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Introducing North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars for poets and readers in the UK and Ireland (and for early birds and night owls planet-wide). We look forward to meeting you online soon. northseapoets.com 🌊 Follow @northseapoets.bsky.social #NorthSeaPoets #Poetry

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Issue 34 is online.

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Excellent writer - do buy if you have the means or follow on bluesky otherwise!

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I think this is my favourite thing today.

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SUBMISSIONS for our next issue (unthemed, out in June) will OPEN 1st - 31st of March. We can’t wait to read your poems! 🤩 Please note that poems sent before March will not be read. Thank you! ✨

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In a new article in @foreignaffairs.com, @marniehowlett.bsky.social, @carlmc.bsky.social & I argue that Trump is making a strategic mistake by sidelining Zelensky & #Ukraine in talks with #Russia. Ukraine Will Not Surrender to Russia foreignaffairs.com/russia/ukrai... via @foreignaffairs.com

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Sudan's army breaks RSF siege on strategic city of el-Obeid - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudans-army-breaks-rsf-siege-strategic-city-el-obeid

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My musical tribute to the legendary singer and pianist Roberta Flack who has died at the age of 88.

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You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire. Donald Trump is taking presidential power to alarming places, writes Jack Goldsmith econ.st/435m43z @yukinosaru.bsky.social

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Libraries are transformative. In fact, Farnham Library saved me. Kept me afloat when I was being bullied at South Farnham Middle School in the 1980s. This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't is my homage to it... www.yorkshiretimes.co.uk/article/Poem...

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It is - sumptuous!

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This'll be ace...!

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via Morgan Freeman

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Musk's approach to USAID is disastrous. But foreign aid has long been out of step with the idea of supporting human progress. This was my take on it several years back: Working with the Grain to Change the Grain. www.international-alert.org/publications...

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Today I visited Douma, a northeastern suburb of Damascus that was one of the first strongholds of the Free Syrian Army. It spent seven years until siege and bombardment, with near-constant artillery and airstrikes - including a chemical gas attack.

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COVER REVEAL:”Tree Poets : River of Stone” Well, the third of our rather wonderfilled Tree Poet series is soon to see the light of a spluttering day, and is particularly special. You will in fact love it. I promise. Today, I only have the cover for you - pre-orders and the rest will follow soon…

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Guess who wants this photo banned from the internet? Please like and repost! 😉😘

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US governance: a hungry, dull-eyed fox made ragged and thin by mange...

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Five years ago today, @iambapoet.com was born. Just look how far we've come. Twenty waves and counting, 320 poets (so far), and almost 1,000 poems. Thank you to the poets who've appeared – and to those who've visited, read, listened and shared. This celebration is for us all.

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Competition closes tonight!

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Closes on Friday! Do you have a poem you could enter for the @kandspoetrysoc.bsky.social Open Competition? #poetry

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POETRY COMPETITION DEADLINE ALERT… remember you’ve only got until 31st January to enter our prestigious annual Competition, judged this year by Kit Fan. We can’t wait to read your poems and invite you to our prize giving ceremony in Tunbridge Wells. Don’t miss out!

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Snowdrops - it's that time of year again.

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Closes 31 Jan…

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A few years ago I entered poems in a Hedgehogpress Press competition, to put together three poets in a pamphlet. I was happy to be one of the winners in 'The Tree Poets: Shades of Fire' alongside poets Jane Lovell & Frank McHugh. It's out for pre-order here: www.hedgehogpress.co.uk/2025/01/20/p...

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Great poetry comp soon closing.....

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Just five days until the deadline

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Polish up your poems to enter our annual comp - judged by the wonderful Kit Fan. You’ve got until the 31st and we can’t wait to read them! More info via our bio.

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Delighted to have my Pythagoras poem featured on @MathyPoems JoAnne Growney's wonderful blog 📐🧮😊 poetrywithmathematics.blogspot.com/2024/12/a-3-...

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The poem first appeared in my collection Triangles, published by Penteract Press and available to purchase from their website – check out the rest of their store too, so many brilliant books! penteractpress.com/store/triang...

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Well worth a (free!) download

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Book announcement! ‘Patient L1’ by @simonmaddrell.bsky.social will be released next month for #LGBTHM. A verse memoir speaks in the voice of Jonathan Blake, who was diagnosed so early in the UK AIDS epidemic that he was named Patient L1 at London Middlesex Hospital. polari.press/patient-l1/

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“The Tree Poets : Shades of Fire” – Various Artists (Print Edition) "The Tree Poets : Shades of Fire" - Various Artists (Print Edition) Official Release Date: 15th February 2025

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Half of all peace agreements founder within 5 years. Magna Carta (1215) barely lasted months. This poem from my collection Guerrilla Country (Flight of the Dragonfly Press) takes the perspective of one of the scribes who prepared the charter for signature @dragonflyflight.bsky.social

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Half of all peace agreements founder within 5 years. Magna Carta (1215) barely lasted months. This poem from my collection Guerrilla Country (Flight of the Dragonfly Press) takes the perspective of one of the scribes who prepared the charter for signature @dragonflyflight.bsky.social

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Shifting the rubble philvernon.net/2024/10/21/s...

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This has absolutely made my day.

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“By restricting immigration, countries across the globe, rich and poor alike, are missing critical opportunities to boost economic growth and social unity,” writes Amy Pope. “To realize the promise of migration, policymakers need to overhaul the system.”

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Look at this. Musk is melting down

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