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sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social

Poet, PhD researcher (inter-species creatings). Books: Slant Light; Bloom (Pavilion poetry), Pond (The Braag). Currently into bats 🦇 https://sarahwestcott.co.uk

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🦇Join our FREE online workshop 'Discover Your Local Bats'! On 20 March 2025, 6.30pm - 8.00pm. You will learn about: Bats and how they are monitored How to find bats in YOUR local area How to take part in our beginner-friendly Sunset Survey Booking required: buytickets.at/bctevents/16...

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Last few days for our current special offer: any 3 Longbarrow hardbacks for £32. Offer includes collections by Steve Ely, Angelina D'Roza, Rob Hindle, Peter Riley, Nancy Gaffield, Mark Goodwin, Matthew Clegg, Fay Musselwhite, Chris Jones, and more longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

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Spring swans and spawn (a palate cleanser) 💚🌱

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New issue of The Marrow is out (don’t think they’re on here). Excellent pieces from poetry friends @rcurzon.bsky.social, @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social and @janezwart.bsky.social

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Remember a few years ago when we found out that some moths emit ultrasonic clicks to jam bat sonar? Then recently we heard that some plants make ultrasonic clicks when dehydrated? Well now researchers have found that some moths HEAR those plant clicks and use them to decide where to lay eggs. 🪲🧪🌿🌎

submitted 94 days ago • 2 comments

Cove Park awards residencies for writers and artists every year and you can also self fund. I’ve lusted after one of their cabins for years. Beautiful. Take a look. Please share.

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Hi folks! We have just 7 copies of Unfurl left and 10 copies of @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social 's Pond left! I won't be doing a reprint this side of Christmas, so if you'd like one now's the time. thebraag.co?page_id=533

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‘until the town becomes a cinema’ from John Burnside’s last book, ‘Ruin, Blossom’

submitted 116 days ago • 5 comments

I'm really thrilled and so proud to win this competition alongside wonderful poets @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social and Will Kemp. Thank you Maria Isakova Bennett and the beautifully hand-stitched Coast to Coast to Coast. Congratulations to all Highly Commended and Commended poets!

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Like my mentor #DavidNash, I make work with long timespans: It’s also the art I’m most drawn to… If that speaks to you too, here’s a starter pack of others engaged in serious noticing - through repetition, return, time series & other forms of slow art… go.bsky.app/V6j8hdS

submitted 103 days ago • 16 comments

Much in this 'little soul' of a #poem www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

Prepping for eco workshops with these 💚. Not incl. the many single poems I’ll be 🔗 to. Work by @asimk.bsky.social @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social Wayne Price, Janette Ayachi & Isabel Galleymore 🩵 Send me more poems please, esp on deeeeep time, hyperobjects & despair 🙏

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All I want for Christmas, is Coooooo #pigeonSky 🪶

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Hey folks, if you like gorgeous, weird literature on a small scale maybe give @thebraag.bsky.social a follow! We've been pretty reliant on twitter for sales and views, but it'd be great for that to not be the case!

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Alexander the Great is gay???? 🤯🤯 well. anyway. here's my poetry book with queer alexander the great, furious mermaids, and an interlude where i take πολυτρόπως to mean Odysseus plays for both teams.

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"Visionary, urgent ... truly extraordinary blendings of environmental and social history. It swept me along." - Mark Wormald on 'Eely' Out now: Steve Ely's 'Eely'. Includes 'The European Eel' (now out of print) and 3 sections / 100 pages of new material. longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

submitted 117 days ago • 3 comments

Order any Longbarrow Press hardback and you'll receive a free copy of our 2024 mini-anthology Winter Songs (while stocks last) longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...

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More lovely poet people to follow: @sarahleavesley.bsky.social @chickenbex.bsky.social @rcurzon.bsky.social @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social @carolinebirduk.bsky.social @sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social #poetsonbluesky