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gillbarr.bsky.social
Derry girl, Dorset woman. Debut Poetry Collection (Cinnamon Press) 2025, Arts Council Award 2024. Website: gillmbarr.wixsite.com/gillbarr
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Making hay while…

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For good or ill let the wheel turn.

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Looking forward to reading with these stellar poet-friends on Saturday 28th, online:

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Making hay.

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Calm and cool.

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All wired up.

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Depends how you look at it.

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Two Toms: Thomas Denny stained glass i.m. Thomas Traherne.

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Bluesky day! Yay!

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Couldn’t be more delighted! 😊

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Delighted to receive this blazing book in the post today. Congrats to @petitecreature1.bsky.social and all @yaffles-nest.bsky.social #poetry #Margaret

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Bell-ringing practice.

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The greening over has begun.

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But what was she dreaming as she looked into Hatchards’ shop window?

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This is what she loved: life, London, this moment in June.

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There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air.

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Cloudy sky like a cracked window

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Earth works

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Looking out on a high horizon on a watery day.

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Delighted to have published my website. Have a look here. gillmbarr.wixsite.com/gillbarr

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Enchanting and my everyday.

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Hedges are a quirk of British history

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My personal poetry website has a fresh new look and info about my forthcoming debut collection! Signed copies of Daughter of Fire available here from 13th April! #PoetsOnBluesky #PoetrySky www.lucyheuschen.co.uk

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Not so much above Tintern Abbey as before it.

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Kilpeck

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Kilpeck

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🚨 Poets, brace yourselves. 👀 Nearly 20 indie lit platforms are locked in: reviews, features, interviews, podcasts — all ready to amplify your voice. 💥 No fees. No gatekeepers. Just real visibility. This is my brainchild. It’s almost here. #PromoteIndieLit #PIL #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky

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Delighted to have published my website. Have a look here. gillmbarr.wixsite.com/gillbarr

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substack.com/@northseapoe... I wrote about a little brush with generative AI. NorthSeaPoets Substack.

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Dorset day

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BEST SOCIAL MEDIA FOR POETRY? Bluesky v Twitter/X Both Norman MacCaig podcasts posted simultaneously. 39 interactions on Bluesky (3k followers) v 9 interactions on Twitter/X (42k followers) Bluesky again is a better place for connecting & interacting with poets and poetry.

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Bucolic

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Coastal immersion poetics with @gillbarr.bsky.social

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Thanks, Matt. A real delight to share some poems from A Wide River Divides Us published by Cinnamon Press in August.

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A great evening @rhonagreene.bsky.social Your bilingual poem was a thing of beauty.

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Definitely!

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Your poem was a standout poem on an evening of outstanding poems. Congratulations, @bethosmond.bsky.social

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Personal, intense poems Catherine! How we like them! And we found you a new friend across the bay! lol!

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Hi Catherine, what’s very funny is that I’m actually in Derry for Easter!

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