Richard Chadburn
@richchad.bsky.social
He was younger than the atom bomb.
All his life he experimented with hard-boiled eggs.
He won't be home this evening, so
don't worry; don't hurry to report him missing
Brian Patten was young. That was the whole point. As you can tell, i'm a little bit cross
All his life he experimented with hard-boiled eggs.
He won't be home this evening, so
don't worry; don't hurry to report him missing
Brian Patten was young. That was the whole point. As you can tell, i'm a little bit cross
September 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
He was younger than the atom bomb.
All his life he experimented with hard-boiled eggs.
He won't be home this evening, so
don't worry; don't hurry to report him missing
Brian Patten was young. That was the whole point. As you can tell, i'm a little bit cross
All his life he experimented with hard-boiled eggs.
He won't be home this evening, so
don't worry; don't hurry to report him missing
Brian Patten was young. That was the whole point. As you can tell, i'm a little bit cross
I love that the cover picture is part of a collection in which work colleagues touch each other corporately, parents inevitably age, friends and siblings are lost and found.
@robinhoughton.bsky.social is the radiologist who in showing us more than we can see Illuminates our darkness. Precious poetry
@robinhoughton.bsky.social is the radiologist who in showing us more than we can see Illuminates our darkness. Precious poetry
May 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I love that the cover picture is part of a collection in which work colleagues touch each other corporately, parents inevitably age, friends and siblings are lost and found.
@robinhoughton.bsky.social is the radiologist who in showing us more than we can see Illuminates our darkness. Precious poetry
@robinhoughton.bsky.social is the radiologist who in showing us more than we can see Illuminates our darkness. Precious poetry
Yea @robinhoughton.bsky.social the wonderful Watermill bookshop got this to me in Aberfeldy on publication day.
lovely to have met you at the #poetry book fair on Saturday. this counts as my seventh purchase from that event. Looking forward to your next edition of @planetpoetry.bsky.social
lovely to have met you at the #poetry book fair on Saturday. this counts as my seventh purchase from that event. Looking forward to your next edition of @planetpoetry.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Yea @robinhoughton.bsky.social the wonderful Watermill bookshop got this to me in Aberfeldy on publication day.
lovely to have met you at the #poetry book fair on Saturday. this counts as my seventh purchase from that event. Looking forward to your next edition of @planetpoetry.bsky.social
lovely to have met you at the #poetry book fair on Saturday. this counts as my seventh purchase from that event. Looking forward to your next edition of @planetpoetry.bsky.social
I took 3 goes to get into Lapwing @hannahcopley.bsky.social but now I’m in I can't get out. My father was not like yours. I did have an arable childhood among pee-wits, skylarks and hares, but neither the wit nor courage to stitch that stubbly dangerous world into an important book. Congratulations!
April 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I took 3 goes to get into Lapwing @hannahcopley.bsky.social but now I’m in I can't get out. My father was not like yours. I did have an arable childhood among pee-wits, skylarks and hares, but neither the wit nor courage to stitch that stubbly dangerous world into an important book. Congratulations!
Got this from @rosannamcglone.bsky.social ‘s book ‘The Making of a poem’. Sarah Holland-Batt, published in the UK by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social , shows us what we could see for ourselves if we only knew where and how to look. Her insightful descriptive poems deserve to be hung in a gallery.
March 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Got this from @rosannamcglone.bsky.social ‘s book ‘The Making of a poem’. Sarah Holland-Batt, published in the UK by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social , shows us what we could see for ourselves if we only knew where and how to look. Her insightful descriptive poems deserve to be hung in a gallery.
I don't often post about a book before I read it but I want to try to capture the frisson I feel when reading the opening pages of @sashadugdale.bsky.social 's The Strong Box which only yesterday morning she read to us at Stanza. It's exciting it's new - and it's familiar.
Now, on with the book ..
Now, on with the book ..
March 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I don't often post about a book before I read it but I want to try to capture the frisson I feel when reading the opening pages of @sashadugdale.bsky.social 's The Strong Box which only yesterday morning she read to us at Stanza. It's exciting it's new - and it's familiar.
Now, on with the book ..
Now, on with the book ..
I just get home from the Stanza poetry festival in St Andrews after an intensely rich poetry weekend and look whats in my letter box! Once poetry starts perhaps it never stops.
March 17, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I just get home from the Stanza poetry festival in St Andrews after an intensely rich poetry weekend and look whats in my letter box! Once poetry starts perhaps it never stops.
My last two years at school we had the Beano Album and A Hard Road and then along came Are You experienced. But it’s not Clapton, Green or Hendrix that turn me blue as I listen by chance to the Bluesbreakers playing All Your Love. It's this man and I know exactly what I’m missing.
March 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
My last two years at school we had the Beano Album and A Hard Road and then along came Are You experienced. But it’s not Clapton, Green or Hendrix that turn me blue as I listen by chance to the Bluesbreakers playing All Your Love. It's this man and I know exactly what I’m missing.
Nothing prepared me for the last 5 poems in Audrey Molloy’s ‘The Important Things’.
If you havn't already, please read it; be drawn in by the straightforward honest unravelling of her life’s tapestry which is a joy, sometimes wonderfully risque, always relatable.
And then? Reader I wept.
If you havn't already, please read it; be drawn in by the straightforward honest unravelling of her life’s tapestry which is a joy, sometimes wonderfully risque, always relatable.
And then? Reader I wept.
March 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Nothing prepared me for the last 5 poems in Audrey Molloy’s ‘The Important Things’.
If you havn't already, please read it; be drawn in by the straightforward honest unravelling of her life’s tapestry which is a joy, sometimes wonderfully risque, always relatable.
And then? Reader I wept.
If you havn't already, please read it; be drawn in by the straightforward honest unravelling of her life’s tapestry which is a joy, sometimes wonderfully risque, always relatable.
And then? Reader I wept.
The big poems in A God At The Door are not at all heavy because they are garnished with the magical light touch of a dancer. They are an absorbing joy to read, and to revisit over and over.
Tishani Doshi is the 2nd find (after Isabel Galleymore) I came to via @planetpoetry.bsky.social
Listen up!
Tishani Doshi is the 2nd find (after Isabel Galleymore) I came to via @planetpoetry.bsky.social
Listen up!
February 25, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The big poems in A God At The Door are not at all heavy because they are garnished with the magical light touch of a dancer. They are an absorbing joy to read, and to revisit over and over.
Tishani Doshi is the 2nd find (after Isabel Galleymore) I came to via @planetpoetry.bsky.social
Listen up!
Tishani Doshi is the 2nd find (after Isabel Galleymore) I came to via @planetpoetry.bsky.social
Listen up!
Wherever light is spilled
My cat will be found
curled up in a puddle
of white bedspread
An off-white cat
In pure white light
Dreaming of heaven
With one eye open
My cat will be found
curled up in a puddle
of white bedspread
An off-white cat
In pure white light
Dreaming of heaven
With one eye open
February 19, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Wherever light is spilled
My cat will be found
curled up in a puddle
of white bedspread
An off-white cat
In pure white light
Dreaming of heaven
With one eye open
My cat will be found
curled up in a puddle
of white bedspread
An off-white cat
In pure white light
Dreaming of heaven
With one eye open
Warning to anyone (and you all should) buying this lovely book direct from @rosannamcglone.bsky.social - she is an enthusiastic and prolific master of sellotape so you need to put time aside for getting into the package!
Loved the zoom launch Rosanna and am excited to read the book.
Loved the zoom launch Rosanna and am excited to read the book.
February 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Warning to anyone (and you all should) buying this lovely book direct from @rosannamcglone.bsky.social - she is an enthusiastic and prolific master of sellotape so you need to put time aside for getting into the package!
Loved the zoom launch Rosanna and am excited to read the book.
Loved the zoom launch Rosanna and am excited to read the book.
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February 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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February 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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January 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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If you peer at this book and flip it’s kaleidoscopic pages what flickers back at you from the darkness are cinematic, fantastic, sometimes Chaucerian images. The characters and their energetic stories will draw you back in over and over again.
Beautifully produced by @saltpublishing.com
Beautifully produced by @saltpublishing.com
January 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If you peer at this book and flip it’s kaleidoscopic pages what flickers back at you from the darkness are cinematic, fantastic, sometimes Chaucerian images. The characters and their energetic stories will draw you back in over and over again.
Beautifully produced by @saltpublishing.com
Beautifully produced by @saltpublishing.com