@gbclarkson.bsky.social
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📚 It's August, which means the #SealeyChallenge is underway! To help you on your journey to read a book every day this month, The Poetry Society has gotten in touch with poets we've recently worked with for some recommendations.
Next up is Ian Duhig, who is on the judging panel for (...)
Next up is Ian Duhig, who is on the judging panel for (...)
August 24, 2025 at 9:00 AM
📚 It's August, which means the #SealeyChallenge is underway! To help you on your journey to read a book every day this month, The Poetry Society has gotten in touch with poets we've recently worked with for some recommendations.
Next up is Ian Duhig, who is on the judging panel for (...)
Next up is Ian Duhig, who is on the judging panel for (...)
Thanks to Ian Duhig for the kind and generous endorsement! 🙏🙏🙏 Have a lovely bank holiday, all! #LoseYourself 😊😎☀️
Today is the perfect Bank Holiday Sunday to lose yourself in poetry and Geraldine Clarkson writes the stuff damn well.
August 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Thanks to Ian Duhig for the kind and generous endorsement! 🙏🙏🙏 Have a lovely bank holiday, all! #LoseYourself 😊😎☀️
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Edition 18 is now available to buy as a PDF file from www.steeljackdaw.com - and delighted to have a poem in this wonderful art and literary magazine
Huge thanks to the editor JasonConway
#poetry #steeljackdaw
Huge thanks to the editor JasonConway
#poetry #steeljackdaw
July 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Edition 18 is now available to buy as a PDF file from www.steeljackdaw.com - and delighted to have a poem in this wonderful art and literary magazine
Huge thanks to the editor JasonConway
#poetry #steeljackdaw
Huge thanks to the editor JasonConway
#poetry #steeljackdaw
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Only one day left to enter the #FoyleYoungPoets of the Year Award!
Judges Colette Bryce and Will Harris are searching for writers aged 11-17 anywhere in the world to send in entries on any theme.
Enter here: foyleyoungpoets.org
Judges Colette Bryce and Will Harris are searching for writers aged 11-17 anywhere in the world to send in entries on any theme.
Enter here: foyleyoungpoets.org
July 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Only one day left to enter the #FoyleYoungPoets of the Year Award!
Judges Colette Bryce and Will Harris are searching for writers aged 11-17 anywhere in the world to send in entries on any theme.
Enter here: foyleyoungpoets.org
Judges Colette Bryce and Will Harris are searching for writers aged 11-17 anywhere in the world to send in entries on any theme.
Enter here: foyleyoungpoets.org
Letter from America, bright new chapbook by @j-tkelly.bsky.social -- I like the format, an unusual, non-standard size, I think? Like B5 but not as tall... very nice, anyway & original. The contents too! 😍😊Thank you, J-T. 🙏 Pub by above/ground press run by Canada's sweetheart @robmclennan.bsky.social
July 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Letter from America, bright new chapbook by @j-tkelly.bsky.social -- I like the format, an unusual, non-standard size, I think? Like B5 but not as tall... very nice, anyway & original. The contents too! 😍😊Thank you, J-T. 🙏 Pub by above/ground press run by Canada's sweetheart @robmclennan.bsky.social
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Came across this today - beautiful Ulster Scots word
'katirams' - small, swift-flying clouds.(literally "a cat's paw")
'katirams' - small, swift-flying clouds.(literally "a cat's paw")
July 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Came across this today - beautiful Ulster Scots word
'katirams' - small, swift-flying clouds.(literally "a cat's paw")
'katirams' - small, swift-flying clouds.(literally "a cat's paw")
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Wonderful delivery of ‘Singletary’ by the brilliant
@gbclarkson.bsky.social published by Shearsman Books
arrived today! So excited to read it. Congratulations G!
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@gbclarkson.bsky.social published by Shearsman Books
arrived today! So excited to read it. Congratulations G!
💖🤗⭐️🥦⭐️
July 23, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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This week above Chicago's Gold Coast, Streeterville, River North and Lincoln Park neighborhoods.
July 17, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This week above Chicago's Gold Coast, Streeterville, River North and Lincoln Park neighborhoods.
