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My last two years at school we had the Beano Album and A Hard Road and then along came Are You experienced. But it’s not Clapton, Green or Hendrix that turn me blue as I listen by chance to the Bluesbreakers playing All Your Love. It's this man and I know exactly what I’m missing.

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Nothing prepared me for the last 5 poems in Audrey Molloy’s ‘The Important Things’. If you havn't already, please read it; be drawn in by the straightforward honest unravelling of her life’s tapestry which is a joy, sometimes wonderfully risque, always relatable. And then? Reader I wept.

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The big poems in A God At The Door are not at all heavy because they are garnished with the magical light touch of a dancer. They are an absorbing joy to read, and to revisit over and over. Tishani Doshi is the 2nd find (after Isabel Galleymore) I came to via @planetpoetry.bsky.social Listen up!

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This is a true delight. I bought and read his books in th 1970s but never heard him read. Now I have his voice and his pace I will read him again but differently.

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Wherever light is spilled My cat will be found curled up in a puddle of white bedspread An off-white cat In pure white light Dreaming of heaven With one eye open

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Warning to anyone (and you all should) buying this lovely book direct from @rosannamcglone.bsky.social - she is an enthusiastic and prolific master of sellotape so you need to put time aside for getting into the package! Loved the zoom launch Rosanna and am excited to read the book.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 12

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 11

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 10

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 9

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 8

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 7

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 6

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 5

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 4

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 3

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 3

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 2

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If you peer at this book and flip it’s kaleidoscopic pages what flickers back at you from the darkness are cinematic, fantastic, sometimes Chaucerian images. The characters and their energetic stories will draw you back in over and over again. Beautifully produced by @saltpublishing.com

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My thoughts are with his family of course, but somehow .... I'm less than 10 years younger and though I heard him read I never met him. Yet he was always a father figure. You've chosen the poem I would have chosen. I've been re-reading Angel Hill tonight.

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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #BookChallenge 1

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This is exciting. As a life model, @lisadmkelly.bsky.social puts herself up there to be seen, sneezes, sweat, secretions and all. A deaf poet forces us to listen, carefully, to the white space (which makes a poem a poem) but also to the words that often lie on her pages like musical notations

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I must have picked up Laura Bissell’s A-Z at an Scottish Poetry Library pamphlet fair and not read it. This week I have read it every morning, over and over. I love the rough bite of these sculpted, edgy poems. The tiny pamphlet is beautifully produced by Speculative Books. An all-round joy.

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John Cage, master of the bon mot: ‘I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.’

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Happy to be led all over the place in the late sixties when I came to these two influential books over ten years after their mid-fifties publications. Now I find the Ginsberg hasn’t changed a bit but the Hughes is almost unrecognisable. Doesn’t seem like Hughes at all - I’ll have to re-read it.

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Isabel talked about cuteness on @planetpoetry.bsky.social Researched at Disneyland this book moves from the frog sponge that will always love you to the extinction of the tree frog. All this from a cute wee girl who stripped her plastic doll naked and threw it on the shed roof. A great read.

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"Winter was everywhere—what we did merely called attention to what we didn't do..." —Maureen Owen #poem #poems #poetry

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Perthshire shepherds are miserable this morning

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The cat's just settled on my knee. The cat hates to be disturbed. Someone ring the dentist and say I can't possibly come today.

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Ordered on Thursday - Delivered to my door on Saturday. How do you do that @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social ? Thank-so much for my early Chrismas gift to myself.

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This is from @theguardian.com covering species dependant on Brirtains vanishing rain forests. The mating ritual in which 'a couple suspend themselves from a tree in a sticky mucus to mate' sounds like something we could all enjoy

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💙 Oh, lovely Bluesky family, please support this hardworking independent press break even this year by buying a wee book (or two). If you haven’t already discovered The Process of Poetry by @rosannamcglone.bsky.social you are in for one HUGE TREAT! ⬇️

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Explain? No! The words on these pages sometimes make immediate sense but lie in a bed that it's ok to leave unmade. It's music. It's witty. Don't analyse the Duck poem, just enjoy it. But share the Nicola Walker poem with all your tv-watching friends. They will see her clearly staring out of it

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Eating crisps with my pre-dinner glass of wine is NOT ruining my appetite when dinner is taking sooo long to appear. ps I live alone so this is all very personal

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It's ironic to 'advocate' for Sign Language on behalf of the deaf, but Lisa Kelly's poems make music of the task, praised on the back cover by Kaminsky and Antrobus. Love the middle section shining an enthusiastic torch on the dark lives of Fungi. It's dirty, earthy, sexy, encyclopaedic and scary.

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Reading ‘One-eyed Leigh’ by Katharine Kilalea is like breaking into an empty house through an unlocked door and seeing all of the people who aren’t there in every room.

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Wrote this for Spike Hawkins, who lived in my pocket at Uni in late 60s Hotter How often still your lost fire brigade trot aimlessly by intent on burning Compose yourself Spike Hawkins I have hung up my fire-fighting equipment on your empty peg We must go inside and make toast

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This Wilfred Owen collection was a gift. Penguin Modern Poets 10 was my first purchase for 3’6 (17 1/2p) in 1968 Not a poet – more important than that. I buy and read poetry regularly. There are over 800 individual collections on my shelves, almost all contemporary when bought. And all paid for.

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