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This morning may I #LiftToTheSky a book that's already stellar, but I love it very much: 'Sonnets for Albert' by Anthony Joseph. g.co/kgs/55oLS43 "My father, God bless his axe./ He grooved deep in pitch pine./ He spun his charm like bachelor galvanise/ in hurricane." ❤️ @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

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Snow Lit Rev have accepted three of my poems for their next edition (no. 15, Fall 2025). abar.net/snow.pdf One is 'Storm over Lerici', which I read at the @brokenspinearts.bsky.social open mic Thurs evening. Also 'At Gordium', and 'In the event of fog'. I am immensely pleased they have liked these 😄

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I am too 🤜🤛

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Day one, and we're at 3% of our £5K goal! If every follower tipped £1, we'd smash this in no time—funding three big poetry prizes. I'll be running workshops to help us get there. Let’s make it happen! #LiftToTheSky #PoemsAbout #PoetryCommunity #PoetsOfBluesky ko-fi.com/brokenspinea...

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It was a gas!

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This 👇👇👇

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Booked! 👇👇

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#PoemsAbout #WordsUnsaid #haiku @brokenspinearts.bsky.social And secondly (well, I missed a couple of weeks, so please forgive me!) a little new one - I just worked out (for now!), whilst brushing my teeth, the missing word to make this sort of do the work I was wanting it to do...

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#PoemsAbout #WordsUnsaid In response to this prompt I dug out and reworked a very old one that appeared in an anthology in 1986(!) Perhaps I should have left it in peace. PS that was a very interesting evening at the @brokenspinearts.bsky.social open mic last night! Greetings to all those who read

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Back home and jetlagged! For #LiftToTheSky and @brokenspinearts.bsky.social I would like to praise my comrade Jessica Lawrence, who writes and reads very beautifully and powerfully and is a long time stalwart and star of the London Survivors Poetry networks templeofideas.org/member/jessi...

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True this! 👇👇

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For my second Mexican Monday #LiftToTheSky for @brokenspinearts.bsky.social, here is the wondrous and mighty Patti Smith, whose poem inspired by Frida Kahlo is inscribed on one of the outside walls of the very beautiful Casa Azul in Mexico City where Kahlo and Diego Rivera lived and loved.....❤️

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For #LiftToTheSky and other fun, I am a bit out of it this fortnight here in Mexico but here's to Octavio Paz who wrote the great essay 'Labyrinth of Solitude', and also here is a lift of a different sort, in our hotel, which James Bond fans may recognise... www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/octavi...

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WELCOME TO BLACK HISTORY MONTH

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