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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 6h

Yes. I certainly hoped that when I saw it…

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 6h

Yikes…

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 7h

In fact, if you’re in the #poetrycommunity or one of the #poetsombluesky and particularly if you contribute as part of the overlapping prompt communities #poemsabout and #promptcombo why not simply drop what you’re doing right now and say hello to @alanparrywriter.co.uk?

Here’s why 👇

The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 18h

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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Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social · 7h

She felt wonderfully alarmed and effervescent, heroic on an ant-like scale. It could be said that she was becoming brave. She had found that in darkness much can be accomplished, but only in light did it ever matter.

~UH

{from my story "Call Us Not Weeds," published tomorrow at Psaltery & Lyre}

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 7h

Congratulations Julia!

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Phantom of the Archives (~*Christine*~) @archivewhisperer.bsky.social · 8h

This Poetry Starter Pack list has grown a lot since I shared it last. Now up to 76 poetry creators!

You can also use the link to just browse! Go to the "posts" tab and scroll through to read from the #BSkyPoets #Poetry community.

go.bsky.app/6yHVpGM

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 9h

I am just drawing Alan’s thread below to the attention of people in the #poetrycommunity and #poetsonbluesky, as well as my other connections, to encourage you to reach out to him and say hello 👇

Thank you

Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk · 18h

This is me right now.

The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 18h

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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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 8h

And thanks for such a thoughtful reading. Much appreciated 🙏💙

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 8h

Thank you Victoria. It’s more elliptic than many things I’ve posted here but though written a while ago it’s in keeping with my recent experiments. I’m glad you found the images hard-wrung. That’s what I wanted for the perspective of the person in the poem who might be called a reluctant protagonist

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 9h

An excellent starter pack: Defenders of the Shelf, a collection of impassioned advocates of literary freedom, compiled to celebrate #BannedBooksWeek by the excellent @lhbookclub.bsky.social Please follow and repost 🙏🙏🙏 #writingcommunity #booksky

Librarian's Husband's Book Club @lhbookclub.bsky.social · 11h

Starter Pack Sunday!
As #BannedBooksWeek wraps up, let’s celebrate those who stand for the freedom to read. Check out Defenders of the Shelf — a collection of blueskiers who spoke up to keep stories accessible to everyone. Hit me up to be added if you did too.
go.bsky.app/CcVhJGF
#Booksky 💙📚 #TLSky

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Ms. AWashington M.A. artist | poet | writer @arwashington.bsky.social · 9h

#Prompters #Prompt #poemsabout #imperfectme
a #poem from long ago;
that’s a favorite of mine.
@alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk

“Love Myself”
I read this poem
when I need to
remind myself how
I love; and to give
agape #love to
myself; as I have others.
@arwashington.bsky.social

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 9h

I am just drawing Alan’s thread below to the attention of people in the #poetrycommunity and #poetsonbluesky, as well as my other connections, to encourage you to reach out to him and say hello 👇

Thank you

Alan Parry He/Him @alanparrywriter.co.uk · 18h

This is me right now.

The Broken Spine @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 18h

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.

preview.mailerlite.io/preview/5022...

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 9h

An excellent starter pack: Defenders of the Shelf, a collection of impassioned advocates of literary freedom, compiled to celebrate #BannedBooksWeek by the excellent @lhbookclub.bsky.social Please follow and repost 🙏🙏🙏 #writingcommunity #booksky

Librarian's Husband's Book Club @lhbookclub.bsky.social · 11h

Starter Pack Sunday!
As #BannedBooksWeek wraps up, let’s celebrate those who stand for the freedom to read. Check out Defenders of the Shelf — a collection of blueskiers who spoke up to keep stories accessible to everyone. Hit me up to be added if you did too.
go.bsky.app/CcVhJGF
#Booksky 💙📚 #TLSky

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Librarian's Husband's Book Club @lhbookclub.bsky.social · 11h

Starter Pack Sunday!
As #BannedBooksWeek wraps up, let’s celebrate those who stand for the freedom to read. Check out Defenders of the Shelf — a collection of blueskiers who spoke up to keep stories accessible to everyone. Hit me up to be added if you did too.
go.bsky.app/CcVhJGF
#Booksky 💙📚 #TLSky

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 9h

Look after yourself Alan. For a variety of reasons, on which I won’t elaborate, what you are going through is something about which I am able to extend my most immediate fellow-feeling and heartfelt good wishes. All the very best to you and yours 🙏🙏🙏

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 10h

Looking back, I also realised that when I responded to your first post about the Dona Nobis Pacem I mistakenly posted a few words that I’d meant to put in another thread about the Mass in G minor, hence the confusing reference to Tudor polyphony! Mea culpa. But agree. Dona nobis is just astonishing

Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you 🙏

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 10h

Condolences Bex 🙏

Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 11h

😂

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 11h

I will do a big promotional push on it this week to ensure that you and all the people in it get a big dose of new connections

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 11h

That certainly seems to have been true with RVW 🙏

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 11h

And thanks for picking up the Sea Symphony again as I was posting about it 🙏

An Edward Thomas song cycle would be wonderful…

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 11h

Oh, sorry, got confused with another thread on the Whitman-based Sea Symphony, written pre-WWI. But that the words still matter to him in 1936 with the Dona Nobis is a testament to how much he carried still carried a torch for Whitman’s optimism even when it had been tested in the most terrible fire

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 11h

He clearly loved Whitman, that unabashed vision of progress, soon to crash like the sea itself on the rocks of the Great War, but which was never completely lost by RVW, whose melancholy, lamentation and anger at human atrocity coexist with a generous and liberal spirit

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