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James Mcconachie

@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social

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Poet, apparently. Forward Prize, BOTN and Pushcart nom. Occasional horseman, remote rural Spain. Words in blackbough, iambapoet, eatthestorms, Modron, Madrid Review, Bad Lilies, Dark Mountain project and more. https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 56m

‘Prine’ even..

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1h

John Prime’s ‘Rocky Mountain Time’ is a better evocation of the lonely rural railway station than Edward Thomas’ ‘Adlestrop’.

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David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 17h

Look at that lineup!
Look at that great cause!

Register now and mark your calendar!

David Rosenthal @davidrosenthalpoet.bsky.social · 3d

Less than a month away!!!!

Listen to live Lit and raise funds for @translifeline.org.

Register now at:
beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

Bearded Bards
Of BlueSky

Online readings to raise funds for Tans Lifeline.

November 8, 2025
Featuring:
Todd Dillard
Brian Spears
Matthew E. Henry
James McConachie
David J. Bauman
Jonathan Everitt

https://beardedbardsofbluesky.weebly.com

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 15h

Lovely cool, fresh piney smell in the air, olives plumping up, lots of Wild boar around for the acorns..then rounded the hill for home to see rain piling up over the Ports de Beseit. Dogs happy with a longish slog. We’re all hungry now.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 16h

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 17h

Kinda feel like we’ve spoiled the run up to the sunset for the goats that seem to hang out here. But still. Love this place.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 17h

Exactly my thought.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 17h

In case of some dreadful emergency

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 20h

Is anyone organizing emigré voters?

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 20h

Welcome!! Anyone who wants to follow you, it is easy: join.greenparty.org.uk

The Man In The Shed @themanintheshed.bsky.social · 20h

@zackpolanski.bsky.social Attended my very first branch meeting last night - as a new Green Party member - really enthused and hoping, aged 72, that I can offer support to a Party I truly hope can form/transform our society......

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Scott Pack @meandmybigmouth.bsky.social · 1d

If you're an unpublished author and your WIP is speculative or dystopian fiction in which AI becomes sentient, takes over the world, controls our lives or something like that – then you need to know that, as a freelance editor, I am approached with four or five similar novels every month.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

New on my shopping list is SHTF*. Every time I shop I buy something extra: 5L of drinking water, some canned beans..batteries etc.

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

Barely restraining my urge to try persuading you to move to Spain…

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Dave Bonta @davebonta.bsky.social · 1d

A Columbus Day edition of the digest with @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @writtenbyallison.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social 2/3
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Poetry Blog Digest 2025, Week 41

A personal selection of posts from the Poetry Blogging Network and beyond.

www.vianegativa.us

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

Serious question: How many of my mutuals in the US are thinking of leaving the country?

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

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Ain't Never Fell

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

Impervious to reason

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 1d

jamesmcconachie.substack.com/p/zack-polan...

Zack Polanski's moment.

From my Spanish fortress of solitude, Polanski through a long lense.

jamesmcconachie.substack.com

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

I used to go to the hot lake near Baza before they flooded it.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

Mare de Deu.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

Montefrio, north of Granada, is interesting. Also Guadix

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

Ya se puede ir, el puto fog. Me cagendeu.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

Good news.

James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 2d

My day under the Romanian army raincoat was..a little complicated. Just over the mountains…this.

DiviNinja Ester Katty#7291 @esterkatty.bsky.social · 2d

La Ràpita esta tarde. Hace un momento ha empeorado la situación y se ha declarado la fase de emergencia en las Terres de l'Ebre.
Hay muchas personas rescatadas de la autopista inundada.

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