Rachael Clyne
@rachaelclyne.bsky.social
UK poet and writer. Latest collection: 'You'll Never Be Anyone Else' - https://www.serenbooks.com/book/youll-never-be-anyone-else/ https://rachaelclyne.blogspot.com/ @rachaelclyne Substack
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Rachael Clyne
@rachaelclyne.bsky.social
· Nov 23
My recent collection
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What to do on a Sunday morning lie in? Thanks to Max Wallis for another stunning gathering of poems about survival. Aftershock 2 is the next chapter and I'm grateful to be part of it.
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November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
What to do on a Sunday morning lie in? Thanks to Max Wallis for another stunning gathering of poems about survival. Aftershock 2 is the next chapter and I'm grateful to be part of it.
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What Does it All Mean?
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What Does it All Mean?
Making Sense in a Hostile World
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November 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
What Does it All Mean?
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October's the month of domestic violence awareness, so here's one from my collection, You'll Never Be Anyone Else. The trauma is aways there waiting to be triggered.
October 10, 2025 at 12:05 PM
October's the month of domestic violence awareness, so here's one from my collection, You'll Never Be Anyone Else. The trauma is aways there waiting to be triggered.
Delighted to be part of @candlestickpress.bsky.social celebrating Somerset and its landscape.Their anthologies are always beautiful and very popular
Four beautiful new titles for autumn publishing today!
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September 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Delighted to be part of @candlestickpress.bsky.social celebrating Somerset and its landscape.Their anthologies are always beautiful and very popular
Thank you so much
You can now hear @rachaelclyne.bsky.social read her poem on the IS&T site here inksweatandtears.co.uk/june-2025-pi.... A beautiful reading which includes moving commentary from her.
Rachael has asked that her £25 'prize' be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians. www.map.org.uk
Rachael has asked that her £25 'prize' be donated to Medical Aid for Palestinians. www.map.org.uk
'Because it is a beautiful evocation of the land/Palestine's grief'
@rachaelclyne.bsky.social's 'Homeland' is both for now and across time and, as such, is the IS&T June 2025 Pick of the Month. Read this powerful, poignant poem and see more voters' comments at inksweatandtears.co.uk/june-2025-pi...
@rachaelclyne.bsky.social's 'Homeland' is both for now and across time and, as such, is the IS&T June 2025 Pick of the Month. Read this powerful, poignant poem and see more voters' comments at inksweatandtears.co.uk/june-2025-pi...
August 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thank you so much
Thank you to those who voted, so many good poems. And thank you @inksweatandtears.co.uk I want this poem to be heard 🙏 ♥️
'Because it is a beautiful evocation of the land/Palestine's grief'
@rachaelclyne.bsky.social's 'Homeland' is both for now and across time and, as such, is the IS&T June 2025 Pick of the Month. Read this powerful, poignant poem and see more voters' comments at inksweatandtears.co.uk/june-2025-pi...
@rachaelclyne.bsky.social's 'Homeland' is both for now and across time and, as such, is the IS&T June 2025 Pick of the Month. Read this powerful, poignant poem and see more voters' comments at inksweatandtears.co.uk/june-2025-pi...
July 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Thank you to those who voted, so many good poems. And thank you @inksweatandtears.co.uk I want this poem to be heard 🙏 ♥️
Thank you so much @inksweatandtears.co.uk for shortlisting 'Homeland', a poem close to my heart. Please do vote, some ace poems. Votes close July 23rd.
It's time to choose your Pick of the Month for June 2025. Will you vote for @rachaelclyne.bsky.social, Oz Hardwick, Pippa Little, @herr-morris.bsky.social, Sreeja Naskar or @selasimclord.bsky.social ? More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/june-2025-pi...
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July 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Thank you so much @inksweatandtears.co.uk for shortlisting 'Homeland', a poem close to my heart. Please do vote, some ace poems. Votes close July 23rd.
Posting my poem again, about exile and many associated current issues as well as past
Very grateful to Helen Ivory for publishing this poem that means a lot to me.
In 'Homeland,' Rachael Clyne / @rachaelclyne.bsky.social asks us to consider the ties between land, people, and memory—what is lost, what remains, and what might return.
Read now!
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Read now!
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July 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Posting my poem again, about exile and many associated current issues as well as past
So sad to hear that Andrea Gibson has gone. I'm grateful their words are abundant and will be around for a long time
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Andrea Gibson reads "Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record…
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
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July 16, 2025 at 12:28 PM
So sad to hear that Andrea Gibson has gone. I'm grateful their words are abundant and will be around for a long time
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Thank you @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social
It’s a brilliant poem x
Thanks so much to
@vervepoetryfest.bsky.social for shortlisting my poem on their June potm. LGBTQ+ theme
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@vervepoetryfest.bsky.social for shortlisting my poem on their June potm. LGBTQ+ theme
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July 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Thank you @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social
Thank you @khuangwrites.bsky.social
Summer is here! Really looking forward to this issue. I enjoyed poems from @chadpie.bsky.social, Rebecca Gethin, @rachaelclyne.bsky.social as well as many other fantastic poets! Thank you @zoebrigley.bsky.social for including my work in @poetrywales.bsky.social! poetrywales.co.uk/product/summ...
Poetry Wales 61.1 Summer 2025 | The International Issue - Poetry Wales
Travel the world with Poetry Wales Summer 2025: The International Issue. From Nigeria to India, Canada to Ireland, and the U.S. to Palestine, the issue highlights poets working across borders, languag...
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July 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Thank you @khuangwrites.bsky.social
Thanks so much to
@vervepoetryfest.bsky.social for shortlisting my poem on their June potm. LGBTQ+ theme
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@vervepoetryfest.bsky.social for shortlisting my poem on their June potm. LGBTQ+ theme
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July 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Thanks so much to
@vervepoetryfest.bsky.social for shortlisting my poem on their June potm. LGBTQ+ theme
vervepoetry.substack.com/p/june-poems...
@vervepoetryfest.bsky.social for shortlisting my poem on their June potm. LGBTQ+ theme
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Here's the last of my 3 articles on writer's block, hope you find it useful. #PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryCommunity
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Writer's Block, Part Three – The Loyal Soldier
Following on from my previous articles, I was faced with how to process what was at the root of my writer’s block.
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June 8, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Here's the last of my 3 articles on writer's block, hope you find it useful. #PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryCommunity
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Writer's Block, Part Three – The Loyal Soldier substack.com/@rachaelclyn...
#poets #ukpoets
Writer's Block, Part Three – The Loyal Soldier substack.com/@rachaelclyn...
Very grateful to Helen Ivory for publishing this poem that means a lot to me.
In 'Homeland,' Rachael Clyne / @rachaelclyne.bsky.social asks us to consider the ties between land, people, and memory—what is lost, what remains, and what might return.
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/rachael-clyn...
#InkSweatandTears #Submission #PoetryCommunity
Read now!
inksweatandtears.co.uk/rachael-clyn...
#InkSweatandTears #Submission #PoetryCommunity
June 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Very grateful to Helen Ivory for publishing this poem that means a lot to me.
Seren have a half-price sale, including my collection. If you missed out, here's your chance for a bargain, or two
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You’ll Never Be Anyone Else - Seren
“Rich, cinematic and sensuous.” – Joelle Taylor Rachael Clyne’s You’ll Never Be Anyone Else presents a direct and assured voice, demanding that we think carefully about what it takes to reconcile bein...
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May 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Seren have a half-price sale, including my collection. If you missed out, here's your chance for a bargain, or two
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Writer's Block, Part 2 – What is it Teaching Me?
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Writer's Block, Part 2 – What is it Teaching Me?
My recent article on writer’s block is about perceiving resistance as a message that something in me needs attention, rather than a simple need to rest the creative cells.
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May 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Writer's Block, Part 2 – What is it Teaching Me?
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My latest Substack:
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Writer’s Block… How Long Will It Last? Or Is It Something Else?
I’ve been struggling with writer’s block for several months.
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April 27, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Competitions open April 1st: Poetry (Adults, Young People), Short Story, Children's Book. Details, via this link.
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Home | Wells Festival of Literature
Welcome To Our Festival Save the date 17-25 October 2025 Welcome to the Wells Festival of Literature, set up in 1992 to celebrate the written word and to encourage the...
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March 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Competitions open April 1st: Poetry (Adults, Young People), Short Story, Children's Book. Details, via this link.
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Finding the best place to sub your poetry, especially a body of work, is so tricky. Online forms vary widely. You keep reading the rules, tweak every detail, then get stuck at the final checkout because of a password loop, or press send and find you forgot a vital detail. Anyone else? 🤬😩
February 25, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Finding the best place to sub your poetry, especially a body of work, is so tricky. Online forms vary widely. You keep reading the rules, tweak every detail, then get stuck at the final checkout because of a password loop, or press send and find you forgot a vital detail. Anyone else? 🤬😩
Thank you so much @serenbooks.bsky.social
This month’s Poem of the Month is ‘Unfitting’ by Rachael Clyne from her collection , 'You'll Never Be Anyone Else'
January 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Thank you so much @serenbooks.bsky.social
This month’s Poem of the Month is ‘Unfitting’ by Rachael Clyne from her collection , 'You'll Never Be Anyone Else'
If you haven't read my collection, you can buy it and several books at Seren with a 20% discount.
“… a simultaneously witty, discomfiting and uplifting read.” – Jacqueline Saphra
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“… a simultaneously witty, discomfiting and uplifting read.” – Jacqueline Saphra
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January 20, 2025 at 6:28 PM
If you haven't read my collection, you can buy it and several books at Seren with a 20% discount.
“… a simultaneously witty, discomfiting and uplifting read.” – Jacqueline Saphra
mailchi.mp/serenbooks/s...
“… a simultaneously witty, discomfiting and uplifting read.” – Jacqueline Saphra
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Do read Rosie Jackson's beautiful poem on Ink Sweat And Tears.
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January 17, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Do read Rosie Jackson's beautiful poem on Ink Sweat And Tears.
#ukpoets
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Do check out my new Substack article, The Art of Reading and Performing Poetry. Based on my background training as a stage and TV actor, I explain and describe how those skills apply when doing poetry readings.
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January 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Do check out my new Substack article, The Art of Reading and Performing Poetry. Based on my background training as a stage and TV actor, I explain and describe how those skills apply when doing poetry readings.
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January 7, 2025 at 8:37 AM