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Daniel Duggan
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Pushcart nominated, published writer pouring words in the Scottish Borders
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Be yourself
#poetry #poem #poet
December 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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This piece is called I can't look at you #poetry
December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Domination is now available as an audiobook - read by me! books.apple.com/gb/audiobook...
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Thumb Stars by Daniel Duggan #poetry
October 15, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Love is lumpy
#poetry
Poem There's a collection of scraggy mountain ranges beneath my skin mapping the pulled triggers and kite lifts of my feelings It's all blood knots and banged up lumps, They mark my attempts at love, and I aim to die, resembling a poorly stirred bowl of porridge. Daniel Duggan
October 12, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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#poetsofbluesky #promptcombo #poemsabout

Hope you don't mind a polite shout-out for this zoom event happening soon! Would love to see many of you there to hear these fantastic poets.

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September 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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For #SuicidePreventionDay
Poem Find me, and ask me if I'm OK, but ask me like five times, until I run out of instant replies and open up like a moth’s mouth as it tries to swallow a nightlight. Daniel Duggan
September 10, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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It's too good not to share by me...Daniel Duggan.

#poetry
August 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Faultline flowers by Daniel Duggan #poetry
August 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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The heron

Its heart is an old compass
pointing off in four directions.

Ascending tall ladders
that walk to the edge of dusk.

Surely that
would be considered miraculous

almost anyplace

🪜

#poem excerpt: Louise Erdrich
#art Karl Mårtens

#resist
heron: gray & white wings lifted in imminent flight illustration
August 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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As the nightjars fill
the air
sings. #poetry
Poem There are monsters slumped on the kerb below my window squawking at each other and the eavesdropping moon is a bit afraid of what might happen when they're done talking. I can't take my eyes off them in case they perform magic and just vanish. Daniel Duggan
July 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Become a landmark #poetry
Poem I went for a walk, even though it was a little too hot to be outside climbing hills. It was either that or sit, overthinking how when you leave, you still manage to drag shit along behind you, even when you've taken a stanley knife to the strings and anchor ropes. You can't sink half of yourself. The water takes everything, or nothing at all, even shadows swim. Dare yourself to not hide anymore, become a landmark. Daniel Duggan
June 19, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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For #promptcombo subject #hidden with @victoriaspires.bsky.social I've cobbled a short piece into being.

This is called What You Didn't Get To See
Poem I’m that stone you didn't pick to skim across the river, my leading edge, too proud to lightly kiss the water. Daniel Duggan
June 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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I miss looking up to dad, seeing the underneath of his chin #FathersDay
Poem I’m forty eight but I still drew my dad a card and sent it to him because growing up never occurred to me. I didn’t get a letter stating when to mature from the government. I’m sure my parents mentioned it at some point but no doubt I was daydreaming at the time. I got my pens and pencils out and thought of where we used to walk when I wasn’t growing up. We would wander around the Lido Park, inspecting the bandstand, guessing how cold the water in the outdoor swimming pool was. I had a Tigger in each leg back then. Gravity had a right battle keeping me from cavorting with the Starlings. I miss looking up to Dad, seeing the underneath of his chin, but puberty came and gave me long legs. I draw so he can still show people what his little boy made him. Daniel Duggan
June 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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I share unpublished short stories about women in bars on my Substack for paid subscribers (there are about 8 or so of them up there now). Sometimes they even include a brief heron, spider or - like this one - an unexpected goat. open.substack.com/pub/helenmor...
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May 20, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Everyone needs a Bacchus on (and in) their fridge…
historical3d.bsky.social Joanna 🌿Historical 3D Printing🌿 @historical3d.bsky.social · May 6
First full set of fridge magnets with size reference.
Now I am working on more sets!

#ancientbluesky #museumreplica #museum #history #sculpture #art #ancientart #archeology
May 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Everyday moments are never everyday #poetry
May 6, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Spring poetry #poetry
Poem I've got the sun's hat on and yes, it is a little big for me so I'm holding at a jaunty angle between my finger and thumb to keep it out of my eyes as I skip down the street. I sing Good Morning to everyone I meet until my lips crack. I'll not hibernate again.
April 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Care bears #poetry
Poem I took today at the neck of dawn, and throttled it of light. There are ash hours, all over my furnace fingers and I don't care for it, or myself one bit. Daniel Duggan
April 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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You are not defined or confined by the slant skin that you shelter yourself in.
#poetry
Poem I have sat naked, examining my rib bones with my fingertips and tried to find where the birdcage door is, and it took until now to realise that all I have to do, is open my mouth and let myself out. Daniel Duggan
April 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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I wish I could wear light as easily by Daniel Duggan #poetry
Poem about Spring
April 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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They'll wait
#poetry
I know what I heard. A caught memory echoing from the closed hand of a statue. The dead girl halted just long enough to tell me they'll wait, don't succumb to the acute hurt and begin carrying rocks. You'll be irretrievable. They'll wait. Daniel Duggan
April 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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This week’s #PoemsAbout theme is #Saltwater! 🌊

🖋 Write your poem.
📅 Share it Friday for feedback from @alanparry83.bsky.social.
Let’s create poems that #TakeRisks & #LeaveScars!

#Authentic #EndOnAnImage #LightAndDark
April 6, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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These newsletter prompts are 😱🔥 this week. Be difficult not to write at least three of them.

Thanks @alanparry83.bsky.social #poemsabout

A huge amount of work goes into putting that out for us I'm sure, and it really does work for me each week.
thebrokenspine.co.uk The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · Apr 5
Thanks for showing up for #PoemsAbout — you lot always bring it.

Next Friday’s theme drops tomorrow, unless you're on the newsletter — then it's in your inbox today.

But here’s the big one:

Monday is #LiftToTheSky. Lift others. Give back. No ego. Just love.
April 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Helen Mort reflects on identity, place, and the intersections of human experience in her poetry.

📖 Read her interview:
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#PoetryOfPlace #HelenMort
Dog Ear Feature - Interview with Helen Mort - The Broken Spine
https://youtu.be/ClklJkyVa5k
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April 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM