Ruth Stacey
@drruthstacey.bsky.social
Poet who sticks emotions into all things. New collection 'Feel Everything!' out with KF&S Press April 2025. Just finished a fantasy novel and now writing short stories. I love books and writing. Lecturer at Worcester University.
Thank you for this review of Feel Everything! @catherineredford.bsky.social
read the collection through twice and still have at least a dozen poems marked to read again. Incredibly well-researched, but also rich with beauty, intuition, and sensitivity, this is a collection that I can recommended wholeheartedly. @drruthstacey.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Thank you for this review of Feel Everything! @catherineredford.bsky.social
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Another enjoyable evening last night at @scripthavenltd.bsky.social Alchemy of Words - in conversation with @drruthstacey.bsky.social & Barbara Erskine about resilient women in literature. A really insightful conversation & engaged audience.
One more event there for me - poetry panel tonight.
One more event there for me - poetry panel tonight.
June 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Another enjoyable evening last night at @scripthavenltd.bsky.social Alchemy of Words - in conversation with @drruthstacey.bsky.social & Barbara Erskine about resilient women in literature. A really insightful conversation & engaged audience.
One more event there for me - poetry panel tonight.
One more event there for me - poetry panel tonight.
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Your poems are your children. Love them. Tell other people you love them. Be ambitious for them. Don’t let them have their mates round when you’re not home.
March 16, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Your poems are your children. Love them. Tell other people you love them. Be ambitious for them. Don’t let them have their mates round when you’re not home.
Poets: what was your worst review? My favourites: (I, Ursula) 'This sounds like a feminist strain of madness.' & (How to Wear Grunge)'Here is an author that really hasn't got a clue: about poetry, language... sappy, half-arsed, melodramatic scribble...'
Embrace the bad reviews, they need love too ❤️
Embrace the bad reviews, they need love too ❤️
March 16, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Poets: what was your worst review? My favourites: (I, Ursula) 'This sounds like a feminist strain of madness.' & (How to Wear Grunge)'Here is an author that really hasn't got a clue: about poetry, language... sappy, half-arsed, melodramatic scribble...'
Embrace the bad reviews, they need love too ❤️
Embrace the bad reviews, they need love too ❤️
I watched Twin Peaks and other David Lynch films as a young teen. I think Lynch created visuals that seared themselves inside my mind, often uncomfortably, full of colour symbolism, surrealness, rawness. Incredible filmmaker.
January 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I watched Twin Peaks and other David Lynch films as a young teen. I think Lynch created visuals that seared themselves inside my mind, often uncomfortably, full of colour symbolism, surrealness, rawness. Incredible filmmaker.
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How many books did you read as a child, where the discovery of a concealed room was one of the most exciting parts of the story? Here's a post about secret rooms - and Bloody Chambers! steelthistles.blogspot.com/2016/07/secr...
Secret Rooms, Bloody Chambers
When I was twelve, my brother and I had a den in an unused outbuilding belonging to the house we lived in. We trod a narrow wi...
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January 14, 2025 at 9:59 AM
How many books did you read as a child, where the discovery of a concealed room was one of the most exciting parts of the story? Here's a post about secret rooms - and Bloody Chambers! steelthistles.blogspot.com/2016/07/secr...
Now this word can dance inside my mind in those sorrowful moments before the dawn. Perhaps it will chase the worries away.
Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.
January 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Now this word can dance inside my mind in those sorrowful moments before the dawn. Perhaps it will chase the worries away.
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If you sign up to my monthly newsletter (assuming I've got all the link right!) you'll now get a FREE novella, True Voyage is Return, which was written last year for a special project.
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January 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
If you sign up to my monthly newsletter (assuming I've got all the link right!) you'll now get a FREE novella, True Voyage is Return, which was written last year for a special project.
