Natalie Scott
@nataliescottwriter.bsky.social
writer / educator / poet / certified facilitator / ACE awarded / creator of Pen Power - Writing for Wellbeing / NE England / neurodivergent / Edgar's mum / releasing words into the wild since 1999. www.nataliescottwriter.com
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Get ready! #NationalPoetryDay is tomorrow, 2 October! Let’s celebrate with joy, performance, and creativity. buff.ly/xH8h5Eb #Play
National Poetry Day - Forward Arts Foundation
The biggest celebration of poetry every year since 1994. With a different theme each year and events all across the UK.
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October 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Get ready! #NationalPoetryDay is tomorrow, 2 October! Let’s celebrate with joy, performance, and creativity. buff.ly/xH8h5Eb #Play
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You have to write for the love, because the publishing process and response can be upsetting, and the accolades so few (especially for poetry) yet there are collections I love that received little attention. But that creative rush is very special – no one can take it away
September 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
You have to write for the love, because the publishing process and response can be upsetting, and the accolades so few (especially for poetry) yet there are collections I love that received little attention. But that creative rush is very special – no one can take it away
Great article and great project!
I toured UK council estates and learned this: all our lives are poems just waiting to be written | Rowan McCabe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I toured UK council estates and learned this: all our lives are poems just waiting to be written | Rowan McCabe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I toured UK council estates and learned this: all our lives are poems just waiting to be written | Rowan McCabe
I knocked on doors, spoke to people about hopes and concerns, and wrote poetry to share with them. It could and should be an art form for everyone, says poet Rowan McCabe
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September 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Great article and great project!
I toured UK council estates and learned this: all our lives are poems just waiting to be written | Rowan McCabe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I toured UK council estates and learned this: all our lives are poems just waiting to be written | Rowan McCabe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Poem of the week: Solitude by Peter McDonald www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
Poem of the week: Solitude by Peter McDonald
A wounded bird becomes an image for much wider damage to our world
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September 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Poem of the week: Solitude by Peter McDonald www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...
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As part of the National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society presents a series of readings (prizewinning poem + recent poem) from past winners of the competition for our Then & Now series.
In this clip Mark Pajak reads 'Trick' (commended, 2020).
Mark's full reading can be found on our Vimeo.
In this clip Mark Pajak reads 'Trick' (commended, 2020).
Mark's full reading can be found on our Vimeo.
August 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
As part of the National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society presents a series of readings (prizewinning poem + recent poem) from past winners of the competition for our Then & Now series.
In this clip Mark Pajak reads 'Trick' (commended, 2020).
Mark's full reading can be found on our Vimeo.
In this clip Mark Pajak reads 'Trick' (commended, 2020).
Mark's full reading can be found on our Vimeo.
Very interesting...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Are you an otrovert? Why this personality type could be your greatest gift
Feel like you don’t belong? Crave emotional independence? Constantly come up with original ideas? Like Frida Kahlo, Franz Kafka and Albert Einstein, you could have a distinct case of otroversion ...
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August 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Very interesting...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Did you know?
In the Victorian era, public toilets were not common in London, so there was an issue with people relieving themselves in the streets.
When the city changed this, urinals were free, but stalls cost a penny. So men could go for free, but women had to pay.
#Victorian #history
In the Victorian era, public toilets were not common in London, so there was an issue with people relieving themselves in the streets.
When the city changed this, urinals were free, but stalls cost a penny. So men could go for free, but women had to pay.
#Victorian #history
August 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Did you know?
In the Victorian era, public toilets were not common in London, so there was an issue with people relieving themselves in the streets.
When the city changed this, urinals were free, but stalls cost a penny. So men could go for free, but women had to pay.
#Victorian #history
In the Victorian era, public toilets were not common in London, so there was an issue with people relieving themselves in the streets.
When the city changed this, urinals were free, but stalls cost a penny. So men could go for free, but women had to pay.
#Victorian #history
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Like they used to be before 2010.
Signed.
#Education #UKEducation #UniversityFees #TuitionFree #FreeTuition #Universities
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Signed.
#Education #UKEducation #UniversityFees #TuitionFree #FreeTuition #Universities
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Make Universities free for all
We want to make Universities accessible for all, as we think higher education should be a right not a privilege for the wealthy. End tuition fees at Universities and make higher education free and acc...
petition.parliament.uk
August 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Like they used to be before 2010.
Signed.
#Education #UKEducation #UniversityFees #TuitionFree #FreeTuition #Universities
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Signed.
#Education #UKEducation #UniversityFees #TuitionFree #FreeTuition #Universities
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Is everyone's printer this rude, or just mine?
August 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Is everyone's printer this rude, or just mine?
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With eyes made keen
by watching your face […]
Jean Joubert, trans. Denise Levertov
by watching your face […]
Jean Joubert, trans. Denise Levertov
August 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
With eyes made keen
by watching your face […]
Jean Joubert, trans. Denise Levertov
by watching your face […]
Jean Joubert, trans. Denise Levertov
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We'll be launching our first pamphlet and collection competition this autumn in memory of the late great John Foggin, who won a few similar competitions himself. Watch out for further details in the next few weeks.
#poetsonbluesky #poetry #collections #pamphlets
#poetsonbluesky #poetry #collections #pamphlets
August 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
We'll be launching our first pamphlet and collection competition this autumn in memory of the late great John Foggin, who won a few similar competitions himself. Watch out for further details in the next few weeks.
#poetsonbluesky #poetry #collections #pamphlets
#poetsonbluesky #poetry #collections #pamphlets
The City for Incurable Women review – riveting history wrings poetry from medical horrors www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...
The City for Incurable Women review – riveting history wrings poetry from medical horrors
Half lecture, half nightmare, this high-precision performance blurs the line between medic and patient in a Victorian asylum for mentally ill women
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August 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The City for Incurable Women review – riveting history wrings poetry from medical horrors www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/a...
‘Generations of women have been disfigured’: Jamie Lee Curtis lets rip on plastic surgery, power, and Hollywood’s age problem www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
‘Generations of women have been disfigured’: Jamie Lee Curtis lets rip on plastic surgery, power, and Hollywood’s age problem
The actor explains how she is fighting back against the ‘cosmeceutical industrial complex’ and why she has finally found freedom at 66 years old
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July 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
‘Generations of women have been disfigured’: Jamie Lee Curtis lets rip on plastic surgery, power, and Hollywood’s age problem www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...
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"Woman, Mapped will explore the journey of becoming a woman: the joys, the pain, and the defining moments that shape. We are seeking work that speaks honestly to what it means to live as a woman — politically, bodily, emotionally — and to be seen on our own terms"
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Submissions for poetry anthology 'Woman, Mapped'
A Rebecca Swift Foundation Anthology, edited by Jennifer Wong and published by Fly on the Wall Press!
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July 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"Woman, Mapped will explore the journey of becoming a woman: the joys, the pain, and the defining moments that shape. We are seeking work that speaks honestly to what it means to live as a woman — politically, bodily, emotionally — and to be seen on our own terms"
open.substack.com/pub/flyonthe...
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