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Caroline Davies
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Poet and poetry enthusiast
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Goodbye, Poetry in Aldeburgh, and warm thanks to all!
November 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Looking forward to reading at Poetry in Aldeburgh next Friday with fellow #ignitionpress poets Clementine Burnley & Alicia Pirmohamed! Tix at bit.ly/ignitioninaldeburgh.
October 31, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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A wonderful day at Lambeth Palace Library yesterday. The librarians could not have been kinder or more helpful. I still miss the old library, but the new wing — light, calm, beautifully designed — is a joy.
October 30, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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On my website today a drop-in by doctor-poet Judith Wozniak reflecting on a poem from her latest pamphlet Case Noted. Check it out. #poetry #poetrycommunity
October 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
One of my favourite places to read. The National Poetry Library @southbankcentre.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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All welcome to the launch of the Four Pamphleteers with Verve.

Come along to the online readings to hear @maxwallis.bsky.social and @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social and Rue Collinge. Bring wine, bring crisps, bring everyone.
@vervepoetrypress.bsky.social

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FOUR PAMPHLETEERS: Rue Collinge, Glyn Edwards, Max Wallis & Katrina Naomi
VERVE Poetry Press presents Rue Collinge, Glyn Edwards, Max Wallis & Katrina Naomi reading from their brand new pamphlets.
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October 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Good afternoon and Happy National Poetry Day! This is the very first post from Poets for the Planet here on Bluesky. We are very glad to be here. To start us off here's Wendell Berry's classic, The Peace of Wild Things #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...
“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry, A Poetry Film by Charlotte Ager & Katy Wang
YouTube video by The On Being Project
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October 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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You have to write for the love, because the publishing process and response can be upsetting, and the accolades so few (especially for poetry) yet there are collections I love that received little attention. But that creative rush is very special – no one can take it away
September 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
David Cuthbert Thomas from Pontarddulais was just 20-years old when he was shot in no man’s land in 1916. For two of the greatest war poets, his death changed everything ✍️Norena Shopland
The Welsh soldier who influenced great poets
Norena Shopland 130 years ago this year, David Cuthbert Thomas was born in 1895. The son of Evan and Ethelinda Thomas of Llanedi Rectory, Pontarddulais, Glamorgan, and educated at Christ College,…
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September 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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David Cuthbert Thomas from Pontarddulais was just 20-years old when he was shot in no man’s land in 1916. For two of the greatest war poets, his death changed everything ✍️Norena Shopland
The Welsh soldier who influenced great poets
Norena Shopland 130 years ago this year, David Cuthbert Thomas was born in 1895. The son of Evan and Ethelinda Thomas of Llanedi Rectory, Pontarddulais, Glamorgan, and educated at Christ College,…
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September 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Carol Watts – Laurel Prize: Below the Surface 🌍

On Mimic Pond:
“Poetry has always been a place I go to. From childhood rhythms of prayer + countryside, through Wordsworth, Clare, Riley + Niedecker—poems began to pour out in sequences.”

🔗 Full piece: poetryschool.com/lau...
September 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Thanks so much to Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust for posting this film poem of mine. Re-posting to create my first on Bluesky! To all my old @poetryschool.bsky.social mates, please find me! Kicking off with @suejohns.bsky.social @carolinemdavies.bsky.social @dixonkat.bsky.social ..who else is here..?
Check out this film one of our volunteers was inspired to make after taking part in a chalk stream restoration day, removing non-native species & litter from the Lewes Winterbourne!🌾👍

Nice work, John White 👏
September 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Happy b’day, “American Idiot” — released as a single 21 years ago today, and written in the wake of the Iraq War.

“The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”
August 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Fascinating perspective view with woman reading letter, 1665. And her dog, saying 'what are you doing here?' By Samuel van Hoogstraten, #BTD 1627.
August 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Day 3 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social time for a bilingual anthology - Beyonnd /Tu Hwnt work by Welsh Deaf and disabled writers - a chance to ymarfer fy Cymraeg/practise my Welsh. Favourite poem so far 'When I say I'm tired by Bethany Handley DWP take note
#sealeychallenge #poetrysky #amreading
August 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
August 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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August is Women in Translation Month #WITMonth and we're happy to see 3 @twolinespress.bsky.social titles "Mending Bodies," "Backlight," and "The Queen of Swords" on @clmporg.bsky.social's reading list!

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A Reading List for Women in Translation Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
For Women in Translation Month, observed annually during the month of August, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the lite...
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August 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
@sealeychallenge.bsky.social #SealeyChallenge Day 1 A crown of sonnets about the life of Lee Miller, written by Jaqueline Saphra
August 1, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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📚 It's August, which means the #SealeyChallenge is now underway! To help you on your journey to read a book every day this month, The Poetry Society has gotten in touch with poets we've recently worked with for some recommendations. (...)
August 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Our first ever nursing students have qualified to work in the health service – many congratulations to them!

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August 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 17: Vanessa Gebbie

#Writers #Authors #BookSky #AuthorChallenge #writing #women #womenwriters
June 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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A new network of art galleries has been created in a bid to make Wales' unique and rich artistic heritage more accessible to communities
New network of galleries created to improve access to Wales' artistic heritage
A new network of art galleries has been created in a bid to make Wales’ unique and rich artistic heritage more accessible to communities. CELF, the national contemporary art gallery for Wales, will wi...
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July 16, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A poem #anislandofstrangers for this Labour government, for Keir Starmer. The poem is rough, simplistic perhaps but heartfelt. Thanks for reading. I'm happy for it to be shared.

#inthehopeofchange
#fordecency
#forkindness
#immigrationpolicy
#poetry
#keirstarmer
May 13, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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He's also the president who killed things like this.

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May 5, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Join us for our Parks Trust Walking event with award-winning journalist, podcaster & broadcaster Ash Bhardwaj is the author of Why We Travel, The Independent’s “Travel Book of the Year 2024”.

bit.ly/MKlfashb

#walkingfestival
#mkwalkingfestival
@theparkstrust.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 1:03 PM