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A community of kindred poets, performers, artists and creative activists raising their voices to engage with climate emergency. https://poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/poets4theplanet
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Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social · Oct 2
If you haven't heard of Poets for the Planet until now please take a look at our website for more information about who we are and what we do. Our artwork was created by the wonderful Henny Beaumont. #poetrysky #nationalpoetryday poetsfortheplanet.org.uk
Blue and white watercolour painting with Poets for the Planet in large letters painted across the centre
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Beautiful - a wonderful quote to start the day - thanks @susannacrossman.bsky.social
susannacrossman.bsky.social Susanna Crossman @susannacrossman.bsky.social · 4d
"This way of looking is first of all attentive.The soul empties itself of all its own contents in order to receive the being it is looking at, just as he is, in all his truth. Only he who is capable of attention can do this.”

Simone Weil on paying attention.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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A lovely read to start the day!
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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All things must fall
and feed the waiting ground,
the hawk, the stone,
the sorrow we have known.

There is a law
where comfort can be found:
what dies becomes
the seed, the soil, the bone.

Moss covers all
with patient, final grace,
and the beginning
finds its resting place.

#poetry
#vss365
November 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Our August Digging in the Dirt #ecopoetry masterclass with
@mklitfest.bsky.social
raised £800 for Give Peat A Chance. A special ebook of the #poems it inspired is now available for £2 (all profits to Give Peat A Chance). #poetrysky
www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry - The Anthology | MK Lit Fest 2025
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry is an anthology of original ecopoetry written in response to prompts set by Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Jess Mookherjee and Rishi Dastidar during an online e...
www.mklitfest.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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“Can a timeless moment of consciousness be ever adequately conveyed in a medium that depends on time, i.e., language? This is the mystic's and the lyric poet's problem.”

-- Charles Simic
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Past the cutlers, halfway over the Don
I stop to watch the river’s dull pewter
slow-shimmy the strait, grinding stone,
cutting shingle.

'Ball Street Bridge', Angelina Ayers, in our walking-themed anthology 'The Footing'
thefooting.wordpress.com
Greyscale image of 'The Footing', a walking-themed anthology published by Longbarrow Press
November 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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RODDY LUMSDEN

The Roddy Lumsden Archive is now open to the public for consultation at University of Edinburgh. The collection consists of the papers of Scottish poet Roddy Lumsden, dating mostly from his time in Edinburgh from mid-1980s to mid-1990s.

archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories...
November 24, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Proud to have my poem Belemnite in this brilliant anthology for the campaign #Givepeatachance
get a copy here and raise money! www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...
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Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry - The Anthology | MK Lit Fest 2025
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry is an anthology of original ecopoetry written in response to prompts set by Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Jess Mookherjee and Rishi Dastidar during an online e...
www.mklitfest.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Our August Digging in the Dirt #ecopoetry masterclass with @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social raised £800 for Give Peat A Chance. A special ebook of the #poems it inspired is now available for £2 (all profits to Give Peat A Chance).

www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...

#poetry #anthology #GivePeataChance
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry - The Anthology | MK Lit Fest 2025
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry is an anthology of original ecopoetry written in response to prompts set by Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Jess Mookherjee and Rishi Dastidar during an online e...
www.mklitfest.org
November 20, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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@poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social @mklitfest.bsky.social Give Peat a chance poets Eileen Anderson, Anne Cooper, Rene Crouch, Hilary Dunn, Caroline Gill, Richard Law, Nichola May, Michelle McGrane, Elizabeth Osmond, Judy Smith, Dave Wakely and Gail Webb.

www.mklitfest.org/digginginthe...
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry - The Anthology | MK Lit Fest 2025
Digging in the Dirt: Adventures in Ecopoetry is an anthology of original ecopoetry written in response to prompts set by Clare Shaw, Caleb Parkin, Jess Mookherjee and Rishi Dastidar during an online e...
www.mklitfest.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Catching up - this looks great!
carolinebirduk.bsky.social Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social · 22d
Tonight at 7.15 on Radio 3. Writer’s block, dry spell, fallow period, worrisome silence, that terrifying, lonely time when you *cannot* write a poem. I speak to Liz Berry, Oliver Carmichael, Hannah Copley, Marie Howe, Vanessa Kisuule and Jack Underwood! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, When the Words Leave
The poet Caroline Bird explores the silences when it feels like the words have left you.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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One of my favourite places to read. The National Poetry Library @southbankcentre.bsky.social
Outside view of National Poetry library A reading den outside the National Poetry Library in London
October 30, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Brrrrr....perfect for today! 👻 🎃Happy Halloween!
longbarrowpress.bsky.social Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social · Oct 31
As the light fell, families put pumpkins out
on doorsteps and in their windows;
light would judder through carved eyes

and grimaces into the dingy lanes.
The thickening night was full of cackles
and screeches, innocent and terrible.