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It feels as if this gown was made to be admired from the back, for those in the room to watch the wearer as she left them bereft of her company, leaving just a sparkle of diamanté in her golden wake. Agnes-Drecoll, 1930s #museumatfit #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
July 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It feels as if this gown was made to be admired from the back, for those in the room to watch the wearer as she left them bereft of her company, leaving just a sparkle of diamanté in her golden wake. Agnes-Drecoll, 1930s #museumatfit #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
It's publication day for this little chapbook, in stock here -- www.shearsman.com/store/Geraldine-Clarkson-Singletary-p753666542 -- many thanks to Shearsman Books and to all who helped & all who will read... 💙🙏🙏 #Singletary
July 15, 2025 at 12:04 PM
It's publication day for this little chapbook, in stock here -- www.shearsman.com/store/Geraldine-Clarkson-Singletary-p753666542 -- many thanks to Shearsman Books and to all who helped & all who will read... 💙🙏🙏 #Singletary
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News | Perth Art Gallery announces long-term loan of private Millais collection – more than 300 objects to go on display in Scotland for the first time
Perth Art Gallery announces long-term loan of private Millais collection - Museums Association
More than 300 objects to go on display in Scotland for the first time
www.museumsassociation.org
July 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
News | Perth Art Gallery announces long-term loan of private Millais collection – more than 300 objects to go on display in Scotland for the first time
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You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it
Seamus Heaney
Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it
Seamus Heaney
July 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet
Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it
Seamus Heaney
Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it
Seamus Heaney
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It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 Phwoar! Phone chilled and back to working order just in time to find THIS beauty on my buddleia, a #PeacockButterfly in MY garden. Happy dance! 💃 @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN #joy #butterflies
July 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
It's a #butterfly day! 😍🤩🎉🦋 Phwoar! Phone chilled and back to working order just in time to find THIS beauty on my buddleia, a #PeacockButterfly in MY garden. Happy dance! 💃 @savebutterflies.bsky.social #Lancashire #vitaminN #joy #butterflies
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‘A room without books is like a body without a soul.’ ~
Cicero.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here lending my ears to a day of Ancient Roman literature for #BookWormSat
🖼️ Antonio Sicurezza, 1957.
Cicero.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here lending my ears to a day of Ancient Roman literature for #BookWormSat
🖼️ Antonio Sicurezza, 1957.
July 12, 2025 at 9:09 AM
‘A room without books is like a body without a soul.’ ~
Cicero.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here lending my ears to a day of Ancient Roman literature for #BookWormSat
🖼️ Antonio Sicurezza, 1957.
Cicero.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here lending my ears to a day of Ancient Roman literature for #BookWormSat
🖼️ Antonio Sicurezza, 1957.
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Bad Lilies has had almost 1,300 unique visitors since our new issue dropped just over a week ago. That's around twice the number of subscribers of a 'healthy' poetry magazine, and many are less than healthy. Subscribe to our new mailing list and we'll keep you in the loop!
July 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Bad Lilies has had almost 1,300 unique visitors since our new issue dropped just over a week ago. That's around twice the number of subscribers of a 'healthy' poetry magazine, and many are less than healthy. Subscribe to our new mailing list and we'll keep you in the loop!
A new chapbook coming from Shearsman Books very shortly -- "a small collection of torment and consolation" 😳.
Pre-order page and sample poems here --
www..com/store/Geraldine-Clarkson-Singletary-p753666542:
-- and pre-orders very welcome! 🙏🙏💙💙
Pre-order page and sample poems here --
www..com/store/Geraldine-Clarkson-Singletary-p753666542:
-- and pre-orders very welcome! 🙏🙏💙💙
July 11, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A new chapbook coming from Shearsman Books very shortly -- "a small collection of torment and consolation" 😳.
Pre-order page and sample poems here --
www..com/store/Geraldine-Clarkson-Singletary-p753666542:
-- and pre-orders very welcome! 🙏🙏💙💙
Pre-order page and sample poems here --
www..com/store/Geraldine-Clarkson-Singletary-p753666542:
-- and pre-orders very welcome! 🙏🙏💙💙
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blue-tailed damselfly
moving among the dry grass
a river of air
moving among the dry grass
a river of air
July 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
blue-tailed damselfly
moving among the dry grass
a river of air
moving among the dry grass
a river of air
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The title of @carrieetter.bsky.social’s 'Veer, Oscillate, Rest' (Shearsman) conveys the energy & interest range of these poems, from Trump’s first presidency, to environmental disaster, to Brexit, to the ‘teeming’, lived conjunction of embodiment & consciousness...
www.shearsman.com/store/carrie...
www.shearsman.com/store/carrie...
May 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The title of @carrieetter.bsky.social’s 'Veer, Oscillate, Rest' (Shearsman) conveys the energy & interest range of these poems, from Trump’s first presidency, to environmental disaster, to Brexit, to the ‘teeming’, lived conjunction of embodiment & consciousness...
www.shearsman.com/store/carrie...
www.shearsman.com/store/carrie...
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Within 5 mins of arriving in Scotland
March 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Within 5 mins of arriving in Scotland
Purple hearts 💜💜
March 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Purple hearts 💜💜
Praps they're very old or just very tired
March 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Praps they're very old or just very tired