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Sarah O

@palimpsest22.bsky.social

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Mainly poetry (Butcher's Dog,The Madrigal, Broken Spine, BlackBough, W Moon & counting), art, glass & (theatre) people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK. Not every act of kindness is part of a plan. Website :www.sarahowriter.com

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 4d

#PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe
Thanks @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk for nudging me into discomfort writing. Started life in @wendypratt.bsky.social workshop,been festering.

Poem called Face Cream by Sarah O'Grady.

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 9h

I'm in. Sure this will be really thought-provoking.

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 9h

Fancy writing poems about how we explore connections to landscape and history through the self portrait poem? I’ll be running this zoom workshop for @vervepoetrypress.bsky.social on the 28th October

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Wendy Pratt Workshop - Self Portrait as Bronze Age Burial Mound

Wendy Pratt hosts a poetry workshop over Zoom

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Yorkshire Dales National Park @yorkshiredales.org.uk · 10h

Every morning we open a window to the Yorkshire Dales National Park and share some of its special qualities, like this view of moorland at Oxnop in Swaledale.

📸 Wendy McDonnell | #YorkshireDales #StepIntoNature

A stone farmhouse surrounded by trees sits in a green valley with rolling hills and grazing sheep under a cloudy sky

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 11h

'October Gold', John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1889. There was a terrific exhibition of his work on at Scarborough Art Gallery when I was there to do the Grimms talk with artist Chris Wood; they were hung well and their atmosphere travelled well, as it did with Chris' eerie art.

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Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social · 22h

My #MyLiftToTheSky this week goes out to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk itself.

You've been an inspiration to me as a writer, enabling me to accept the grit within my work. I have explored more facets of myself as a person thru #poemsabout than I could’ve possibly imagined.

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The Braag | Press & Journal @thebraag.bsky.social · 1d

Carmen et Error Issue 13.5 is out today, featuring work from

🛏️ Patricia Russo
🦌 Alex McCrickard
🪱 @baphomart.bsky.social

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Issue 13.5 - Carmen et Error

No Blanketsby Patricia Russo They wanted the bed to be comfortable. It was the most they could do. Not the only, but the most. But there were no more blankets left in the world, and the birds no longe...

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C Maxfield @pickledp3.bsky.social · 2d

Still relatively new to indie lit - but still haven’t come across anything quite like the lens of @thebrokenspine.co.uk 👇

The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 2d

You usually have to be signed up to our newsletter to read it. However, this week is too important, and I wanted to share it more broadly.

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Thank You — and Some Honesty

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 1d

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 1d

A #LifttotheSky for this powerful new collection by the splendid Merril D Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social
#poetrycommunity
Characteristically beautiful and evocative writing, honest and deeply moving, it also includes many of her wonderful photographs @alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 1d

It is easy to lose one's bearings in some necks of the woods. Night Hookland.

Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 2d

#MickHerron leaves this reader feeling like one of Lamb's cigarettes, battered, splayed & uncertain of fate. Not many authors have me laughing out loud on one page & crying the next. #ClownHouse is the work of a canny lad (genius).

Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 2d

I'm lined up for a Skosh lunch after the early Christmas shop in November, a walk home along the river is what should follow but suspect it will be stagger to an Ace cab. 👌

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3d

Printmakers interviewed for the best WA book 'Reframing Women Printmakers' include Gail Brodholt, known for her fantastic depictions of London life #WomensArt

Print featuring a curved London Underground station as a train arrives, with a small number of people waiting on the platform

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 2d

Ahh. Loose cannons. That's tough... on everyone.

Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 2d

Unseemly eh? Perish the thought. I'm cackling with laughter at the chutzpah.

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Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social · 3d

And...OPEN for our newest print anthology "Poems for Protest" 💎💎

roughdiamondpoetry.com/submissions/

Submissions

We are open for submissions for Poems for Protest and The Rough Diamond Poetry Prize We are open for poetry submissions for our next poetry anthology “Poems for Protest” Send us 1-5 poe…

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 3d

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 3d

No.. Managed to miss that one. 🙃

Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 3d

Wasn't it just incredible?!

Red and green colour above trees. The Aurora in York. October 2024.

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Merril D. Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning! I wasn't going to do this prompt for #PoemsAbout #imperfectMe but started writing it yesterday @paulwritespoems.bsky.social writing group. It's still rough. Thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Poem:

Still Standing

The scar on my right breast
a faint tracing,
the charcoal under the artist’s paint,

tattooed dots,
ellipsis signaling the story continues—

always a before
and an after--

so far, always an after--

the sagging of flesh, the greying of hair,
points for endurance, if not for style,

as vain as anyone, I suppose,
but embracing the imperfect,
me.

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 3d

I love the fusion of ellipsis and the surgeon's dotted line... also that it is morning where you are.

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 3d

Blimey. All thanks to those people who are critical friends.. thank you for a close reading, much appreciated.

Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks Karen. 😊

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 3d

Oh.. Thank you!

Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks!