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Sue Spiers

@spiropoetry.bsky.social

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I work with Winchester Poetry Festival, Open University Poetry Society and Winchester Muse - a spoken word event in Winchester. I write poetry and sometimes it gets published. https://www.spiropoetry.com/ Hedgehog Press Pushcart nominated Dandarabilla.

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Louise Longson @louisepoetical.bsky.social · 1d

Join me and Wonderpoets @hool415.bsky.social @meggiepoet.bsky.social @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social @spiropoetry.bsky.social @jahshabby.bsky.social and Katrina Moinet for a #LastSaturday of amazing poetry - online and free 25 October from 7.00pm www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur...

Last Saturday Poets : October

The Last Saturday Poetry salon is joined by Katrina Moinet, Margaret Royall, Barnaby Harsent, Saraswati Nagpal, Julian Cason and Sue Spiers

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Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social · 4d

Super poetic Sunday morning, reading over the proof hard copy of The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press’ 5th anthology, that I’ve edited with the lovely Bronwen @wennieevans.bsky.social. It’s a beautiful collection of poems -out very very soon!

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 5d

Grest headline readings at Winchester Poetry Festival and dancers opening the festival to Tagore inspired music.

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 8d

www.ditheringchaps.com/news Delighted to be on this longlist with Paisley Horizon, two of the poems in the collection have just been accepted by Pennine Press, and four are due in the next issue of Stand magazine.

News — Dithering Chaps

News and plans for future publications

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you for sharing today's poem - A Celebration by Roy Marshall

Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · 9d

A Celebration – Roy Marshall

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A Celebration – Roy Marshall

A Celebration . . Roy Marshall lives in Leicestershire where he works in adult education. His books are The Sun bathers (2013), The Great Animator (2017) and After Montale (2019). A new collection …

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 11d

Do you have any quotes from the French revolution about what happened to rich people?

Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 11d

The woman next to me was tipping the last contents of a bag of potato/corn snacks into her mouth. We'd only just strapped in. Luckily there were spare seats on the plane and she moved as soon as the seatbelt light went off...so she could spread out.

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Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social · 18d

A lovely evening, thank you @louisepoetical.bsky.social

Louise Longson @louisepoetical.bsky.social · 18d

My mahoosive thanks to these lovely poets with whom it was a pleasure beyond pleasures to spend 90 minutes last night #LastSaturdayPoets. Loved it. Let's do it again! Lxx

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Nigel Kent @kent-nj.bsky.social · 26d

My pleasure today to welcome Frank McMahon to my website to reflect on a poem from his latest outstanding collection.

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 27d

www.winchesterpoetryfestival.org/wpf25friday Come along for this free event, stay for the headliners (I'll be reading with the Winchester Muse team)
The ARC - Performance Hall

£12 in person / £6 online

Friday Headline
Diane Seuss, Mona Arshi, Luke Kennard

Friday 10th October

8.30 - 10pm

Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · 29d

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The Poetry Archive @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social · 29d

🚨 The Keats-Shelley Prizes 2025-26 are now open! Celebrate 200 years of Mary Shelley’s 'The Last Man'. Free to enter.

Prizes include £1,000, with winners announced in April 2026. Details & submissions 👉 www.keats-shelley.org

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Keats-Shelley Memorial Association

Founded in 1903, we maintain and support the Keats-Shelley House at 26 Piazza di Spagna, Rome, where the English poet John Keats died in 1821. As part of our ongoing committment to poetry lovers, we…

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Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social · Sep 16

Cover art reveal from The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press for their ‘Lines of Communication’ anthology edited by me, and Bronwen Evans.

Artwork by the lovely Bronwen. We are currently typesetting, so won’t be long!

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Painting of a rural house, bench and telegraph pole

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · Sep 13

Written at Holland House with Second Light, tutors Jean Atkin and Sarah Westcott.

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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · Sep 13

In Sue Spiers' 'Compline', the speaker explores the beauty, spiritual nature and rituals of nature itself. @spiropoetry.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sue-spiers-5/

#InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission

Image of an owl in a tree at daybreak.

Text:

Compline

A woodpigeon calls
his five-note matins.

Sue Spiers©

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Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social · Sep 12

Highlights of the Yorkshire Branch of Butterfly Conservation’s Members’ Day – Matthew Paul @matthewepaul.bsky.social

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Highlights of the Yorkshire Branch of Butterfly Conservation’s Members’ Day – Matthew Paul

Highlights of the Yorkshire Branch of Butterfly Conservation’s Members’ Day . . Matthew Paul hails from South London and lives in South Yorkshire. His second collection, The Last Corinthians, is pu…

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · Sep 5

'Three dreams of distress' up on atriumpoetry.com today. What I can remember of a night filled with fitful images. How disconnected!

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · Sep 3

I have some exciting news, an acceptance from a dream magazine...will tell you later when the edition is available.

a woman leaning on a railing with the words " and the dreams that you dare to dream "

ALT: a woman leaning on a railing with the words " and the dreams that you dare to dream "

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Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social · Aug 30

Shave before you have the test.

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Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social · Aug 23

So delighted to be part of the next issue with so many talented poets, out on September the first.

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