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Rachel Deering
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Onemorething on ABCtales, Bath Poet. First collection Crown of Eggshell pub. 2020. @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · Dec 23
Please review my collection on Amazon or Goodreads if you have been lovely enough to buy it. It really helps. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21... In the Shadow of Gods amzn.eu/d/gRaCt0j
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Hello Monday.
🖼️ Kitty Crowther
Illustration of frog in bed with white duvet and pillow with red stripes, wooden bed frame, black background, just frogs head and hands are visible out of the coversz
February 2, 2026 at 6:48 AM
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Book of Flower Studies
Master of Claude de France
ca. 1510–1515.
Primrose and blue and red beetle, illustration.
February 2, 2026 at 6:44 AM
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Fox in Winter, Bruno Liljefors, 1904.
Fox in snow scene with snow laden trees in background, painting.
February 2, 2026 at 6:41 AM
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Kingfisher of the Day:
Sulawesi Lilac Kingfisher
📷 Shailesh Pinto
Perched on branch, small kingfisher with brown wings and tail, lilac tinted beige cheeks, black eye stripe, brown heeds, black and white eyebrow, lilac beak and eye, photo.
February 2, 2026 at 6:37 AM
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Book Cover of the Day:
SEAS & LANDS Sir Edwin Arnold Gold lettering Full illustration on blue cover of water, sunrise with golden rays, trees, foliage, bankside of two white birds (cranes or egrets), and a flowering rose bush. One bird in flight over water. Small sailboats are visible on the water. The entire image is framed by a decorative border resembling bamboo.
February 2, 2026 at 6:33 AM
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🖼️ Ronald Lampitt
Three fallow does and a stag grazing in wooded parkland, sun shining through, illustration.
February 2, 2026 at 6:14 AM
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🖼️ Tunnicliffe
A detailed study of a peregrine falcon in pencil and watercolour which shows the bird in profile, details of feathers and head.
February 2, 2026 at 6:01 AM
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Morning.
🖼️ Johann Friedrich Naumann
Two kingfishers, one perched on reed, one on a branch, a third can be seen in flight / diving behind them. They are perched over water with reeds in the background. Illustration.
February 2, 2026 at 5:56 AM
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Goodnight.
🖼️ Kent Ambler
Cloudy night sky, full moon, silhouettes of birds in flight and trees, cabin with lit windows, woodcut.
February 1, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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This week in The Book Bag, Circulaire by Bex Hainsworth published by Written Off Publishing.

Take 5 and settle in.

'... in my opinion is a masterclass on poetry about life'

Plus news, opps, shoutouts and of course an eclectic playlist.

#TheBookBag
The Book Bag: Circulaire by Bex Hainsworth
Welcome back to The Book Bag. I hope you’ve had a poetic week. What a week. Bristol for a conference and back again. A lot of train travel (where I got to talk to some great people and listen to their stories). It did mean I got to meet up with the man, the myth, Matthew MC Smith for a catchup. Did I get lost walking to the restaurant I had picked? Yes! Was it a good choice though? Yes! Aside from my whistle stop 23 hours in Bristol, I spent a little time editing some of my own work and emailing all the wonderful poets who submitted to the Unwhispered Legacy Anthology.
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January 25, 2026 at 7:57 AM
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LAST DAY. SALTBURN. 50% OFF.

NUCLEAR POWER STATION MELTDOWNS
MERMAIDS IN PENNY ARCADES
AQUARIUM WITH NO FISH
A FOETUS MUSEUM
WAR!
KILLER SEALS
RUDE WORDS IN ROCK

*****SALTBURN*****

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January 31, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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And if you want to support indie publishers… ☺️😂😳

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drewgum.bsky.social Drew Gummerson @drewgum.bsky.social · 3d
Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani is banning hotels from having hidden junk fees.

No hidden junk fees at the Flamingo Hotel.

