Deborah
@deborahzafer.bsky.social
Reading, writing, poems, rabbits 🐇 ✡️ Mostly writing short fiction. Director of European Writers Salon @saloneurope.bsky.social
www.deborahzafer.com
www.deborahzafer.com
These Poems, She Said
Robert Bringhurst
Robert Bringhurst
November 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
These Poems, She Said
Robert Bringhurst
Robert Bringhurst
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Mark it down: Dec 20th @ 20.00 — #PoemsAbout #OpenMic + #ChristmasParty returns! Poets, readers, friends — one final night to lift your words before the year ends. 🎤✨
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November 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Mark it down: Dec 20th @ 20.00 — #PoemsAbout #OpenMic + #ChristmasParty returns! Poets, readers, friends — one final night to lift your words before the year ends. 🎤✨
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1967176915...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1967176915...
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Last week burned bright. This week: #Desire — ache, hunger, want, undoing. What pulls you toward the flame? New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be found. For Saturday prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
November 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Last week burned bright. This week: #Desire — ache, hunger, want, undoing. What pulls you toward the flame? New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout to be found. For Saturday prompts: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
November 9, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Bad news in bunland.
A new rift has arisen.
Sometimes these last days. Sometimes weeks.
Tune in for news as it breaks.
A new rift has arisen.
Sometimes these last days. Sometimes weeks.
Tune in for news as it breaks.
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Bad news in bunland.
A new rift has arisen.
Sometimes these last days. Sometimes weeks.
Tune in for news as it breaks.
A new rift has arisen.
Sometimes these last days. Sometimes weeks.
Tune in for news as it breaks.
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Happy Sunday all!
I'm enjoying this dark tale of desire, envy, sadness, rage and disappointment in the world of academia.
What are you reading on this autumnal day? 📚 🍂
I'm enjoying this dark tale of desire, envy, sadness, rage and disappointment in the world of academia.
What are you reading on this autumnal day? 📚 🍂
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Happy Sunday all!
I'm enjoying this dark tale of desire, envy, sadness, rage and disappointment in the world of academia.
What are you reading on this autumnal day? 📚 🍂
I'm enjoying this dark tale of desire, envy, sadness, rage and disappointment in the world of academia.
What are you reading on this autumnal day? 📚 🍂
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Leonard Cohen, who died nine years ago today, recites W.B.Yeats at Lissadell House, Sligo, July 31st, 2010.
youtu.be/n5vYpWCbHsE?...
youtu.be/n5vYpWCbHsE?...
Sligo, Leonard Cohen Recites W.B.Yeats, Lissadell House, july 31st , 2010
YouTube video by albertnoonan
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November 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Leonard Cohen, who died nine years ago today, recites W.B.Yeats at Lissadell House, Sligo, July 31st, 2010.
youtu.be/n5vYpWCbHsE?...
youtu.be/n5vYpWCbHsE?...
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Build your knowledge of poetic style and form with our very first course series✨
Have you ever wanted to write poetry but felt held back by your lack of formal knowledge? Or are you already writing poetry and would like a better grounding?
Have you ever wanted to write poetry but felt held back by your lack of formal knowledge? Or are you already writing poetry and would like a better grounding?
November 5, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Build your knowledge of poetic style and form with our very first course series✨
Have you ever wanted to write poetry but felt held back by your lack of formal knowledge? Or are you already writing poetry and would like a better grounding?
Have you ever wanted to write poetry but felt held back by your lack of formal knowledge? Or are you already writing poetry and would like a better grounding?
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Booking for our next online salon, 28 Jan is open!
Amazing line-up of readers
Host @kiklodge.bsky.social
Quiz and community
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
Amazing line-up of readers
Host @kiklodge.bsky.social
Quiz and community
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
November 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Booking for our next online salon, 28 Jan is open!
Amazing line-up of readers
Host @kiklodge.bsky.social
Quiz and community
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
Amazing line-up of readers
Host @kiklodge.bsky.social
Quiz and community
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-w...
Never going to get over that all this happened from a tweet and now here we are and I've met so many amazing people ❤️
Exciting to have the first meeting of our new Steering Group! We've got lots of exciting plans for 2025/6 and beyond and such great people to help make it happen ✨️
Who can you spy? 🔎🔎
Who can you spy? 🔎🔎
November 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Never going to get over that all this happened from a tweet and now here we are and I've met so many amazing people ❤️
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Miklós Radnóti, tr. Nicholas Kolumban
November 6, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Miklós Radnóti, tr. Nicholas Kolumban
Finding this a delicious read. Recommend!
November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Finding this a delicious read. Recommend!
Next session 23 November - Rhythm and The Ballad.
Join us! 🖊 🖋
Join us! 🖊 🖋
Build your knowledge of poetic style and form with our very first course series✨
Have you ever wanted to write poetry but felt held back by your lack of formal knowledge? Or are you already writing poetry and would like a better grounding?
Have you ever wanted to write poetry but felt held back by your lack of formal knowledge? Or are you already writing poetry and would like a better grounding?
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Next session 23 November - Rhythm and The Ballad.
Join us! 🖊 🖋
Join us! 🖊 🖋
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5 tickets left....
Only a few tickets left for London!
✨Pop-up Salon at Queen’s Larder, where we’ll be hosting another of our popular open mic nights with our friends at Insurgent Press🌟
We’ll listen to excellent readings and get to know writers from across Europe
✨Pop-up Salon at Queen’s Larder, where we’ll be hosting another of our popular open mic nights with our friends at Insurgent Press🌟
We’ll listen to excellent readings and get to know writers from across Europe
November 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
5 tickets left....
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This is the single most insightful, helpful thing I have ever encountered about navigating the so-called midlife crisis www.themarginalian.org/2024/03/03/t...
The Middle Passage: A Jungian Field Guide to Finding Meaning and Transformation in Midlife
“Our task at midlife is to be strong enough to relinquish the ego-urgencies of the first half and open ourselves to a greater wonder.”
www.themarginalian.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This is the single most insightful, helpful thing I have ever encountered about navigating the so-called midlife crisis www.themarginalian.org/2024/03/03/t...
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Only a few tickets left for London!
✨Pop-up Salon at Queen’s Larder, where we’ll be hosting another of our popular open mic nights with our friends at Insurgent Press🌟
We’ll listen to excellent readings and get to know writers from across Europe
✨Pop-up Salon at Queen’s Larder, where we’ll be hosting another of our popular open mic nights with our friends at Insurgent Press🌟
We’ll listen to excellent readings and get to know writers from across Europe
November 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Only a few tickets left for London!
✨Pop-up Salon at Queen’s Larder, where we’ll be hosting another of our popular open mic nights with our friends at Insurgent Press🌟
We’ll listen to excellent readings and get to know writers from across Europe
✨Pop-up Salon at Queen’s Larder, where we’ll be hosting another of our popular open mic nights with our friends at Insurgent Press🌟
We’ll listen to excellent readings and get to know writers from across Europe
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Happy Halloween! Today is the FINAL DAY for submissions to the National Poetry Competition. Be sure to enter your poetry by 11:59pm (GMT) tonight - no tricks about it! 🎃 👻
npc.poetrysociety.org.uk
npc.poetrysociety.org.uk
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Happy Halloween! Today is the FINAL DAY for submissions to the National Poetry Competition. Be sure to enter your poetry by 11:59pm (GMT) tonight - no tricks about it! 🎃 👻
npc.poetrysociety.org.uk
npc.poetrysociety.org.uk
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On a poet hunt. Any word welders up for online open-miking on 28th January? @saloneurope.bsky.social
a black and white photo of a man with the word poetry in pink letters
ALT: a black and white photo of a man with the word poetry in pink letters
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October 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On a poet hunt. Any word welders up for online open-miking on 28th January? @saloneurope.bsky.social
Thank you for having me @allgoodbookshop.co.uk! Such a good night 🎤
October 30, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Thank you for having me @allgoodbookshop.co.uk! Such a good night 🎤
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We're nearly down to the wire for submissions of short stories, CNF, flash and poetry for Issue 4 of @frazzledlit.bsky.social.
Closes at midnight GMT tomorrow, so get those pieces in!
www.frazzledlit.com/p/come-on-in...
Closes at midnight GMT tomorrow, so get those pieces in!
www.frazzledlit.com/p/come-on-in...
Come on in, and join the Frazz Family!
We are OPEN for submissions!
www.frazzledlit.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
We're nearly down to the wire for submissions of short stories, CNF, flash and poetry for Issue 4 of @frazzledlit.bsky.social.
Closes at midnight GMT tomorrow, so get those pieces in!
www.frazzledlit.com/p/come-on-in...
Closes at midnight GMT tomorrow, so get those pieces in!
www.frazzledlit.com/p/come-on-in...
Looking forward to reading tonight at the Insurgent Press open mic night @allgoodbookshop.co.uk
I'll be reading a poem called My Mother: The Sequel, in which I give my amazing mum the ending(s) she deserved ❤️
I'll be reading a poem called My Mother: The Sequel, in which I give my amazing mum the ending(s) she deserved ❤️
October 30, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Looking forward to reading tonight at the Insurgent Press open mic night @allgoodbookshop.co.uk
I'll be reading a poem called My Mother: The Sequel, in which I give my amazing mum the ending(s) she deserved ❤️
I'll be reading a poem called My Mother: The Sequel, in which I give my amazing mum the ending(s) she deserved ❤️
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Writing our listings email tonight
If you have a submission call, competition, event, course or anything else writers would like to know about, please let us know!
If you have a submission call, competition, event, course or anything else writers would like to know about, please let us know!
October 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Writing our listings email tonight
If you have a submission call, competition, event, course or anything else writers would like to know about, please let us know!
If you have a submission call, competition, event, course or anything else writers would like to know about, please let us know!
My parent's bridesmaids had strong Halloween vibes.
Possibly, they realised the marriage was doomed...
Possibly, they realised the marriage was doomed...
October 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
My parent's bridesmaids had strong Halloween vibes.
Possibly, they realised the marriage was doomed...
Possibly, they realised the marriage was doomed...