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Own Sweet Time, CB editions Sovetica, CB editions Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions https://minorliteratures.com/2025/01/09/the-complimiment-caroline-clark/ https://sublunaryeditions.com/magazine/nosta-and-senti-a-homecoming-essay-caroline-clark

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · Jan 31

My thanks to @minorliteratures.bsky.social and editor @roughghosts.bsky.social for publishing this essay and giving me such a boost at the start of the year.

minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · Jan 9

"Still, you were a poet. If you ever tried to write a line of narrative it bored you so intensely you felt drained. You could only do what you could do. You came to your notebook and wrote what came to you ..."

The Compliment — @cclarklewes.bsky.social

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The Compliment — Caroline Clark

1. The compliment came in swift and stayed with you your whole life. You in your blue sweater with the cowl neck. You with your dark hair. Montreal’s Grande Bibliothèque: glass fronted, deeper and …

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 4h

For Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

First and only poem published in Poetry Review (many moons ago). The last four words were used as the epigraph to the issue.

What Is the Word -

What is the word for this in French? The Russian I know - a kind of chucking out. Brutal, gets to the point though. The English applies restraint. A thing mislaid, mistake. A stately horsedrawn flourish.
Miscarriage, o, how ravishingly slow.

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Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou @hannahhg.bsky.social · 1d

Very excited to be talking to artist, New York Review of Books Art editor and award-winning writer, Leanne Shapton, for Fane Productions about her classic work, Swimming Studies, published by the inimitable @dauntbookspub.bsky.social for the UK.

Book for FREE here: www.fane.co.uk/leanne-shapton

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Andrew Gallix @andrewgallix.bsky.social · Sep 11

A very thoughtful, in-depth review of Loren Ipsum by Oscar Mardell in Review31

review31.co.uk/article/view...

Truth Bombing

Review 31 is an online literary review.

review31.co.uk

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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 2d

ALSO!

a new open submissions call for an on-going series where you can express you literary beefs ...

details/guidelines here:

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Oleada - A Submission Platform

A submission platform for small presses and magazines.

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 4d

SNOW LIT REV 15-16 is out. Wonderful double issue. Anthony Barnett’s Dew Point given free with orders of the new issue. Poetry, prose, essays, drawings, paintings, music.
abar.net/snow.pdf

Back cover showing contents:

JoHN ADLAM poems - At Gordium: of Fog and Storm and Hubris 210
WILL ALEXANDER 16 Poems 163 IAN BRINTON prose - Childhood Memories 280
LU ROSE CUNNINGHAM prose - Addressal 46
MAXIME DARGAUD-FONS poems - Elegies - transl. the Autbor 255
PATRIZIA DELL' ACQUA poems - from Dancing at the Abyss 204
ROBIN FRIEND photography - Blink of an Eye 99 JELENA GLAZOVA waterolours - Sleeping Giants 33
EDOUARD GLISSANT poems - Fastes - transi. ANTHONY BARNETT 224
TIMoTHY HARRIS on David Jones The Tribune's Visitation - with reference to the writings of Ernst Jünger 50
RALPH HAWKINS A Formation of COLONS 3 REBECCA HODGKINSON prose - The Edge 119
JAGODA KAMOV prose - Beyond the Wall 133 KUMIKO KIUCHI prose - Bones of Coral 1 268
ERIK LINDNER poems - Wood - transl. the Author with RoD MENGHAM 21
DS MARRIOTT poems - from Letters from the Black Ark 108 LAUREL MoORE Of Poems 200
SIGBJORN OBSTFELDER Roses and Otber Prose Poems - transl. ANTHONY BARNETT 286
CEYDA OSKAY music - Surgical Instruments: embroidered bones, lungs, bearts : sing 250
MeGan PARRY prose - Earth and Skin - Between the Shell and the World 299 LiLy PETCH 3 Poems 264
ARI POUTIAINEN Music Variables as a Foundation in an Improvised Performance 217
ANNA S QAANI Poems 305 DAVID RosE prose - Frank - Notes on the Text 15
SHAHILLA SHARIFE Six Poems 123 AMy SILLMAN drawings - 16 Days 183
CURTIS STEWART music - from 24 American Caprices 137 NIck TOTTON pors - Remove Attachment 242
Ye LING Butterflies Enamoured of a Flower & Orber Poems 79
ahdpiece - Kiss My Art - on a Rodin sculpture in Lewes 320

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Charles Boyle @cbeditions.bsky.social · 4d

CB editions October newsletter, archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/10/cbe-...

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 5d

sweet treats

These white star phlox flowers open in the evening and through the night. You have to get close but they smell of sherbet and are called ‘midnight candy’. Such a lovely discovery.

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 6d

last rose

Last beauty in white of the season. Thinking of Rilke’s rose.

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 6d

yesterday‘s last light

Blaze of setting sun, orange sky, through wooden field fences.

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 7d

She’s up.

Full moon minus one day rising in pinkish skies. Over hills and rooftops.

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 7d

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 9d

my two are indoctrinated

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 9d

I assume you’re a fan?

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 9d

Rain-slop screaming crunchers

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 9d

Brain-whop milking dusters

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 12d

Merci! 🙏🤩

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 12d

‘Signed presentation copy: "Dear Will, I hope you find something you like here. With warm wishes, Caroline. September 2012, Lewes." Original publisher's wraps in blue, lettered white with a modern art illustration on the front cover. Poetry. ISBN:9781908527042.
About fine. Signedes.

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 12d

On this celebratory day I’d like to let you know that I have some copies of my first collection SAYING YES IN RUSSIAN and can post you one in the UK for £10 p&p included. I won’t sign it unless you ask so as to avoid this happening: follow link. I forgive you W.

www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/Sear...

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 12d

If you break open the dry stems of certain plants /
you will find a snoozing grub.

from All Particles and Waves

By David Spittle from @blackheraldpress.bsky.social

Black cover with grey-toned montage of photos and drawings, surrealist in spirit

Back cover:

1 perplex other people... I infect them also with the perplexity I feel myself: as if to echo Socrates' words, David Spittle's poems make us look for what, inside language, we did not necessarily know we were looking for. In each poem, precariously poised as Spittle is between syntactical newness and each free act of the mind, he purges us of our anticipation of what
• the creative act is. Thus, in the same manner as John Ashbery, whose poetry came to him in fits and starts and by indirec-tion', Spittle's poetry reveals itself behind the multiple (and mostly involuntary) disguises that reality for him, from one poem to the next, takes on. Hence we find a poet writing always amid the struggle of birth and re-birth, identity and non-identity, a poetry testing itself perilously at the frontiers of both verbal experiment and perception.

Poem 1 from ‘All Particles and Waves’ sequence

A three-legged dog barks
In a falling storm
A three-legged dog barks
Unheard in the vault
Undeterred and biting
In a falling storm
Of feathers
A three-legged dog barks
As all around
Is softly exploding

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 12d

Poor old indies.

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 12d

‘There is no charge for entering, but by entering publishers of the shortlisted titles agree to contribute £3,000 each towards the marketing of the prize and 15 extra copies of the book. The publisher of the winning book agree to contribute an additional £5,000 towards marketing.’

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 12d

Collected Works by F. van Dixhoorn translated by @astridalben.bsky.social from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

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Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 14d

Yes I did.

Stunning calm sea in which I did briefly bathe.

Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social · 15d

rose ‘n hip

soft pink rose with one red hip against blue sky