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Steve Whitaker

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YT Poem of the Week: 'Silk shirtwaisters from Paris' by Janice Warman @flyonthewallpress.bsky.social
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Poem Of The Week: Silk Shirtwaisters From Paris By Janice Warman

Silk shirtwaisters from Paris Clearing clogged cupboards and cluttered shelves, among cracked compacts and drawers stuffed with wads of cotton-wool, we found bright silk shirtwaisters from Paris, a ...

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November 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM

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Rosanna McGlone

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This sounds great and just my thing. Many congrats, Peter! 🎊 People often ask how to put together a collection, and this anthology seems to have it spot on with The Life, the Strike, the Aftermath.

Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social · 6d

So delighted to be in this wonderful anthology which is out now

Great review here: Thanks to Greg Freeman for posting it and also Tim Fellows for making this wonderful anthology

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Coalface scars: poetry anthology marking strike anniversary looks at mining's past and its aftermath | Write Out Loud

Coalface scars: poetry anthology marking strike anniversary looks at mining's past and its aftermath

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November 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM

Steve Whitaker

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YT Book review: All that is Unspoken - 'In a Quiet Land' by Sean Body
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All That Is Unspoken: In A Quiet Land By Sean Body

The final story of Sean Body’s recent collection almost yields, in precis, a unitary definition of his preoccupations.

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November 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM

Steve Whitaker

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YT's Poem of the Week: 'The Day Room' by Kit Wright

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Poem Of The Week: The Day Room (I) By Kit Wright

The Day Room (I) From Kendal Ward, Rainhill Mental Hospital Many are non-plussed By the unexpected behaviour of their clothes And have mislaid forever The art of wearing the face.

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November 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM

Steve Whitaker

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YT Review: Visionary Gleam: 'The Lake Poets - An Anthology'
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Visionary Gleam: The Lake Poets - An Anthology

There is a neat symmetry to the presence of James Rebanks in an anthology of the work of the Lake poets, as though a decontextualised, and profoundly articulate, version of ‘Michael’ were repaying, in...

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November 8, 2025 at 10:48 AM

Steve Whitaker

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Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'The Sick Rose' by William Blake

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Poem Of The Week: The Sick Rose by William Blake (1757-1827)

The Sick Rose O rose, thou art sick!

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November 1, 2025 at 8:17 AM

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Tim Bale

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Sadly, there's a lot to be said for Marina Hyde's analysis here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

October 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM

Steve Whitaker

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YT's Poem of the Week: 'Why Brownlee Left' by Paul Muldoon

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Poem Of The Week: Why Brownlee Left By Paul Muldoon

Why Brownlee Left Why Brownlee left, and where he went, Is a mystery even now.

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October 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM

Steve Whitaker

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Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'The las train' by Vidyan Ravinthiran @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @poems-not-opinions.bsky.social

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Poem Of The Week: The Last Train By Vidyan Ravinthiran

The last train to arrive in Jaffna during the war 30 years ago rusts on the tracks the unimaginable touch of time has turned it the colour, exactly of this land’s ferrous soil -of blood that is fo...

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October 11, 2025 at 7:20 AM

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Ian Duhig

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for World Mental Health Day from 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb', my most recent book of poetry

October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM

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Bill Manhire

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The small god is still inventing himself

Last week scarlet & pale
then just a hint of blue

always changing
always a little overdue

yesterday he was apples
today mostly apples

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October 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM

Steve Whitaker

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Yorkshire Times Poem of the Week: 'Leeds 1975' by Faith Lawrence @poetrybusiness.bsky.social
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Poem Of The Week: Leeds 1975 By Faith Lawrence

Leeds 1975 This night-day, day-night bus is the first, last, only emissary of the lighted world, the thin-as-care suburb of lino and candlewick.

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October 4, 2025 at 7:20 AM

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Mike Galsworthy

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Bread and Roses – the song of the brave, fortright mill girls of Lancashire and beyond.

Bread and Roses

Bread and Roses – the song of the brave, fortright mill girls of Lancashire and beyond

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September 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM

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Ian Duhig

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RIP Tony Harrison. What came to mind when I heard the news was Gail Earnshaw telling me what a wonderful letter she had from him when her husband died. They weren't close friends and nobody would know about Harrison's kind gesture, except Gail, making it the sort of gesture I respect most.

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September 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM

Steve Whitaker

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Yorkshire Times Art Review: The Imp of Surrealism - Anthony Earnshaw at Halifax @ianduhig.bsky.social
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The Imp Of Surrealism: Anthony Earnshaw At Dean Clough

It comes as no surprise to learn that the surrealist artist, Anthony Earnshaw, was a great admirer of Charlie Chaplin, or more particularly, the Chaplin of Modern Times.

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September 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM

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Acyn

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OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.