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First blog post of this strange new year. #poetryblogger #poetrybloggingnetwork #thistlewren thistlewren.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-ch...

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Two of my poems are on the Hame-ish website for a collaboration with the artist Wendy Sara. Chuffed to be included. hame-ish.com/hame-ish-col...

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New post on the blog, an end-of-year review: thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/12/slid... #poetryblogger #poetrybloggingnetwork #thistlewren

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It's with utmost bittersweetness that we're launching the final ever print issue of spelt magazine. It's been a hell of a journey and we're so proud to have been able to showcase so much wonderful work x

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New post on my poetry blog, Turning Inward But Moving Forward. #poetryblogger #poetrybloggingnetwork #thistlewren thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/11/turn...

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New post on the blog, into winter. thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/11/firs... #poetryblogger #thistlewren #poetrybloggingnetwork

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New post on my blog a #Scotstober update. #poetryblogger #poetrybloggingnetwork thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/10/back...

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I am so behind on #scotstober, it's been crazy at work. Here are days 18, 21 and 22 tuim - empty sook - to suck heid - head ahm tuim av thochts staundin in thi wat leaves thi wind sookin at mah skin hair beelin around mah heid

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#Scotstober Days 9, 14 and 17 haver - to talk nonsense gowster - to storm with wind and rain lum - a chimney a gowsterous day thi wind howlin thi rain blatterin oan thi windaes but thi lum is drawin weel an ahm haverin wi mah freends

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#Scotstober I Visited Birnam Oak yesterday Days 13, 15 and 16 howff – a favourite place puddock – a toad cuddie – a stupid person ah sall gae tae Birnam Wid an staun in thi hert o thi aik ye’ll cry me a witch in mah howff wrunkelt as a puddock but yer a cuddie afeart o a wumman wi ideas

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#Scotstober catch-up Days 9, 2, 10 and 11 haver – to talk nonsense, to gossip dicht – to tidy up thole – to bear or endure bile - boil naebody tae haver wi naebody tae dicht up efter ah can thole thi seelence av a tuim hoose ah lang fae its echa in thi bile av thi kettle

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#scotstober Days 7, 8 and 12 tap - top, lang - long, jouk - a quick movement, to evade Cloods tap thi hills thi firth bleacht siller an white thi lang stretch av beach bowlin wide dugs lowsed tae thi saunds joukin in an oot thi rocks up an doon thi stair

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New post on the blog with my first five days of #Scotstober thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/10/scot...

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New post on the blog with my first five days of #Scotstober thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/10/scot...

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#Scotstober - So far behind, but I'm holiday this week, so will hopefully catch up. Day 5 - clype - to tell tales but nane will clype oan me if ah dae nae work thi day no thi maggie or thi hare

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#scotstober catch-up. Day 3 - noo - now. ah hae tint thi mune an its story in doctors an lesson plans noo clutherin ah mind

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#scotstober Day 4 - haar - a sea fog memories hingin oan lik a haar saft an law oer thi gairden

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#Scotstober Day 1 - the word is tyne - to lose, to suffer the loss. I won't manage a whole poem a day, but will try and stitch one together over the month. ah hae tint thi mune deep in thi tangles av thi epple trees

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New post on the blog The Wet Dark Slips of Gold thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-... #thistlewren #poetryblogger #poetrybloggersnetwork

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New post on the blog, my Scottish Book Tour continues. thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/09/scot... #poetryblogger #poetrybloggingnetwork #thistlewren

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This week in the poetry blogs w/ @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @grimalkingerry.bsky.social @katharinewhitcomb.bsky.social 1/2 www.vianegativa.us/2024/09/poet...

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New post on the blog thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/09/movi... #poetrybloggingnetwork #thistlewren

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New post on the blog, Writing a Life, review of #stormpegs by Jen Hadfield. #thistlewren #poetrybloggingnetwork thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/08/writ...

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New post on the blog, when summer plans don't go to plan. thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/07/a-fa... #poetrybloggingnetwork #thistlewren

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A new post on the blog, subversive translations in Midsummer. A review of Dastrum/Delirium by Taylor Strickland. thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/06/subv... #poetryblogger 26s

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A new post on the blog, Sharing a Personal Mythology thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/04/shar... #poetryblogger #poetrybloggingnetwork

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Start of a poem inspired by @seagoatscreams.bsky.social #skypoem I believe mushrooms breathe dreams into the forest hellebores harbour a dark soul spiders feel our fear and spin beauty anyway

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New post on the blog, allowing myself to go off topic for GloPoWriMo. #glopowrimo #poetryblogger thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/04/more...

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New post on the blog - GloPoWriMo and Big Country. thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/04/brig... #poetryblogger

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My unpublished collection 'Invocation Against Winter' has been short-listed for 2025 Cinnamon Press' New Voices Award. Congratulations to all the finalists and winners.

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Lovely idea Ankh. Not the whole poem I'm writing to the prompt, but a snippet #skypoem blessed by the sea I lift a sun-sail from the wrack a solid breath of gold of escape

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My writing group Helsinki Writers has produced our first anthology of some of our writing. Please check it out. (I know we forgot our bio notes, oops) helsinkiwriters.com/anthology/?f...

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New post on the blog with submission stats. thistlewren.blogspot.com/2024/02/subm...

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Honest poetry blog posting - thistlewren.blogspot.com/2023/11/nove...

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A bit of fun. Erasure rejection poetry. #am submitting #rejection #erasurepoem

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New post on the blog - #scotstober and when the reader doesn't get it thistlewren.blogspot.com/2023/10/autu... #poetryblogger #poetrybloggingnetwork

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I'm still kind of doing #scotstober Wirds o thi Day 20 and 22 - ablow and glower - below and to stare angrily. ah hunker doon ablow thi storm, thi glowerin cloods Though my cat is the best glowerin clood.

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#scotstober Wird o thi Day 13 fuil - a fool a fuil thinkin at thi year birls back on itsel swallies its ain tail ah micht hae growed ruits but ahm no staundin still

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#scotstober Wird o thi Day 11 - marra - marrow in mah marra ah ken this endin it faws frae mah een, frae thi birks an thi lift an it faws tae me tae find mah new beginin.

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