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pdevonald.bsky.social
Multi award-winning poet/screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Second Shelley Memorial 2024 | Winner FofHCS, HoH, BoN nomx2, Forward Prize nom | Winner HoH, Waltham Forest | Children's Bafta nom
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Poetry Corner is out today! In all the Post Community News GM newspapers - Stockport, Manchester, Trafford, Cheshire East and Salford Posts! Huge thanks to all the poets and the wonderful editors Amanda and Mel #poetry

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Welcome to your wonderful week. A bit of a different poem published today in The Fig Tree - Coal Mining Issue 2. Huge thanks to the fabulous editor/ publisher Tim Fellows - and all the other talented poets. figtreepoetry.substack.com/p/the-fig-tr... #poetry #poetrycommunity

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

If you liked The Process of Poetry, you might like this. Sincere thanks, Nigel, for your insightful review of the sequel, The Making of a Poem. Please share. Link in bio for signed copies. 🙏 nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/r... #Poetry #redrafting #poetrysky #poems #poets #editing #craft

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🚨 Writers. Poets. Fringe dwellers. The Broken Spine’s Summer Comp is back. No fluff. No gatekeeping. Just raw, unflinching lit that matters. Chapbooks, collections, prose. Make it hit. Make it hurt. Make it now. 👇 thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/05/31/t... #Poetry #Prose #IndieLit

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Delighted my poem "In Search of Albion" is included in the upcoming @brokenspinearts.bsky.social anthology 'Rites and Trials' featuring stellar poets inc. @samszanto.bsky.social nto.bsky.social @susanrich-poet18.bsky.social ‪@paulbrookes07 Huge thanks to the great editor @alanparry83.bsky.social

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submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

This Friday’s #PoemsAbout theme is #Defeat Write from the aftermath. 📅 Share your piece. 💬 Respond to 3+ others. 🖼 Use alt-text if sharing images. #LeaveScars #PoemsAbout #TakeRisks

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment