Tara Wheeler
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Co-Editor at Dust Poetry, writer, researcher, mother of two small people. She/her 🪴
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Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
Delighted✨ to announce✨ Dust’s ✨Best of the Net✨ nominations:
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
Paul Short, Laundry Day
Amy L. King, Fade
Laura Theis, Do You Really Think I Look Like An Old Crone?
Ryan O’Neill, LDR
Holly Magill, Cheese in a budget hotel room
Antonia Kearton, Sanico
Congratulations to the nominees! 🥳✨
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Dust Poetry
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· Aug 6
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Dust Poetry
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· Jul 25
Stolen Earrings by Rob McClure
Stolen Earrings Grass explodes from the lawnmower& the bluejay twinning himself in the birdbathdreams of feathery heavensas the green hose spritzes tuberosessmell buttery under an eyelid slice of sun....
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“It’s cold at the moment.
I’m used to it. Would you be?
You never lived
outside me”
Today’s poem is Dear by Sam Szanto: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/dear-by...
I’m used to it. Would you be?
You never lived
outside me”
Today’s poem is Dear by Sam Szanto: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/dear-by...
Dear by Sam Szanto
Dear What’s it like there?I imagine youplaying tennis with Auntie Helen,learning Hungarian from your grandma,going to the café with Sarah: colafor you and whisky for her (a double,she doesn’t have...
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Beth Brooke
@bethbpoet.bsky.social
· Jul 12
“It’s cold at the moment.
I’m used to it. Would you be?
You never lived
outside me”
Today’s poem is Dear by Sam Szanto: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/dear-by...
I’m used to it. Would you be?
You never lived
outside me”
Today’s poem is Dear by Sam Szanto: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/dear-by...
Dear by Sam Szanto
Dear What’s it like there?I imagine youplaying tennis with Auntie Helen,learning Hungarian from your grandma,going to the café with Sarah: colafor you and whisky for her (a double,she doesn’t have...
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
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Dust Poetry
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· Jul 12
Vignettes in Spring by Lisa Sammoh
Vignettes in Spring Return to the field your forefathers leased.Small body, what a beautiful life lived. Our ground, still browning, cradles hands andfeet of our mothers and once daughters too.Beneath...
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Dust Poetry
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· Jul 14
Imitation of the Eye by Özge Lena
Imitation of the Eye Who doesn’t desire to run towards the sunone carmine evening made of enough-is-enough, and leave the normality of life they know behind?Who doesn’t want to grow sudden wings to f...
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Dust Poetry
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· Jun 19
Issue 14 of Dust Poetry is now live ✨
And you can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
And you can read it all here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/issues/categ...
Issue 14
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“When at last we invent it, the Time Machine / won’t have any flash—not forward, not back—“
Today’s poem is Time Machine by Jane Zwart.
Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-tim...
Today’s poem is Time Machine by Jane Zwart.
Read it here: www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/the-tim...
The Time Machine by Jane Zwart
The Time Machine When at last we invent it, the time machinewon’t have any flash—not forward, not back— but this will be only one disappointmentamong many: that an hour will be as leaden as ever; that...
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Dust Poetry
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· Jul 8
Sound Supermarket by Victoria Sherratt
Sound SupermarketAt the music counter I ask for fat rashersof jazz, half a kilo of opera, several packetsof sweetened incidental music.I add to my trolley a click for the kettle,to let me know it has ...
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Dust Poetry
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· Jul 9
Collecting Eyes by Rachel Carney
Collecting Eyes They glisten wetlyon the shore in the early morning sun,blinking up at you, as you stoopdown to scoop them onto your spade,and tip them into a smallplastic bucket. The more you take,th...
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Dust Poetry
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· Jul 1
Orpheus and Eurydice by Mark Wyatt
Mark Wyatt now lives in the UK after teaching in South and South-East Asia and the Middle East. His recent pattern poetry inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses has appeared in Cosmic Daffodil, Exterminatin...
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“He says he knows what they are,
but not what they are called”
Today’s poem is Considering Names of Things While Sitting on a Bench in the Low Field with my Father by Louise Longson. @louisepoetical.bsky.social
www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/conside...
but not what they are called”
Today’s poem is Considering Names of Things While Sitting on a Bench in the Low Field with my Father by Louise Longson. @louisepoetical.bsky.social
www.dustpoetry.co.uk/post/conside...
Considering Names of Things While Sitting on a Bench in the Low Field with my Father by Louise Longson
Considering Names of Things While Sitting on a Bench in the Low Field with my Father(for Josef Bolesław Łyczba) He says he knows what they are,but not what they are called. It’s a sheep, but in German...
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Dust Poetry
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· Jul 2
Considering Names of Things While Sitting on a Bench in the Low Field with my Father by Louise Longson
Considering Names of Things While Sitting on a Bench in the Low Field with my Father(for Josef Bolesław Łyczba) He says he knows what they are,but not what they are called. It’s a sheep, but in German...
www.dustpoetry.co.uk
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