Antonia Kearton
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Antonia Kearton
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Occasional writer of poetry; counsellor & psychotherapist; interested in more things than I have time for. Based in Strathspey in the Scottish Highlands.
https://www.tonikeartoncounselling.co.uk/
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I'm thrilled to have my poem Elements published today in Ink Sweat and Tears.
inksweatandtears.co.uk Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · Oct 17
Antonia Kearton's poem, 'Elements', doubles as both a meditation on elements and alchemy and an exploration of human inquiry and desire. @antoniakearton.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/antonia-kear...

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Title: Elements Author: Antonia Kearton Excerpt: On my son's desk lies/the periodic table of the elements./ I look. Amongst the arcane names/ I recognise, easy as breathing./ carbon, oxygen, gold, beloved of kings. Description: A number of graduated cylinders and beakers and phials set across a glass countertop.
October 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I'm absolutely thrilled that my poem Sanico is included in Dust Poetry's Best of the Net nominations. I never ever ever in my wildest dreams expected to receive a nomination! Thank you to @dustpoetry.bsky.social and congratulations to all the nominees!
dustpoetry.bsky.social Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · Oct 1
Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:

Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico

Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
October 2, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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I'm really pleased that my poem "What you should do is this" has found a home in Mugwort Magazine, along with an enticing host of other poems by other poets. Do have a look!
mugwortmagazine.bsky.social Mugwort Magazine @mugwortmagazine.bsky.social · Jul 19
Season 2: Volume 1 is out now!

mugwortmag.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/s...

You’ll find plants, birds, the sea, holidays... & of course, the edges: the shifting borders between the human & non-human, the urban & the wild, this world & others.

We hope you have a beautiful journey through each one. 🌿
July 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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My poem Sanico is today's poem from the current edition of @dustpoetry.bsky.social So thrilled to be included. There are some absolutely stunning poems in this issue - do check them all out!
dustpoetry.bsky.social Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · Jun 17
Today’s poem from our new issue is Sanico by Antonia Kearton.

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Read it at the link below 🍑
dustpoetry.bsky.social Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social · Jun 17
“Visiting my father, I bring peaches / from his local supermarket. / They’re reduced in price, spotted with bruises, /
but rich and sweet as those we ate / in the steep meadow of an Italian summer / almost forty years ago.”

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June 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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An Easter poem I wrote a few years ago, which was published in New Writing Scotland 39 (2021) - and I've just realised it was shared by ASL this Easter. I'm touched, honoured and delighted all at once. I hope my grandmother would be pleased...
asls.org.uk Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Apr 20
There’s a boulder by the forest path,
left by the ice ten thousand years ago,
it waits, patterned with lichen…

—Antonia Kearton, “A Benediction”
published in Break in Case of Silence: New Writing Scotland 39 (ASL, 2021)
#Easter #poem
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Antonia Kearton A Benediction There’s a boulder by the forest path, left by the ice ten thousand years ago, it waits, patterned with lichen the quietest blue, yellow soft as cream, knee-high, flat-topped, so wide I cannot wrap my arms around it – small hands of moss patter up its side. It’s nothing like my grandmother’s table at Easter, but that’s what comes to mind, dark brown and shining under the white cloth, bearing the feast, eggs dyed with onion skins and at the centre, sweet pashka a resurrection of butter, eggs, and cream, radiant with bright sugared fruits – moss green, rowan red, the sun’s strong yellow.
June 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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I'm so delighted and honoured that my poem Sanico has found a home with @dustpoetry.bsky.social - published online today. www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/sanico-...
Sanico by Antonia Kearton
Sanico Visiting my father, I bring peachesfrom his local supermarket.They’re reduced in price, spotted with bruises,but rich and sweet as those we atein the steep meadow of an Italian summeralmost for...
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June 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Kristian Birkeland observes the Northern Lights through a shot of Vodka – Nora Nadjarian @noranadj.bsky.social

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Kristian Birkeland observes the Northern Lights through a shot of Vodka – Nora Nadjarian
Kristian Birkeland observes the Northern Lights through a shot of Vodka . . Nora Nadjarian is a poet and fiction writer from Cyprus. Her work was published in The Interpreter’s House, Magma, Perver…
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June 6, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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I'm really, really delighted to have this poem published today in the wonderful and welcoming Black Nore Review.
May 29, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Pssst! Thought you might like to know...

We shall be opening general poetry submissions for one week from 1st - 7th June.

Guidelines will reappear on the site on 1st June.

We're excited to read your brightest and best!
May 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Just - fabulous!
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Let's also have something from one of my very favourite poets, Vicki Feaver. Here's the title poem from one of her collections.
May 22, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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#Poets, readers of #poetry and other members of the #poetrycommunity: the excellent @hannahl1n.bsky.social has assembled SIX starter packs of UK poets. Here’s an example of this treasure trove. Please follow and repost #booksky
March 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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I enjoy these podcasts. I seldom have the time for lengthy podcasts - these are c.15 minutes and I emerge from them feeling I've really spent time with the poems discussed in each.
May 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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🎤 NEW PODCAST!

The latest Nothing But The Poem podcast is a Norman MacCaig special. @samueltongue.bsky.social takes a deep dive into two of the most famous poems by one of Scotland's most beloved poets to see what lay beneath the bonnet.

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Nothing But The Poem - Norman MacCaig
In this episode of Nothing But The Poem podcast, our usual host Samuel Tongue goes in deep on two weel kent poems by Norman MacCaig, one of Scotland’s most loved and influential poets. Norman MacCaig ...
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May 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM