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Gill Barr
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Derry girl, Dorset woman. Debut Poetry Collection (Cinnamon Press) 2025, Arts Council Award 2024. Website: gillmbarr.wixsite.com/gillbarr
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Tickets are now live 🫣
Back for Session 2 in January.

Who’s in?

Tickets 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-book-b...
November 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Chilly, sharp, bright day at West Bay.
November 20, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Delighted that my poem Headspace inspired by Paul Klee has been selected for After… 2026. So many thanks to @markantonyowen.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Such a wonderful open mic, Paul! Thank you for your warm and supportive hosting! 🌟 I'm so pleased to have been at the first Book Bag Open Mic!
November 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
At home on the Foyle…
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Brilliant Book Bag open mic tonight, warmly hosted by @paulwritespoems.bsky.social. Please do another one in the new year, Paul! 😁
November 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Thank you to all who made tonight’s first Book Bag Open Mic Session. Absolutely stellar poetry throughout with incredible support and encouragement 🙏.

@gillbarr.bsky.social
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@helenlaycock.bsky.social
@jahshabby.bsky.social
@markantonyowen.com
@victoriaspires.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
November butterfly…
November 1, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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"a saint's eye unbuttons, / spilling bees" 👏🏼
For @victoriaspires.bsky.social thanks for the #promptcombo on #dreamlogic as it got me to rewrite this
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Edna Eicke, New Yorker October 27, 1945.
October 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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I'm so thrilled to be nominated by The Chaos Section Poetry Project for my poem, "Emerging from the Penumbra." Thank you!
October 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Holly with… apple
October 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Overjoyed to see our beautiful Storms Issue V bursting into the world! It’s a real stunner and I’m so proud and grateful to have been a part of this wonderful adventure. Celebrations galore now! Thank you Damien, and all you super Stormers you are amazing! 🥳⚡️🤩 👏💖⚡️
The 5th Storm has landed, the printed journal of poetry, prose & visual art featuring 89 star Stormers & cover art by Brian Malachy Quinn is supported by @dublincityoflit.bsky.social @fingal.ie

Now available to buy at our online shop eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
October 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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The 5th Storm has landed, the printed journal of poetry, prose & visual art featuring 89 star Stormers & cover art by Brian Malachy Quinn is supported by @dublincityoflit.bsky.social @fingal.ie

Now available to buy at our online shop eatthestorms.com/the-storm-sh...
October 27, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Getting my head back into writing after the school holidays, so a quick first draft of a poem for this week's #PromptCombo #DreamLogic. Thanks @victoriaspires.bsky.social for hosting! #poem #poetry
October 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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I'm pleased that two of my poems will appear in North Coast Voices 2025: Poems of the Great Lakes, edited by Chuck Joy and M Scott Douglass for Main Street Rag Publishing. So many good poets between these covers. Advance sale discount price is only $10 at mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/nort...
October 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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Hi @victoriaspires.bsky.social and the #promptcombo team. Thank you for the prompt #DreamLogic. Here is my recollection of the febrile hours/days of malaria when I was 19. I was nursed back to health by the inimitable Sister Pat, a septuagenarian nun - and very dear friend. #poetry
October 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Ginko to go…
October 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Delighted to be reading at East Coker Poets this evening at 7.30 pm in the brilliant Village Café. Reading from A Wide River Divides Us #CinnamonPress @ArtsCouncilNI @PaulWritesPoems @blackbough #southwest #poetry @LitWorks
October 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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The @bridportprize.bsky.social
2025 results are officially out. Congrats to the winners & highly commended.

Honoured to be shortlisted (top 3% of entrants from around the globe), & in great company too.

My first time entering, so am very grateful 🙏 Full results:
bridportprize.org.uk/results/2025
October 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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This is a lovely article, Gill. My heart broke at Palmer’s moon - lyrical and poignant.
October 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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It’s here. The Book Bag with @gillbarr.bsky.social collection A Wide River Divides Us published by Cinnamon Press

Plus news & opps including;

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@frazzledlit.bsky.social
@eatthestorms.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM