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wislawa szymborska, tr. clare cavanagh #smallpoemsunday

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

#poetrysky any presses that publish very short pamphlets/poem series? like 10 poems or less?

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I am sure seagulls are directly descended from pterodactyls

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

i want to fold myself into a poem curl up and stay there forever is this possible

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I dreamed someone I had thought was a millionaire despite claiming poverty had written a poetry collection called ‘The Metaphorical Swimming Pool’, but I broke into their house, and they had a real one. I got in it and kept yelling ‘it isn’t a metaphor if I can get wet inside it!’ down the phone.

submitted 45 days ago • 6 comments

my bluesky feed is just full of people posting about poems & poets they love and it is wonderful

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❛ Every time scientists go into the midnight zone / they find a new species. My son is telling me this / as he picks at his hands as if they are locks to release. David Stavanger's 'Octonaut', from the #MothArchives – Issue 36. 🐙

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reading round-up 2024! a few days late but filling in 366 tiny boxes takes TIME

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fun fact: the traitors uncloaked episode for the series 2 final received more viewers than the documentary about discovering richard iii's body speaking of which claudia winkleman has the same hair as richard iii kind of

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today's writing spot:

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in the mood to rashly submit to mags i have no chance with

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26 pages in to The Gospel of Eve by @revrachelmann.bsky.social and already 2 margery kempe references, this is wonderful

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my poem 'Dialogue on Survival', just published in the Solstice Young Writers Anthology 2024 by @writingeastmidlands.com 💚

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

the end of hedda gabler is literally yellowface by rf kuang

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Does anyone know of any (preferably UK-based) lit mags that would be likely to accept a poem with a very misfit premise?? I have a poem about Antony Sher's Richard III playing the cello and it keeps being rejected and I would like it to find a home amongst other bizarre little nerd poems if possible

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

as calvino would say, "seek and learn to recognise who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, and make them endure, give them space." also 'this is today's conflagration' is a beautiful phrase I will be using

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

i love @andotherpoems.bsky.social season!! they really never miss

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

owen sheers writes similes like a year 9 am I allowed to say that

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i am turning 18 in two days and as the girl who cried herself to sleep aged 10 because she convinced herself her childhood was over, this is proving an interesting poetic experiment

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Calm and Collected Poems

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

I actually love poetry so much and I do not think I will ever be able to articulate this in the way that I want to it just feels like a necessity you know??? like a staple part of life in which the whole purpose is to just experience something beautiful?? for sanity's sake?? am i going insane here

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

pro tip: 5 practice oxford interviews in 3 days is not a good lifestyle choice (pro tip 2: just because a poem has thee and thou etc does not mean it is 17th century, a trap i unfortunately fell into in one of said interview practices today)

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

One year ago today Israel murdered poet Refaat Alareer along with his entire family.

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submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

just wrote a happy poem about nuclear apocalypse

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

New #poetry from Mike Bove: "Choose Your Own Adventure".

submitted 92 days ago • 6 comments

just got out the book of margery kempe for poem research, things are getting serious now

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I've started compiling starter packs of UK Poets. I've just finished the first one... alphabetically listed from A to J (1st names)... will start another list from there on. go.bsky.app/DgHRkcK

submitted 95 days ago • 38 comments

now might be the winter of our discontent but don't worry that just means there's a glorious summer by this sun of york coming! so if you see a man with a wrinkled front smoothed by grim visaged war. keep his kids away from fortresses

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

@dawnllsands.bsky.social My son just read me your poem Epilogue on the tube So touching

submitted 97 days ago • 1 comment

I find myself unable to think of anything besides the medieval women jumper the British Library are currently selling

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"When despair for the world grows in me..."

submitted 101 days ago • 122 comments

shouting into the void & hoping that someone might hear?? anyway, i'm dawn, i'm a young writer and general lit nerd and i'll be using this account to shout unrestrainedly about whatever is currently occupying the brainspace (usually poetry, litfic or richard iii). hoping to add my voice to the mix!

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