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❛ In this short life that only lasts an hour / How much – how little – is within our power

A poem written on a scrap of recycled envelope by Emily Dickinson, born #OTD in 1830.
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December 10, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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In this week’s Notes from the Margin post news about a new January course for paid subscribers - Thurteen Ways of Looking - a four week online course designed to get you to shake up perspectives. #onlinewritingcourse

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Winter Newsletter - New Course for January - Thirteen Ways of Looking
January course announcement/ write along dates/giveaway winner
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December 5, 2024 at 8:07 AM
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We humbly interrupt your scroll to bring you the news that Wisdom—the world's oldest known wild bird—is breeding again, age 74.

Go on girl. 😍
A screenshot of a social media post from USFWSPacific that reads: "SHE DID IT AGAIN! Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, is back with a new partner and just laid yet another egg. At an approximate age of 74, the queen of seabirds returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge last week and began interacting with a male." This tweet is paired with an image of two Laysan Albatrosses at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. Wisdom, the oldest known wild bird, is shown alongside her new partner, demonstrating her enduring legacy as a remarkable seabird.
December 4, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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❛ If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

Whether you're a first time writer or this is your hundredth poem, we want to hear from you...

Closing 31 December.
🌟 bit.ly/mothpoetry24
December 1, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
#Winter, 1955 by Japanese artist and poet Keiko Minami
Artwork featuring a bird in silhouette flying in the centre foreground and a group of winter bare trees to the top left all against a bleak greenish cream background
December 1, 2024 at 6:49 AM
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It’s launch day for my new Nine Arches poetry collection, Blackbird Singing at Dusk. To celebrate I have a whole range of goodies in this week’s substack, including 20% off a year’s subscription for one week only!
#poetry

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Blackbird Singing at Dusk Takes Flight
Giveaway, 20% off a subscription, exclusive reading AND zoom link for VIP launch event
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November 28, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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Having said that, the first review for Constructing a Witch is just in. It's a very good one. Phew! What a privilege it is to have a book so carefully read! Goodness me! #poetry #constructingawitch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
The High Window Reviews: Winter 2024
***** Sarah Holland-Batt: The Jaguar: Selected Poems • Helen Ivory : Constructing a Witch • Susan Utting: The Colour of Rain  •  Ghareeb Iskander: English Poetry and Modern Arabic Verse: Translatio…
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November 27, 2024 at 1:21 PM
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I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!
A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember
November 27, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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Sunset, Long Island, 1939 by Georgia O'Keeffe
Painting in a semi abstract simple style evoking a setting sun over a dark sea, to the centre top right is an orange circle in a cream sky and below a horizontal black wave is over a horizontal wave in grey
November 25, 2024 at 6:26 PM
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Sunrise, 1916
by Georgia O'Keeffe
#Monday
Painting with an arched shape resting on a horizontal line, the softly blurred arches within arches in colours of white pink and red are over a half circle of yellow representative of a rising sun zabove a horizontal stripe of red and pink merging representing land
November 25, 2024 at 6:44 AM
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Wales this weekend – climate collapse happening before our very eyes .

We need to get serious . It’s why I’m petitioning for a ban on fossil fuel ads .

lovera.ge/ban-ffa 🧵
matthewtodd.bsky.social Matthew Todd @matthewtodd.bsky.social · Nov 24
This is not Valencia, this is the town Tenbury Wells UK. There are very real consequences for all of us of ignoring 40 years of warnings from NASA & the world’s leading scientists. Reminder: as the planet heats, the atmosphere holds more moisture meaning rainfall intensity increases. #climatechange
November 24, 2024 at 8:59 PM
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Why does no one from #SizewellC ever talk about the impact already being felt on local businesses who are losing well-trained staff to the project?
#StopSizewellC
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Power station pledges 500 jobs for coastal town as agreement with its MP announced
A power station has pledged 500 jobs for a coastal town after an agreement with its MP was announced.
www.suffolknews.co.uk
November 22, 2024 at 5:12 PM
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The oarfish, a striking deep-sea creature nicknamed the "doomsday fish," has eluded researchers over the decades. For scientists in California, where three oarfish have washed up in recent months, it’s an exciting find. nyti.ms/4fTGf8h
A photo of an oarfish on a beach at sunset. Text reads: "This Rare 'Doomsday Fish' Was Found on a California Beach." Photo credit: Alison Laferriere/Scripps Institution of Oceanography
November 22, 2024 at 12:10 PM
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Georgia O'Keeffe,

You Are The Sun, 1977
A simple horizontal painted slightly waved line with a circle just above, both in blue watercolour on a cream background
November 19, 2024 at 7:31 PM
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Public Meeting TONIGHT, Yoxford 7pm about the roundabout and #SizewellC Link Road
Thank you to whoever has organised.... All welcome
November 20, 2024 at 10:27 AM
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wendypratt.bsky.social
Lovely to be able to share this @theguardian.com review of my new Nine Arches Press poetry collection, Blackbird Singing at Dusk: amp.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
Blackbird Singing at Dusk by Wendy Pratt review – the great smells of the north and nature | Poetry | The Guardian
Grief rubs shoulders with greasy chip pans in a humorous and heartfelt celebration of the coastal working class
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November 20, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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Good morning , here's your #FoxOfTheDay , shared by @kizbang on Instagram
November 19, 2024 at 10:18 AM