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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 2d

Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'The las train' by Vidyan Ravinthiran @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social

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Poem Of The Week: The Last Train By Vidyan Ravinthiran

The last train to arrive in Jaffna during the war 30 years ago rusts on the tracks the unimaginable touch of time has turned it the colour, exactly of this land’s ferrous soil -of blood that is fo...

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 3d

for World Mental Health Day from 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb', my most recent book of poetry

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Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social · 6d

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The small god is still inventing himself

Last week scarlet & pale
then just a hint of blue

always changing
always a little overdue

yesterday he was apples
today mostly apples

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 9d

Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'Leeds 1975' by Faith Lawrence @poetrybusiness.bsky.social
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Poem Of The Week: Leeds 1975 By Faith Lawrence

Leeds 1975 This night-day, day-night bus is the first, last, only emissary of the lighted world, the thin-as-care suburb of lino and candlewick.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15d

Bread and Roses – the song of the brave, fortright mill girls of Lancashire and beyond.

Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses – the song of the brave, fortright mill girls of Lancashire and beyond

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 15d

Me too, Ben. He was the subject of my doctorate. V. is a tour-de-force and his reading of it a performance masterpiece. We communicated by letter (he didn't do tech.) a little about 15 years ago and he was very warm and encouraging. A great loss to poetry.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 16d

RIP Tony Harrison. What came to mind when I heard the news was Gail Earnshaw telling me what a wonderful letter she had from him when her husband died. They weren't close friends and nobody would know about Harrison's kind gesture, except Gail, making it the sort of gesture I respect most.

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 15d

Thanks Ian

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Steve Whitaker @stevewhitaker1.bsky.social · 16d

Yorkshire Times Art Review: The Imp of Surrealism - Anthony Earnshaw at Halifax @ianduhig.bsky.social
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The Imp Of Surrealism: Anthony Earnshaw At Dean Clough

It comes as no surprise to learn that the surrealist artist, Anthony Earnshaw, was a great admirer of Charlie Chaplin, or more particularly, the Chaplin of Modern Times.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17d

OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.