Jodie Duffy
@jodieduffy.bsky.social
Poet, writer, wonderer, wanderer
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‘The UK’s refugee protection regime has always involved hypocrisy, as successive governments trumpet their adherence to humanitarian principles and the international order while doing their best not to incur the costs and obligations of those commitments in practice.’
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Christopher Bertram | ‘Core Protection’
Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status should...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
‘The UK’s refugee protection regime has always involved hypocrisy, as successive governments trumpet their adherence to humanitarian principles and the international order while doing their best not to incur the costs and obligations of those commitments in practice.’
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
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Just one day left to send your poems to the @cheltenhampoetryfestival
Festival's International Poetry Competition!
We welcome poems from all over the world!
To enter and find out more info visit: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Festival's International Poetry Competition!
We welcome poems from all over the world!
To enter and find out more info visit: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Just one day left to send your poems to the @cheltenhampoetryfestival
Festival's International Poetry Competition!
We welcome poems from all over the world!
To enter and find out more info visit: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Festival's International Poetry Competition!
We welcome poems from all over the world!
To enter and find out more info visit: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
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things i have to do today: think, ponder, wonder, analyze, ruminate, reflect, speculate, dwell on, imagine, question,
November 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
things i have to do today: think, ponder, wonder, analyze, ruminate, reflect, speculate, dwell on, imagine, question,
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At a foodbank near you. 😢
The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.
#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.
#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
At a foodbank near you. 😢
The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.
#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.
#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
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🧱 Class, Work and the Politics of Poetry
Ruth Beddow asks who really gets to write — and how class, time, and labour shape the poetry we make. A powerful reflection on access, identity, and creativity in a working world.
🔗 poetryschool.com/the...
Ruth Beddow asks who really gets to write — and how class, time, and labour shape the poetry we make. A powerful reflection on access, identity, and creativity in a working world.
🔗 poetryschool.com/the...
November 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🧱 Class, Work and the Politics of Poetry
Ruth Beddow asks who really gets to write — and how class, time, and labour shape the poetry we make. A powerful reflection on access, identity, and creativity in a working world.
🔗 poetryschool.com/the...
Ruth Beddow asks who really gets to write — and how class, time, and labour shape the poetry we make. A powerful reflection on access, identity, and creativity in a working world.
🔗 poetryschool.com/the...
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❛ A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight...
Ursula K. Le Guin, born #OTD in 1929.
Ursula K. Le Guin, born #OTD in 1929.
October 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
❛ A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight...
Ursula K. Le Guin, born #OTD in 1929.
Ursula K. Le Guin, born #OTD in 1929.
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❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this.
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
October 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
❛ What. / The fuck. / Is this leaf. / Doing. In my–– / And this. / And fucking this.
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
A poem for your Sunday reset – by Dawn Watson, from Issue 25. 🍂
Congrats to the winners and I look forward to reading all the poems in the anthology!
The results are in! Full list and judge’s note on instagram.
October 22, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Congrats to the winners and I look forward to reading all the poems in the anthology!
Yay! 🥳 Very happy to have 2 poems longlisted in this competition.
The results are in! Full list and judge’s note on instagram.
October 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Yay! 🥳 Very happy to have 2 poems longlisted in this competition.
At Cheltenham Literature Festival this morning for Pathfinding: Motherhood and Freedom
October 17, 2025 at 10:18 AM
At Cheltenham Literature Festival this morning for Pathfinding: Motherhood and Freedom
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Mid-August submission deadlines alert! 44 literary journals, competitions, publishers and residencies all with deadlines by 1 Sept, 14 of which are closing over the next week. Don't miss out! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
Writing & Poetry Competitions, Submission & Opportunities in August 2025 — WORDBOX
Over 150 calls for literary competitions and submissions including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, art, photography, and more - contests, literary journals, residencies, bursaries etc - open or ...
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August 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Mid-August submission deadlines alert! 44 literary journals, competitions, publishers and residencies all with deadlines by 1 Sept, 14 of which are closing over the next week. Don't miss out! www.thisiswordbox.com/wordbox-blog...
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Poem of the day: Mist by the marvellous Alice Oswald who was arrested yesterday in the Palestine protests. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
How to be hopeful: Alice Oswald’s poem Mist
The poet on the startling wonders of the natural world
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August 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Poem of the day: Mist by the marvellous Alice Oswald who was arrested yesterday in the Palestine protests. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Competition time! Our latest competition is on the theme of Turning Points judged by Rebecca Watts. All info available on our website.
#poetrycompetition #poetry
#poetrycompetition #poetry
August 1, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Competition time! Our latest competition is on the theme of Turning Points judged by Rebecca Watts. All info available on our website.
#poetrycompetition #poetry
#poetrycompetition #poetry
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Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006.
She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”
With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”
With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
July 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Friends, I wrote a piece on poet Laura Gilpin, who died of glioblastoma in 2006.
She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”
With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
She is best known for “The Two-Headed Calf.”
With gratitude to the Poetry Foundation for allowing me to try to restore this remarkable healthcare practitioner/poet’s legacy.
www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170...
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'In my garden' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
July 20, 2025 at 3:59 PM
'In my garden' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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Today on Anthropocene new poetry by @julwe1.bsky.social
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https://www.anthropocenepoetry.org/post/reasons-by-julia-webb
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June 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Today on Anthropocene new poetry by @julwe1.bsky.social
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A Teasmade Museum, for it is International Tea Day. Teasmade.uk
May 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A Teasmade Museum, for it is International Tea Day. Teasmade.uk
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Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'Nurse at a Bus Stop' by Simon Armitage
www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...
www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...
Poem Of The Week: <i>Nurse at a Bus Stop</i> By Simon Armitage
Nurse at a Bus Stop
The slow traffic takes a good long look.
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May 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'Nurse at a Bus Stop' by Simon Armitage
www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...
www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...
This was a great find in the Oxfam bookshop this week
May 11, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This was a great find in the Oxfam bookshop this week
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In light of yesterday's guilty verdict for the two men who felled the magnificent old tree at Sycamore Gap, I'm re-sharing my poem, 'Sycamore's Prayer', published by the wonderful @atriumpoetry.bsky.social. 🌳💔
May 10, 2025 at 9:03 AM
In light of yesterday's guilty verdict for the two men who felled the magnificent old tree at Sycamore Gap, I'm re-sharing my poem, 'Sycamore's Prayer', published by the wonderful @atriumpoetry.bsky.social. 🌳💔
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The ending on this, a gut punch.
May 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
The ending on this, a gut punch.
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Unsolicited writing advice: no.2167
That thing you always wanted to do. That novel, that poem, that piece of art. Start it now. Don't wait. Make time. Give yourself permission to start. It will never be easier than it is now: maybe harder, but never easier.
That thing you always wanted to do. That novel, that poem, that piece of art. Start it now. Don't wait. Make time. Give yourself permission to start. It will never be easier than it is now: maybe harder, but never easier.
April 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Unsolicited writing advice: no.2167
That thing you always wanted to do. That novel, that poem, that piece of art. Start it now. Don't wait. Make time. Give yourself permission to start. It will never be easier than it is now: maybe harder, but never easier.
That thing you always wanted to do. That novel, that poem, that piece of art. Start it now. Don't wait. Make time. Give yourself permission to start. It will never be easier than it is now: maybe harder, but never easier.
Heading to Bristol for @lyrafest.com this afternoon 😊 Looking forward to the Women Poets Network open mic and @pascalepetit.bsky.social Fran Lock & @concordmoose.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Heading to Bristol for @lyrafest.com this afternoon 😊 Looking forward to the Women Poets Network open mic and @pascalepetit.bsky.social Fran Lock & @concordmoose.bsky.social
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Here’s a poem for Earth Day. It’s called ‘Birdsong’.
April 22, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Here’s a poem for Earth Day. It’s called ‘Birdsong’.