1988: two ten year old girls go on a twelve mile bike ride, alone an unsurveilled childhood

Today on Notes from the Margin - Two ten year olds go on a twelve mile bike ride, alone. The insurveilled childhood.

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Poetry Blog Digest 2026, Week 15 A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

This week in the poetry blogs with @robmclennan.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @cbeditions.bsky.social @kathrynanna.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social 1/4
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Thank you @magmapoetry.bsky.social and @zcarpenterhall.bsky.social for your review of Blackbird Singing at Dusk by @wendypratt.bsky.social in Magma 94.

"The images and concepts build upon each other throughout and the poetry is emotionally resonant."

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‘High tide mark’ I like that. That’s it, isn’t it, the feeling x

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Much of what happens here is about waiting Notes from the Writer's diary: Part Eleven

Notes from the places of waiting and witnessing.

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Aerial view looking down on a suburban garden with a vegetable plot tended within an inch of its life in rigid rows. The master of this domain leans on a fork and chats over the fence to an admiring neighbour.

Ladybird man always strives
for perfection

Artist: Harry Wingfield
(Talkabout the Garden, 1976)

Finally detailed mixed-media illustration of a mature Crab-apple growing in a natural environment in full bloom under a blue sky

‘Crab Apple’
Trees (1963)
Artist: S R Badmin

Our ECO-POETRY & ENVIRONMENT WORKSHOP season begins Tuesday 12th May, 7-9pm with @jsaphra.bsky.social
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The Connection Point is You Dear Wendy/Dear Writer

Today on Notes from the Margin - place and identity, finding ways to belong.

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Wrote lyke two thousande polished wordes about the Julian calendar onlye to be tolde it was not "that kynde of datinge profile."

Oh my word. @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Thank you.
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Stained glass artwork featuring a sitting hare among grasses depicted on green panels of glass

English stained glass artist Ann Sotheran, 'Isa's hare' (2011) #WomensArt

Graphic with two books in background, one called Flash Fiction, the other Prose Poetry, with white text superimposed over them that reads: Prose poem or flash fiction? What's the Difference? An online workshop exploring the joy of these very short forms. Victoria MacKenzie

Details about my latest free workshop for paid Substack subscribers is now live!
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Sign up for our Masterclass Webinar & Workshop Season: Eco-poetics and the Environment. 5 of each led by poets Ian Humphreys @lkiew.bsky.social James McDermott @wendypratt.bsky.social & @jsaphra.bsky.social
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Labelled illustration of a very rich, dense hedgerow featuring white dead nettle, violets, Primrose, ferns and sallow willow

“Find a hedgerow on a bank and examine just one yard of it. Then make a list of all the different plants you can find in that yard. You will be astonished at the variety” (1965)
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Writer: Richard Bowood

The act of putting flesh on ghosts Sifting Margaret Hoby's Diary to tell her story

In this week’s Notes from the Margin I’m exploring the way in which historical research turns into historical writing.

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Wendy Pratt The Wold Newton Triangle is renowned for its rich collection of myths,legends, and ghostly tales. Dubbed Britain’s most haunted and mystical area, it encompasses stories of werewolves, ghosts, and UFO...

Hey, want to know about the Wold Newton Triangle? Come see me at Filey where I’ll be talking about the Yorkshire myths and legends within this paranormal hotspot, and unpicking their roots.

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the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

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Waffles hath a goode tyme

Introducing our Masterclass Webinar & Workshop Season: Eco-poetics and the Environment.
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A brilliant #poetry line up at 'Mother Tongue: Poetry, Family and Inheritance' with Sarah Howe, Erica Hesketh Karen Downs-Barton and April Yee

Saturday 28 March
2.30pm–3.30pm
Deptford Lounge
£3
BSL Interpreted
Part of #DeptfordLiteratureFestival
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Nightjars make 'remarkable comeback' to South Downs National Park An ecological survey has found 109 nightjar territories in the lowland heaths of east Hampshire.

eeeee i love these little guyssss www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Goodness, how beautiful

Goode people, [gesture of yntroductioun]... the weekende!