter.co.uk

Too long for me to post the text really, this is my #PoemsAbout #Desire

I read my poem, I Want, here.

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM

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Sue Ibrahim

@sueimnw.bsky.social

For this week's #PoemsAbout #Desire with thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and all those participating.

November 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM

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Elizabeth Osmond

@bethosmond.bsky.social

Good morning #poemsabout crew, here’s a poem about someone wanting something for the #desire prompt @alanparrywriter.co.uk

November 14, 2025 at 7:59 AM

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Rachel Burrows

@rburrows.bsky.social

More snails I’m afraid! #PoemsAbout #Desire @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk Happy Friday!
#parasite #poetry

November 14, 2025 at 6:35 AM

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Paul Brookes

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

For #poemsabout #desire @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk Three faces of desire:

Allow Me

to see the skull in your passion the teeth in your desire

to caress the bones of your delight the sinews of your breath

to delve the niches of longing

the cleft of floods

My Freezing Desire

for you clichés my words.

We shiver as we touch.

Each caress brings striations of ice over skin, blood bubbles

to the surface. Our cold air stretches our lungs makes it

hard to breathe. My body is alabaster, yours marble.

Sex is a fridge turned up highest. Someday we must defrost.

We Must Damage Each

to feel anything
for one another. I take

this razor and cut your cheek until it bleeds. You reply

with a needles stab in my leg. The blood drips as we continue

our intimate conversation. Clearly this is most intense love and desire.

November 14, 2025 at 7:39 AM

Dave Kurley

@badvibrations62.bsky.social

#PoemsAbout #Desire - back after a short break, with a short poem. Thanks to @alanparrywriter.co.uk at @thebrokenspine.co.uk for this week's prompt.

#poems #poetry #poetrycommunity

www.davekurley.net

Screenshot of my poem on Apple Notes - the desktop background is of some idyllic scene in the Californian countryside, redwood trees flanking the valley, a river cutting between, reflecting a pale sky.

November 14, 2025 at 8:15 AM

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Paul Brookes

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Twenty featuring the poetry of Tim Ellis:
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A Feast of Word And Image

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November 13, 2025 at 7:24 AM

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Mike O’Brien

@zoomburst.substack.com

Coming in late November... The tenth volume of Sixty Odd Poets - The Last Half Dozen... and the promise of a rebirth for the #SixtyOdd Press next year. #Poetry for all!

The cover of the forthcoming tenth volume of Sixty Odd Poets - the Last half Dozen Featuring Susan Darlington, Jim Murdoch, Neil Roystone, Eleanor Cantor, James Lee Jobe and Steve Williams.

November 12, 2025 at 7:37 AM

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Paul Brookes

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Nineteen featuring the poetry of Paul D. Proctor:
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Welcome To The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Nineteen featuring the poetry of Paul D. Proctor

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Eighteen featuring the poetry of Lawrence Freiesleben

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November 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM

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Paul Brookes

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Eighteen featuring the poetry of Lawrence Freiesleben:
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erbacce stuff — Stuff by Dave Kurley

November 11, 2025 at 8:44 AM

Dave Kurley

@badvibrations62.bsky.social

I've blogged again: this time to showcase five poems that were included in the erbacce Journal no.71. It's out of print now, so I thought I'd put them on my website for you: www.davekurley.net/blogstuff/bl...

#blog #poetry #poems #poetrycommunity #website #stuffbydavekurley

Five poems that were published in the erbacce Journal no. 71 in 2022

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Seventeen featuring the poetry of C. Oulens

November 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM

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Paul Brookes

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Seventeen featuring the poetry of C. Oulens:
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A Feast Of Words And Image

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November 10, 2025 at 7:04 AM

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Paul Brookes

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Fifteen featuring the poetry of Sean Coppinger
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Welcome To The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Fifteen featuring the poetry of Sean Coppinger

A Feast Of Word And Image

The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Fourteen features the poetry of Özge Lena

November 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM

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Paul Brookes

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Fourteen features the poetry of Özge Lena:
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The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Thirteen features the poetry of Laura Winter

November 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM

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Mike O’Brien

@zoomburst.substack.com

#poemsabout #lockeddoors
I seem to write a lot about teachers... ahh well.

Miss

When she stood at the blackboard in front of 4B
She was a locked door
An old style, dark green door
A decorative stained glass panel above,
Giving only a hint of the light that shone within

She knew her stuff
That much we knew
But you had to be keen to pick any of it up
She made no allowance for our age
We could sink or swim for all she seemed to care

I met her at a conference, years later
The door ajar, the light escaping
Recognising me instantly
She asked how I had done since the days of 4B
And of my classmates, who she knew by name

How we would have marvelled to have seen her like this

November 7, 2025 at 9:09 AM

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Paul Brookes

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Thirteen features the poetry of Laura Winter:
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The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Eight features the poetry of Sheila Murphy

November 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM

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Paul Brookes

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Twelve features the poetry of Sheila Murphy:
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A Feast Of Words And Image

The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Seven features the artwork of Spriha Kant

November 5, 2025 at 7:39 AM

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Paul Brookes

@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

The Starbeck Orion, Issue 13, Day Eleven features the artwork of Spriha Kant
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A Feast Of Artwork And Words