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Posts by Daniel Duggan

Introducing the first group of #Wave3 poets who will take it further:

@bethosmond.bsky.social @danieldugganwriter.bsky.social @vespertine4.bsky.social @dbodepudi.bsky.social @fionaswriting.bsky.social

This is a serious line-up.

#TheWhiskeyTree #Wave3

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Blushing ginger mode engaged, you are always so kind. The programme is such a captivating listen.. reminded me of a line in your poem Lil's last word...

'...with its lighthouse stare. I opened my mouth and I was ransacked by its glare."

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She throws salt mills
#poetry

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Artworks - The Last Sweeping Beams - BBC Sounds Helen Mort explores the allure of the lighthouse as their sweeping beams are modernised.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

You know you have half an hour to spare... go listen to @helenmort.bsky.social exploring how light is housed.
It's lyrical and you can feel how the coast hugs its slender guardians.

4 weeks ago 8 2 2 1
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Scare the bejesus out of me #poetry

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Unclassified - Helen Mort's Listening Chair - BBC Sounds Elizabeth Alker invites poet Helen Mort to pick a track that transports her

It was wonderful to do this ‘listening chair’ for Elizabeth Alker recently and talk about John Grant but - more importantly - this episode of Unclassified features musical gorgeousness from Sheffield…. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Zoom launch invitation on a beige background with a botanical illustration of giant fescue grass.
Text reads:

Mædwe online launch -
Tuesday 3rd March, 7.30pm.
Hosted by Victoria Spires.
With guest readers Vasiliki Albedo, Sophia Argyris, Tom Branfoot and Victoria Spires.

Zoom launch invitation on a beige background with a botanical illustration of giant fescue grass. Text reads: Mædwe online launch - Tuesday 3rd March, 7.30pm. Hosted by Victoria Spires. With guest readers Vasiliki Albedo, Sophia Argyris, Tom Branfoot and Victoria Spires.

Link in bio, would love to see you there! 🌱

2 months ago 7 4 0 0
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For #ValentinesDay this is called Half up, Half down.

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I lie awake in the slumber dark
with feathered thorn moths
on the pleated ledges
of my eyelids
I thought pulling out my eyeballs
and pushing starlight into
the voids would
change me.
I'm just the same,
and so are you.
You'll go on being the fucking
moon that pulls mountains
by their hair.
Daniel Duggan

Poem I lie awake in the slumber dark with feathered thorn moths on the pleated ledges of my eyelids I thought pulling out my eyeballs and pushing starlight into the voids would change me. I'm just the same, and so are you. You'll go on being the fucking moon that pulls mountains by their hair. Daniel Duggan

The moon that pulls mountains by their hair. #poetry

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I have to get a bloody mind! I do like a murder mystery, so I'm halfway there!

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What got you past that hurdle?

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I know, I know, nods head, then shakes head at my own imposter syndrome

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If I ever draw bravery and air my pamphlet, I want your honest thoughts @victoriaspires.bsky.social

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Reviewing @louisepoetical.bsky.social 's The How in the World over at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 📚

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The slant of your shoulders #poetry

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For #Imbolc The light is getting dressed again.

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Sharing my film poem published by @inksweatandtears.co.uk for their 12 days of Christmas project. #filmpoem #poetry

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Grief is a trail of smudges. #poetry

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I couldn't wait ... The first episode featuring Glencoe is superb. As always, intriguing and jaw-dropping finds.

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Coin under a sheet of paper. #poetry

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I didn't know Simon Armitage has a new series of his 'Shed' podcast up-&-running. Great first episode with Frank Skinner & looking forward to the others 🤗

3 months ago 2 1 0 0
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The light is rising. #poetry

3 months ago 1 0 0 0
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I'm hugging the radiator 
like an old friend who's 
turned up out of the blue 
for a catch up. 

I'm going to be here 
a while as no one
knows my address, 

and it's fucking cold.

I miss getting letters,

like 
proper 
handwritten 
letters, 

and hugs, 
I miss the crush
of longing on my ribs.

Daniel Duggan

Poem I'm hugging the radiator like an old friend who's turned up out of the blue for a catch up. I'm going to be here a while as no one knows my address, and it's fucking cold. I miss getting letters, like proper handwritten letters, and hugs, I miss the crush of longing on my ribs. Daniel Duggan

I've been tomb cold all day, mainly because I'm still wearing shorts to work in the forest #poetry

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No Such Thing As Pudsey's Passport Podcast Episode · No Such Thing As A Fish · 01/01/2026 · 56m

I was so delighted to join Dan, James and Andy for this edition of Fish! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n...

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Sharing this little-read (by me) poem from my @salopress.bsky.social pamphlet Soi-même, in honour of last night's #SuperWolfMoon.

3 months ago 17 7 0 0

I always want the tree to stay up until the end of my birthday on the 7th, so it looked more tinsel bound while I celebrated 🍾

3 months ago 1 0 0 0
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Too many forests
sit alone, with no one
to listen when they need
an arm around the
shoulder during winter. 

The birds are too busy
badmouthing the impenetrability
of the frost licked ground
to lend an ear,

so I'm here in the woods,
because I know what happens
if people throw a deaf one,
and yes, they do make a sound
when they fall. They scream
as their sap slips into the underland. 

Daniel Duggan

Poem Too many forests sit alone, with no one to listen when they need an arm around the shoulder during winter. The birds are too busy badmouthing the impenetrability of the frost licked ground to lend an ear, so I'm here in the woods, because I know what happens if people throw a deaf one, and yes, they do make a sound when they fall. They scream as their sap slips into the underland. Daniel Duggan

They scream sap as they fall.
#nature

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Hello from deepest Lincolnshire. Happy #smallpoemsunday.

Two spoils. One by me, one by Cavafy (spoils of my Christmas book haul).

3 months ago 16 4 3 0

The memories are in there, under a thumb pressing, but not releasing the pause button, like a fingerprint cataract. Their old favourite programmes run, circling, poking fun, reminding them that they had fun.

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