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Laura McKee

@lauramckee.bsky.social

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She/her poetry: The Poetry Review, fourteen poems, Propel. A winner in Cafe Writers Competition, Guernsey Lit. Shortlisted in Bridport, Rialto Nature & Place. Pamphlet take care of your hooves darling Against the Grain Press. Wild flowers and photography.

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 2h

🚨 The latest European Red List assessment has revealed 65 butterflies are now classed as 'at risk', several of which are species found in the UK.

Urgent action is needed to reverse the declining population of butterflies.

Read more:
butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...

📸 Gilles San Martin

Black hairstreak butterfly perched on a leaf

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 6h

An excerpt from 'Soup of the Day' by Luciana Arbus-Scandiffio, which is featured in the latest issue of The Poetry Review and available to read in full for free on our website. 📚

I was the size of an acorn one time
And for the first year of my life, my breath smelled of apples
I had absolutely no teeth
And the top of my head was soft like butter cream
Not much has changed
Sitting in the waiting room
I don the dutiful shoe covers
I pick stray hairs from my sleeve
Though her mass is smaller than a scallop
I find myself weeping

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Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social · 6h

'She labelled every jar on the shelf: 'Dill', 'Damson', 'Dates', 'Despair'. / He frowned at that one. / Just a joke,' she said, smiling.'

Read 'Deceit' by Debra Battersby in our Salon Showcase ✍️

mslexia.co.uk/magazine/blo...

#amwriting #writingcommunity #mslexia

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 8h

Poetry Workshop: Ok, just my thoughts, it's your poem, but how about don't tell me the baboon is big, show me the glint of moonlight curve on his auburn arse. Try internal rhymes. Should there be a monkey somewhere? 2/2

Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 8h

I went to the Animal Fair, the birds and the beasts were there, the big baboon by the light of the moon, was combing his auburn hair. 1/1

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 12h

🖼️ Edith Holden

Dead leaves
Elm, Oak
Beech
Chesnut, and Sycamore.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 22h

Pink common yarrow #WildflowerHour

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 23h

The beautiful structure of red clover. #WildflowerHour

Red clover wildflower with crown of pointed pink petals and leaves with deep green lines underneath and white chevrons on upper side.

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 23h

White hedgerow cranesbill. #WildflowerHour

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 23h

Yellow sweet clover being buttercup like in the sunshine. #WildflowerHour

Yellow glowing petals on yellow sweetclover.

Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 23h

Spindle berries still doing their neon thing. #WildflowerHour

Pink casing of spindle berry splits open to reveal orange seeds, all very neon.

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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 1d

Francisco de Zurburán
A Cup of Water and a Rose, 1630

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 4d

We will be opening a tiny but welcoming submissions window on Monday 13th October, just for a week. Full details of how to send will appear on the website on the day.

We're already excited!

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 1d

This is the closest I’ve been to a wild rabbit without it scarpering. Sadly after a while I realised it was likely fully blind with myxomatosis. Enjoying their greens and sunshine though 🥰

Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton nooooo please come back and say La-di-da la-di-da.

Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 1d

Woohoo go Ellie! #Strictly

Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 2d

Six o clock ponche on a bike #Strictly

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

No family, no stability, no social fabric: the anguish of Gaza’s wounded orphans

As the number of WCNSFs – wounded child no surviving family – grows, charities struggle to find adults to look after them

www.theguardian.com

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 3d

Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.

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Sam @northernrobot.bsky.social · 4d

Literally anything but tax the rich isn't it

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 4d

'Half my mind is still in Gaza': Evacuated teacher begins studies in UK www.bbc.com/news/article...

'Half my mind is still in Gaza': Evacuated teacher begins studies in UK

Sanaa el-Azab is one of 58 people who have been evacuated from Gaza to study at universities in the UK on scholarships.

www.bbc.com

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Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder.bsky.social · 5d

Escape into...

'The Wild Swans at Coole'
by William Butler Yeats

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 5d

Ha, yes I am totes vengeful.

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chloelewis.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social · 6d

Having worked on a few abuse cases, one pattern is an abuser will try to create a situation where the rules are whatever they say the rules are, + try to make the person or people they're abusing so confused they no longer know what is + isn't real. A useful lens for politics perhaps?

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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 6d

Me after my Rialto poetry rejection.

(She's got, she's got a way)
(She's got a way, she's got a way)
(She got, she got a way)
(She got away, she got away, hey, hey)
She's got, she's got a way She's got a way, she's got a way, hey, hey
And she got, she got away She got away, she got away, hey, hey