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Goodnight from the grey-coated roe deer ghosts of February’s past, still searching for ivy in Angle Wood. Goodnight from Christopher Rushbrook, wondering why people say ‘the sleep of the dead’ when so many of the bastards refuse to rest. Goodnight from Hookland.

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With all the dreary weather that we seem to have had recently, I thought I'd try & brighten the day with this view of "Canvey Island" by Walter Steggles from 1933. Along with all our range of cards & prints it is available here: www.eastlondongroup.co.uk with 40% off on all orders until 28/02/25!

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Excited to be reading on Thursday 10th of April (7-8pm BST - online) with two superb poets @lauratheis.bsky.social @jenferoze.bsky.social would love to see you there! (Expect some strange creaturely poems from me.) #poetsonbluesky #poetry

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A temporary arrangement – Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.bsky.social atriumpoetry.com/2025/02/21/a...

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The best preserved of all of York’s medieval entrances into the City, Walmgate Bar dates to the 12th century but the majority is of 14th and 15th century construction with later rebuilding after the siege of York. Amazingly the barbican, portcullis and inner oak doors have survived to this day

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236:11 overnight, 20 Feb 25, Putney Heath, SW London (VC17): Tortricodes alternella (Spring Harbinger) 64; Apocheima hispidaria (Small Brindled Beauty) 53; Agriopis leucophaearia (Spring Usher) 46; Phigalia pilosaria (Pale Brindled Beauty) 37 & Alsophila aescularia (March Moth) 27 #MothsMatter

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Now preserved by English Heritage and accessible to the public, the Thornborough Henges form one of Britain’s most significant prehistoric landscapes. Perched on a raised plateau above the River Ure in North Yorkshire, this remarkable complex dates back around 4,500 years and consists of three

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I’ve been thinking about this A LOT lately - I think most of the issues I see with poems (including my own) come down to this one thing. I cracked and made 3 clips about it for Marjorie’s Table on Substack - the first went up yesterday - let me know if you agree: open.substack.com/pub/marjorie...

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just finished formatting and ordering the poems for the body anthology. These poems completely take your breath away. We'll be in touch with all contributor's soon with more info and updates!

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I can’t remember where I read this, but it’s important: Why is it that when people think about traveling to the past, they worry about doing something small that will drastically change the present, but no one in the present thinks that doing something small today can drastically change the future?

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New substack newsletter ‘Kin’ from @thewingedmoon.bsky.social on its way shortly, this edition edited by me, with 2 new contributor poems and beautiful artwork 💚💙

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It's a Carol Ann Duffy morning

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We’re not sure what’s going on at @yorkadventurers.bsky.social but it looks cool.

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Other work of the Ladybird artists. ‘Missel Thrush’, 1937 Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

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💎 OUR LATEST SILVER BRANCH FEATURE 💎 From Cardiff, Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Pushcart Prize nominated poet Julian Cason with a chapbook-sized feature of power-poems. Superb work by an emerging creative force!. Read and share please! Thank you 🙏 www.blackboughpoetry.com/february-202... #poetry

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Winter sunset over Bolton Priory. The priory church and ruins of the Augustinian priory lie at the heart of the Bolton Abbey estate on land gifted to the Augustinian canons by Alice de Rumilly in 1154. The canons lived and worshipped here until 1539

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We are inclined to think of misinformation as a particularly modern phenomenon but it has been with us through the ages. Join us on Tues 25 Feb as we have a panel of experts guide you through the history of misinformation (online only - in person tix gone) www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...

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Snowdrops traditionally planted in graveyards as harbingers of spring. These at St Oswalds ancient church in Filey. #Yorkshire #gardening

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#lifttothesky @victoriachang.bsky.social With My Back to the World just started reading this but am enjoying very much @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

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On the radio tonight innit: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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'August.' (1939/1940) Harold Harvey's career spanned the two generations of the Newlyn School in Cornwall, the first being represented by Norman Garstin, Walter Langley and Stanhope Forbes and the second being represented by Laura and Harold Knight who arrived in Newlyn in 1907.

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Here's "Sunday Morning, Farringdon Road" by Cecil Osborne from 1929. It is in the collection of the Royal Pavilion Museum Trust in Brighton. Currently, along with all our range, it is available as a greeting card or print with 40% off all orders here until 28/02/25:- www.eastlondongroup.co.uk

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five accounts currently accepting submissions that you should check out! #followfriday #writingcommunity @crossrdsreview.bsky.social @cursedmorsels.bsky.social @mosspuppymag.bsky.social @thewingedmoon.bsky.social @aboutplacejournal.bsky.social

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We are opening submissions on the theme of GRIEF tomorrow! We are looking for poems and short CNF about grief. By this we mean not only the grief for a person/ for people, but also grief for animals, grief for a place, a home, a time, an idea, our health, the world, 🧵

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Very pleased to have this poem in the new issue of The Alchemy Spoon.

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The ticket office is officially open for the launch event for 'Scenes from Subruria'. Join me, @jenferoze.bsky.social plus special guests from 8:15pm (GMT) on May 14th. Tickets are free – and there are plenty of places. Guests TBC nearer the date. See you there? bit.ly/Subruria_Book_Launch

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Painted by John Atkinson Grimshaw just two years before his death in 1891. Perhaps the best comment on his work came from James McNeill Whistler, whom Grimshaw worked with in his Chelsea studios. He said, "I considered myself the inventor of nocturnes until I saw Grimmy's moonlit pictures."

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@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Pushing 40 years & we know this is true. #ValentinesDay

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For Valentine’s Day I give you The Heart of Yorkshire. Legend has it that if you kiss beneath the heart in the west window of York minster, you will never be parted from your love.

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