Sam Garvan
@garvansam.bsky.social
Poet. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
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The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Beautiful poem ...
often the shadow seems more real than the body
“After A Death”, Tomas Tranströmer (tr. from Swedish by Robert Bly)
“After A Death”, Tomas Tranströmer (tr. from Swedish by Robert Bly)
November 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Beautiful poem ...
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I don't know how to untangle joy from all the rest. But here's a joy: my debut poetry book is coming out with Orison & it has a cover & I'm pretty sure my mom beat you all to pre-ordering it. But if you'd like a copy, that'd mean the world to me. Here's the link:
www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...
www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...
Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Best, poems by Jane Zwart | Orison Books
Oddest & Oldest & Saddest & Bestpoems by Jane Zwart *available for pre-order* Orison Bookspaper / $18.00ISBN: 978-1-949039-68-9Publication Date: March 3, 2026 ABOUT THE BOOK As its title...
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August 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I don't know how to untangle joy from all the rest. But here's a joy: my debut poetry book is coming out with Orison & it has a cover & I'm pretty sure my mom beat you all to pre-ordering it. But if you'd like a copy, that'd mean the world to me. Here's the link:
www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...
www.orisonbooks.com/product-page...
Oh - this is a marvellous thing -
November 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Oh - this is a marvellous thing -
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November 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch to relaunch exclusive ‘advisory board’ for high-value donors.
Donors will have direct access to senior ministers, shape public policy.
What can the low/middle income households do?
Receipt/Payment of political donations must be criminalized.
Donors will have direct access to senior ministers, shape public policy.
What can the low/middle income households do?
Receipt/Payment of political donations must be criminalized.
Kemi Badenoch to relaunch exclusive ‘advisory board’ for high-value donors
Exclusive: Tory leader has plans to reinstate group that provided top donors with direct access to senior ministers
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch to relaunch exclusive ‘advisory board’ for high-value donors.
Donors will have direct access to senior ministers, shape public policy.
What can the low/middle income households do?
Receipt/Payment of political donations must be criminalized.
Donors will have direct access to senior ministers, shape public policy.
What can the low/middle income households do?
Receipt/Payment of political donations must be criminalized.
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What is your favourite bird?
These little sparrows are a detail of a two-fold painted and embroidered screen by Takeuchi Seihō.
These little sparrows are a detail of a two-fold painted and embroidered screen by Takeuchi Seihō.
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 AM
What is your favourite bird?
These little sparrows are a detail of a two-fold painted and embroidered screen by Takeuchi Seihō.
These little sparrows are a detail of a two-fold painted and embroidered screen by Takeuchi Seihō.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.
Sylvia Plath
Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.
Sylvia Plath
October 31, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.
Sylvia Plath
Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls.
Sylvia Plath
"It met that other spirit—the one placed there by her mother—and they twisted around each other in a swirling knot of smoke and old disappointments." Completely beautiful story ...
Forty-two to forty-two and the big blond chick kept mumbling “Eskimo.” She’d bump Heather’s hip and say, “Eskimo.” She’d drop her shoulder and push off and say, “Eskimo.”
~from "The Black Bear Month"
by David Crouse
AGNI 91
~from "The Black Bear Month"
by David Crouse
AGNI 91
The Black Bear Month
Forty-two to forty-two and the big blond chick kept mumbling “Eskimo.” She’d bump Heather’s hip and say, “Eskimo.” She’d drop her shoulder and push off and say, “Eskimo.” She’d give a secret shove…
buff.ly
October 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
"It met that other spirit—the one placed there by her mother—and they twisted around each other in a swirling knot of smoke and old disappointments." Completely beautiful story ...
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Hey all! If you’re outraged by Steve Reed’s u-turn on swift bricks, TELL HIM! Email mailto:steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk
Send him the link www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Send him the link www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes
Housing minister Steve Reed refuses to back mandating measure, despite giving support while in environment job
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Hey all! If you’re outraged by Steve Reed’s u-turn on swift bricks, TELL HIM! Email mailto:steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk
Send him the link www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Send him the link www.theguardian.com/environment/...
great ending ...
I thought this John Berryman poem, exhumed from an archive by Shane Macrae and published in the TLS, was very fine.
October 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
great ending ...
"Although they warned me about Gaston's gas gun
Twenty times an hour the gas gun startles me."
I'm enjoying the funny, lyrical, moving poems in 'Object Permanence' by @anneberkeley.bsky.social
Twenty times an hour the gas gun startles me."
