Alex MacDonald
@mapesburyroad.bsky.social
Poet - latest published pieces here: http://linktree.com/selected_poems
A new poem appears in @propelmagazine.bsky.social Issue 14, partly inspired by this painting. The issue is full of great poems & edited by @susannahdickey.bsky.social - you can read the whole thing here - www.propelmagazine.co.uk/issue-14-con...
April 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
A new poem appears in @propelmagazine.bsky.social Issue 14, partly inspired by this painting. The issue is full of great poems & edited by @susannahdickey.bsky.social - you can read the whole thing here - www.propelmagazine.co.uk/issue-14-con...
A poem about love, from the new manuscript draft
February 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A poem about love, from the new manuscript draft
Glorious stairwell sign at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social
February 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Glorious stairwell sign at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social
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Loved doing this, @artreview.bsky.social
are running an exciting new series where they ask poets to respond to contemporary works of art.
I chose Mika Tajima’s Art d’Ameublement series.
thanks to @alexanderleissle.bsky.social
artreview.com/art-dameuble...
are running an exciting new series where they ask poets to respond to contemporary works of art.
I chose Mika Tajima’s Art d’Ameublement series.
thanks to @alexanderleissle.bsky.social
artreview.com/art-dameuble...
‘art d’ameublement’: A Poem by Lucy Mercer
‘When the island / appeared to me / it was a beautiful / one, one I could / not think in’
artreview.com
January 30, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Loved doing this, @artreview.bsky.social
are running an exciting new series where they ask poets to respond to contemporary works of art.
I chose Mika Tajima’s Art d’Ameublement series.
thanks to @alexanderleissle.bsky.social
artreview.com/art-dameuble...
are running an exciting new series where they ask poets to respond to contemporary works of art.
I chose Mika Tajima’s Art d’Ameublement series.
thanks to @alexanderleissle.bsky.social
artreview.com/art-dameuble...
Have really been enjoying Wallace Stevens recently.
January 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Have really been enjoying Wallace Stevens recently.
Met a celebrity today
January 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Met a celebrity today
A new poem published today, up on @perversemag.bsky.social 🧡
December 16, 2024 at 12:57 PM
A new poem published today, up on @perversemag.bsky.social 🧡
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I'm now able to offer a handful of mentoring opportunities
December 11, 2024 at 12:09 PM
I'm now able to offer a handful of mentoring opportunities
I seem to suddenly have a lot of new followers! While I’m not a VERY active member of this community - I thought I’d say hi. I occasionally send poems out on my Substack, which you can subscribe to here: selectedpoems.substack.com
December 4, 2024 at 11:19 AM
I seem to suddenly have a lot of new followers! While I’m not a VERY active member of this community - I thought I’d say hi. I occasionally send poems out on my Substack, which you can subscribe to here: selectedpoems.substack.com
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So enjoyed chatting - and singing - to @ellafrears.bsky.social and @mapesburyroad.bsky.social on Ella’s unique Tears for Frears
Tomorrow 7-9am on Soho Radio - last Tears for Frears of the year with special guests @ruthpadel.bsky.social & @mapesburyroad.bsky.social - music, poetry, chat and even some singing 🥹💙 catch up on previous shows here: ellafrears.com/editorial/
December 1, 2024 at 9:26 AM
So enjoyed chatting - and singing - to @ellafrears.bsky.social and @mapesburyroad.bsky.social on Ella’s unique Tears for Frears
Reposted by Alex MacDonald
Tomorrow 7-9am on Soho Radio - last Tears for Frears of the year with special guests @ruthpadel.bsky.social & @mapesburyroad.bsky.social - music, poetry, chat and even some singing 🥹💙 catch up on previous shows here: ellafrears.com/editorial/
December 1, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Tomorrow 7-9am on Soho Radio - last Tears for Frears of the year with special guests @ruthpadel.bsky.social & @mapesburyroad.bsky.social - music, poetry, chat and even some singing 🥹💙 catch up on previous shows here: ellafrears.com/editorial/
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You can listen back to Monday’s Stress Test with these cuties ( @joedunthorne.bsky.social & @mapesburyroad.bsky.social ) here: www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/ro... chat, music, poems written live on air 🫠
November 26, 2024 at 9:41 AM
You can listen back to Monday’s Stress Test with these cuties ( @joedunthorne.bsky.social & @mapesburyroad.bsky.social ) here: www.mixcloud.com/sohoradio/ro... chat, music, poems written live on air 🫠
Gloomily visited Sappho yesterday
November 24, 2024 at 9:39 AM
Gloomily visited Sappho yesterday
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Hey poets! Check out BERNADETTE MAYER's list of poetry experiments/prompts. Blow your mind and never be stuck again: www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Maye...
November 21, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Hey poets! Check out BERNADETTE MAYER's list of poetry experiments/prompts. Blow your mind and never be stuck again: www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Maye...
Eventually I will get into the habit of posting on here but, in the mean time, here is an old poem & my old face.
November 22, 2024 at 3:30 PM
Eventually I will get into the habit of posting on here but, in the mean time, here is an old poem & my old face.
Reposted by Alex MacDonald
I’ve made this feed for UK-based writers, poets, publishers, booksellers, critics & academics & book workers
if you wd like to be added to the list that generates it please lmk as have only just started adding ppl.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
if you wd like to be added to the list that generates it please lmk as have only just started adding ppl.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 21, 2024 at 7:46 PM
I’ve made this feed for UK-based writers, poets, publishers, booksellers, critics & academics & book workers
if you wd like to be added to the list that generates it please lmk as have only just started adding ppl.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
if you wd like to be added to the list that generates it please lmk as have only just started adding ppl.
bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Recorded a very good ep of Tears for Frears yesterday with Ruth Padel & Alex Macdonald 💘 out 2nd December on Soho Radio - until then you can listen to the previous shows here: ellafrears.com/editorial/
November 19, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Recorded a very good ep of Tears for Frears yesterday with Ruth Padel & Alex Macdonald 💘 out 2nd December on Soho Radio - until then you can listen to the previous shows here: ellafrears.com/editorial/
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Another old poem, one I forgot I wrote
October 2, 2023 at 9:31 AM
Another old poem, one I forgot I wrote
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Excited to announce a new literature x ecology online reading series am running over the next 8 months
Will be in conversation with:
~ Daisy Lafarge
~ Sylvia Legris
~ Karen McCarthy Woolf
~ Forrest Gander
~ Rachael Allen
~ Anthony Vahni Capildeo
~ Brenda Hillman
~ John Wedgwood Clarke
Will be in conversation with:
~ Daisy Lafarge
~ Sylvia Legris
~ Karen McCarthy Woolf
~ Forrest Gander
~ Rachael Allen
~ Anthony Vahni Capildeo
~ Brenda Hillman
~ John Wedgwood Clarke
September 28, 2023 at 10:43 AM
Excited to announce a new literature x ecology online reading series am running over the next 8 months
Will be in conversation with:
~ Daisy Lafarge
~ Sylvia Legris
~ Karen McCarthy Woolf
~ Forrest Gander
~ Rachael Allen
~ Anthony Vahni Capildeo
~ Brenda Hillman
~ John Wedgwood Clarke
Will be in conversation with:
~ Daisy Lafarge
~ Sylvia Legris
~ Karen McCarthy Woolf
~ Forrest Gander
~ Rachael Allen
~ Anthony Vahni Capildeo
~ Brenda Hillman
~ John Wedgwood Clarke
An old poem of mine
September 26, 2023 at 9:32 AM
An old poem of mine
All I want to read is Gboyega
September 24, 2023 at 2:32 PM
All I want to read is Gboyega