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dl.bookfunnel.com/w7t6xn5doh
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Join me on Zoom next Mon Jan 13 (7-8.30-pm UK) to spot your writing habits/taboos & how you might be getting in your own way! Booking here - free & half price places for those who need - and if you can't make it live, all ticket-holders get the recording after: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
January 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Join me on Zoom next Mon Jan 13 (7-8.30-pm UK) to spot your writing habits/taboos & how you might be getting in your own way! Booking here - free & half price places for those who need - and if you can't make it live, all ticket-holders get the recording after: www.tickettailor.com/events/tania...
Still can't believe my story won second prize in Anna's competition...gave me a big kick of self belief in my prose writing. Thank you @annasmithwrites.bsky.social for choosing my story and for running the comp with such amazing prizes...
I'm pleased to announce the winners of my short story competition have been announced! It was really fun to see all the diverse and interesting interpretation of the theme - Darkness Falls - and the quality of storytelling was excellent. Details here anna-stephens.com/2024/12/02/d...
Darkness Falls short story winners
It’s taken a little longer than I wanted due to other commitments, but I’ve finished my judging for the short story competition I ran a couple of months ago. It was brilliant to see how…
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December 13, 2024 at 7:54 AM
Still can't believe my story won second prize in Anna's competition...gave me a big kick of self belief in my prose writing. Thank you @annasmithwrites.bsky.social for choosing my story and for running the comp with such amazing prizes...
This is the best advice and just what I needed right now. Thanks @pascalepetit.bsky.social
There are things that break you as a poet and writer. Often you can’t even mention them. All you can do is go back to the work, the writing process will help you survive, go back & every single improvement will help to save you, keep going, the art is what matters, not the rest.
December 3, 2024 at 4:51 PM
This is the best advice and just what I needed right now. Thanks @pascalepetit.bsky.social
Lost myself in this incredible book by @rachelartsmith.bsky.social 'the moment is repeated. and again. her folded. present. is spread out. a tablecloth.' The erasures and layering of voice create the subjective, decorative experience I am fascinated by in my current research.
November 30, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Lost myself in this incredible book by @rachelartsmith.bsky.social 'the moment is repeated. and again. her folded. present. is spread out. a tablecloth.' The erasures and layering of voice create the subjective, decorative experience I am fascinated by in my current research.
One of the uplifting parts of my job are the conversations I have with writers who come to the Hive Library in Worcester. November's guest was the poet Sabeen Chaudhry who was generous with her insights into her craft. 📝📖
November 28, 2024 at 8:29 PM
One of the uplifting parts of my job are the conversations I have with writers who come to the Hive Library in Worcester. November's guest was the poet Sabeen Chaudhry who was generous with her insights into her craft. 📝📖
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My recent collection
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November 23, 2024 at 1:21 PM
My recent collection
www.serenbooks.com/book/youll-n...
www.serenbooks.com/book/youll-n...
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Hey poets! Check out BERNADETTE MAYER's list of poetry experiments/prompts. Blow your mind and never be stuck again: www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Maye...
November 21, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Hey poets! Check out BERNADETTE MAYER's list of poetry experiments/prompts. Blow your mind and never be stuck again: www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Maye...
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I’ve started a substack called CLARE’S POETRY CIRCLE. It’s free to read and subscribe. Today we’ve begun a readalong of Keats’ LAMIA 🐍🐍🐍 Do read part one and join the conversation!
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Reading ‘Lamia’ by John Keats
Part One
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November 20, 2024 at 8:27 PM
I’ve started a substack called CLARE’S POETRY CIRCLE. It’s free to read and subscribe. Today we’ve begun a readalong of Keats’ LAMIA 🐍🐍🐍 Do read part one and join the conversation!
clarespoetrycircle.substack.com/p/reading-la...
clarespoetrycircle.substack.com/p/reading-la...
I run a Reading Series event at the Hive Library, Worcester where I invite a writer to chat about their practice, followed by a reading of their latest work. My next guest is Sabeen Chaudhry 27th Nov. And it's free, just book through the library. 📖
November 21, 2024 at 8:56 AM
I run a Reading Series event at the Hive Library, Worcester where I invite a writer to chat about their practice, followed by a reading of their latest work. My next guest is Sabeen Chaudhry 27th Nov. And it's free, just book through the library. 📖
A brilliant line up and it's free!
ONLINE POETRY READING coming up! Featuring Tiffany Atkinson, Rachael Boast, Katy Evans-Bush & Adam Horovitz
4 Dec at 8pm London time - it's free, but book here:
@tiffanya.bsky.social
@rachaelboast.bsky.social
@adamhorovitz.bsky.social
#PoetsOnBluesky
Wooo! 🎉
4 Dec at 8pm London time - it's free, but book here:
@tiffanya.bsky.social
@rachaelboast.bsky.social
@adamhorovitz.bsky.social
#PoetsOnBluesky
Wooo! 🎉
Select tickets – Four Poets: Atkinson, Boast, Evans-Bush & Horovitz – Zoom
Join us for an evening of poetry, just when we need it most. Celebrating new pamphlets by Rachael Boast (TIMESLIPS, Clutag Pres...
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November 20, 2024 at 7:56 AM
A brilliant line up and it's free!
People ask me what books I recommend...here's one 📖
November 19, 2024 at 1:23 PM
People ask me what books I recommend...here's one 📖
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🌱 Today’s haiku:
swans glide gently on
a glass shard canal — winter
paints their quiet path
Feeling grateful on my morning run along the Edinburgh canal.
(Image: Winter in Bruges, Belgium by Louis Joseph Reckelbus)
#Haiku
#Poetry
#BlueSkyPoets
swans glide gently on
a glass shard canal — winter
paints their quiet path
Feeling grateful on my morning run along the Edinburgh canal.
(Image: Winter in Bruges, Belgium by Louis Joseph Reckelbus)
#Haiku
#Poetry
#BlueSkyPoets
November 19, 2024 at 9:25 AM
🌱 Today’s haiku:
swans glide gently on
a glass shard canal — winter
paints their quiet path
Feeling grateful on my morning run along the Edinburgh canal.
(Image: Winter in Bruges, Belgium by Louis Joseph Reckelbus)
#Haiku
#Poetry
#BlueSkyPoets
swans glide gently on
a glass shard canal — winter
paints their quiet path
Feeling grateful on my morning run along the Edinburgh canal.
(Image: Winter in Bruges, Belgium by Louis Joseph Reckelbus)
#Haiku
#Poetry
#BlueSkyPoets
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This is the first poem in Constructing a Witch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social and the first poem I read at an event. Rahhh!
November 18, 2024 at 4:52 PM
This is the first poem in Constructing a Witch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social and the first poem I read at an event. Rahhh!
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My 2024 has been books about women: freebleeding @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social with Charley Barnes, i get lost … @salopress.bsky.social with @galiamelon.bsky.social and Portrait in Mustard - Seren, with the speaker of my poems in a wardrobe of charity shop clothes ❤️
November 19, 2024 at 7:39 AM
My 2024 has been books about women: freebleeding @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social with Charley Barnes, i get lost … @salopress.bsky.social with @galiamelon.bsky.social and Portrait in Mustard - Seren, with the speaker of my poems in a wardrobe of charity shop clothes ❤️
Pamela Colman Smith was a brilliant illustrator and a passionate, ambitious woman, underpaid and sidelined in her lifetime. She strived so hard for success and her frustration is palpable a century later. In a 1901 letter to Alfred Bigelow Paine, she wrote, “Pigs! The publishers are all pigs!?!”
November 17, 2024 at 9:58 AM
Pamela Colman Smith was a brilliant illustrator and a passionate, ambitious woman, underpaid and sidelined in her lifetime. She strived so hard for success and her frustration is palpable a century later. In a 1901 letter to Alfred Bigelow Paine, she wrote, “Pigs! The publishers are all pigs!?!”
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love a good “O” in a poem, little fearless halo, the line’s volume knob turned all the way up, the stanza’s submarine window through which we glimpse an ocean of thought and feeling
November 16, 2024 at 1:03 PM
love a good “O” in a poem, little fearless halo, the line’s volume knob turned all the way up, the stanza’s submarine window through which we glimpse an ocean of thought and feeling