Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶

On Tuesday 24th March at 8pm, I'll be guest-poetting with Dominic Fisher and Martin Rieser at the Berkeley Square Poetry Revue, Cellar Bar, Berkeley Square Hotel, Clifton, BS8 1HB. Music by Guy Calhoun. Tickets £5. If you're in Bristol, do come along. #poetry #bristol

Natalie Diaz reading on a dark stage beneath a projected banner with a photo of herself

Fantastic reading by Natalie Diaz for the @bristolpoetry.bsky.social last night. It’s rare for my attention to be corralled and focused for five minutes, let alone over an hour, but these poems managed it. I made my way home in that holy space that is the aftermath of a great poetry experience.

Never Too Late 60+ award - Bridport Prize This £500 award is for the highest placed writer aged 60+ across poetry, short story, novel or flash fiction.

Don’t forget the Never Too Late Award from the Bridport Prize which recognises entries from writers over 60 across all categories of prizes.

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Text of 'A brief feather confession', a poem by Deborah Harvey

On the recommendation of the psychiatrist who assessed me for ADHD, I’ve been referred for an autism assessment. Still bemused by the 32 years between my children’s diagnosis & the prospect of my own. And so very tired.

Here’s a poem about masking. It was recently published in The Jawbone Journal.

Photo is head and shoulders portrait of Welsh poet, Peter Gruffydd

February’s Silver Street #Poetry is on Friday 27th, with Welsh poetry legend Peter Gruffydd reading. Event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue: St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Open mic slots on a first come, first served basis.

A white goat stands in the middle of a ruined ring of heavy anti-aircraft batteries dating from World War II and now covered in graffiti. The surrounding grass is puddled with rain and there are bare trees behind against a grey sky.

Local goat, possibly wishing it would stop raining #bristol

I'm 64. I fall over quite a lot but it's definitely just falling over.

A collaged of thirty-five ladybirds, all spotted on a stretch of stone wall in Bristol, UK on a January afternoon. Also visible, areas of moss, an ivy leaf and a few other small, aphid-type insects.

It's January in the UK and I spotted all of these ladybirds on a stretch of wall today at Snuff Mills in Bristol.

Tell me again how #climatechange is a hoax.

Pulitzer prize-winning poet, Natalie Diaz, will be reading at the Wills Memorial Building, Bristol, at 6.30pm on Tuesday 17th February. Entry: free.

An important poet to hear at any time, but especially now.

#poetry #bristol

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Patti Smith on the ‘sacred wounds’ of grief YouTube video by CNN

I kept having to rewind this because I was getting distracted by the thoughts it provoked, but it’s absolutely life- and death-affirming and will repay the (probably rather shorter) time it might take you to listen.

Patti Smith, hero. And what a great series of podcasts.

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Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE in Minneapolis, was a #poet. Rest in power, Renee.

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What happened next: how a shocking rape and murder case was solved – 58 years later In Portishead, a dusty box of forgotten files led Jo Smith and her team to a criminal who had escaped justice for more than half a century. This was the longest-running cold case to be solved in the U...

Securing justice for her grandmother, Louisa, has been transformative for my friend, Mary. Cold cases should never be closed. Murderers should never be able to think they're off the hook.

Mist rising from a brook, with shafts of sunlight bursting through the last of the autumn leaves

Sun and mist in December woods #Bristol

A little tear? I was bawling.

What a tender, life-affirming experience. Thank you, Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley ❤️ Can't recommend enough x

November's Silver Street #Poetry is on Friday 28th, when our guests will be @chaucercameron.bsky.social & @helendewbery.bsky.social

Event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue: St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Wrap up warm & bring a (not epic) poem to share!

A border collie with a worried look on her face sits at the entrance to a footpath close to an old milestone with the legend 'To Bath 9 1/4' inscribed on it

PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME GO THERE

STREET - geo located poetry of the street YouTube video by Ralph Hoyte

Thrilled to have some poems in the Street! initiative organised by Ralph Hoyte & @bristollibraries.bsky.social. Here's how to access them; plus, at 1.30, a snatch of my poem about my great-great grandmother who lived on Christmas Steps in 1880s #Bristol #poetry

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Sorry about your dog. I wish Cwtch would cuddle up but she just wants to hide away.

Thanks. I used to drive half an hour up the motorway and back at 11.30pm on New Years Eve with my old collie, Ted, who was maddened by them and barked endlessly. Great way for both of us to see in the New Year ... ☹️

Thanks for the tip x

Night after night of ultra-loud fireworks. This is my poor collie, Cwtch, hiding in an old airing cupboard. #fireworks #dogsofbluesky

A woman with brown hair, wearing sunglasses, is smiling into the camera. She has a leafy branch caught in her hair and a smudge of green face paint on the end of her nose.

Autism, ADHD and me

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#Autism #ADHD #AuDHD #neurodivergence #poetry

Don't forget cutting disability benefits.

A small border collie stands in a lane leaved with autumn foliage; in the adjacent fields misty sunlight

Dragon's breath on the fields and down the lanes #Winterbourne #Bristol #autumn

Text of poem written about poet Andi Langford-Woods' funeral and read at her memorial in Bristol

Remembering Andi Langford-Woods #poetry #bristol #transrightsarehumanrights

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Happy birthday for then!

The Beatles - When I'm Sixty Four (Official Video) YouTube video by TheFreddyShow

Big birthdays aren't the ones with a 0 in them, they're the ones when Paul McCartney writes you a song. I've been waiting for today since I was five. Reckon I'm coming into my own now.

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We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...

A man in a black coat and a border collie are walking through a wood, away from the viewer, having passed a truncated oak with the words Fuck Love sprayed on it in orange paint

Well, at least it's quite autumnal looking ... #bristol #love