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Julian Day
@julianday.bsky.social
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Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 15d
Big bow back to the editor in chief Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com and sub-editor @rhonagreene.bsky.social for accepting my poem for publication within the forthcoming issue V of The Storms Journal. It somehow feels even more special, if that's possible, the second time round. Top of the world!
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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 15d
⚡️Meet the Stormers of Issue V

@julianday.bsky.social is a poet, based in Surrey, UK with work in The Storms, Blackbough Poetry, The FolkHeart Press, and Patricia's Pen and A Thousand Shades Of Green. He’s a Best Of Net nominee.
 
The Storms is supported by #fingalarts @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 21h
Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.socia Fidel and your glorious #promptcombo #SimplePleasures. My second is from my collection "Othernesses":
Therapy Listen, soft crash of my waves alter your brain patterns, feel my sand exfoliate, your skin as my unevenness makes floor walk harder, works your calves and thighs. A state of meditation lulls, slows your heart beat, deepens your breath. My blue sky and sun shoot up your bodies feel good drugs, my heat and negative ions ensure reboot. I massage the vagus nerve in your neck, enough for all this to happen. Watch fish in rockpools provide aquariums check your stress, rejuvenate a hug and kiss. I'm health resort, recommunion, refresher, renewer, good reunion.
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Róisín Ní Neachtain @roisinnineachtain.com · 6h
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‘My poems are part of my flesh’: Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen on life in Gaza
At just 20, the poet is one of the most vivid witnesses to the conflict. She talks about dreams of Oxford, the deaths of friends and how tragedy has shaped the person she has become
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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 5h
Congratulations, Martin!
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On Viewless Wings @onviewlesswings.bsky.social · 1d
Great publisher, this.
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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 3d
Many thanks to all the librarians at Hebden Bridge @calderdale.bsky.social for this magnificent display of Bluemoose authors with a nod to the upcoming @bbc 6 part b series of Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social . Brilliant.
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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 21h
Well doesn't this look grand.

In the Radio Times and everything.

My mum would have been well chuffed and to some degree making up for the disappointment of not becoming the second English Pope.

We published in 2019.

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BBC One - Leonard and Hungry Paul, Series 1, Episode 1
Leonard begins to open up his world with the help of his best friend, Hungry Paul.
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Jess Traynor @jesstraynor.bsky.social · 21h
High (and well deserved) praise for Filly by @rosamundtaylor.bsky.social ✨️✨️✨️

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Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 22h
'To grow up a queer girl in the Ireland of that time is to pass through a series of small annihilations. Taylor writes those annihilations with exceptional power.'

Ruby Eastwood on Filly, by Rosamund Taylor @jesstraynor.bsky.social
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Adolescence as an open wound—Filly, by Rosamund Taylor - Books Ireland
The experiences it depicts are raw, humiliating, and incandescent.
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Books Ireland @booksireland.bsky.social · 22h
'To grow up a queer girl in the Ireland of that time is to pass through a series of small annihilations. Taylor writes those annihilations with exceptional power.'

Ruby Eastwood on Filly, by Rosamund Taylor @jesstraynor.bsky.social
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Adolescence as an open wound—Filly, by Rosamund Taylor - Books Ireland
The experiences it depicts are raw, humiliating, and incandescent.
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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 5h
Excellent! 💙❤️🔥
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Tolka @tolkajournal.bsky.social · 12d
🔥❤️ Tolka Issue Ten ❤️🔥
We're delighted to unveil the line up for our tenth issue!
This issue will publish on 10 November and launch on Friday 5 December.
You can pre-order the issue here: www.tolkajournal.org/shop/p/issue...
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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 11h
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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 11h
Meet the Stormers of Issue V

Jack Donahue is a poet, short story writer and playwright. His book of poems Inside/Out was published in 2020. His first novel LOST ON CHERRY STREET was launched in June,2024 by Willow River Press.

The Storms is supported by @fingal.ie @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 11h
Congratulations to Lesley! 👏👏👏⚡️⚡️
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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 21h
Meet the Stormers of Issue V

@elcurwen.bsky.social is a poet, broadcaster & sailor who lives in Plymouth. Her pamphlets are Rescue Lines Sticky with Miles. She is working with Stephen Paul Wren, on a poetic collaboration.
 
The Storms is supported by @fingal.ie @dublincityoflit.bsky.social
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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 14h
Congratulations, Laura! 👏👏👏
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Laura Theis @lauratheis.bsky.social · 15h
Thank you Fiona Benson for including my poem in the beautiful Winchester Prize anthology The Lantern Room among so many favourite new poems...
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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 1d
🔊 Sound on
Half a minute of the shoreline breathing gently.
County Clare, Ireland.
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Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social · 14h
This looks like a watercolour painting, Cormac! For real! 👏👏👏
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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 18h
Rockpool reflection.

A rockpool with a growing bed of Coral weed (Corallina officinalis).
County Clare, Ireland.
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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 18h
Gina and her carer/carrot bearer heading out for a wee walk. Fiadh is up ahead keeping watch.
County Clare, Ireland.
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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 1d
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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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 16h
Find out more about the 2025 National Poetry Competition here: npc.poetrysociety.org.uk
National Poetry Competition – from The Poetry Society
2025 competition artwork by Myriam Wares
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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 16h
💭 To help inspire your entries for this year's National Poetry Competition, The Poetry Society will be releasing a series of prompts throughout the competition.

Today's prompt comes from Johanna Magin, who was longlisted in the 2024 National Poetry Competition. Thank you, Johanna!
Go outside and note down a fragment of found speech from an overheard conversation, preferably a question. Write a poem that starts from that piece of found speech and see what story, what image, what soundscape emerges from that speech.
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perversemag @perversemag.bsky.social · 1d
PERVERSE is back with issue 9, starting today! This week's issue 9A features poems by Nóra Blascsók, Charles J. March III, Joe Carrick-Varty, Annie Baker and Corinna Board. Read all five poems from this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9a
PERVERSE 9A
"I was a cactus in a previous life..."
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perversemag @perversemag.bsky.social · 1d
The first poem in PERVERSE 9A is 'I ate a door' by Nóra Blascsók (@nblascsok.bsky.social). Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9a
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perversemag @perversemag.bsky.social · 19h
The second poem in PERVERSE 9A is 'Empty Chorus (Blank Verse) by Charles J. March III. Read all five poems in this section here: perverse.substack.com/p/perverse-9a
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