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An atmospheric, painterly scene of a lone dry-stone wall cutting through a desolate, wintry Lakeland valley. The color palette is restricted to greys, deep browns, and muted ochre. The lighting is low and directional, highlighting the geological weight of the landscape and the isolation of February.
Writing principle I keep:
July shows you what a place wants you to see. February shows what it is.
Every poem in this book is the February version.
#CumbriaInVerse #WritingProcess #Booksky #UKPoetry
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A typed poem titled "Pretty" by Irk Irwell. The text reads: I bought my daughter three presents for her ninth birthday. For some reason I thought I'd wrap them really nice. I bought fancy paper and pretty ribbon, YouTubed 'how to tie a pretty ribbon' and tied it something like what she did. My daughter cried because they were so pretty. I sat there, nine years I had been getting away with handing her things exactly as I bought them.
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A slight departure from the usual programming. Because sometimes I have nightmares that sound like nursery rhymes.
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Soul on Fire 🌙✨
“I need to pray” is a raw spoken word piece—blending faith and poetry into a call for reflection and peace. 🕯️🕊️ Let it move you. ✨
#MuslimTok #OriginalPoem #SpokenWord #PoetLife #INeedToPray #FaithAndArt #UKPoetry #SlamPoet #MuslimCreatives #2026Vibes #wolink #nevermorepoem
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Gold spills through
the window, onto the sofa,
seeping across the floor,
climbing the chair.
Atoms of dust caught
in a shaft of light,
shining like stars
in an afternoon universe.
Patrick Murphy
#poetry #amwriting #UKpoetry
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One county. One Duchy. Two coasts. Two collections. One author. Complete your Alden Carrow set tonight. Links to both books are below. Don't sleep on great poetry.
#BookSales #MustRead #UKPoetry #NightReading #BookHaul
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Harlow Stanza
Harlow Stanza discuss poetry
Lovely evening at #HarlowStanza Our theme was #eclipses ❕🌛 We read 3 featured poems in the 1st half, & in the 2nd, we read from our own. Featured poems sparked inspiring discussions on a variety of topics including #attachmenttheory & how #USpoetry compares to #UKpoetry
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The cover of Divinations on Survival by Natalie Linh Bolderston against a starry mountain background.
Natalie Linh Bolderston's debut collection traces her matrilineal heritage across continents and centuries, interweaving her voice with those of her mother and grandmother. The poems move between 1930s China, 1970s Vietnam and an ancient landscape populated by mother's, daughters and deities from Vietnamese and Chinese myth. Divinations on Survival asks what it means to share a lineage in the shadow of war, and traces the complex legacies of survival that emerge as a result of conflict. Always returning to the question of how intimate, familial ties are warped and undone by political turmoil, violence and displacement, the collection distils and expands on stories passed down from grandmother to mother, to daughter, and casts women not as victims, but as powerful protectors, healers and survivors. Formally innovative and supple, these poems disrupt and unsettle meaning, confronting the colonising force of language to work towards a radical new poetics.
Divinations on Survival comes out in spring 2026 and can be pre-ordered now. If you would like to book me for a reading, talk or workshop, please feel free to drop me an email: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com
Natalie Linh Bolderston is a Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. In 2020, she received an Eric Gregory Award and co-won the Rebecca Swift Women Poets' Prize. Her poem 'Middle Name with Diacritics' came third in the 2019 National Poetry Competition and was shortlisted for the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. In 2024, she was Creative Future’s writer-in-residence for Stoke-on-Trent, her hometown. Her pamphlet, The Protection of Ghosts, was published by V. Press in 2019.
My debut poetry collection, Divinations on Survival, can now be pre-ordered! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
See below for more info. If you'd like to book me for a reading / talk / workshop next year, drop me an email: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com
#PoetryNews #UKPoetry
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S P Clark is marking National Poetry Day by sharing more information (and a sneak peek at one of the poems) of his upcoming, deeply personal collection.
www.simonclarkwriter.com/post/upcomin...
#NationalPoetryDay #PoetryCommunity #ThreeYearsUnderneath #ModernPoetry #WritingLife #UKPoetry
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REMINDER! GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
The Forward Prizes Ceremony 2025 🎉
📅 Sunday 26 October | 🕢 7:30pm | 📍 Southbank Centre
🎟️ Tickets on sale now: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/for...
#ForwardPrizes #PoetryLive #SouthbankCentre #UKPoetry #PoetryAwards #SpokenWord
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Looking forward to Speak Easy (Our Spoken Word Open Mic night in Chorlton) in September. It's a big one, as can be seen. Details of special guest host to follow. There are a few slots spare. Email Andy N on aen1mpo@yahoo.co.uk to enquire
#poetryopenmic #spokenwordopenmic #ukpoetry #ukwriters
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onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com/2025/08/mart...
Latest up from Spoken Label features making his debut, the wonderful Martin CM
#poetry #spokenwordpod #spokenwordpodcast #poetrypodcast #UKpoets #UKpoetry
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We’re thrilled to see that Tom Branfoot's Parliament of Jets has been shortlisted for the 2025 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem - Written. Congratulations!
We'll be publishing Branfoot's debut poetry collection, Volatile, in October 2026!
#ForwardPrizes #UKPoetry #the87press
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The Forward Prizes 2025 Shortlist is nearly here!
We’ll be revealing this year’s outstanding poets and collections on Thursday at 10am.
Bold voices. Career-defining work. Poems that stay with you.
Stay tuned.
#ForwardPrizes #PoetryAwards #PoetryCommunity #UKPoetry
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There is always a dawn News bulletin rolling inexorably round the planet that smooths across horrific truth ripples across bombed cities brings a thousand tiny awakenings that rescue a thousand refugees yet a thousand predatory opportunities still come home
Todays #PoemsAbout theme is #Spectacle:
#ukpoetry #poetry
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Palewell Press (who have recently published pamphlets from both Sophia Argyris and myself) are open for submissions until 30th June. palewellpress.co.uk/submissions-...
#poetry #ukpoetry #writing
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Contents page of a poetry pamphlet reading: Dedication 8 Slightly more serious dedication 8 By way of a preface… 11 A note on broken hearts 12 All about the Drake equation 14 A note on the Kardashev scale 19 This is us, speaking 21 On the search for extraterrestrial intelligence 22 Calling occupants of interplanetary craft 24 The city on the edge of whatever 25 It isn’t what they say, or even how they say it, but more about there being any they to speak at all 27 What is her mission here on earth... 28 The universe speaks to you 29 Personal space probe 33 She knows whereof she speaks… 34 We are nothing if we do not learn from this 37 On waking… 38 On man’s inhumanity to man… 40 Everything I know about humanity… 42 Let’s be clear, the book has ended 47 The shapes of things to come 48 Addendum 51 Acknowledgements 52 About the author 53
Cover of a poetry pamphlet, the title is "For the hypothetical aliens". It is orange and worn, like an old document folder, and it has some sort of security stamp declaring the contents top have been reclassified "Non sensitive"
View of the whole, opened cover of a poetry pamphlet called "For the hypothetical aliens" and with a logo proclaiming it is from "Literal Fraud Press". It carries the image of fake wear and tear, with particularly deep scratches on the back...
An inside page from a poetry pamphlet showing the start of a poem: _The universe speaks to you_ I - Water... ...flows, but has no thought of flowing. Every droplet of rain free to follow its weird find its level bead the underside of a leaf, the whole nonetheless adding up to moorland brook, burbling here and now and in a single direction. Far downstream, current toys with grit does not imagine things better if this pebble were elsewhere but nags at it wobbles it urges it to move and a mere thousand years later a mighty estuary deltas one side of the continent. The stream meanwhile is cutting a new channel through the limestone ridge. Each molecule is part of something larger and doesn't know or things it knows do not make sense. Water's unfeeling mechanism floods a city or builds an ecosystem and even if the outcome of civilisation is nothing humans comprehend it will be that rich.
#Poetry #Book #PoetryBook #Chapbook #Pamphlet #PoetryPamphlet #QPoetryComrades #Ecology #Conservation #Cosmology #CosmologicalEcology #SciFi #DrakeEquation #FermiParadox #SETI #UKPoetry #Extinction #DoWeHaveAFuture ?
I wrote a book.
It is called "For the hypothetical aliens" and it is [1/4]
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New up from Spoken Label (Poetry/Spoken Word Podcast) features David Leo Sirois.
Links are below:
onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com/2025/04/new-...
#poetrypodcast #podcast #poetry #spokenword #spokenwordpodcast #canadapoetry #ukpoetry #bskypoetry #bskywriting #bskypoetrycommunity
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I am delighted to tell you that a poem of mine (The Truth that Sleeps) now published in Fairy Tale Magazine. This issue is available for free online and the theme is Sleeping Beauty. Look for the twist at the end!
www.fairytalemagazine.com/post/briar-t...
#ukpoetry
#poetry
#writing
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Latest up from Spoken Label (Spoken Word / Poetry Podcast) is Bethany Handley.
Full details of where to stream etc:
onewriterandhispc.blogspot.com/2025/04/beth...
#spokenword #poetry #wales #welshpoetry #walespoetry #ukpoetry #podcast #poetrypodcast #spokenwordpodcast
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The Taking of Blood Today is the taking of blood a short wait by the gardens the beep calling me in a friendly smile and greeting from my favourite phlebotomist Three phials today as thyroid, liver are reviewed blood cells counted then my goodbyes and off for a cup of tea an everlasting remedy Copyright © 2025 Kim Whysall-Hammond
Another little poem of mine....
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#thyroid
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