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Marion McCready
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Writer / poetry - Tree Language, Madame Ecosse (Eyewear Publishing), Look to the Crocus (Shoestring Press, 2023)
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Marion McCready @marionmccreadypoet.bsky.social · Mar 3
Season of the crocus! Crocus art created by artist Brigid Collins for the cover of my latest poetry collection. My title poem can be read here - www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

#BrigidCollins #art #flowerart #pressedcrocus #crocus #LooktotheCrocus #poetry
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Study of a fir tree, c.1842 by Emily Brontë, best known for her classic novel 'Wuthering Heights' #WomensArt
Artwork in black and white featuring a lone fir tree growing out of rocky ground
November 4, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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'Between the Leaves' by Brighton-based UK artist Emma Brownjohn #WomensArt
#Autumn #Fall
Painting of a tree with orangd leaves, some of which fall gently towards thd ground on which a stylisef slim figure and a dog walk
October 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Contemporary printmaker Alexandra Buckle #WomensArt
Print featuring a wooded landscape with bare trees reflected in large puddles
October 19, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Girl in the East Wind with Ravens Passing the Moon, 1893 by Glasgow School artist Frances MacDonald #WomensArt
Painting of a stylised white woman in a pale green dress standing facing left in front of a full moon as five or more ravens fly past to the left against a dark sky
October 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Magpie Morning’ by contemporary UK #printmaker Annie Soudain #WomensAr
September 28, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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#tedhughes
September 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Trees in a meadow with poppies in bloom, c.1905 by Juliette Wytsman, Belgian impressionist painter #WomensArt #August
#UnlockingWomensArt
Painting of a late summer meadow with long yellow grasses, orange flowers and a few small trees
August 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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US artist Elizabeth Catlett's 1946 print honours Phyllis Wheatley (1753-1784), who was sold into slavery at the age of seven and later became the first published African-American female poet #womensart
August 19, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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The Enchanted Owl, 1960, Stonecut on paper by Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak. Printmaking has been a valuable form of expression for many artists within Indigenous communities #ReframingWomenPrintmakers
Print featuring a stylised owl with long feathers radiating from its head and body in black and red, all on a cream background
August 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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'Californian Morning' (mid 20thc) by US artist and printmaker Emmy Lou Packard (1914-1998) #WomensArt
Print featuring a shoreline with plants, a blackbird and insects in silhouette in front of sea and a glowing red sun
August 10, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Wendell Berry poem.
Wendell Berry poem When I rise up Let me rise up joyful Like a bird When I fall Let me fall without regret Like a leaf
July 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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#poetry #booksky

"And so I go to the woods. As I go in under the trees, dependably, almost at once, and by nothing I do, things fall into place. I enter an order that does not exist outside, in the human spaces....I am less important than I thought. I rejoice in that."

—Wendell Berry
August 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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US Photographer Dorothea Lange c. 1938, whose work humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography #womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman holding a large camera to her face while sitting on the roof of a 1930s style car
August 1, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Been a while since I've sent poems out into the world, so I'm very happy to have a couple of poems in the latest issue of The Lake which can be read here -https://www.thelakepoetry.co.uk/poetry/marion-mccready/
July 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Remembering artist Khadija-Saye, rising star, and all her neighbours- never forgotten #Grenfell
#womensart
July 2, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Calla Lillies, 1941 by Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka who painted in an Art Deco style #WomensArt
Stylised painting featuring a bunch of white heart shaped flowers on curving thick green stems in a round glass vase
July 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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So enjoying reading Durs Grünbein's new Selected Poems Psyche Running translated by the brilliant Karen Leeder griffinpoetryprize.com/poet/durs-gr...
Durs Grünbein - Griffin Poetry Prize
Durs Grünbein was born in Dresden in 1962, and now lives in Berlin and Rome. Since 2005, he has been a professor of poetics and aesthetics at the Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf. One of Germany’s most celeb...
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July 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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'I have written with an alertness that goes backward as well as forward, and this impossible condition, the duration of a few breaths between antiquity and X, can only be endured if slowly and line by line I check my voice, the body, and what was caught in the inner ear.' ~ Durs Grünbein #arspoetica
June 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Brittany, France early 20thc, skilled women making 'picot bigouden' a form of intricate and complex crochet linking to Irish crochet #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring three sirting white women in white hats and dark dresses in the act of creating a huge intricate lace looking textile art in ehite with symmetrical floral motifs which hangs vertically between them
June 3, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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Floral Emblems, Henry Philips, 1825.
Sunflower, daffodils, bramble, berries and other flowers, illustration.
June 2, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Paris Review is sharing one of my favorite poems again so I’m sharing it on here again

“my old potato” - one of my favorite lines ever
Lucille Clifton poem to my yellow coat today i mourn my coat. my old potato. my yellow mother. my horse with buttons. my rind. today she split her skin like a snake, refusing to excuse my back for being big for being old for reaching toward other cuffs and sleeves. she cracked like a whip and fell apart, my terrible teacher to the end; to hell with the arms you want she hissed, be glad when you’re cold for the arms you have.
May 31, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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'In sleep, how many positions do we assume?
the foetus, the crucified, Laocoön, Holy Shiva.' ~ Durs Grunbein
EXALTATIONS IN SLEEP
How deep we sink when the light goes out and the heaviness falls from our shoulders.   Like that the armour that fell from the weary knight, who’d fought so long in the da...
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May 21, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive.

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May 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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American poet Alice Notley has died at age 79. Her poems on motherhood and domestic life (she was married to fellow poet Ted Berrigan) made her one of her country’s most prolific and acclaimed writers of verse. #RIPAliceNotley

2/16 (1970) by Alice Notley
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM