Lesley Curwen
@elcurwen.bsky.social
Poet, broadcaster, journalist, ex-BBC presenter, sailor, sea-swimmer.
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Thrilled to be hosting the imminent take-off of @elcurwen.bsky.social & Stephen Paul Wren's collaboration, plus a few poems from my new one and very special guests @jirobb.bsky.social @paulwritespoems.bsky.social and @annasaund.bsky.social 29 Nov at 7.00pm
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Last Saturday Poetry: Get ready for take-off!
Celebrating the imminent launch of two new poetry collections
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November 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Thrilled to be hosting the imminent take-off of @elcurwen.bsky.social & Stephen Paul Wren's collaboration, plus a few poems from my new one and very special guests @jirobb.bsky.social @paulwritespoems.bsky.social and @annasaund.bsky.social 29 Nov at 7.00pm
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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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Wow! This feels like it was an AGE ago ... when in fact, it's been less than a year since this appeared.
My thanks, still, to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social, and my former BBC journalist interviewer @elcurwen.bsky.social. 🙏🏼
My thanks, still, to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social, and my former BBC journalist interviewer @elcurwen.bsky.social. 🙏🏼
Our Christmas 2024 feature, Mark Antony Owen - a #SilverBranch special.
'their orchestra of shovels tuning up on the ice' @markantonyowen.com
www.blackboughpoetry.com/mark-antony-owen-christmas-24
'their orchestra of shovels tuning up on the ice' @markantonyowen.com
www.blackboughpoetry.com/mark-antony-owen-christmas-24
November 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Wow! This feels like it was an AGE ago ... when in fact, it's been less than a year since this appeared.
My thanks, still, to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social, and my former BBC journalist interviewer @elcurwen.bsky.social. 🙏🏼
My thanks, still, to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social, and my former BBC journalist interviewer @elcurwen.bsky.social. 🙏🏼
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Never buy leasehold (if you can avoid it) part 94 bit.ly/4qG8soL “escalating charges, poor service quality, opaque fees and a lack of communication” MB these are failings, not alleged failings.
Forced out of retirement by a £25k bill: MPs probe freeholder over service charges
Residents launch fightback against Britain’s biggest freeholder’s fees
bit.ly
November 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Never buy leasehold (if you can avoid it) part 94 bit.ly/4qG8soL “escalating charges, poor service quality, opaque fees and a lack of communication” MB these are failings, not alleged failings.
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It's not a grassroots working class movement.
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
The men who raised the flags
Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found
manchestermill.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
It's not a grassroots working class movement.
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
"Wherever we looked for prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler."
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
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So excited for tomorrow’s Dublin launch @eatthestorms.com Issue V when we will celebrate with some of our wonderful contributors whose stunning work makes this issue so special. It’s been amazing to be subeditor to our phenomenal EIC Damien B Donnelly. Time to Shine Stormers!⭐️🍾 🥂 ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
So excited for tomorrow’s Dublin launch @eatthestorms.com Issue V when we will celebrate with some of our wonderful contributors whose stunning work makes this issue so special. It’s been amazing to be subeditor to our phenomenal EIC Damien B Donnelly. Time to Shine Stormers!⭐️🍾 🥂 ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
October 31, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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So excited for tomorrow’s Dublin launch @eatthestorms.com Issue V when we will celebrate with some of our wonderful contributors whose stunning work makes this issue so special. It’s been amazing to be subeditor to our phenomenal EIC Damien B Donnelly. Time to Shine Stormers!⭐️🍾 🥂 ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
So excited for tomorrow’s Dublin launch @eatthestorms.com Issue V when we will celebrate with some of our wonderful contributors whose stunning work makes this issue so special. It’s been amazing to be subeditor to our phenomenal EIC Damien B Donnelly. Time to Shine Stormers!⭐️🍾 🥂 ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
Sounds like @bbcradio 4 has been speeded up on the Sunday programme debate on the Church of England! Surely no one speaks that fast? OMG!!
October 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Sounds like @bbcradio 4 has been speeded up on the Sunday programme debate on the Church of England! Surely no one speaks that fast? OMG!!
Thanks to Damien @eatthestorms.com and @rhonagreene.bsky.social for making me a Stormer for Issue V.
Meet the Stormers of Issue V
@elcurwen.bsky.social is a poet, broadcaster & sailor who lives in Plymouth. Her pamphlets are Rescue Lines Sticky with Miles. She is working with Stephen Paul Wren, on a poetic collaboration.
The Storms is supported by @fingal.ie @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
@elcurwen.bsky.social is a poet, broadcaster & sailor who lives in Plymouth. Her pamphlets are Rescue Lines Sticky with Miles. She is working with Stephen Paul Wren, on a poetic collaboration.
The Storms is supported by @fingal.ie @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Thanks to Damien @eatthestorms.com and @rhonagreene.bsky.social for making me a Stormer for Issue V.
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President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE
YouTube video by WION
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October 4, 2025 at 3:59 AM
President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
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We’re pleased to share a new piece of writing by the Quay Words Summer 2025 writer-in-residence Kirsteen McNish.
Here's ‘There are tides everywhere.’ quaywords.org.uk/there-are-ti...
Here's ‘There are tides everywhere.’ quaywords.org.uk/there-are-ti...
Quay Words at Exeter Custom House | ‘There are tides, everywhere.’ by Kirsteen McNish
Kirsteen McNish was the Quay Words writer-in-residence for Summer 2025. During her ‘Tides’ residency at Exeter Custom House, she set out to explore the tides’ influence on our psyche, excavate…
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October 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We’re pleased to share a new piece of writing by the Quay Words Summer 2025 writer-in-residence Kirsteen McNish.
Here's ‘There are tides everywhere.’ quaywords.org.uk/there-are-ti...
Here's ‘There are tides everywhere.’ quaywords.org.uk/there-are-ti...
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My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK f...
Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage ...
observer.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 6:09 AM
My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Well worth a read
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
Thank you @catherineredford.bsky.social for reading my pamphlet 'Rescue Lines', a poetic meditation on finding and losing a sister. 🙏 @hedgehogpress.co.uk Signed copies still available by DM.
Today’s #sealeychallenge read has been the gorgeous ‘Rescue Lines’ by @elcurwen.bsky.social. I was completely drawn in by these poems of loss and rescue, which are framed by the risk and comfort of the sea 💙
August 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Thank you @catherineredford.bsky.social for reading my pamphlet 'Rescue Lines', a poetic meditation on finding and losing a sister. 🙏 @hedgehogpress.co.uk Signed copies still available by DM.
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Thanks to @zoebrigley.bsky.social for interviewing me about my poem 'A night on the river Yealm' for @modronmagazine.bsky.social. modronmagazine.com/2025/04/06/t...
The More Than Human Perspective in Environmental Poetry: A Poem and Interview with Lesley Curwen
In this interview, Lesley Curwen discusses her writing process, particularly in relation to nature and ocean pollution. Her poem “Night on the Yealm” captures a quiet moment on a sailin…
modronmagazine.com
April 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Thanks to @zoebrigley.bsky.social for interviewing me about my poem 'A night on the river Yealm' for @modronmagazine.bsky.social. modronmagazine.com/2025/04/06/t...
Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for reading my book 'Sticky with Miles' about damage done by global trade for @sealeychallenge.bsky.social. DM me for a signed copy. @dreich.bsky.social
Day 28, @sealeychallenge.bsky.social ‘Sticky with Miles’, Lesley Curwen. #dreich #poetry #books #writing #readers @elcurwen.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for reading my book 'Sticky with Miles' about damage done by global trade for @sealeychallenge.bsky.social. DM me for a signed copy. @dreich.bsky.social
For ##PoemsAbout #chandeliers, a poem that riffs on that image. For @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and the ##poetsofbluesky community.
August 22, 2025 at 9:02 AM
For ##PoemsAbout #chandeliers, a poem that riffs on that image. For @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk and the ##poetsofbluesky community.
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Tomorrow! www.tickettailor.com/events/sdhep...
Come and join us, it will be an evening filled with poetry and love.
#PoetrySky #Fundraiser
Come and join us, it will be an evening filled with poetry and love.
#PoetrySky #Fundraiser
August 13, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Tomorrow! www.tickettailor.com/events/sdhep...
Come and join us, it will be an evening filled with poetry and love.
#PoetrySky #Fundraiser
Come and join us, it will be an evening filled with poetry and love.
#PoetrySky #Fundraiser
I recommend this novel by Briony Collins. Read my blog here: www.lesleycurwenpoet.com/ambergris-a-...
‘Ambergris’, a novel by Briony Collins – Lesley Curwen
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August 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I recommend this novel by Briony Collins. Read my blog here: www.lesleycurwenpoet.com/ambergris-a-...
