Clarissa Aykroyd
@stoneandthestar.bsky.social
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i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
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Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Giving a lecture on the drafts of The Waste Land tomorrow and all the strange and haunting lines that Eliot and Pound decided to cut
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We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
November 12, 2025 at 10:00 PM
We're thrilled to announce the Pegasus Poetry Book Prize, recognizing a US poet aged 40 or older for their first or second poetry collection. In addition to publication by Graywolf, the awardee will receive $10,000 from the Poetry Foundation.
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
www.poetryfoundation.org/awards/poetr...
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📚 A Letter to the Dead by Lynette Roberts, hosted by Francesca Brooks - Tuesday 25 November, 7pm.
This new edition contains sixty-five unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry.
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/a-let...
This new edition contains sixty-five unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry.
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/a-let...
November 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
📚 A Letter to the Dead by Lynette Roberts, hosted by Francesca Brooks - Tuesday 25 November, 7pm.
This new edition contains sixty-five unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry.
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/a-let...
This new edition contains sixty-five unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry.
www.carcanet.co.uk/events/a-let...
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New poetry magazine just dropped from a former student of mine - open to submissions & free if you’re interested www.stoatmagazine.co.uk
Stoat Poetry
Stoat Poetry is a new magazine which aims to publish the best original poetry from new and established writers.
www.stoatmagazine.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 10:52 PM
New poetry magazine just dropped from a former student of mine - open to submissions & free if you’re interested www.stoatmagazine.co.uk
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'Pacific Swift' by @stoneandthestar.bsky.social badlilies.uk/clarissa-aykroyd-1
November 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
'Pacific Swift' by @stoneandthestar.bsky.social badlilies.uk/clarissa-aykroyd-1
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father has passed away—
even so the morning star
on the frosty pine
Sugita Hisajo (1890-1946)
from Lips Licked Clean
Translated by Alice Wanderer
#haiku #poetry
winter #kigo frost
#micropoetry
even so the morning star
on the frosty pine
Sugita Hisajo (1890-1946)
from Lips Licked Clean
Translated by Alice Wanderer
#haiku #poetry
winter #kigo frost
#micropoetry
November 1, 2025 at 4:16 AM
father has passed away—
even so the morning star
on the frosty pine
Sugita Hisajo (1890-1946)
from Lips Licked Clean
Translated by Alice Wanderer
#haiku #poetry
winter #kigo frost
#micropoetry
even so the morning star
on the frosty pine
Sugita Hisajo (1890-1946)
from Lips Licked Clean
Translated by Alice Wanderer
#haiku #poetry
winter #kigo frost
#micropoetry
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I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 11:13 AM
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
I'm delighted that my poem 'Pacific Swift' appears in this new issue of
@BadLilies. It's one of a number of glimmers of hope in what has been a dark time for me creatively & otherwise.
This poem is a memory of spending a week on a schooner off Vancouver Island when I was 14.
@BadLilies. It's one of a number of glimmers of hope in what has been a dark time for me creatively & otherwise.
This poem is a memory of spending a week on a schooner off Vancouver Island when I was 14.
OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-Two: 'Ghost Ship'. badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two
Issue twenty-two — Bad Lilies
badlilies.uk
October 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I'm delighted that my poem 'Pacific Swift' appears in this new issue of
@BadLilies. It's one of a number of glimmers of hope in what has been a dark time for me creatively & otherwise.
This poem is a memory of spending a week on a schooner off Vancouver Island when I was 14.
@BadLilies. It's one of a number of glimmers of hope in what has been a dark time for me creatively & otherwise.
This poem is a memory of spending a week on a schooner off Vancouver Island when I was 14.
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OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-Two: 'Ghost Ship'. badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two
Issue twenty-two — Bad Lilies
badlilies.uk
October 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-Two: 'Ghost Ship'. badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two
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Simon, you crazy diamond: Armitage poem marks 50 years of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here
Simon, you crazy diamond: Armitage poem marks 50 years of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here
Poet laureate pays tribute to ‘message in a bottle tied to a life buoy thrown from a ghost ship’ released when he was 12
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Simon, you crazy diamond: Armitage poem marks 50 years of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here
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“Oh, only when my face
is streaming toward you does it cease
being on exhibit, becomes one with yours and
darkly goes on
and on into your impregnable heart…”
—To Lou Andreas-Salomé, Rilke; tr. Franz Wright
is streaming toward you does it cease
being on exhibit, becomes one with yours and
darkly goes on
and on into your impregnable heart…”
—To Lou Andreas-Salomé, Rilke; tr. Franz Wright
October 28, 2025 at 9:36 PM
“Oh, only when my face
is streaming toward you does it cease
being on exhibit, becomes one with yours and
darkly goes on
and on into your impregnable heart…”
—To Lou Andreas-Salomé, Rilke; tr. Franz Wright
is streaming toward you does it cease
being on exhibit, becomes one with yours and
darkly goes on
and on into your impregnable heart…”
—To Lou Andreas-Salomé, Rilke; tr. Franz Wright
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Some of Neil Finn’s songwriting tips apply to writing poems too
Songwriters' gold: Jeremy Chunn interviewed Neil Finn in 1995 about how he's managed to write so many great songs, and Finn spills the beans. This is amazing.
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/nei...
www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/nei...
Neil Finn
Beware! Reading this does not guarantee you instant commercial success and a new car. And it’s also doubtful that once your sponge-like brain has absorbed all the gritty information waiting here to be...
www.audioculture.co.nz
October 25, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Some of Neil Finn’s songwriting tips apply to writing poems too
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It's almost here! Join us for #smallpublishersfair25: 66 UK and international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks.
Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube)
Further details:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube)
Further details:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
It's almost here! Join us for #smallpublishersfair25: 66 UK and international publishers, a special exhibition, and readings & talks.
Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube)
Further details:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
Friday 24 & Saturday 25 October (11am-7pm)
FREE, all welcome
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (Holborn tube)
Further details:
smallpublishersfair.co.uk
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Was chatting to someone about that old familiar piece of workshop feedback 'do you need the first/last line' and tonight I came across this from 'The Fragment' (Electric Light)
#poetry
#quoteoftheday
#amwriting
#poetry
#quoteoftheday
#amwriting
October 21, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Was chatting to someone about that old familiar piece of workshop feedback 'do you need the first/last line' and tonight I came across this from 'The Fragment' (Electric Light)
#poetry
#quoteoftheday
#amwriting
#poetry
#quoteoftheday
#amwriting
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Got a not-entirely-serious essay in @nytimes.com today, about the plague of weird foreign names in spy novels. Amazing illustration www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...
Opinion | Would You Believe This Spy’s Name?
www.nytimes.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Got a not-entirely-serious essay in @nytimes.com today, about the plague of weird foreign names in spy novels. Amazing illustration www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...
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Good afternoon and Happy National Poetry Day! This is the very first post from Poets for the Planet here on Bluesky. We are very glad to be here. To start us off here's Wendell Berry's classic, The Peace of Wild Things #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...
“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry, A Poetry Film by Charlotte Ager & Katy Wang
YouTube video by The On Being Project
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October 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Good afternoon and Happy National Poetry Day! This is the very first post from Poets for the Planet here on Bluesky. We are very glad to be here. To start us off here's Wendell Berry's classic, The Peace of Wild Things #nationalpoetryday #poetrysky www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ewB...
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For #nationalpoetryday ‘Autumn Uprising’ - on the subject of #play - this year’s theme, published in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🐻 🧍♀️ 🐝 🤠 🍂
Christmas-Winter 4
#toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn
Christmas-Winter 4
#toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn
October 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
For #nationalpoetryday ‘Autumn Uprising’ - on the subject of #play - this year’s theme, published in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🐻 🧍♀️ 🐝 🤠 🍂
Christmas-Winter 4
#toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn
Christmas-Winter 4
#toystory #wreckitralph #wreckitralph2 #writing #childhood #autumn
On National Poetry Day the theme is 'Play' so I'd like to recommend Hit Points by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social , an anthology of poems about video games. My poem about Ultima IV is one of them. share.google/rOTLs3R7qnQ6...
Hit Points, An anthology of video game poetry | Broken Sleep Books
Released May 31st 2021 // 100 pages // Red or green variants Video games and poetry may be an unlikely seeming match, if video games are one of the most popular imaginative forms in contemporary cultu...
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October 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
On National Poetry Day the theme is 'Play' so I'd like to recommend Hit Points by @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social , an anthology of poems about video games. My poem about Ultima IV is one of them. share.google/rOTLs3R7qnQ6...
Saw a post about someone being concerned that a friend was using ChatGPT for personal advice & wondering how to talk to them about it.
I have a feeling plenty of people I know are using ChatGPT in many irresponsible ways (for factual info, as a counselor) & almost don't even want to know.
I have a feeling plenty of people I know are using ChatGPT in many irresponsible ways (for factual info, as a counselor) & almost don't even want to know.
September 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Saw a post about someone being concerned that a friend was using ChatGPT for personal advice & wondering how to talk to them about it.
I have a feeling plenty of people I know are using ChatGPT in many irresponsible ways (for factual info, as a counselor) & almost don't even want to know.
I have a feeling plenty of people I know are using ChatGPT in many irresponsible ways (for factual info, as a counselor) & almost don't even want to know.
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Reminder we will be launching Bloodaxe’s September books on Tuesday- really looking forward to it
Our three September books will be launched online at our joint event on Tuesday 30 September, 7pm. Emilie Jelinek, Clare Pollard & Jessica Traynor will be reading from their books and discussing them with Bloodaxe editor Neil Astley.
Watch live or later via YouTube.
www.youtube.com/live/He4JaXN...
Watch live or later via YouTube.
www.youtube.com/live/He4JaXN...
September 28, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Reminder we will be launching Bloodaxe’s September books on Tuesday- really looking forward to it
Poets, UK or otherwise: do you think the trend of the past decade for poetry books to almost *have* to be heavily thematic/conceptual/telling a story is declining a bit, or is it as strong as ever?
September 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Poets, UK or otherwise: do you think the trend of the past decade for poetry books to almost *have* to be heavily thematic/conceptual/telling a story is declining a bit, or is it as strong as ever?
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This gash is deep,
I warm it with my last blood.
Feel my side
It is far truer
Than poems.
- Poem of the End, Marina Tsvetaeva, Tr. Nina Kossman
I warm it with my last blood.
Feel my side
It is far truer
Than poems.
- Poem of the End, Marina Tsvetaeva, Tr. Nina Kossman
August 30, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This gash is deep,
I warm it with my last blood.
Feel my side
It is far truer
Than poems.
- Poem of the End, Marina Tsvetaeva, Tr. Nina Kossman
I warm it with my last blood.
Feel my side
It is far truer
Than poems.
- Poem of the End, Marina Tsvetaeva, Tr. Nina Kossman
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Where Have All the Great Poets Gone? My North Sea Poets substack... open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
Where Have All the Great Poets Gone?
Kathleen Jamie on the Giant Tortoises
open.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Where Have All the Great Poets Gone? My North Sea Poets substack... open.substack.com/pub/northsea...
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"Do maintain a robust social media presence; aim to post between 1 and 1,000 times a year."
Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
A Primer on Pitching Translations - Words Without Borders
Award-winning translator Lara Vergnaud offers a tongue-in-cheek guide for translators in search of a publisher.
wordswithoutborders.org
August 5, 2025 at 4:43 PM
"Do maintain a robust social media presence; aim to post between 1 and 1,000 times a year."
Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...
Lara Vergnaud tells it like it is
wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...