The new edition of my book is available. £10. Inc P&P

Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel by Drew Gummerson www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store...
"Drew Gummerson is one of the funniest writers around - the PG Wodehouse of the flophouse. Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel is a riot. A crazy pink tribute - the most under of underdogs." Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul ٨٠٨ "A gut-wrenching masterpiece of booze-sodden tragicomedy and a genuine cult classic. Drew Gummerson is an incredibly skilful and versatile writer, coming across in Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel like the ghost of Charles Bukowski with a rainbow flag hanging out of his arse pocket." Stu Hennigan, author of Ghost Signs "Probably the most original, exciting and creatively invigorating book I've read this year - like On The Buses meets lain Banks." Jamie Mollart, author of Kings of a Dead World DREW GUMMERSON SEVENNIGHTS# FLAMINGO HOTEL "This is it. You are awake. Hotel Flamingo's resident dishwasher.
January 30, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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A poem for February from me.

The Quiet of An Owl’s Wing, February

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🖼 Owl flying against a moonlit sky, Caspar David Friedrich, c.1836.
#OwlishMonday
As described, painting of owl in flight across moon, clouds parted for full moon. It begins with the quiet of an owl's wing, mist muffled, of river breath hushed upon frostfangs and cold, a climbing ivy. Ask April to lend a word or two, circles of light, stars to burn in the darkness, when the blush of Spring is in the distance, a ship sailed on bluster and waves of snowdrop and crocus. Masts of daffodils still on horizon, pursued by clans of swallows, the nightingale, the cuckoo - apostles returning - remembered in tendon and bone, all this is heart-pressed, all this is known.
February 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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Our new Inspiration Point is 'silence'. Here's a great response by SoulFire77:

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February 1, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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"They say if it sees its shadow, winter will stretch long and lean. But if the day is grey, it will return beneath the earth, and spring will come swift behind it.

But some shadows should never be seen. Some things should never wake."

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💬 0  🔁 0  ❤️ 0 · Today, O best beloved, on the brown day of Bride, when winter lingers but spring stirs beneath the frost, the serpent wakes. “The serpent will come from the hole On the brown Day…
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February 1, 2026 at 6:14 AM
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"On the day of Bride of the white hills
The noble queen will come from the knoll,
I will not molest the noble queen,
Nor will the noble queen molest me"

A Highland charm to pacify adders on Imbolc. What if the adder is something older?

Find out in our 24th #winterfolklore story below

🎨Vreymouth
February 1, 2026 at 6:14 AM
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Wishing everyone a wonderful Spring ahead for Imbolc. May all your wishes bloom and blossom.
🖼️ The Coming of Bride, John Duncan, 1917.
Painting of Brid in a white dress, surrounded by young women and children, grassy scene, filled with flowers and blossom.
February 1, 2026 at 12:19 PM
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🖼️ Freya Hartas
Armed fairy with badger hair, riding a badger, in woodland, by tree truck, foliage and oak leaves, illustration.
February 1, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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Sunday plans:
🖼️ Jackie Morris
Sleeping fox painting.
February 1, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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Kingfisher of the Day:
Chocolate-backed Kingfisher
📷 Tony King
Chocolate-backed kingfisher perched on branch: white belly, tan head and face, white neck, emerald flash on wings and tail, deep pinkish beak. Photo.
February 1, 2026 at 12:05 PM
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Book Cover of the Day:
Yellow cover, decorated with large oak leaf and acorns. The Master of the Oaks, Caroline Abbot Stanley.
February 1, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Detail from The Virgin and Child with Saint Catherine, aka The Virgin of the Rabbit, Titian, c.1525-30.
White rabbit on blue dress on grass, held by hand with pink sleeve, detail from painting.
February 1, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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Wishing all a merry Février and blessings for Imbolc.
🖼️ Grasset
Illustration for February: woman in green and black gardening, snowdrops, a ladder behind her.
February 1, 2026 at 11:39 AM
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🖼️ Edith Holden
Robin foraging by snowdrops, winter aconite, two small white breasted birds on branch of hazel with catkins, small bird in flight, illustration.
February 1, 2026 at 11:08 AM
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Morning.
🖼️ Raymond Booth
Robin perched on branch in woodland. Painting.
February 1, 2026 at 10:53 AM