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It is that time again for the yearly repost of my trans Valentine's Day poem: poets.org/poem/exclusi...

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New York City, 1959 by US photographer Vivian Maier #womensart

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On the road right now to Birmingham for @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social and super super excited!!

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The most gorgeous of love poems, the absolute number one in my #Valentine’s countdown, mid-air from The Air Year by @carolinebirduk.bsky.social #poem #poetry #lgbtq

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No. 7 in my unconventional love poems countdown is this gentle and hopeful passage; from Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan @faberbooks.bsky.social

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No. 8 in my #Valentine’s poetry countdown. I was looking mainly for unconventional poems/poets, but this one reminded me of when I first came across Philippe Jaccottet, late at night in a the uni library, when I was homesick and supposed to be writing science essays… Distances, transl. Derek Mahon.

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Very behind on my Valentine’s poetry countdown but here is no. 9 in my unconventional love poems search: One Life is Brief, from Singular Bodies (Anhinga Press) by Ruth L. Schwartz #poem #LGBTQ #Valentine’s

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Unconventional love poems, Valentine’s countdown no. 10. Yes, by Tess Gallagher.

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Unconventional love poems, #Valentine’s countdown no. 11: Assurance, by the trailblazing Emma Lazarus. Did you know the Statue of Liberty poem, the ultimate American zeitgeist poem “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses…” was by a queer female Jewish activist 💪? I didn’t… #poem #LGBTQ

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Unconventional love poems Valentine countdown- I’m having a jaded cynical day today so here’s ‘Casanever’ at no. 12, by @nicaubury.bsky.social #poetry #Valentine

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Nights draw in. I think of you, Planting one thousand crocus bulbs In a rented garden. #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #poem #love #spring

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Unconventional love poems Valentine countdown: No. 13, the luminous Story of a Hotel Room. More about the poet, Rosemary Tonks, here: www.theguardian.com/books/2014/m...

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Unconventional love poems Valentine countdown no.14, coming in hot- look away now if you’re squeamish for this is ‘Poem while Reading Miroslav Holub in the Genito-urinary Clinic Waiting Room’ by Rich Goodson… #poem #valentine #LGBTQ+

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Quack!

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Just to let you all know, henceforth I shall be ending all conversations with a gnomic look and the utterance ‘I think you are now covered by snow’.

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I’m on the hunt for the perfect poem for the wedding of two unconventional, strong and beautiful women. All thoughts appreciated! If only this brilliant looking anthology was out already… www.foyles.co.uk/book/somethi... @picadorbooks.bsky.social #poetry #poem #queer #wedding

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It’s the eleventy billionth of January today. FML.

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I needed this today

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A lot of things happened in the world today, not all of them obviously good. This evening, let someone else look after our dreams for a moment.

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Are you a White-liver'd Son of a Fleet-street Bumsitter, begot upon a sedan Chair at Noonday?, or did you just walk past the wrong lady with the wrong face on you? How to swear like an actual 18th century Billingsgate fishwife, from Sounds & Furies by Jonathon Green (@littlebrown.bsky.social) 🤩❤️

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Sharing a bad night’s sleep and a new morning with Anna Akhmatova, translated from the Russian by DM Thomas. From Evening, written in 1909.

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For some reason, this is the poem that speaks to me today, in the dark, wintry weather we’re having. Tracks, by Tomas Tranströmer, translated from the Swedish by Robin Fulton

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Heeelp! I’ve been ask to read a poem at the partnership ceremony of two amazing, beautiful, strong, spiritual but non-religious women. I am so excited and I love both them so much that my mind has gone utterly blank! Please send me ideas!!

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Wrestling with taxes, but deciding to go high…

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In January 1947, the editor of The Poetry Review from @poetrysociety.bsky.social, one Hugh Wilgus Ramsaur, was in a splendid grump, accusing the older authors submitting to their competition of ‘experimenting’… Of all the things to do with a poem!

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Fresh, powerful words to start the year with: ‘With my back to the world, 1997’ by @victoriachang.bsky.social ‘The best thing about emptiness is if you close your eyes in a field, you'll open your eyes in a field.’

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Something soothing, for the heart and mind frayed and frazzled by being home with all relatives in situ… ‘Nothing Is Too Small Not to Be Wondered About’, by Mary Oliver, from Felicity (pub. Corsair Poetry)

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All time best Christmas Day poem? ‘King John was not a good man -- He had his little ways. And sometimes no one spoke to him For days and days and days...’ If I can persuade someone to read this aloud to me on the day, I don’t need any presents www.thereader.org.uk/featured-poe...

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Famous Seamus: a beautiful one for thinking towards the New Year. Anything Can Happen, from District and Circle.

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Educating myself in someone else’s library today. Crow Frowns, from Crow by Ted Hughes. ‘His footprints assail infinity With signatures: We are here, we are here.’

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Are you ready yet for a glorious happy chubby Christmas poem? Yes you ARE! ‘Summon the spirits of bumpo and hot buttered rum’ and ‘a bishop bearing the orb of a clove-spiked orange’… every good Xmas party needs a drunken bishop… @mfrancispoet.bsky.social from Wing, pub. @faberbooks.bsky.social

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“thank you for sending this piece in - sorry not to be able to select it - but I found a number of the thoughts in it quite startling.”… This rejection at least made me laugh out loud!

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Someone loves me!

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Submitting a poem for other people to see for the first time

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Today my spirit animal is heron-going-Christmas-shopping, inspired by Paul Farley…

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A soothing, introspective, surfing-the-aftermath morning to you. Wonder, by Tuvia Ruebner, translated from the Hebrew by Rachel Tzvia Back #poem #poetry

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