I'm enjoying the funny, lyrical, moving poems in 'Object Permanence' by @anneberkeley.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 11:07 AM
"Although they warned me about Gaston's gas gun
Twenty times an hour the gas gun startles me."
I'm enjoying the funny, lyrical, moving poems in 'Object Permanence' by @anneberkeley.bsky.social
Twenty times an hour the gas gun startles me."
I'm enjoying the funny, lyrical, moving poems in 'Object Permanence' by @anneberkeley.bsky.social
Oh wow, this lady is so delightful and the story she tells so amazing and so terrible
A great video to shift perspective. The past is really not that far away.
america is such a young country.
October 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Oh wow, this lady is so delightful and the story she tells so amazing and so terrible
Looking forward very much to the launch at Heffers ...
This month, we are publishing The Banquet by Stav Poleg!🍽️
October 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Looking forward very much to the launch at Heffers ...
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Sir Gareth and the Red Knight. Stained glass of the 1930s by Martin Travers in Cheriton Church, Hampshire
October 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Sir Gareth and the Red Knight. Stained glass of the 1930s by Martin Travers in Cheriton Church, Hampshire
Oh - that poem is making me cry.
Fiona Benson. And an incredible poem by Artur Dron at the end. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘After the reading, the poets hold each other’: what happens when Ukraine’s largest literary festival comes under Russian attack
Fiona Benson was invited to Lviv’s BookForum by Ukrainian poet-soldier Artur Dron’. She recounts falling in love with the city and its thriving literary culture, before an air raid siren sounds
www.theguardian.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Oh - that poem is making me cry.
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In 2021 Afghan women started an online campaign to protest the Taliban's female dress code by posting photos of what traditional Afghan clothes look like #AfghanWomen
#WomensArt
#WomensArt
October 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
In 2021 Afghan women started an online campaign to protest the Taliban's female dress code by posting photos of what traditional Afghan clothes look like #AfghanWomen
#WomensArt
#WomensArt
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Every word of this
"a quarter of the typical energy bill in 2024 was profit. That is equivalent to every household paying £416 a year so other people can grow rich."
Excellent piece by Mathew Lawrence of the @Cmmonwealth thinktank
How the government keeps you poorer
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Excellent piece by Mathew Lawrence of the @Cmmonwealth thinktank
How the government keeps you poorer
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Every word of this
great poem ..
Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "A Short History of Birth Control" by Elizabeth Loudon (@esloudon.bsky.social) #TBT
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A Short History of Birth Control
by Elizabeth Loudon
Beneath a chilly bathroom floor in Kensington
the District Line dragged its down-under bodies,
shaking the smallest bones of my feet
as I smeared poison around the rim of rubber...
stonecirclereview.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:09 AM
great poem ..
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Coming soon coming soon.... an anthology of new work by writers who are also carers. I'm in here somewhere. Thank you so much to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and a heads up to @ylbooks.bsky.social and any other bookshops who might like to carry a copy (out in November).
October 10, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Coming soon coming soon.... an anthology of new work by writers who are also carers. I'm in here somewhere. Thank you so much to @bookwormvaught.bsky.social and a heads up to @ylbooks.bsky.social and any other bookshops who might like to carry a copy (out in November).
Beautiful
“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.”
The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
October 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Beautiful
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Unexpectedly splendid portrait of a dog - Josephine Bowes
October 8, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Unexpectedly splendid portrait of a dog - Josephine Bowes
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Νικόλας & Μιχάλης Καλιδώνης - «Νάτσα νάτσα γα»
#song #greeksong #greekmusic #kalymnos #traditionalsong
#song #greeksong #greekmusic #kalymnos #traditionalsong
ΝΑΤΣΑ - ΝΑΤΣΑ ΓΑ - Νικόλας & Μιχάλης #Καλιδώνης από #Κάλυμνο - #Παραδοσιακό Καλύμνου
YouTube video by Kriti Channel
youtu.be
October 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Νικόλας & Μιχάλης Καλιδώνης - «Νάτσα νάτσα γα»
#song #greeksong #greekmusic #kalymnos #traditionalsong
#song #greeksong #greekmusic #kalymnos #traditionalsong
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Here is a small thing you can for Palestine. Come to our event in Belfast on Saturday. Music, poetry and craic to raise funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Please share. Thank you x
October 6, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Here is a small thing you can for Palestine. Come to our event in Belfast on Saturday. Music, poetry and craic to raise funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians. Please share. Thank you x