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Mark Russell
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Poetry, maybe other stuff
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It's Culture Night tonight! Well, Abridged has 20 years of material on www.abridged.zone to read for free! You don't even have to leave the house. For misanthrophists everywhere!
September 19, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I'm delighted to have three prose poems in The Surreal-Absurd: An Anthology of Contemporary Surrealist and Absurdist Poetry published by Mercurious Press.
www.mercurius.one/books/the-su...
August 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It Was the End of the World and All That Was Left Were Three Million Bowls of Porridge and a Lonely Dolphin
90 x 75 cm
Acrylic on canvas
@outerspaces.scotland
#abstractart #abstractartist #abstractexpressionism #artistofbluesky #contemporaryabstractpainting #scottishabstract #scottishabstractart
July 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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⚡️BLACKBOX MANIFOLD 34 is now live!⚡️Poems by Kat Addis, Sascha Akhtar, Charlie Baylis, Iain Britton, Imogen Cassels, Kimberly Campanello, Trevor Joyce, Corey Wakeling, G.C. Waldrep, and others.

Reviews by Adam Piette, Olivia Boyle, and David Brazil

blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
Blackbox Manifold
Kat Addis Sascha Akhtar Annie Baker Charlie Baylis Linda Black Catherine Bither Iain Britton Kimberly Campanello Imogen Cassels Joel Chace Stuart Cooke Ken Evans Adam Flint Alexander Gau...
blackboxmanifold.sites.sheffield.ac.uk
July 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Holding My Breath in a Bath Full of Words
90 x 75 cm
Acrylic on canvas
July 5, 2025 at 8:50 PM
June 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
'Exit Stage Left', and 'Act Three Beginners to the Stage, Please'. 30 x 40 cm, acrylic on canvas
April 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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A few reasons to order books from Longbarrow Press:

1. First-rate poems
2. Scrupulously edited
3. Meticulously designed
4. Handsomely produced
5. Fastidiously packaged

longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
September 26, 2024 at 8:02 AM
January 30, 2025 at 1:34 PM
That morning after feeling
January 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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If you’ve appeared in The Rialto, please come and say hello, we’d like to try and connect up all the bits of our poetry community and get some sense of who is using what platform, maybe even do a Started Pack or two. Seems like a good starting point.
December 2, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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Just a reminder that we accept submissions year round. 📝📚📖📥
November 20, 2024 at 4:35 AM
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In the mood for some great poetry? Check out our BBP Poetry Series. Available online and at all fine bookshops.

Find a local retailer here: downingfield.com/mbdb_series/...
November 21, 2024 at 1:03 AM
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List 3 takes us from P to Z. Then adding people I discover new here as I find them. If you're not on one of the lists because I accidentally missed you (it's been quite complicated so possible) or new to me, let me know. Please share. Will add this in comments of pinned post

go.bsky.app/SyfAKo2
November 22, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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This is List 2 of US Poets started pack (I've also posted it in the comments to my pinned post with List 1). It lists poets from J to O (1st names). If I missed anyone, by accident or not finding them yet, let me know. I'll do another list later.

go.bsky.app/MZQYMvU
November 22, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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I've started compiling starter packs of UK Poets. I've just finished the first one... alphabetically listed from A to J (1st names)... will start another list from there on.

go.bsky.app/DgHRkcK
November 22, 2024 at 3:17 PM
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There must be ~400 poets on this list now:

bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 20, 2024 at 3:57 PM
November 20, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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which one would
you cut
November 18, 2024 at 12:19 AM
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There are now 263 poetry-related accounts in my two starter packs:

go.bsky.app/BXEELHP

go.bsky.app/AWoMyKD
November 11, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Acrylic on unstretched canvas 14 x 19 cm
November 10, 2024 at 7:34 PM