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📣 Our #SilverBranch series feature poet for August 2025 ☀️ 📣
Sue Finch @suefinch.bsky.social 🖊️ 💎
‘I will howl for its dark future’ 🦇
Full feature:
blackboughpoetry.com/sue-finch-augu…#poetryr#writingcommunityty
Sue Finch @suefinch.bsky.social 🖊️ 💎
‘I will howl for its dark future’ 🦇
Full feature:
blackboughpoetry.com/sue-finch-augu…#poetryr#writingcommunityty
August 4, 2025 at 10:51 AM
📣 Our #SilverBranch series feature poet for August 2025 ☀️ 📣
Sue Finch @suefinch.bsky.social 🖊️ 💎
‘I will howl for its dark future’ 🦇
Full feature:
blackboughpoetry.com/sue-finch-augu…#poetryr#writingcommunityty
Sue Finch @suefinch.bsky.social 🖊️ 💎
‘I will howl for its dark future’ 🦇
Full feature:
blackboughpoetry.com/sue-finch-augu…#poetryr#writingcommunityty
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A great BBC Upload shout out for the launch of my new poetry collection ‘Why I Wear My Past to Work’ at The Bridge Inn, Bristol (28th Sept). With mention of Bob Walton, Helen Sheppard, @tomsastry.bsky.social & the rest of the top line up. You can hear a poem too: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
August 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
A great BBC Upload shout out for the launch of my new poetry collection ‘Why I Wear My Past to Work’ at The Bridge Inn, Bristol (28th Sept). With mention of Bob Walton, Helen Sheppard, @tomsastry.bsky.social & the rest of the top line up. You can hear a poem too: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Fiction from Japan, a #memoir of adolescence & essays on New York life in today’s A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 The barrister & writer @robrinder.bsky.social & author @junodawson.bsky.social talk #books with @harriettsg.bsky.social Producer Sally Heaven #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Rob Rinder and Juno Dawson
The barrister and the writer discuss books they feel passionate about.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Fiction from Japan, a #memoir of adolescence & essays on New York life in today’s A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 The barrister & writer @robrinder.bsky.social & author @junodawson.bsky.social talk #books with @harriettsg.bsky.social Producer Sally Heaven #fiction www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Have really enjoyed being part of Jack Caradoc's THE CANDYMAN'S TRUMPET @dreich.bsky.social 🎺
An eclectic, thought-provoking, culturally relevant magazine.🖤
Here's my poem- GETTING PIERCED! A reflection on the 90's & my memories of Camden Lock.
#Camden
#PoemsAboutPiercings
#90s
#CamdenTown
#Poems
An eclectic, thought-provoking, culturally relevant magazine.🖤
Here's my poem- GETTING PIERCED! A reflection on the 90's & my memories of Camden Lock.
#Camden
#PoemsAboutPiercings
#90s
#CamdenTown
#Poems
August 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Have really enjoyed being part of Jack Caradoc's THE CANDYMAN'S TRUMPET @dreich.bsky.social 🎺
An eclectic, thought-provoking, culturally relevant magazine.🖤
Here's my poem- GETTING PIERCED! A reflection on the 90's & my memories of Camden Lock.
#Camden
#PoemsAboutPiercings
#90s
#CamdenTown
#Poems
An eclectic, thought-provoking, culturally relevant magazine.🖤
Here's my poem- GETTING PIERCED! A reflection on the 90's & my memories of Camden Lock.
#Camden
#PoemsAboutPiercings
#90s
#CamdenTown
#Poems
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Bridport Prize starter pack @bridportprize.bsky.social with winners & shortlisted writers including
@kitdewaal.com @dreenawriting.co.uk @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @esloudon.bsky.social Please follow & repost the pack & tell me if you want to be included #booksky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
@kitdewaal.com @dreenawriting.co.uk @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @esloudon.bsky.social Please follow & repost the pack & tell me if you want to be included #booksky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
August 3, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Bridport Prize starter pack @bridportprize.bsky.social with winners & shortlisted writers including
@kitdewaal.com @dreenawriting.co.uk @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @esloudon.bsky.social Please follow & repost the pack & tell me if you want to be included #booksky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
@kitdewaal.com @dreenawriting.co.uk @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @esloudon.bsky.social Please follow & repost the pack & tell me if you want to be included #booksky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity
This @bbcradio.bsky.social#SundayFeature on artist and writer Edward Gorey is brilliant - give it a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Sunday Feature - Make Everybody as Uneasy as Possible: Edward Gorey at 100 - BBC Sounds
Chris Riddell celebrates the centenary of the American artist and writer Edward Gorey.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
This @bbcradio.bsky.social#SundayFeature on artist and writer Edward Gorey is brilliant - give it a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Zadie Smith & Colm Tóibín join @harriettsg.bsky.social for today’s A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 A devoted father in Colombia, a modern-day picaresque through London, and a languid summer romance. Produced by Eliza Lomas #books #fiction #memoir www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - A Good Read, Zadie Smith and Colm Tóibín
Two authors join Harriett Gilbert to share favourite books.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Zadie Smith & Colm Tóibín join @harriettsg.bsky.social for today’s A Good Read 3pm @BBCRadio4 A devoted father in Colombia, a modern-day picaresque through London, and a languid summer romance. Produced by Eliza Lomas #books #fiction #memoir www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...