Chris Avanti
chris4reading.bsky.social
Chris Avanti
@chris4reading.bsky.social
Cherry picking my way through culture to learn and share my reading & music & film 🎶 📚 🎥 also the poet John Clare. Nature moments here https://bsky.app/profile/chris4nature.bsky.social
First part of a #Poem about garden birds in winter by John Clare

‘Now the snow hides the ground little birds leave the wood’ #Nature #Poet 🐦‍⬛🥜🏡
January 21, 2026 at 6:03 AM
It might be easier…Emily Dickinson #Poem #Poet
January 20, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Issa (1763-1827, ‘New Year greeting-time’ #Haiku
January 20, 2026 at 7:28 AM
John Clare - I love to see the old heath's withered brake from ‘Emmonsails Heath in Winter’ #Nature #Poem
January 19, 2026 at 6:28 AM
This still makes me smile about #Tyneside

First part of ‘Geordie The Clubman’ by Jack Davitt aka Ripyard Cuddling #Poem #Poet
January 18, 2026 at 5:30 AM
Gerard Manley Hopkins - The world is charged with the grandeur of God #Nature #Poem 📚 🌳
January 15, 2026 at 4:50 AM
WB Yeats - I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree #Nature #Poem #Ireland 🌳
January 14, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Newcastle STILL without trees 🌳 🤔

I have a new river now by Gillian Allnut #Nature #Poet #Newcastle (upon Tyne)
January 12, 2026 at 8:29 AM
‘Among the taller wood with ivy hung…’ by John Clare #nature #poem #Fox 🦊 🌳 🐦‍⬛🦋
January 12, 2026 at 5:36 AM
John Clare’s dream home and life 🏡 📚 First verse of ‘If wishes could be gaind and I might have…’ #Poem #Poet #Nature
January 11, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Why is the cuckoo's melody preferred by John Clare #Nature #Poet #Birds
January 10, 2026 at 5:24 AM
‘Haunter of woods, lone wilds and solitudes’ by John Clare #Nature #Poem 🌿
January 9, 2026 at 9:37 AM
‘What a night the wind howls hisses & but stops…’

Part of a poem by John Clare #Nature #Poet ❄️
January 8, 2026 at 6:19 AM
O for the quiet of an humble mind….

By John Clare #Nature #Poet
January 7, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Such an enjoyable #Documentary on #ThomasHardy “With radical instincts, a hatred of hypocrisy, poetic brilliance and a deep sense of a tragic life, was quiet externally quiet, but internally was a dark man. The author of a series of a brilliant novels, Hardy late in life became a great #poet
January 1, 2026 at 5:39 PM
‘As Kingfishers catch fire’ by Gerard Manley Hopkins #Nature #Poem #Nature #Birds
December 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Enjoyed this enlightening #Music #Memoir by #Questlove #Audiobook
December 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Stevie Smith Alone in The Woods #Poet #Poem #Nature
December 20, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Transcription of a Nightingale's Song by John Clare #Nature #Poet #Poem #Birds
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 AM
I So Liked Spring by Charlotte Mew #Nature #Poet #Poem #Spring 📚💚
December 18, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Jenny Joseph and The Unlooked-For Season’ #Winter #Nature #Poem 🐞 ☀️ 📚❄️
December 18, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Thaw by Edward Thomas #Poet #Poem #Nature
December 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski #poem #Poet 🙂
December 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Wild Swans by #Poet
EDNA ST VINCENT MILLAY #Nature #Poem 📚 🦢
December 14, 2025 at 8:03 PM
#ACompleteUnknown was enjoyable with great performances all round #Film #BobDylan
December 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM