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In the Bag
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specular glass — Blood+Honey by Damon Hubbs “It’s night / The planets spin in reverse / I made marinara / and sent a postcard to an ex / She used to be a debutante       now she’s avant-  gard...

Poem "Specular Glass" by Damon Hubbs

“It’s night / The planets spin in reverse / I made marinara / and sent a postcard to an ex / She used to be a debutante now she’s avant- garde”

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A slide on a slippery surface without a fall is a fine thing.
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The Twin Bill The Twin Bill Baseball lit!

Great to get a swing in here. My thanks to Scott ~ thetwinbill.com

Enjoyed reading this

A short piece about Manchester and poetry for @robmclennan.bsky.social and periodicities.
The pictures, courtesy of David Gaffney, are from the above/ground press readings last week with me, @ggaffa.bsky.social and @lydiaunsworth.bsky.social at Saul Hay Gallery.

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Behind, Before, Beyond Layers of Blue (Image by artist and photographer Nick Dormand)

Prompted by artist and photographer Nick Dormand's wonderful photo at Sidmouth yesterday ~ gravyfromthegazebo.blog/2026/03/04/b...

What. The. Fuck.

Behind, Before, Beyond Layers of Blue (Image by artist and photographer Nick Dormand)

Prompted by artist and photographer Nick Dormand's wonderful photo at Sidmouth yesterday ~ gravyfromthegazebo.blog/2026/03/04/b...

Tonight's Worm Moon ~ phone camera when rising; zoom lens camera a little later

Kurt Elling - In The Brass Palace, album review Stepping Out Wonderfully Once More The greatest crooner of this modern era, Kurt Elling keeps his vocal firmly in its lineage with a big b...

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Andrew Taylor's latest from @leafepress.bsky.social, rather than documenting, these poems convey as we truly see/observe: peripheral, fully felt, askance, fleeting, intense focus; HS perhaps hints at process - both these poems exemplfy flow and disruption, and a recurring lyricism...

Yes and a hedgehog has a soft tummy
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dusk
dissolved

in
the
flicker

of
a
flame

.

candle
snuffed
out

in
the
shadow

of
the
hill

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Nick Drake - released on this day in 1972

[since feeling is first] by e.e. cummings "death i think is no parenthesis"

[since feeling is first] by e.e. cummings
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With my thanks to Nick and Rupert for posting - from a sequence of found poems...

Most pleased to be a part of Stride's 'The Travel Edition' collection - the first two of my four poems: stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

My 2nd poetry collection, published in 2016 by Andy Brown at his Maquette Press. 18 yrs after my 1st, this is another important catalyst for my writing, always appreciated. Here , my sonnet phase (!), and now reminded - not that it's needed - of the personally profound in 'Two-Step'...

Observations and Obsessions
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Ladybirds rest at night
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Steve Spence's latest collection, from Aquifer Books: collaged poems of threaded or seemingly randomised narratives, intensely detailed and energised by their movement/s. Don't miss the cameos, like a ref to poet Kenny Knight - these two sharing in fanciful poetic flights

A poem sequence by John Mingay, first in a new thematic collection from Stride: stridemagazine.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...