Peter J. King
@rock-rex.bsky.social
Poet, painter, translator (mainly from modern Greek & German). Originally from Boston, Lincs (though after the last election I identify as being from Islington), I live in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
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Peter J. King
@rock-rex.bsky.social
· Sep 17
SPOTLIGHT: Contact Light by Peter J. King
The Zombie Apocalypse Every surface of the Earth is rough and dry,with unhealed wounds that fester and degrade;her once-bright seas are yellow-brown and stillbeneath the scum of plastic, sunlight-b…
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'Contact Light' is now available.
Link to preview featuring 5 selections- alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/s...
U.S.- amazon.com/Contact-Ligh...
U.K.- www.amazon.co.uk/Contact-Ligh...
Reading from the author- youtube.com/watch?v=0NUn...
Review- sixtyoddpoets.substack.com/p/promoting-...
Link to preview featuring 5 selections- alienbuddhapress.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/s...
U.S.- amazon.com/Contact-Ligh...
U.K.- www.amazon.co.uk/Contact-Ligh...
Reading from the author- youtube.com/watch?v=0NUn...
Review- sixtyoddpoets.substack.com/p/promoting-...
Shirley Ellis - The Clapping Song (Clap Pat, Clap Slap) (401 Video Remix)
YouTube video by Roger Spencer
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November 18, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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"Climate Emergency".
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #concretepoem #concretepoetry #collage
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #concretepoem #concretepoetry #collage
November 18, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Serinus - ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ ΡΙΖΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ | ΚΩΣΤΑΝΤΗΣ ΠΙΣΤΙΟΛΗΣ
YouTube video by Arbor Cultus
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November 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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#morningmusic
Sue Foley, Ottawa🇨🇦, plays like she’s from 2500 miles SW of there. Started playing at 13, 1st gig at 16, & formed The Sue Foley Band right out of high school. Her book Guitar Women about trailblazing female guitarists comes out in March.
Okie Dokie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhS...
Sue Foley, Ottawa🇨🇦, plays like she’s from 2500 miles SW of there. Started playing at 13, 1st gig at 16, & formed The Sue Foley Band right out of high school. Her book Guitar Women about trailblazing female guitarists comes out in March.
Okie Dokie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhS...
Okie Dokie Stomp Live in New Orleans 2024
YouTube video by Sue Foley
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
#morningmusic
Sue Foley, Ottawa🇨🇦, plays like she’s from 2500 miles SW of there. Started playing at 13, 1st gig at 16, & formed The Sue Foley Band right out of high school. Her book Guitar Women about trailblazing female guitarists comes out in March.
Okie Dokie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhS...
Sue Foley, Ottawa🇨🇦, plays like she’s from 2500 miles SW of there. Started playing at 13, 1st gig at 16, & formed The Sue Foley Band right out of high school. Her book Guitar Women about trailblazing female guitarists comes out in March.
Okie Dokie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhS...
"Sank" and "Of Bears and Serpents".
Two from a sequence "To Be Continued"; each starts with the last line of another poet's poem.
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #horizon #poetryireland #jamesbradley #alyshahobson
@poetryireland.bsky.social
Two from a sequence "To Be Continued"; each starts with the last line of another poet's poem.
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #horizon #poetryireland #jamesbradley #alyshahobson
@poetryireland.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"Sank" and "Of Bears and Serpents".
Two from a sequence "To Be Continued"; each starts with the last line of another poet's poem.
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #horizon #poetryireland #jamesbradley #alyshahobson
@poetryireland.bsky.social
Two from a sequence "To Be Continued"; each starts with the last line of another poet's poem.
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #horizon #poetryireland #jamesbradley #alyshahobson
@poetryireland.bsky.social
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February 28, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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January 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 17, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Hello #poetrycommunity I have been absent lately, saying yes to too many things, viral illness, work: consistency is something I’m working on! I ❤️ #poemsabout & have this late offering on #desire Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for all you do & the community you created 🙏
November 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Hello #poetrycommunity I have been absent lately, saying yes to too many things, viral illness, work: consistency is something I’m working on! I ❤️ #poemsabout & have this late offering on #desire Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for all you do & the community you created 🙏
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Blooming love Gasgow. This is brilliant. Love it.
Duke of Wellington in Glasgow sees traffic cone replaced with statue of a pigeon reading a newspaper | STV News share.google/kv699qIaUvD8...
Duke of Wellington in Glasgow sees traffic cone replaced with statue of a pigeon reading a newspaper | STV News share.google/kv699qIaUvD8...
Duke of Wellington's cone replaced with pigeon reading a paper
The statue on Glasgow's Queen Street has been given a quirky makeover by street artist Rebel Bear.
share.google
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Blooming love Gasgow. This is brilliant. Love it.
Duke of Wellington in Glasgow sees traffic cone replaced with statue of a pigeon reading a newspaper | STV News share.google/kv699qIaUvD8...
Duke of Wellington in Glasgow sees traffic cone replaced with statue of a pigeon reading a newspaper | STV News share.google/kv699qIaUvD8...
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Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says Palestinian Authority (PA) officials should be assassinated if progress is made on the recognition of Palestinian statehood as a result of a pending United Nations vote to support Palestinian state
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
Israel’s Ben-Gvir urges killing PA officials if UN backs Palestinian state
Key Israeli minister say Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas should also be jailed if Palestinian statehood advances.
www.aljazeera.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says Palestinian Authority (PA) officials should be assassinated if progress is made on the recognition of Palestinian statehood as a result of a pending United Nations vote to support Palestinian state
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11...
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@dragonslayerma.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo #northstar, I present you with a (slightly cheating) beau présent poem about Kochab, one of the two 'guardians of the pole' that were once believed to be the true north star. It's also the second brightest star in Ursa Minor ✴️
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
@dragonslayerma.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo #northstar, I present you with a (slightly cheating) beau présent poem about Kochab, one of the two 'guardians of the pole' that were once believed to be the true north star. It's also the second brightest star in Ursa Minor ✴️
"Up from the South".
from a projected extended edition of "All What Larkin" (2017, Albion Beatnik Press).
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #cutup #cutuppoem #cutuppoetry #writingcommunity #jazzpoem #jazzpoetry #cutup #larkin
from a projected extended edition of "All What Larkin" (2017, Albion Beatnik Press).
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #cutup #cutuppoem #cutuppoetry #writingcommunity #jazzpoem #jazzpoetry #cutup #larkin
November 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"Up from the South".
from a projected extended edition of "All What Larkin" (2017, Albion Beatnik Press).
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #cutup #cutuppoem #cutuppoetry #writingcommunity #jazzpoem #jazzpoetry #cutup #larkin
from a projected extended edition of "All What Larkin" (2017, Albion Beatnik Press).
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #cutup #cutuppoem #cutuppoetry #writingcommunity #jazzpoem #jazzpoetry #cutup #larkin
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February 27, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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January 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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That's how it goes, right @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
@kajakallas.bsky.social ?
According to the Israeli & USA 'rules' you support...
Israel has killed over 1060 people in occupied East Jerusalem and West Bank, including almost 250 children, in the last 26 months.
bsky.app/profile/saul...
@kajakallas.bsky.social ?
According to the Israeli & USA 'rules' you support...
Israel has killed over 1060 people in occupied East Jerusalem and West Bank, including almost 250 children, in the last 26 months.
bsky.app/profile/saul...
Israel has killed over 1,000 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since Oct 2023
So this justifies killing hundreds of thousands of Israelis, bombing Israeli hospitals & schools, destroying synagogues, murdering Israeli journalists & healthcare workers. Isnt that how it works?
So this justifies killing hundreds of thousands of Israelis, bombing Israeli hospitals & schools, destroying synagogues, murdering Israeli journalists & healthcare workers. Isnt that how it works?
November 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
That's how it goes, right @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
@kajakallas.bsky.social ?
According to the Israeli & USA 'rules' you support...
Israel has killed over 1060 people in occupied East Jerusalem and West Bank, including almost 250 children, in the last 26 months.
bsky.app/profile/saul...
@kajakallas.bsky.social ?
According to the Israeli & USA 'rules' you support...
Israel has killed over 1060 people in occupied East Jerusalem and West Bank, including almost 250 children, in the last 26 months.
bsky.app/profile/saul...
Beth Rowley - Nobody's Fault But Mine
YouTube video by Ninna Galas
youtu.be
November 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
"through forests of..."
(I don't have a copy - it took ages to track one down.)
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #faigelpress #poemcard
(I don't have a copy - it took ages to track one down.)
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #faigelpress #poemcard
November 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"through forests of..."
(I don't have a copy - it took ages to track one down.)
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #faigelpress #poemcard
(I don't have a copy - it took ages to track one down.)
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #faigelpress #poemcard
November 16, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Carved figure from the rudder of the 17th-century Swash Channel wreck, in Poole Museum, Dorset.
(see Comments for link)
#photo #photography #poolemuseum #poole #dorset #shipwreck
@wessexmuseums.bsky.social
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#photo #photography #poolemuseum #poole #dorset #shipwreck
@wessexmuseums.bsky.social
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Carved figure from the rudder of the 17th-century Swash Channel wreck, in Poole Museum, Dorset.
(see Comments for link)
#photo #photography #poolemuseum #poole #dorset #shipwreck
@wessexmuseums.bsky.social
(see Comments for link)
#photo #photography #poolemuseum #poole #dorset #shipwreck
@wessexmuseums.bsky.social
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And we warned them with our new 2025 State of the Climate Report which you can check out here: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
November 14, 2025 at 7:31 AM
And we warned them with our new 2025 State of the Climate Report which you can check out here: doi.org/10.1093/bios...
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Outstanding launch of The Fig Tree Coal Mining Anthology at the Unitarian Church, Doncaster. Congratulations to poet, editor and publisher Tim Fellows:
November 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Outstanding launch of The Fig Tree Coal Mining Anthology at the Unitarian Church, Doncaster. Congratulations to poet, editor and publisher Tim Fellows: