Sam Boswell
@samboswell.bsky.social
Reader, gardening, keeper of notes on Whadjuk Noongar boodja in Boorloo/ Perth, Western Australia
https://about.me/samboswell
https://about.me/samboswell
Thanks Tara & Catherine for including “Quiet auctioning” as radioactive testament among the constellation that is Dear World 🌟✨ #poetry 💜 So much beauty among the calibration of losses 🌏🎪
Our NEW ISSUE featuring 30 remarkable new poems and stunning cover art by printmaker Molly Lemon is LIVE.
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
You can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
We hope you enjoy this issue and look forward to hearing what you think 🧡✨
Issue 15, Dear World
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November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Thanks Tara & Catherine for including “Quiet auctioning” as radioactive testament among the constellation that is Dear World 🌟✨ #poetry 💜 So much beauty among the calibration of losses 🌏🎪
Carousing with Plumwood Mountain Journal spirits as they dismantle, document, disappear, lie fallow in survival mode - current issue 🎉 plumwoodmountain.com/issue/the-br... #poetry
The Braided Gift - Plumwood Mountain
New poems by 38 Australian and international poets braid together generosity, practice and ecology in The Braided Gift, edited by Shari Lynelle and Lucy Van.
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November 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Carousing with Plumwood Mountain Journal spirits as they dismantle, document, disappear, lie fallow in survival mode - current issue 🎉 plumwoodmountain.com/issue/the-br... #poetry
First ⛱️ of the season with 34 degrees and, even better, there’s mail 📬
Congratulations to contributors, and thanks to the editors for including “Sub-floor check” in the Poetry of Flight Anthology ✨ cover art work is copyright Sharon Monagle 🖼️ #poetry #anthology #poetryofflight
Congratulations to contributors, and thanks to the editors for including “Sub-floor check” in the Poetry of Flight Anthology ✨ cover art work is copyright Sharon Monagle 🖼️ #poetry #anthology #poetryofflight
October 29, 2025 at 12:06 AM
First ⛱️ of the season with 34 degrees and, even better, there’s mail 📬
Congratulations to contributors, and thanks to the editors for including “Sub-floor check” in the Poetry of Flight Anthology ✨ cover art work is copyright Sharon Monagle 🖼️ #poetry #anthology #poetryofflight
Congratulations to contributors, and thanks to the editors for including “Sub-floor check” in the Poetry of Flight Anthology ✨ cover art work is copyright Sharon Monagle 🖼️ #poetry #anthology #poetryofflight
Dear editors of Wild Whispers Poetry Magazine Issue 1:2,
Thanks for including my microcosms in such grand company, and congratulations to all those contributing 🎉
Read more #poetry:
www.wildwhisperspoetrymagazine.com/12poetry.html
Thanks for including my microcosms in such grand company, and congratulations to all those contributing 🎉
Read more #poetry:
www.wildwhisperspoetrymagazine.com/12poetry.html
October 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Dear editors of Wild Whispers Poetry Magazine Issue 1:2,
Thanks for including my microcosms in such grand company, and congratulations to all those contributing 🎉
Read more #poetry:
www.wildwhisperspoetrymagazine.com/12poetry.html
Thanks for including my microcosms in such grand company, and congratulations to all those contributing 🎉
Read more #poetry:
www.wildwhisperspoetrymagazine.com/12poetry.html
Daily walks to capture the upward glance - mostly magpies, but also corvids & parrots #senseofplace
Original photos colourised with Procreate
Original photos colourised with Procreate
October 19, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Daily walks to capture the upward glance - mostly magpies, but also corvids & parrots #senseofplace
Original photos colourised with Procreate
Original photos colourised with Procreate
Why is a Tesla executive leading Australia’s R&D review?
Public roles should serve us – not billionaires. You can demand Denholm’s resignation & new integrity laws: getup.to/o3eOQXtjCE8LTa
Public roles should serve us – not billionaires. You can demand Denholm’s resignation & new integrity laws: getup.to/o3eOQXtjCE8LTa
Billionaire Hands off Public Policy!
Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy
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October 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Why is a Tesla executive leading Australia’s R&D review?
Public roles should serve us – not billionaires. You can demand Denholm’s resignation & new integrity laws: getup.to/o3eOQXtjCE8LTa
Public roles should serve us – not billionaires. You can demand Denholm’s resignation & new integrity laws: getup.to/o3eOQXtjCE8LTa
Worth reading & supporting @thenerve.news as they embark on journalism as it might/ could still be www.thenerve.news
The Nerve
Fearless, independent journalism covering culture, politics and tech.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Worth reading & supporting @thenerve.news as they embark on journalism as it might/ could still be www.thenerve.news
ATOMIC POETRY @ NUCLEAR LANDSCAPES
Sunday 28 September | 1-3pm
📍Moores Building Art Space
46 Henry Street | Fremantle
Photo gallery of inspiration www.brettleighdicks.net/nuclear-land...
Sunday 28 September | 1-3pm
📍Moores Building Art Space
46 Henry Street | Fremantle
Photo gallery of inspiration www.brettleighdicks.net/nuclear-land...
September 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
ATOMIC POETRY @ NUCLEAR LANDSCAPES
Sunday 28 September | 1-3pm
📍Moores Building Art Space
46 Henry Street | Fremantle
Photo gallery of inspiration www.brettleighdicks.net/nuclear-land...
Sunday 28 September | 1-3pm
📍Moores Building Art Space
46 Henry Street | Fremantle
Photo gallery of inspiration www.brettleighdicks.net/nuclear-land...
Downloadable ebook Hope for whole: Poets speak up to Adani via Plumwood Mountain Journal plumwoodmountain.com//srv/htdocs/...
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September 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Downloadable ebook Hope for whole: Poets speak up to Adani via Plumwood Mountain Journal plumwoodmountain.com//srv/htdocs/...
Reposted by Sam Boswell
Issue 14 of Dust Poetry is now live ✨
And you can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
And you can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
Issue 14
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June 7, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Issue 14 of Dust Poetry is now live ✨
And you can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
And you can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
Essential list recommended at a flash fiction workshop in Fremantle today ☄️Substack post by Jeanine Oullette open.substack.com/pub/writingi...
Eleven Urgent & Possibly Helpful Things I Have Learned About Writing From Reading Thousands of Manuscripts
Eleven Urgent & Possibly Helpful Things I Have Learned About Writing From Reading Thousands of Manuscripts
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September 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Essential list recommended at a flash fiction workshop in Fremantle today ☄️Substack post by Jeanine Oullette open.substack.com/pub/writingi...
20 Poets 📖
Melange of experimental & lyrical - also free to download from Cordite Books cordite.org.au/guncotton/20... #poetry
Melange of experimental & lyrical - also free to download from Cordite Books cordite.org.au/guncotton/20... #poetry
20 Poets, a Free Anthology from Cordite Books
The geographic barriers that can, at times, hinder Australian literature are no longer relevant, and poetry communities around the world must be enlightened by the commanding, demanding and excitin…
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August 26, 2025 at 11:09 PM
20 Poets 📖
Melange of experimental & lyrical - also free to download from Cordite Books cordite.org.au/guncotton/20... #poetry
Melange of experimental & lyrical - also free to download from Cordite Books cordite.org.au/guncotton/20... #poetry
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August 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Thanks to @redroompoetry.bsky.social for hosting the annual #30in30 competition in celebration of August as poetry month 🎉✨
August 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Thanks to @redroompoetry.bsky.social for hosting the annual #30in30 competition in celebration of August as poetry month 🎉✨
Beautifully dialled measure of pain 🖤 and healing by @triciadearborn.bsky.social delivered in Red Room’s Friday #poem 🎁 redroompoetry.org/poets/tricia...
The family line
Australian poems by Australian poets are at the heart of Red Room Poetry, an organisation devoted to creating, publishing and promoting the reading and writing of great new work.