'The Grail Roads'
Rob Hindle
grailroads.wordpress.com
Four copies of Rob Hindle's collection 'The Grail Roads' against a pinkish-red background.
October 31, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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longbarrowpress.bsky.social
Everything quietens and slows. Some live on;
some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores.
We are rich with life and can’t outrun it.

From the title poem of Rob Hindle's collection 'Sapo', available with £2 off until Sunday
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
Orpheus returned to the world songless and broken. People watched and said nothing, knowing his wife was lost. One day they’d tell stories: how he chased her beyond death, brought her out of the earth and clutched her to him till at dawn a neighbour found them in the garden inarticulate. Autumn has come down from the north with its poems and shadows, its old memories. Each year we shrink from the journey, gather like moths round lamps, dance at the dark. Everything quietens and slows. Some live on; some, dying, persist as seeds, bones, spores. We are rich with life and can’t outrun it. Better to settle as the toad settles, believing in his end and his endless nativity. From 'Sapo' by Rob Hindle
October 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Sounds like a must listen!
byleaveswelive.bsky.social Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social · Oct 27
HEADS UP!

Last night Isabelle Baafi won the @forwardprizes.bsky.social for Best First Poetry Collection. Congrats, Isabelle.

Today we're putting a brand new Nothing But The Poem podcast online featuring @samueltongue.bsky.social taking an immersive dive into 2 poems by Isabelle Baafi.

Stay tuned!
October 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Between buses in Trowbridge I found some nice #PavementPlants for #WildflowerHour Hemp Agrimony, Common Mallow, Thornapple (a lot of it about this year), Michaelmas Daisy and a Snapdragon.
October 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Congratulations @susiecampbell.bsky.social !
susiecampbell.bsky.social Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social · Oct 26
What a joy! This year's @smallpublishers.bsky.social Thank you to everyone who came to the London launch of Wastelands (first pic), bought copies of the book at the @guillemotpress.bsky.social stall W(second pic), or just came to say hello!
Library, woman reading and talking, she is wearing blue jeans and a dark grape (purple) cardigan crowded hall from above, bookstalls with people buying books
October 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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An ace day hanging out at @smallpublishers.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Lovely - just right for this time of year! #poetrysky
October 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Saturday #afternoonread
#JohnClare
From John Clare: Bird Poems. Wood engravings by Thomas Bewick
October 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Looking forward to Wastelands @guillemotpress.bsky.social at @smallpublishers.bsky.social tomorrow and to visiting all the wonderful presses and book artists represented there! Just a reminder that I will be reading upstairs in the library at Conway Hall tomorrow from 12.30pm! Do come and say hello!
Crowds of people looking at books at rows of bookstalls
October 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Beast is six months old today! Published 24 April. Thank you to @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social my dream publisher, and to everyone who reviewed & interviewed, stocked it and the many launch event organisers who welcomed my 9th collection. More events to come! Special thanks to all the readers!
Beast cover of three beast sculptures half wolves half pumas. Book cover against photo of sunset in the Peruvian Amazon taken from a canopy tower, with the jaguar I saw in the foreground and howler monkeys on a branch.
October 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Heaney

“On the grass when I arrive,
Filling the stillness with life,
But ready to scare off
At the very first wrong move.
In the ivy when I leave.

It's you, blackbird, I love.”
roisinnineachtain.com Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · Oct 21
This poem!!!!!

“I am absolute for you”

What a line. Completely obliterated me.
October 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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#smashingpumpkins
radiolento.bsky.social Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · Oct 20
Sound ON for 56 seconds of a huge muskox working out how to get into a huge pumpkin!
ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium @ptdefiancezoo.bsky.social · Oct 16
Ever seen a 750-pound muskox face off with a 210-pound pumpkin? 💥 Hudson did, and won! 🏆 Catch more pumpkin-smashing, leaf-crunching, fall fun during #ZooBoo, October 18 & 19. 🎃🐾
October 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM