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Mum. Writer. Journalist The Guardian, The Australian, SMH, Salon.com Amazon no. 1. The Process of Poetry. The Making of a Poem. Feisty Females Medieval short stories https://rosanna-mcglone.sumupstore.com/products

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · Nov 21

This new thing seems to be panning out okay, doesn’t it? Here’s a 🧵 about me. I’m a journalist and have recently interviewed some fabulous poets on redrafting for the Australian sequel to The Process of Poetry @[email protected] & I on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Front Row - Movie stars Adam Driver and Bill Nighy, author AL Kennedy, and the Process of Poetry - BBC Sounds

Adam Driver in Ferrari, Radio Drama with Bill Nighy and AL Kennedy, the Process of Poetry

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 4h

I hope it involves pavlova?

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LawrieBhoy 🍀 @lawriebhoy.bsky.social · 7h

Carol malone. “Migrants should speak english”.

Zack Polanski. “ I agree, we should give them some help to learn the language and help them integrate”.

Malone. “ NO. NO. NO. WHY SHOULD WE HELP THEM LEARN ENGLISH AND INTEGRATE!!!!!!!!”

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 7h

Yes, I did delve into some grim details in my research. 😲

Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 7h

I feel that, when health permits, a road trip to visit all of your poems would be the way to go, Peter. Congratulations on your latest success and what a marvellous place to have your work displayed 🎊

Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social · 8h

Delighted to have work in the group show ‘SEASONS’ at The Addenbrooke’s Gallery/ Hospital, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ 11 October 2025 – 31 January 2026 .

Huge thanks to Monica Perez Vega and the Small Works Gallery

www.cambridgedrawingsociety.org/.../seasons....
smallworksartgallery.com/.../seasons-...

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 7h

Where were you when I was writing Feisty Females, Nicola? 🤣

Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 7h

Ok, where are we at with research on medieval midwives? Session next week on women's bodies, medicine, childbirth and whatnot.

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 10h

May I just say I know considerably more odd poets than this 😂
Do go, I misread it as 'poetry and pavlova' which was an added draw!

Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com · 10h

It's less than a fortnight until Poetry and Palaver 3 (The madness of Poetry and Palaver). If you can make it by plane, train, automobile, e-bike, or shanks's pony, do come along.

A seated King George III, with Mike O'Brien peeping over his arm, with a snail, a fish a giraffe a pair of spectacles and the sixty odd flower publicising an event in Mexborough, Town of Culture.

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claire m. l. bourne @roaringgirle.bsky.social · 21h

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).

the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 10h

This sounds exciting, Paul? Well done you!

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 10h

My last smattering of Sunday mistiness... Have a good day all, wherever in the world you are #StaplefordWoods #Landscapephotography #photosky #photography #nature

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for a really interesting thread, Cassidy. (Ironically, on there being few threads in the past. )

Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 1d

I think a lot of people don't quite grasp how little documentation of a legal identity anyone had before, like, the 1930s. No social security number, no green card, no driver's license. This made you reliant on your social network; OTOH nobody could force you to write your name a certain way.

Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

Love it! Is anyone else from the era where we had battered, old suitcases plastered with labels from all around the world?

Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 1d

Time travel exists between the pages of a book.

This luggage tag fell out of a pile of old books, and everything about it looks like the past.

A photo showing both sides of an old BEA luggage tag with flight information written on it.

Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

So what do you do to raise your mood?
Fair play, Fran!

Fran Moldaschl - When The Giants Passed Through @franmoldaschl.bsky.social · 5d

There's a lot going on at the moment, and sometimes it's overwhelming. I'm not saying it fixes anything, but making myself rainbow dinosaur and duck underwear has definitely helped my mood.

Three pairs of pants/underpants/knickers/underbukser .... I don't know what to call them. The top left is made of a fabric with a rainbow background and black dinosaur silhouettes, with stripey leg and waist bands in the same rainbow/black combo. The pair below is made exclusively from the dinosaur fabric. To the top right is a pair made from black fabric - these have rainbow coloured duck silhouettes on. The ducks have halos and a speech bubble saying 'holy duck'. The garment has a blue waistband, which - if I'm being honest - isn't fit for purpose because the fabric doesn't bounce back when stretched so there's a very real builder's bum situation going on when I wear them.

Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

Seems fair to me, Lesley.

Lesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social · 1d

It's my birthday today so please buy my book (is this how it works) - 99p on Kindle for October!

Green and black book cover of Love and Other Poisons

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

📸 📷 Because you can't get enough mist and mellow fruitfulness in our world today. #StaplefordWood #Day2 #TheRoadLessTravelled #naturephotography #photosky #landscape #photography

Forest. Green trees overhanging on both sides. Grey misry backdrop. Brown leaf carpet.

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

Why wouldn't you? 👇 #Useitorloseit ?

Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 1d

Is anyone going to the Lime Square Poets open mic on Thursday? (Details in link👇.)

I might read Prefab (in the post👇) published in @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social & nominated for Best of the Net by @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social

Would be great to see people there
#poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 1d

So has anyone else spent their evening filling in a very lengthy form, only for all of the information to disappear because the pic you added exceeded 1mgb? Please send cake or wine or both?

a woman is making a funny face while holding her hair in the air and saying i love my job .

ALT: a woman is making a funny face while holding her hair in the air and saying i love my job .

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, I'm sorry Peter, I realised that it would be nigh impossible. I hope that things improve significantly soon.

Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 2d

I've just realised how far away it is from you. Is it on line too?

Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 2d

This is amazing, Peter! Brilliantly well done. Are you going to the award ceremony?

Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to be shortlisted for the very prestigious Wells Festival Of Literature Open Poetry Competition 2025 with "God is an Armadillo". Congratulations to all the marvellous poets

Prize-giving 20th October.

Huge thanks for everyone at Wells

wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk/competitions...

Open Poetry | Wells Festival of Literature

Here's a chance for poets worldwide to show off their talents and enter our Open Poetry 2025 competition. Your poem needs to be with us by 30 June to avoid disappointment.

wellsfestivalofliterature.org.uk

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 2d

Morning all. Here's a little 'mist and mellow fruitfulness' from yesterday's walk in Stapleford Wood, #Newark. #Photography #photosky #landscapephotography #photocommunity #pic #nature

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 2d

I love this. It's so me!

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 3d

Fascinating to learn of Brian Friel’s Translations being staged in Senegal.

Ireland's iconic play 'Translations' hits Dakar stage • FRANCE 24 English

YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English

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Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 2d

💯 #Bottomofmyhandbag.

The Pentaxian @the-pentaxian.bsky.social · 7d

You can't clean out what you can't even get to.

📷 Pentax K1000
🔘 Pentax M 50mm f/1.2
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400 (converted to B&W in post)

#photography #streetphotography #art #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm #BnW #B&W #monochrome #architecture #urbangaze #urbex #BlueSkyArtShow #EastCoastKin #Pentax #P315

A black and white photo of a super tight space between two downtown buildings with miscellaneous detritus scattered around within the space.

Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 3d

So much potential here 👇 (That's not my horror story 😅, I'm leaving those to you guys.)

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social · 3d

Re The Troubles (2021). “I intended to cover the situation from the standpoint of the underdog, the downtrodden,” he later recalled. “I was not neutral and was not interested in capturing it so. #photographyaspoliticalprotest

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Chris Steele-Perkins obituary

Magnum photographer whose most striking work captured the challenges of life in Britain’s inner cities in the 1970s