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July 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Beautifully dialled measure of pain 🖤 and healing by @triciadearborn.bsky.social delivered in Red Room’s Friday #poem 🎁 redroompoetry.org/poets/tricia...
From the collection of cracks in Authora Australis Literary Journal www.authora.net/issue9 #poetry #disruption #senseofplace
July 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
From the collection of cracks in Authora Australis Literary Journal www.authora.net/issue9 #poetry #disruption #senseofplace
Longlist announcement for the Flight anthology published by Liquid Amber Press 🎉 liquidamberpress.com.au/2025/07/14/2...
July 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Longlist announcement for the Flight anthology published by Liquid Amber Press 🎉 liquidamberpress.com.au/2025/07/14/2...
Issue 4 of The Marrow Poetry Journal holds a prism to the light www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-four/e...
Editorial — The Marrow International Poetry
June 2025
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June 15, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Issue 4 of The Marrow Poetry Journal holds a prism to the light www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-four/e...
So many sweet quirks of human nature to enjoy in Raw Lit rawlit.weebly.com/issue6.html
ISSUE6
Dear reader, Please be advised that published work may contain triggering and difficult topics. Therefore, most written pieces have content warnings for reference. While Raw Lit aims to offer a safe.....
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May 31, 2025 at 6:50 AM
So many sweet quirks of human nature to enjoy in Raw Lit rawlit.weebly.com/issue6.html
On grieving, deer, travel, and taxidermy, among other things - read creative non-fiction “Beasting” in Island mag islandmag.com/read/beastin...
Beasting – by Heather Taylor-Johnson | Australian Literary Arts Magazine | ISLAND
Frida Kahlo was broken and bedridden when she began painting. A trolley-car had crashed into her bus and she was speared by an iron handrail, puncturing her abdomen and uterus. Her spinal column was w...
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May 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
On grieving, deer, travel, and taxidermy, among other things - read creative non-fiction “Beasting” in Island mag islandmag.com/read/beastin...
Half way through the current issue of Brevity Journal, and loving the crystalline focus brevitymag.com/category/cur...
Current Issue | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
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May 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Half way through the current issue of Brevity Journal, and loving the crystalline focus brevitymag.com/category/cur...
“‘Care’ is a word long deployed by malignant systems” > on Songs, snakes and sacrifice
SJ Norman considers the meaninglessness of words unprojects.org.au/article/worl...
SJ Norman considers the meaninglessness of words unprojects.org.au/article/worl...
World Without End - un Projects
On the 196th day of a live-streamed genocide in Palestine, I find that many words have lost their meaning. Words I might have spoken once with seriousness, even reverence. I might once have imagined a...
unprojects.org.au
May 15, 2025 at 5:51 AM
“‘Care’ is a word long deployed by malignant systems” > on Songs, snakes and sacrifice
SJ Norman considers the meaninglessness of words unprojects.org.au/article/worl...
SJ Norman considers the meaninglessness of words unprojects.org.au/article/worl...
“Self-care as warfare” aka self-preservation from Sara Ahmed feministkilljoys.com/2014/08/25/s... #ethicsofcare
Selfcare as Warfare
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”This is a revolutionary, extraordinary sentence. It is a much loved, much cited sentence…
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May 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
“Self-care as warfare” aka self-preservation from Sara Ahmed feministkilljoys.com/2014/08/25/s... #ethicsofcare
On knitting and persistence courtesy of Jenny Diski (handy skillsets for these times) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
#memoir #nonfiction
#memoir #nonfiction
Jenny Diski · Diary: On Knitting
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May 5, 2025 at 11:21 PM
On knitting and persistence courtesy of Jenny Diski (handy skillsets for these times) www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
#memoir #nonfiction
#memoir #nonfiction
‘Phil’ was a keen storyteller & may even have enjoyed hearing this one over a few 🍻 www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-three/...
#poetry #memorial
#poetry #memorial
May 2, 2025 at 4:34 AM
‘Phil’ was a keen storyteller & may even have enjoyed hearing this one over a few 🍻 www.themarrowpoetry.com/issue-three/...
#poetry #memorial
#poetry #memorial