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Tony: This is a cultural evening, we're having no bounce-ups in here

Greta: Oh, for goodness sake, be quiet. All this quarrelling is interfering with my perceptive aura.

Tony: You see, you've upset Greta now, her perceptive aura has gone for a burton!

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Bill: Are you musical?

Greta: I can only tolerate Bartok and Weber

Bill: That's all right, sing a couple of their songs, the lads won't mind!

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Shine Announces Pushcard Prize nominees Peter Devonald, for “The Dance” Ian Brownlie, for “The Audience is Waiting” Christen Lee, for “Lessons Learned in Mom’s Kitchen” Christian Ward, for “An Honest Shade of Green” A.M. (Amanda) Hayden, for “When You Said ‘No’ to Seeing the David” Mohsen Hosseinkhani, for “War Means”

On National Poetry day, I am so delighted that my poem “The Dance” has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize 2026! ✨

Huge thanks to SHINE's international poetry community and the great editor Samantha Terrell. And congratulations to my fellow nominees

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…was truly remarkable... 🍃🎵🐸

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Art by Trust 'Tru' Katsande

📢 Happening Today! 🙌🏻🎉🩷
Harlow poets unite! 💪🏻
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This was fun! @porticolibrary.bsky.social book launch.
Floating poet, Jo Bell – who is a boat dweller, archaeologist and award winning author, the first ever Canal Laureate, a & former director of the with #ThePoetrySociety - joined us at the Portico for the Manchester launch of her memoir, #Boater

Incandescent by William:

Hic haec hoc
Rinky dinky on purple grass
Shafts of light, hob nailed boots Tramping down the bamboo
That grows upwards, downwards, sideways,
Into the concrete cosmos
Life is mauve, I am orange,
Hic haec hoc!  

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Tony: This is a cultural evening, we're having no bounce-ups in here

Greta: Oh, for goodness sake, be quiet. All this quarrelling is interfering with my perceptive aura.

Tony: You see, you've upset Greta now, her perceptive aura has gone for a burton!

#ThePoetrySociety

I'll start a movement of me own. How did that poem of Sid's go? Mauve world,green me,black him, purple her.That's it,that'll get them.  A breakaway group.We'll be anti everything!The new intellectual movement to shake the world!

Or shall I go to the pictures?

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The truth is only complicated for those who do not understand.
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Colorful roses
A lone drone bee passes by
Focus on the Queen
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Baby Ava is in my lap
Warmth and comfort shared
Unyielding to the chaos outside
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A shift in the ground
Feeling the rumble of earth
Nothing remains here
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Morning doves at dawn
Paying a small fee in seed
Blustery winds pass
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Curious Creatives Network: November 28th Join our Curious Creatives Network to hear from inspiring speakers and meet with other cultural education professionals.

Any #poets or #creatives in the #Manchester area - Natasha Ryan, from #ThePoetrySociety will be attending Curious Creatives Network Thu, Nov 28 • 12:00 GMT

#freetickets available here:

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