Edmund Prestwich
@edmundprestwich.bsky.social
Retired teacher, grandfather, reader, writer of poetry and poetry reviews.
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A commitment to express the inexpressible from @alinaetc.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @annettemakino.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social 2/4
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 45
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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November 11, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Halloween week in the poetry blogs with thetenderbetween.bsky.social @renee-emerson.bsky.social aempoet.bsky.social pfanderson.bsky.social webbish6.bsky.social thepoetslizard.bsky.social kristybowen.bsky.social matthewepaul.bsky.social matriches.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 44
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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This week in the poetry blogs with @kathrynanna.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 43
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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October 28, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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If only this were @teamlabouruk.bsky.social …
In huge positive news, the Australian government just ruled out handing the work of their country’s creatives to AI companies for free 🙌
They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law.
Other governments should do the same!
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They resisted the well-funded tech lobby & shut down proposals to upend copyright law.
Other governments should do the same!
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
October 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
If only this were @teamlabouruk.bsky.social …
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October 24, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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These 2026 Calendars are now available to pre-order. The link to my website is in my bio on my profile page. Lots of lovely Christmas cards to browse through too! #SmallBusiness #flowers #photography
I’ve finally chosen the cover photo and images for my 2026 calendar and ordered the proof. I’m so late with it this year, but hey ho! I hope you like them! #SmallBusiness #flowers #photography
October 25, 2025 at 8:34 AM
These 2026 Calendars are now available to pre-order. The link to my website is in my bio on my profile page. Lots of lovely Christmas cards to browse through too! #SmallBusiness #flowers #photography
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October 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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This week in the poetry blogs w/ @matriches.bsky.social @rmhaines.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @beckyltuch.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 42
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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October 20, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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A Columbus Day edition of the digest with @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @writtenbyallison.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social 2/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 41
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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October 13, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Interesting times as always this week in the poetry blogs with @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 40
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Interesting times as always this week in the poetry blogs with @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social 1/3
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A few thoughts on Tolkien's Lament for Boromir and its setting by Clamavi De Profundis, brief reference to metre followed by broader impressions: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2900
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October 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
A few thoughts on Tolkien's Lament for Boromir and its setting by Clamavi De Profundis, brief reference to metre followed by broader impressions: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2900
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Hey sonnet geeks, heads up. Excellent piece here by Paul Muldoon. thelondonmagazine.org/essay-scanty...
Essay | Scanty Plot of Ground by Paul Muldoon - The London Magazine
From 'Scanty Plot of Ground', Paul Muldoon on the sonnet, the most 'persistent' and 'pervasive' of poetic forms.
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October 3, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Hey sonnet geeks, heads up. Excellent piece here by Paul Muldoon. thelondonmagazine.org/essay-scanty...
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An imagined history of the Green Man, anti-capitalist work poetry, the dactylic hexameter line & more with @robinhoughton.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...
Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 39
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
An imagined history of the Green Man, anti-capitalist work poetry, the dactylic hexameter line & more with @robinhoughton.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...
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This week in the poetry blogs with @emmalee1.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @johnglenday.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 39
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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The perfect poem, the extremes of poetry, and more with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 39
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:48 AM
The perfect poem, the extremes of poetry, and more with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social
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I've always enjoyed the poems in Tolkien's Ring books and found several very moving but the Clamavi De Profundis group sets and sings them in a way that gives their emotional content new depth: the voices and music are beautiful but it's their sensitive feeling for the words that really makes them.
September 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I've always enjoyed the poems in Tolkien's Ring books and found several very moving but the Clamavi De Profundis group sets and sings them in a way that gives their emotional content new depth: the voices and music are beautiful but it's their sensitive feeling for the words that really makes them.
I've loved the opening of Bunting's Briggflatts since uni but Don Share's annotated edition gives new delight, eg this note by BB himself:
"In spring, the bull does, in fact, if he's with the cows, dance on the tips of his toes, as part of the business of showing off, showing that he's protecting
"In spring, the bull does, in fact, if he's with the cows, dance on the tips of his toes, as part of the business of showing off, showing that he's protecting
September 25, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I've loved the opening of Bunting's Briggflatts since uni but Don Share's annotated edition gives new delight, eg this note by BB himself:
"In spring, the bull does, in fact, if he's with the cows, dance on the tips of his toes, as part of the business of showing off, showing that he's protecting
"In spring, the bull does, in fact, if he's with the cows, dance on the tips of his toes, as part of the business of showing off, showing that he's protecting
Brief reflections on Michelene Wandor's Ergo from Arc Publications, as in issue 71 of The North: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2896
September 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Brief reflections on Michelene Wandor's Ergo from Arc Publications, as in issue 71 of The North: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2896
Tomas Transtromer's 'Romanesque Arches' - profoundly moving in Robin Fulton's translation for Transtromer's New Collected Poems by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social. Read it aloud - in Fulton's words each phrase becomes a vividly charged moment in an arc of evolving experience.
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Tomas Transtromer's 'Romanesque Arches' - profoundly moving in Robin Fulton's translation for Transtromer's New Collected Poems by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social. Read it aloud - in Fulton's words each phrase becomes a vividly charged moment in an arc of evolving experience.
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This week in the poetry blogs with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 38
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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September 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Today is Arvo Pärt's 90th bday. My favorite living composer.
I'm over the moon that my church choir is scheduled to sing The Deer's Cry in the spring. His De Profundis blows me away every time I listen.
I am grateful for the life & music of Arvo Pärt!
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I'm over the moon that my church choir is scheduled to sing The Deer's Cry in the spring. His De Profundis blows me away every time I listen.
I am grateful for the life & music of Arvo Pärt!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQtW...
Arvo Pärt - The Deer's Cry (2007)
YouTube video by Anthony Mondon
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September 12, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Today is Arvo Pärt's 90th bday. My favorite living composer.
I'm over the moon that my church choir is scheduled to sing The Deer's Cry in the spring. His De Profundis blows me away every time I listen.
I am grateful for the life & music of Arvo Pärt!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQtW...
I'm over the moon that my church choir is scheduled to sing The Deer's Cry in the spring. His De Profundis blows me away every time I listen.
I am grateful for the life & music of Arvo Pärt!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQtW...
Superb poet.
Please join Carcanet poet @sashadugdale.bsky.social on Saturday 27th September at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, where she will be reading from some of her work.
The event is free to attend, but for more information see here:⬇️
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The event is free to attend, but for more information see here:⬇️
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Sasha Dugdale, Louise Machen with music from Li Lu & Lulu Yang: 27 September 2025
Please join us on Saturday 27 September 2025, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. You will find all the information you need re…
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September 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Superb poet.
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This week in the poetry blogs w/ @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social @jillpearlman.bsky.social 1/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 36
A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.
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September 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
And the glass houses in the Botanic Garden are enchanting even on our casual viewing.
September 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
And the glass houses in the Botanic Garden are enchanting even on our casual viewing.
College lawns were very dry on this year's visit to Oxford but the flower beds in Balliol were particularly lovely in the subtlety of their colour combinations.
September 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
College lawns were very dry on this year's visit to Oxford but the flower beds in Balliol were particularly lovely in the subtlety of their colour combinations.