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Laura Strickland
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Poet, carer and freelance HR consultant from Yorkshire. Published in The North, Butcher’s Dog, Strix,The Frogmore Papers, Northern Gravy, Propel and others. Longlisted National Poetry Competition 2023 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
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It’s Learning Disability Week 2025 and yesterday I read some poems at St James’ Hospital, Leeds. Met lovely nurses who make me hopeful for care offered to people with additional needs. Here’s one of the poems, published in Butcher’s Dog last year xxx
Photo of two people with headphones on Reading poems at a microphone Photo of St James’ Hospital’s chapel Poem called The Story I Tell Myself
June 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Poem published in @atriumpoetry.bsky.social today. Here’s an early draft next to the final published poem. Thanks so much @atriumpoetry.bsky.social @hollyannepoet.bsky.social @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social what you do for poets is appreciated xxx
Early handwritten draft of poem showing lines crossed out Poem of two stanzas printed in Atrium journal
May 6, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Photo of my notebook at Arvon just after @carolinebirduk.bsky.social gave us the prompt. I’m pleased to see the neighbour collecting budgie feathers survived through to the final poem! @atriumpoetry.bsky.social @hollyannepoet.bsky.social @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social @arvonfoundation.bsky.social
Photo of first handwritten draft of my poem that was published in Atrium today. Included crossing out of words.
April 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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My poem, PIP, was published in The Frogmore Papers (2023). Solidarity to everyone who is worried about the changes 💖
Photo of poem called PIP. Deals with the experience of contacting the DWP for a PIP application.
March 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Zelenskyy photo HERO
February 28, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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It was a leaning against a beech tree kind of day today X🌳
Photo of me leaning against a big beech tree
February 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Feeling nostalgic for Lumb Bank on Sylvia Plath’s anniversary @arvonfoundation.bsky.social I was there in 2023 for a life changing residential and met friends for life
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Photo of Sylvia Plath’s gravestone
February 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Yorkshire in the snow ❄️
Snow, two bare trees in Yorkshire
January 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM