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ninearchespress.bsky.social
Another double-bill of #POEMS by our PRIMERS 8 shortlisted poets today at our blog. Discover poems by Natasha Kinsella and Oliver Carmichael @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social
Keep coming back to the blog for more. ninearchespress.blogspot.com
Primers: ninearchespress.com/primers
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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fallingtreeprod.bsky.social
In the company of other poets, @carolinebirduk.bsky.social explores the silences when it feels like words have left you.

Listen to When the Words Leave on BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@oliverinthenorth.bsky.social @hannahcopley.bsky.social

Music - Phil Smith
Prod - Eleanor McDowall
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
oliverinthenorth.bsky.social
Was a pleasure to talk to Caroline Bird about how it feels when the words leave.
carolinebirduk.bsky.social Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social · 17d
Tonight at 7.15 on Radio 3. Writer’s block, dry spell, fallow period, worrisome silence, that terrifying, lonely time when you *cannot* write a poem. I speak to Liz Berry, Oliver Carmichael, Hannah Copley, Marie Howe, Vanessa Kisuule and Jack Underwood! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Sunday Feature, When the Words Leave
The poet Caroline Bird explores the silences when it feels like the words have left you.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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lrb.co.uk
‘The greatest children’s fantasies were worth your time when you were twelve, and they are equally worth it now. They remind us that the imagination is not an optional extra.’

Katherine Rundell on the importance of children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?
Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...
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February 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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chadpie.bsky.social
RISE UP! With Antony Dunn, Lisa Coates and Nathan Walker 🎉 26/02, nowhere better to be on a Wednesday in February (or any other Wednesday)
February 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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speedofhuman.bsky.social
Spreading art is resistance. Just updated the poetry box at my house with this gem from @chenchenwrites.bsky.social
A wooden post in a garden with a framed area for a piece of paper to be mounted. On it, Chen Chen’s poem “Sorrow Song with Optimus Prime”: You are an unhappy thing, cursed with legs, every step carrying the love who left, the love you left, the job lost, the mountain of low, the mounting lack. But your legs grow tired of holding it, so you transfer it to your head. Then your head grows tired, so you delegate it to your shoulders. Then they are tired & you are tired & you don’t know what to do but replant it in your legs, your feet, & walk it to the supermarket. You try to sell your sickness to the octopus whose tentacles lie in severed strips. But he refuses. You try to freeze your darkness but the industrial fridge spits it out. You put a pink hat on your gloom & march it to the toy store where you try giving it away, giving it back to the latest version of the unattainable robot from childhood, the truck that transforms, grows arms that hold laser guns, could hold your grief, you. But the sorrow is held by your heart now, your own exquisite machine that seems finally to contain it. Then even your most stubborn muscle grows weary, & sends it whirling through your bloodstream & your blood carries it, everywhere in your body at once, so there is no more moving. So you sit, on the floor of the toy store, like the end of an avalanche, each rock, tree, & small wish of you crushed, heaped & the scream of your total defeat is the cry that brought the mountain down.
February 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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nickykippax.bsky.social
Absolute cracker of a night at Rise Up! with the wonderful @carolinebirduk.bsky.social @coliverpoet.bsky.social & @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social - thank you, ace poets - & (always) my brilliant co-host @chadpie.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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kittyjomac.bsky.social
Oh, lovely to see wonderpoets @oliverinthenorth.bsky.social & @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social listed in the 2025 Disabled Poets 'Best Single Poem' & 'Best Unpublished Pamphlet' categories 🙌✨

Congratulations to all whose work has been selected 💖Readings & announcement of winners on 29 March

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spread-the-word.bsky.social Spread the Word @spread-the-word.bsky.social · Jan 28
Spread the Word and @cripticarts.bsky.social are delighted to share the long and shortlist for the 2025 #DisabledPoetsPrize.

✨The prize aims to nurture, encourage and celebrate the talents and successes of deaf & disabled poets✨

Read the announcement 👉 www.spreadtheword.org.uk/announcing-t...
A gold image with the logo in black for Disabled Poets Prize and the words 'Congratulations to the long and shortlisted writers for the 2025 Disabled Poets Prize. Find out more: DisabledPoetsPrize.org.uk"
January 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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johnglenday.bsky.social
‘I’m frightened but I’m here.’
First Illness, from Niall Campbell’s Forward shortlisted collection ‘Noctuary’ (Bloodaxe 2019)
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December 29, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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chenchenwrites.bsky.social
better, i think, when i work on a poem, to believe i have something to learn rather than something to say
January 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM