Dr Catherine Redford
@catherineredford.bsky.social
Poet | Researcher | Co-editor at Dust Poetry. Room 204 writer. Words in Magma, Under the Radar, Propel, The Storms, New Welsh Reader, Lighthouse, Atrium, Ink Sweat & Tears, etc.
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⭐ Announcing the Longlisted & Shortlisted Proposals from our August 2024 Call for Submissions ⭐
@bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social
@catherineredford.bsky.social
@milenawilliamson.bsky.social
@monicadebhailis.bsky.social
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@bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social
@catherineredford.bsky.social
@milenawilliamson.bsky.social
@monicadebhailis.bsky.social
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I’m absolutely over the moon that the manuscript of my poetry pamphlet, ‘Collected Goodbyes’, been shortlisted by @theemmapress.bsky.social! Many congratulations to all the other longlisted and shortlisted writers!
What I’ve been reading over the past few days:
Robin Houghton’s astute insights into dieting, BMI, and body image in her beautiful handmade pamphlet ‘yo-yo’.
@robinhoughton.bsky.social
Robin Houghton’s astute insights into dieting, BMI, and body image in her beautiful handmade pamphlet ‘yo-yo’.
@robinhoughton.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
What I’ve been reading over the past few days:
Robin Houghton’s astute insights into dieting, BMI, and body image in her beautiful handmade pamphlet ‘yo-yo’.
@robinhoughton.bsky.social
Robin Houghton’s astute insights into dieting, BMI, and body image in her beautiful handmade pamphlet ‘yo-yo’.
@robinhoughton.bsky.social
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This was such a lovely surprise!Thank you to @catherineredford.bsky.social & @tarawheeler.bsky.social for this vote of confidence 🤩
November 8, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This was such a lovely surprise!Thank you to @catherineredford.bsky.social & @tarawheeler.bsky.social for this vote of confidence 🤩
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Delighted by my first Pushcart nomination from Dust Poetry magazine. Sincere thanks to @dustpoetry.bsky.social editors @catherineredford.bsky.social and @tarawheeler.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Delighted by my first Pushcart nomination from Dust Poetry magazine. Sincere thanks to @dustpoetry.bsky.social editors @catherineredford.bsky.social and @tarawheeler.bsky.social
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I loved ‘What We Can Know’, the new novel from Ian McEwan. It’s a work of speculative fiction rooted in the concerns of our own age and manages to be so many different stories all at once. Academic meditations run parallel with tales of love and lust, brutal crime intertwined
November 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I loved ‘What We Can Know’, the new novel from Ian McEwan. It’s a work of speculative fiction rooted in the concerns of our own age and manages to be so many different stories all at once. Academic meditations run parallel with tales of love and lust, brutal crime intertwined
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Issue 15 ‘Dear World’ will go live on 22.11.25 ✨
We can’t wait to share these brilliant poems and the artwork with you! 🌏
Thank you so much to everyone who submitted for this issue, you should now have a response, so do let us know if you haven’t 💚
We can’t wait to share these brilliant poems and the artwork with you! 🌏
Thank you so much to everyone who submitted for this issue, you should now have a response, so do let us know if you haven’t 💚
November 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Issue 15 ‘Dear World’ will go live on 22.11.25 ✨
We can’t wait to share these brilliant poems and the artwork with you! 🌏
Thank you so much to everyone who submitted for this issue, you should now have a response, so do let us know if you haven’t 💚
We can’t wait to share these brilliant poems and the artwork with you! 🌏
Thank you so much to everyone who submitted for this issue, you should now have a response, so do let us know if you haven’t 💚
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Delighted and honoured to have a poem forthcoming in this
Issue 15 ‘Dear World’ will go live on 22.11.25 ✨
We can’t wait to share these brilliant poems and the artwork with you! 🌏
Thank you so much to everyone who submitted for this issue, you should now have a response, so do let us know if you haven’t 💚
We can’t wait to share these brilliant poems and the artwork with you! 🌏
Thank you so much to everyone who submitted for this issue, you should now have a response, so do let us know if you haven’t 💚
November 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Delighted and honoured to have a poem forthcoming in this
