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Sam Garvan
@garvansam.bsky.social
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Poet. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
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The public wants it. MPs voted for it. The House of Lords must not block it. Join me and sign the petition urging Lords to stop delaying and pass the assisted dying bill. 38d.gs/gq6c
Don’t block the assisted dying bill from passing in the Lords
The public wants it. MPs voted for it. The House of Lords must not block it. Sign the petition to support the Assisted Dying Bill
38d.gs
December 13, 2025 at 10:31 AM
garvansam.bsky.social
oh, this is fun, beautiful, and altogether illuminating ...

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Aristotle’s Lantern - Twenty-Four Digressions on Light
John Glenday turns his mind towards the solstice
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December 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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💐The countdown is on! 💐MORE FLOWERS releases with @triohousepress.org in less than 60 days, so thank you in advance for your patience with all my little reminders, and please consider pre-ordering at the link. I am super excited to share these poems!

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December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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samrasnake.bsky.social
I’m honored that Ballerini Book Press has today released Fallen Leaves, my new poetry collection, into the world. I hope those leaves drift your way.

Thanks to @ballerinibookpress.bsky.social & @amantineb.bsky.social

If you’re interested in a copy, order here:
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Ballerini Book PressSlender. Never Spineless.Fallen Leaves by Sam Rasnake
OFFICIAL RELEASE  FALLEN LEAVES is a collection of contemporary commentaries. It was conceived from Sam’s social engagement online and draws its inspiration and social commentary from quotes, poems…
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December 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
Not👇as many weeks away as you think. If you're feeling strung out pause on my photo & delve into the details-research shows yr stress levels levels will decrease & your mood will lift.
*whispers* this is the Feb print of my '26 calendar designed to improve mental health: www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...
A collection of flowers from my garden in late February( 2019 was a very mild early spring) arranged so the colours shift gently from one side of the photo to the other. The flowers are arranged on a black chipped enamel background and there's a hand written label I made in the top right of the image.
December 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
garvansam.bsky.social
GB News’ recent Trump interview was outrageous - completely biased and full of lies. And GB News didn't challenge him ONCE. Ofcom MUST investigate them for breaching its rules. Sign now if you agree: 38d.gs/l_kt
OFCOM: INVESTIGATE GB NEWS’ SHOCKING TRUMP INTERVIEW
GB News’ recent Trump interview was outrageous - completely biased and full of lies. And GB News didn't challenge him ONCE. Ofcom MUST investigate them for breaching its rules. Sign now if you agree.
38d.gs
December 9, 2025 at 6:08 PM
garvansam.bsky.social
Sorry, sorry, a birch tree ...!
garvansam.bsky.social Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social · 5d
Can you tell me what this fungus is? Under a beech tree. Moderately large, say 5-6 cm across. Thanks!!

#fungi #mycology
Two fungi, decurrent (is that the word?) gills, brown top, pale underside, chunky stalk. The rims curling upwards.
December 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
garvansam.bsky.social
This is such a great piece ...
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
garvansam.bsky.social
Can you tell me what this fungus is? Under a beech tree. Moderately large, say 5-6 cm across. Thanks!!

#fungi #mycology
Two fungi, decurrent (is that the word?) gills, brown top, pale underside, chunky stalk. The rims curling upwards.
December 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
garvansam.bsky.social
A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
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December 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
garvansam.bsky.social
This fabulously moving prose poem by @nessalampert.bsky.social

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Friday Poem – ‘On Mother’s Day’ by Vanessa Lampert - Seren
This week’s Friday Poem is ‘On Mother’s Day’ by Vanessa Lampert from her collection ‘Say It With Me’.
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December 8, 2025 at 1:17 PM
garvansam.bsky.social
Our book is out ...

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The Curae II – Renard Press
It is estimated that there are around 10 million carers in the UK alone – unpaid people who look after someone who needs help because of their illness, frailty, disability, mental health problem or ad...
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December 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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oewordhord.bsky.social
hremn, m.n: raven. (H’REH-mun / ˈhrɛ-mən)
Image: Psalter of Isabelle of France; England (York), 1303-1308; Munich, @bsbmuenchen.bsky.social Cod.gall. 16, f. 52r.
#OldEnglish #WOTD
Six black birds standing around in a medieval manuscript margin; the bird on the far left is picking up a seed in its beak.
December 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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kazbarwrites.bsky.social
Adore this prose poem by @aniking.bsky.social!!🔥
aniking.bsky.social Ani King (they/them) @aniking.bsky.social · 7d
Seems fitting that this odd angel prose poem go live on a Sunday :D Thanks to scaffold for giving it a home!

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an angel came to me by ani king — scaffold literary magazine
prose poetry
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December 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
garvansam.bsky.social
Political insider in the BBC ... help to remove him ...

38d.gs/w9ae
Sack Sir Robbie Gibb from the BBC board
Robbie Gibb said if he doesn't get his way, he'll blow the BBC up. It's ridiculous that a man like that has a spot on the BBC's board. Our public broadcaster MUST be independent. Agree? Sign to get Gi...
38d.gs
December 7, 2025 at 10:45 AM
garvansam.bsky.social
Quote with your model of masculinity
Soulful looking black dog, wearing a white cloth as a headress. (Not my photo - stolen off web.)
December 6, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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If you see this please share (i.e. repost, not just like)! The Barbellion Prize is a unique award for writers with disabilities. We need to raise £20k to secure its future, so please make a donation, no matter how large, no matter how small, here: barbellionprize.org/donate/ Thank you!
donate | The Barbellion Prize
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December 6, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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'We are like the herb which flourisheth most when trampled upon'
-Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

🎨Jan van Huijsum (detail)
#BookWormSat
Painting detail of a flower.
December 6, 2025 at 9:03 AM
garvansam.bsky.social
"Rhymes may be so far apart, you cannot hear them, but they can hear each other .."

Wise (and of course poetic) words from her Presto Manifesto, @aestallings.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
garvansam.bsky.social
Beautiful writing here ..
December 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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bergamax.bsky.social
'Old Woman and Boy with Candles'
Mural by Julien de Casabianca in The Hague, Netherlands

#art #streetart
December 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
garvansam.bsky.social
I only wish I had some daughters I could remove from the Brownies ...
minorliteratures.bsky.social minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 11d
solidarity with trans people everywhere, and our UK siblings in particular at this time

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December 3, 2025 at 5:09 PM
garvansam.bsky.social
23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today: 38d.gs/clhk
Sign the petition: Strip Boris Johnson of his annual former PM allowance
23,000. That's how many deaths can be blamed on Boris Johnson's chaotic Covid decisions and delays. Enough is enough, he must be stripped of his annual £115,000 handout. Sign the petition today:
38d.gs
December 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
garvansam.bsky.social
Oh, devastating ..
litbowl.bsky.social Litbowl @litbowl.bsky.social · 15d
Still remember the surprise the first time reading this. It's not that the form is "hidden"... just somehow it only registered for me with those last two incredible lines. And then I had to read it all again.

From Natasha Trethewey's book, Monument: bookshop.org/a/862/9780358118237

#poem #books
November 29, 2025 at 9:53 PM
garvansam.bsky.social
I love this Frank O'Hara poem - hidden in the alt text behind this not entirely suitable picture. (Van Gogh, 'Rain')
Lana Turner has collapsed! I was trotting along and suddenly it started raining and snowing and you said it was hailing but hailing hits you on the head hard so it was really snowing and raining and I was in such a hurry to meet you but the traffic was acting exactly like the sky and suddenly I see a headline LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED! there is no snow in Hollywood there is no rain in California I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up
November 29, 2025 at 5:58 PM