Pete Strong
petestrongpoet.bsky.social
Pete Strong
@petestrongpoet.bsky.social
Writer. Poetry and other things. Bridport Prize shortlisted. “delicious musicality” FringeReview “hard not to feel your own re-emergence” Arts Dispatch
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My pamphlet Greenfinch is available from Flight of the Dragonfly: flight-of-the-dragonfly.sumupstore.com/product/gree...

“assured and poignant…fizzes with energy” John McCullough
“deadpan, surreal, wryly comic, tender and mournful - often in the same poem” Andy Breckenridge
Greenfinch - Pete Strong
Greenfinch - Pete Strong - pamphlet
flight-of-the-dragonfly.sumupstore.com
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Huge thanks to @secretsoliloquies.bsky.social in Sussex for this photo of Forest Girl with @petestrongpoet.bsky.social. All books from @dragonflyflight.bsky.social and you can hear us read at the Showcase on zoom on 25th November 7.30pm. Can’t wait for this. Smudge would like to come too 🥰🖤🤍
October 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I need to get rid of my earphones and get some headphones because they are bad for my ears and I get wax build up and infections. Anyway here’s a poem about my earbuds I wrote in a uni workshop a few years ago.

#poem #poet #poetry #poetrycommunity
September 8, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Good news about the cutting-edge AI tools from the $3-trillion-dollar company.
September 2, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Finally got round to reading some Deborah Levy. Hot Milk and Things I Don’t Want to Know. Sublime writing.
August 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Thank you Phil!
Absolutely brilliant poet @petestrongpoet.bsky.social
On my website tomorrow @petestrongpoet.bsky.social drops in to talk about a poem from his pamphlet‘Greenfinch’. Don’t miss it.
August 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Out now on my website my review of Greenfinch’ by @petestrongpoet.bsky.social Don’t miss it. #poetry
July 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Hello. New Substack up. Running, binging and fatherhood in approx 1500 words.
Binging.
On eating oneself alive both figuratively and actually.
petestrong.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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I’m looking for poetry collections and pamphlets to review in 2026 published by small poetry presses. If you’ve a collection or pamphlet published in 2025 or due in 2026 DM me. #poetry. Checkout my website to sample the process.
July 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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You won’t be disappointed.
July 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Hello

Read here a review of my book Greenfinch by poet and reviewer Nigel Kent @kent-nj.bsky.social . He liked it, I hope you do too.
Available from Flight of the Dragonfly Press.

nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/r...
Review of ‘Greenfinch’ by Pete Strong
One of the things I enjoy about writing these reviews is opening a collection or pamphlet of a poet whose work I don’t know and finding that I’m immediately drawn to it. That was my experience with…
nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com
July 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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On my website tomorrow @petestrongpoet.bsky.social drops in to talk about a poem from his pamphlet‘Greenfinch’. Don’t miss it.
July 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Writer’s block. When will it end?
May 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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My pamphlet Greenfinch is available from Flight of the Dragonfly: flight-of-the-dragonfly.sumupstore.com/product/gree...

“assured and poignant…fizzes with energy” John McCullough
“deadpan, surreal, wryly comic, tender and mournful - often in the same poem” Andy Breckenridge
Greenfinch - Pete Strong
Greenfinch - Pete Strong - pamphlet
flight-of-the-dragonfly.sumupstore.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Commission for a guy who likes camping, gherkins, The Beatles and Norwich FC.

I now have space for some more so contact me if you’d like me to draw something for you.
April 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Substack - pros and cons? I feel like I missed the boat and now everyone has one. I’ve a vague idea of using it to publicly hold myself to account as I create my next bit of live work. Who has one and is it worth it? Is any of this worth it? Should we all just put ourselves in a big bin?
February 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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February 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Grab a ticket for the FIRST EVER Late Nite With William Stone in Brighton. I will be hosting four great comedians and chatting with them at the Caroline of Brunswick. Tickets here :

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/late-nite-...
February 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
My pamphlet Greenfinch is available from Flight of the Dragonfly: flight-of-the-dragonfly.sumupstore.com/product/gree...

“assured and poignant…fizzes with energy” John McCullough
“deadpan, surreal, wryly comic, tender and mournful - often in the same poem” Andy Breckenridge
Greenfinch - Pete Strong
Greenfinch - Pete Strong - pamphlet
flight-of-the-dragonfly.sumupstore.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Tell Government to drop plans to allow #bigtech companies to scrape creators’ work for use in AI models without their consent or payment!

One week left to complete the Copyright and #AI consultation.

Take action now👇
www.equity.org.uk/campaigns-policy/stop-ai-stealing-the-show
February 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM