Rosanna McGlone
@rosannamcglone.bsky.social
Mum. Writer. Journalist The Guardian, The Australian, SMH, Salon.com Amazon no. 1. The Process of Poetry. The Making of a Poem. Feisty Females Medieval short stories https://rosanna-mcglone.sumupstore.com/products
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Front Row - Movie stars Adam Driver and Bill Nighy, author AL Kennedy, and the Process of Poetry - BBC Sounds
Adam Driver in Ferrari, Radio Drama with Bill Nighy and AL Kennedy, the Process of Poetry
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This new thing seems to be panning out okay, doesn’t it? Here’s a 🧵 about me. I’m a journalist and have recently interviewed some fabulous poets on redrafting for the Australian sequel to The Process of Poetry @donpaterson@bsky.social & I on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row
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A lovely Christmas pressie from Jack Caradoc and all Dreich. Congratulations, Peter and all the contributors 🎊
Coming very very soon - delighted to be part of this wonderful anthology with the great and good. Huge thanks to Jack Caradoc
Subscribers to @dreich.bsky.social Trumpet will get a PDF - to subscribe free of charge email Jack at
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Merry #ifmas!
Subscribers to @dreich.bsky.social Trumpet will get a PDF - to subscribe free of charge email Jack at
jackcaradoctct@gmail.com and write subscribe please.
Merry #ifmas!
December 19, 2025 at 8:29 AM
A lovely Christmas pressie from Jack Caradoc and all Dreich. Congratulations, Peter and all the contributors 🎊
Far better than house cleaning, pressie buying or sprout peeling.👇
I would love to feature three of your unoublished poems, short fictions, artworks on the theme of "endings." Closing date extended to 25th December.
Here are the contribution details:
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Here are the contribution details:
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https://open.substack.com/pub/the880/p/c…
December 19, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Far better than house cleaning, pressie buying or sprout peeling.👇
Terrible.
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
"Bradage de la traduction, plan social invisible : Harlequin passe à l’IA"
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
Faites tourner, parce qu'il va falloir se battre encore plus. :/
#traduction #IA #Harlequin #ATLF
December 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Terrible.
Re tax returns, what I want to know is, where's the 🥕? It's a grim job and- at the end- the 'reward' is probably to be poorer. Please send 🎂 and 🍷 #tax #death #certainties #freelancewriter #freelancelife
a person holding a flashlight in a dark room with the words this is a horrible place below them
ALT: a person holding a flashlight in a dark room with the words this is a horrible place below them
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December 18, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Re tax returns, what I want to know is, where's the 🥕? It's a grim job and- at the end- the 'reward' is probably to be poorer. Please send 🎂 and 🍷 #tax #death #certainties #freelancewriter #freelancelife
A tad stressful teaching my girl to drive. In truth, she's doing brilliantly. We just need to work on her parking. 😂
December 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
A tad stressful teaching my girl to drive. In truth, she's doing brilliantly. We just need to work on her parking. 😂
You absolutely had me hooked with your wry humour here, Mike, before your keen observations.
Once upon a time, I had a chapbook published and genuinely believed that it was only a matter of time before I would become a household name in the world of #poetry. These days I'm barely a household name in my own house.
59. Father Figure
...being a look back at a pre-pandemic publication, and a musing on just why I am obsessed with father figures
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December 18, 2025 at 8:45 AM
You absolutely had me hooked with your wry humour here, Mike, before your keen observations.
Delightfully, the gift of Ron's work had just popped up in my timeline. I'm now exploring the earlier days of Advent 🙏
❄️ #IronMenCrosby Advent Day 18
Forever watching the passing ships from Crosby beach. The setting sun a ball of glowing fire as it sank into a band of hazy cloud beyond the distant horizon.
Forever watching the passing ships from Crosby beach. The setting sun a ball of glowing fire as it sank into a band of hazy cloud beyond the distant horizon.
December 18, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Delightfully, the gift of Ron's work had just popped up in my timeline. I'm now exploring the earlier days of Advent 🙏
This is fabulous news, Mike! I'm so pleased for you, and for myself, as a reader, to know that this is coming. Many congratulations 🎊
Utterly delighted to be joining Ballerini Book Press, with a new story collection, Blurred Edges, planned for publication in the first half of 2026. Huge thanks to Renée Ballerini for this wonderful opportunity.
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December 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This is fabulous news, Mike! I'm so pleased for you, and for myself, as a reader, to know that this is coming. Many congratulations 🎊
How's your Christmas season panning out? Making a Christmas Eve pilgrimage to pick up my son at 9pm from Hammersmith Hospital when he finishes a 12 hour shift. In the meantime, here's my local walk. #supportdoctors #SaveourNHS
December 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
How's your Christmas season panning out? Making a Christmas Eve pilgrimage to pick up my son at 9pm from Hammersmith Hospital when he finishes a 12 hour shift. In the meantime, here's my local walk. #supportdoctors #SaveourNHS
Fabulous news, but pathetic that we ever left it.
December 16, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Fabulous news, but pathetic that we ever left it.
How did I miss this? It's beautiful, Rachel, and such a different tone to other pieces I've read of yours. I'm sorry for your loss. ❤️
“Clinical Interruption” by @vignettes.bsky.social centers the #integrity of the body, perfectly maintaining metaphor throughout. A beautiful #Poem from Issue 7
“He lies like a house condemned
timbers softening
joists sighing under the weight”
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“He lies like a house condemned
timbers softening
joists sighing under the weight”
epistemiclit.com/current-issu...
CLINICAL INTERRUPTION -
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December 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
How did I miss this? It's beautiful, Rachel, and such a different tone to other pieces I've read of yours. I'm sorry for your loss. ❤️
💔 Beautifully written, Jessica 💔 @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social
And I loved on your babies like they were mine – Jessica Boatright @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social
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And I loved on your babies like they were mine – Jessica Boatright
And I loved on your babies like they were mine . . Jessica Boatright’s words have been spotted in magazines including Magma, The Alchemy Spoon and Anthropocene. In 2025 she placed th…
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December 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
💔 Beautifully written, Jessica 💔 @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social
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‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’ 💀
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’ 💀
December 12, 2025 at 8:34 AM
December 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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My project with Dr Sue Dymoke, so deeply meaningful to me, has now been published in Writing in Practice from @nawewriters.bsky.social.
It will keep growing from here!
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It will keep growing from here!
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04. Found Poetry Digital Space: Constructing a Model to Enhance Children’s Confidence in Writing and Sharing :: National Association of Writers in Education ::
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November 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
My project with Dr Sue Dymoke, so deeply meaningful to me, has now been published in Writing in Practice from @nawewriters.bsky.social.
It will keep growing from here!
www.nawe.co.uk/DB/current-w...
It will keep growing from here!
www.nawe.co.uk/DB/current-w...
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God and I were walking
in the woods this morning.
He was quiet for a long time,
& I finally asked him
what he was thinking.
He didn’t hesitate.
He said, I was thinking about Eden
& how happy we all were there.
I wish I’d given that young couple
another chance.
in the woods this morning.
He was quiet for a long time,
& I finally asked him
what he was thinking.
He didn’t hesitate.
He said, I was thinking about Eden
& how happy we all were there.
I wish I’d given that young couple
another chance.
December 9, 2025 at 2:03 PM
God and I were walking
in the woods this morning.
He was quiet for a long time,
& I finally asked him
what he was thinking.
He didn’t hesitate.
He said, I was thinking about Eden
& how happy we all were there.
I wish I’d given that young couple
another chance.
in the woods this morning.
He was quiet for a long time,
& I finally asked him
what he was thinking.
He didn’t hesitate.
He said, I was thinking about Eden
& how happy we all were there.
I wish I’d given that young couple
another chance.
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A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours (last dates for Christmas orders: UK: 17 Dec. Sheffield: 23 Dec). Recent hardbacks inc. Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour'. Order here:
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December 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
A seasonal reminder that you can order our titles from our website; orders are despatched within 24 hours (last dates for Christmas orders: UK: 17 Dec. Sheffield: 23 Dec). Recent hardbacks inc. Steve Ely's 'Eely' and Angelina D'Roza's 'The Blue Hour'. Order here:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
I love how this moves from the every day, to its sibilence driven crescendo, Rachel 👌
She hums as she works,
needle flicking bone from thread.
They whisper instructions
on how to disassemble a soul,
start with the mouth,
silence is safest.
The eyes still plead.
#horrorprompt 2030
#disassemble
needle flicking bone from thread.
They whisper instructions
on how to disassemble a soul,
start with the mouth,
silence is safest.
The eyes still plead.
#horrorprompt 2030
#disassemble
December 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I love how this moves from the every day, to its sibilence driven crescendo, Rachel 👌
December 9, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Central American nation on edge after voting plagued by fraud claims and a recent history of contested elections.
Honduran election authorities resume vote tallies amid allegations of fraud
Central American nation on edge after voting plagued by fraud claims and a recent history of contested elections.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Central American nation on edge after voting plagued by fraud claims and a recent history of contested elections.
I had a joke about Medusa....but I just couldn't face it....
I had a joke about Prometheus but i couldn’t get it over the hill ✨
I had a joke about Icarus but it fell flat.
December 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I had a joke about Medusa....but I just couldn't face it....
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Please share widely, help is needed as soon as possible
Urgent: could someone here create a campaign for a single mom with three kids and medical needs? Desperately needed and I can´t due to bank stuff. You can send me a message here and I will put you in touch.
December 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Please share widely, help is needed as soon as possible
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A winter poem for my sweetheart as it appeared in The Stinging Fly.
December 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A winter poem for my sweetheart as it appeared in The Stinging Fly.
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As a disabled historian I am so pleased that History UK (co-funded with @royalhistsoc.org) have published their report on disabled student & staff experiences of #highereducation & history. It makes for a difficult reading at times, but none of it is surprising. www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...
History UK Disability and History Project
The History UK Disability and History Project was launched in November 2023 in response to the History UK EDI report which identified disability as an important aspect of EDI work worthy of further…
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December 8, 2025 at 10:06 AM
As a disabled historian I am so pleased that History UK (co-funded with @royalhistsoc.org) have published their report on disabled student & staff experiences of #highereducation & history. It makes for a difficult reading at times, but none of it is surprising. www.history-uk.ac.uk/projects/his...