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@lauradavispoems

Poet and textile artist https://poetry.lauradavis.eu My pamphlet of text and textile poems "Have Needle, Will" is out with Moormaid Press

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Invitation to poetry performance 15 Nov 2025 15.00-17.00 The Green Door Gallery Brussels

Invitation to poetry performance 15 Nov 2025 15.00-17.00 The Green Door Gallery Brussels

Really looking forward to this event - solo readings and brand new collaborations!
@martybabe.bsky.social
#livepoetry #poetryinbrussels #poezieinbrussel #poesieabruxelles #collaborationpoetry

05.11.2025 14:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fantastic evening at the European Poetry Festival with brilliant performances by @lauradavispoems.bsky.social & Nora Nadj/Alev Adil & Martin Wakefield/Katrina Koulouri & Hanna Komar/Theodoros Chiotis & Chrissy Williams/L Kiew & Antonia Taylor et al. All thanks, as always, to Steven J. FowlerπŸ”₯

26.06.2025 10:00 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
invitation to performance by 12 poets in Brussels, 7 June

invitation to performance by 12 poets in Brussels, 7 June

Join us for the Brussels International Camarade - 12 poets, 6 brand new collaborations! 7 June, 16.00 - 18.00 Free, pls register brucamarade@gmail.com
#livepoetry #collaboration #poetryperformance #internationalpoetry #poetry #camarade @norami.bsky.social

21.05.2025 12:17 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And in answer to your question @nytimes.com, our unequivocal conclusion is that @lori-wike.bsky.social is also the finest puzzle poet around!

09.05.2025 09:11 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Laura Davis: Signs on Leaves Signs on LeavesThe Aeneid 3 519-521 Her visions are clear when she wants to seestill tapestry scenes of all human fates.She captures her wisdom as signs on leaves.The vanishing insects – not …

Thrilled that @osmosispress.bsky.social are featuring my film / text / textile poem 'Signs on leaves' today at osmosispress.com/2025/05/04/l... !
#filmpoem #ecopoem #ecopoetry #textilepoem #textileart #aeneid #sibyl

04.05.2025 15:33 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Reminder - tomorrow at The Green Door Gallery Bxl - #ekphrasis #poetryapero from 15.00 - poets respond to Helen OSullivan-Tyrrell's "Amuse-bouche" exhibition.

#livepoetry #poetryinbrussels #poezieinbrussel #poΓ©sieΓ bruxelles #poetryperformance #contemporaryart #foodpoems #amusebouche

28.03.2025 15:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Line Drawing/Text(ile), Print on Fabriano Paper

23.03.2025 19:49 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Absolute blast with the amazing #BeverlyFrydman at the Versopolis #EuropeanPoetryFestival Camarade last week performing our "Talking the Walk" collaboration (with giant mics!).
Thx as ever to SJ Fowler
#poetry #livepoetry #poetryperformance #voicemessagepoetry #poetryincollaboration #europeanpoetry

19.03.2025 17:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Open call for poems/ short fiction / songs - new responses to any of the works in Amuse-bouche exhibition at The Green Door Gallery, Brussels. Any language.

Contact me with queries & to book a slot by 28/3/25.

#ekphrasis #poetryapero #livepoetry #poetryinbrussels #poezieinbrussel #poΓ©sieΓ bruxelles

17.03.2025 11:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SNAP! (Almost!) I’ll be getting flax seeds from Texture (Kortrijk) to grow from seed to … ? This year along with some natural dyes - I was thinking woad, yarrow, beetroot, … possibly more. Exciting!

25.02.2025 20:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is my sculptural poem β€˜decayed’ which was exhibited at the Words from the Wild show at Royal Holloway last year. The bark was recovered from a local restoration area in Bushy Park and belonged to one of the several conker trees that were recently cut down.

18.02.2025 09:43 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not really pictures of the tapestry itself as you can’t photograph it but genuine pictures of pictures in the museum! πŸ˜ƒ

17.02.2025 19:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Today #lifttothesky the amazing @susiecampbell.bsky.social - brilliant, innovative, generous poet. I had the good fortune to read her #tenter (@guillemotpress.bsky.social illustrated by Rose Ferraby) in situ at #bayeux last summer. β€˜Et Aelfgyva’ a particular favourite! @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

17.02.2025 11:46 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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#lifttothesky the extraordinary work of @imogenreid.bsky.social, including her text(ile)s & line drawings, example here from her pamphlet with Rossicontemporary @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

10.02.2025 10:26 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
Old Skin

For old skin say skin
suit, say skin tight, say
oil skin, skinny 
dip. Say peeled skin, 
thin-skinned. Say skin
flint, skin that can't be
turned to show a better 
side. Say folds that never 
return to home, say 
backs-of-your-hands like 
exposed sandstone.
Say skin deep, say skin
of your teeth. Say 
scared, say scared
right out of your skin.

Old Skin For old skin say skin suit, say skin tight, say oil skin, skinny dip. Say peeled skin, thin-skinned. Say skin flint, skin that can't be turned to show a better side. Say folds that never return to home, say backs-of-your-hands like exposed sandstone. Say skin deep, say skin of your teeth. Say scared, say scared right out of your skin.

For my #poemsabout #oldskin with loads of thanks to @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for facilitating this....... & all who take part!!

31.01.2025 09:13 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 1

What an amazing and important project - when will it come out? Will keep an eye out for it! Also something for you @susiecampbell.bsky.social I think

31.01.2025 08:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@vickikaye.bsky.social - prompt and thread for you I think!

31.01.2025 08:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, Roger 😊

28.01.2025 08:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, Briony 😊

28.01.2025 08:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much @susiecampbell.bsky.social 😊

28.01.2025 08:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

SENSORY CHORD, a triolet
(Open sound pattern repetitions with meanings circumscribed by visual transcription)

Sensory chord
Intuits whole
Sense or record
Sensory chord
Censor recored
Into its soul
Sensory chord
Intuits whole

#triolet #anguishlanguish

15.11.2024 03:45 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you @susiecampbell.bsky.social for the connection - what an amazing project !

24.01.2025 16:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Love this!

24.01.2025 16:32 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Photograph of a snow cave, Wasatch Range, Rocky Mountains, Utah, USA,
1868.

In Stephen Ellcock’s Underworlds: A Compelling Journey Through Subterranean Realms, Real and Imagined.

09.11.2024 20:35 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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If you're in Copenhagen, come by Red Door Gallery to catch real, poetic happenings, conversations, books and other beauties in 3D.

15.01.2025 18:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Me reading to a room of people. The lower part of my face is covered with a bandage used as a gag.

Me reading to a room of people. The lower part of my face is covered with a bandage used as a gag.

Richard Capener in front of a room full of people reading to them. He is wearing a pale green jumper.

Richard Capener in front of a room full of people reading to them. He is wearing a pale green jumper.

Close up of me reading to a room of people with a bandage across my face as a gag. I am wearing a green t shirt, jeans and spectacles. The bandage gag is transparent.

Close up of me reading to a room of people with a bandage across my face as a gag. I am wearing a green t shirt, jeans and spectacles. The bandage gag is transparent.

Side view of me reading to room of people (only one set of legs is visible of the audience). A black bin bag and rubbish including paper cups and screwed up paper are scattered on the floor in front of me.

Side view of me reading to room of people (only one set of legs is visible of the audience). A black bin bag and rubbish including paper cups and screwed up paper are scattered on the floor in front of me.

Great audience for last night's @hempressbooks.bsky.social takeover event w/thanks to @brihughespoet.bsky.social and to Hem editor Richard Capener. I performed a sound piece through a gag (bandage) and continued my exploration of waste. Great chats with people afterwards!

22.01.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Next weekend, in Brussels, all welcome.

30.01.2024 19:40 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0