Remind me never to submit a poem with weird formatting to the National Poetry Competition ever again 🙃
October 31, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Remind me never to submit a poem with weird formatting to the National Poetry Competition ever again 🙃
We didn’t have poetry books in the house when I was growing up, but as a child I used to get the same battered copy of The New Dragon Book of Verse out of the library again and again. There were so many poems in there that I loved,
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
We didn’t have poetry books in the house when I was growing up, but as a child I used to get the same battered copy of The New Dragon Book of Verse out of the library again and again. There were so many poems in there that I loved,
I’m a big fan of the art and writing of the Bloomsbury Group, but I’ve never had the chance to visit Charleston. This book was a brilliant introduction to the house and its gardens, particularly as many of the notes are written by the late Quentin Bell,
October 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
I’m a big fan of the art and writing of the Bloomsbury Group, but I’ve never had the chance to visit Charleston. This book was a brilliant introduction to the house and its gardens, particularly as many of the notes are written by the late Quentin Bell,
I devoured this compelling novella in a single sitting. Hannah Lutz’s ‘Wild Boar’ (trans. from Swedish by Andy Turner) is dark, poetic, and unsettling. I loved the layers of voices all responding in different ways to the illusive wild boar as they move beyond the forests.
@theemmapress.bsky.social
@theemmapress.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I devoured this compelling novella in a single sitting. Hannah Lutz’s ‘Wild Boar’ (trans. from Swedish by Andy Turner) is dark, poetic, and unsettling. I loved the layers of voices all responding in different ways to the illusive wild boar as they move beyond the forests.
@theemmapress.bsky.social
@theemmapress.bsky.social
Does anyone else of a certain age find it impossible to walk through a park at this time of year without humming ‘Autumn days when the grass is jewelled / And the silk inside a chestnut shell’..?
October 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Does anyone else of a certain age find it impossible to walk through a park at this time of year without humming ‘Autumn days when the grass is jewelled / And the silk inside a chestnut shell’..?
Cup of tea and the latest TLS on a Saturday morning. I enjoyed Seamus Perry’s excellent article on Plath’s ‘Ariel’ at sixty; it’s always good to be reminded of Plath’s original intentions for the collection. In her version, the final line declares that ‘The bees are flying. They taste the spring.’
October 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Cup of tea and the latest TLS on a Saturday morning. I enjoyed Seamus Perry’s excellent article on Plath’s ‘Ariel’ at sixty; it’s always good to be reminded of Plath’s original intentions for the collection. In her version, the final line declares that ‘The bees are flying. They taste the spring.’
I received not one, but two book-related gifts completely out of the blue yesterday! My husband got me this sweet little Faber tote, then I received a parcel from his parents containing a lovely stack-of-books Christmas tree decoration. Apparently they saw it and thought of me; I can’t imagine why 😂
October 10, 2025 at 8:53 AM
I received not one, but two book-related gifts completely out of the blue yesterday! My husband got me this sweet little Faber tote, then I received a parcel from his parents containing a lovely stack-of-books Christmas tree decoration. Apparently they saw it and thought of me; I can’t imagine why 😂
It’s been great to spend some time today with Mark Ward’s stunning ekphrastic pamphlet ‘Masters’, ahead of its online launch this evening. This is one of the pamphlets that I helped to select for publication as part of The Emma Press’s BERG initiative,
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
It’s been great to spend some time today with Mark Ward’s stunning ekphrastic pamphlet ‘Masters’, ahead of its online launch this evening. This is one of the pamphlets that I helped to select for publication as part of The Emma Press’s BERG initiative,
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What a fab list - congratulations to all (especially lovely to see brilliant @hollyannepoet.bsky.social here!) 🥳
Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
October 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
What a fab list - congratulations to all (especially lovely to see brilliant @hollyannepoet.bsky.social here!) 🥳
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My poem, as chosen by @dustpoetry.bsky.social as one of their Best of the Net nominees.
This one was rejected numerous times before it found a home with Dust (if at first we don't succeed, etc). Also a relative recently complained I've no 'joy' in my poems. Cheese = joy.
This one was rejected numerous times before it found a home with Dust (if at first we don't succeed, etc). Also a relative recently complained I've no 'joy' in my poems. Cheese = joy.
Cheese in a budget hotel room by Holly Magill
Cheese in a budget hotel roomWouldn’t do this at home – naked and plateless.Here is different. We set it on the bed, a decisivewedge of intent, local and organic. Reverently weundress it from waxed pa...
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October 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
My poem, as chosen by @dustpoetry.bsky.social as one of their Best of the Net nominees.
This one was rejected numerous times before it found a home with Dust (if at first we don't succeed, etc). Also a relative recently complained I've no 'joy' in my poems. Cheese = joy.
This one was rejected numerous times before it found a home with Dust (if at first we don't succeed, etc). Also a relative recently complained I've no 'joy' in my poems. Cheese = joy.
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This has cheered me up immensely on
#NationalPoetryDay
Many thanks to Tara and Catherine at @dustpoetry.bsky.social for including my cheese poem in their Best of the Net nominations. You can read all the poems in the links attached to their post below.
#NationalPoetryDay
Many thanks to Tara and Catherine at @dustpoetry.bsky.social for including my cheese poem in their Best of the Net nominations. You can read all the poems in the links attached to their post below.
Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
October 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This has cheered me up immensely on
#NationalPoetryDay
Many thanks to Tara and Catherine at @dustpoetry.bsky.social for including my cheese poem in their Best of the Net nominations. You can read all the poems in the links attached to their post below.
#NationalPoetryDay
Many thanks to Tara and Catherine at @dustpoetry.bsky.social for including my cheese poem in their Best of the Net nominations. You can read all the poems in the links attached to their post below.
Reposted by Dr Catherine Redford
Lovely to see our @hollyannepoet.bsky.social with a poem nominated by @dustpoetry.bsky.social in their Best of The Net selections!
Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
October 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Lovely to see our @hollyannepoet.bsky.social with a poem nominated by @dustpoetry.bsky.social in their Best of The Net selections!
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Absolutely delighted and honoured to be nominated for Best Of The Net for Laundry Day. Congratulations to my fellow nominees 🙏
Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
October 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Absolutely delighted and honoured to be nominated for Best Of The Net for Laundry Day. Congratulations to my fellow nominees 🙏
Reposted by Dr Catherine Redford
Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
October 1, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
Reposted by Dr Catherine Redford
Submissions for our next issue close at midnight tonight! 🌏✨
September 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Submissions for our next issue close at midnight tonight! 🌏✨
Our submissions window closes at midnight ⏳
Just a reminder that submissions are OPEN! …And that submissions are free and Dust is free to read and volunteer run.
If you are ever able to, we have a kofi page and do so appreciate donations of any amount to cover the cost of keeping Dust running online: ko-fi.com/dustpoetryma...
Thank you 💜
If you are ever able to, we have a kofi page and do so appreciate donations of any amount to cover the cost of keeping Dust running online: ko-fi.com/dustpoetryma...
Thank you 💜
September 20, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Our submissions window closes at midnight ⏳
I’ve had a lovely, creative afternoon catching up on the Form and Ideas workshop led by @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social and hosted by the Women Poets’ Network. I ended up using Hans Christian Andersen to write a golden shovel, as you do.
September 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I’ve had a lovely, creative afternoon catching up on the Form and Ideas workshop led by @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social and hosted by the Women Poets’ Network. I ended up using Hans Christian Andersen to write a golden shovel, as you do.
I really loved ‘How to Leave a Body’, the powerful and startling debut collection from Holly Winter-Hughes. These poems confront both trauma and strength head-on; they are dark, visceral, and incredibly beautiful.
@vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
@vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I really loved ‘How to Leave a Body’, the powerful and startling debut collection from Holly Winter-Hughes. These poems confront both trauma and strength head-on; they are dark, visceral, and incredibly beautiful.
@vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
@vervepoetrypress.bsky.social