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Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | urbanbadgercollective.com http://andywilliamson.com
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Excited that my new #poetry collection, 'Through salt-heavy seas' is out! This book marks a milestone for me, so I'm delighted to see it in print! DM me if you'd like to review it!

Get it here: www.lulu.com/shop/andrew-...

#writingcommunity #poems #scottishpoetry #PublishingScotland #booksy
Through salt-heavy seas
Through salt-heavy seas navigates the emotional geography of displacement and belonging, weaving together the coastlines of Aotearoa New Zealand, the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and the mountains ...
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I just read through the #PoemsAbout #dogtag posts from the weekend. some great stuff. I didn't contribute this week. Been busy preparing poetry for the Leeds Song Festival. I've been teamed up with a composer for a performance next April. We were asked to tag it on our social media so heres a tag.
Home - Leeds Song
Filling the city with song since 2004
www.leedssong.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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The BigDog says it feels like a Monday... #podenco #sighthound
A podenco dozing on a cushion
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Deadlines, deadlines... urgh! Not much time this morning but can't resist this little poem (based on last week's snow!) for #promptcombo #OnRoofs! Thanks @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for the lovely prompt!
Snowstorm outside all is white and light and glistening thunder overhead as the snow breaks free taking the gutters with it
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Thanks @paulwritespoems.bsky.social for hosting a great evening!
paulwritespoems.bsky.social Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 4d
Super evening at Write Here, Right Now. Prompts went down well I think and have definitely give me things to work on over winter. Back in Jan 2026
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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For #PoemsAbout #DogTags here is ‘Memorial Service’

Will catch up later @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Memorial Service He’s bought medals from eBay. Bought the uniform from Army Surplus. War stories stolen from Hollywood and Pinewood. Burton, Savalas, Caine. At the Cenotaph, He swaps salutes with the wounded, scarred, nervous, whose eyes he can’t hold, but tales he’ll recycle. His legs bolt a rapid one-two retreat at confrontation. In the safety of his home he reloads, more medals— delivered in 4 working days.
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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Maybe a bit off-script for #poemsabout #dogtags but it's what emerged - a quick poem on names and seasons of a relationship. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poems #poetry
Call me by any name spring sunshine graces your smile birds sing in praise of all the saints as we amble through the market holding hands you call me by any name that means love summer heat warms to our conversation young birds fledge, their nests left behind we run for the bus, not fast enough to catch it you call me by names only we can know autumn comes early, rains close around us the birds will leave for warmer lands as smoke from cosy hearths fills the air you call me in a hushed voice winter is hard, a northerly wind brings snow those who are left search for shelter you are wrapped up against the elements you call me to say goodbye
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Tomorrow we mark the moment: #PoemsAbout #DogTags. Not just war—what we carry, what we’re called. Post from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout or you’ll vanish in the feed. Use Alt Text. Get your prompt boost: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
Image shows a tightly cropped view of many dog tags hanging together, suggesting remembrance or loss. Visual elements consistent: The Broken Spine logo top left, website top right, and bold bottom right text: "Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #DOGTAGS".
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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How's the weather where you are? Beautiful, crisp and cold. Plenty of snow (photo is the view from my study window taken just now)
Snow on the mountains of Knoydart seem from Sleat, Isle of Skye
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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🚨🚨🚨The Final Countdown🚨🚨🚨

Support Poets, Presses, Give Gift Ideas to Fellow Poetics.

What collections/anthologies/pamphlets, chapbooks/zines would you recommend as a Christmas Gift?

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November 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Excited that my new #poetry collection, 'Through salt-heavy seas' is out! This book marks a milestone for me, so I'm delighted to see it in print! DM me if you'd like to review it!

Get it here: www.lulu.com/shop/andrew-...

#writingcommunity #poems #scottishpoetry #PublishingScotland #booksy
Through salt-heavy seas
Through salt-heavy seas navigates the emotional geography of displacement and belonging, weaving together the coastlines of Aotearoa New Zealand, the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and the mountains ...
www.lulu.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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#PoemsAbout #DogTags drops Friday. Write into memory, sacrifice, names etched or erased. Tags on a chain, weight on a neck. Post from Friday. Use Alt Text. Always tag it right. Prompts hit inboxes Saturdays: shorturl.at/0Xm7A
Same image of rows of military dog tags hanging down in a cluster. Some catch the light, others sink into shadow. Branding remains top left (The Broken Spine logo), top right (website), and bottom right text reads: "Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #DOGTAGS".
November 18, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Enormously pleased to host
#PromptCombo this week. Theme is #NorthStar

Here's my poem 'Navigating a Wilderness' to kick us off.

Tag me & use the hastags to get involved, open till Friday!

@victoriaspires.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Thanks to @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for the wonderful #promptcombo #northstar. I've taken this to where stars are less certain: Matariki (Pleiades) rise in Aotearoa's mid-winter marking the New Year. Stars in the southern skies aren't fixed like in the north. Think decolonisation of knowledge!
Waiting for Matariki follow your north star to be with me and our lives will change forever but your promises are built on stars I cannot see in southern light here we navigate by clouds and birds alone our skies never static can we learn to wait for Matariki hoping then our planets might align
November 17, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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An lovely afternoon stroll, still ice on the lochan as the sun goes down #lochandubha #isleofskye
Wintery sunset over the lochan Sunset over the moors Cuillin beyond the moor
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Cold and crisp morning, lovely day to be out with BigDog #scotland #isleofskye #podenco
Podenco looking into the distance Sheep field view across the Sound of Sleat
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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Our lovely little Procedure Browsable Space, freshly decked out in corporate colours. One for fans of the UK Parliament’s statutory instrument and treaty procedures

api.parliament.uk/procedure-br...
Procedure Browser
Procedure Browser makes available data for instruments subject to parliamentary procedure, compiled by the House of Commons Library.
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November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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This old poem always makes me smile. Any excuse to share it again so here's a second poem for this week's #poemsabout #desire #poetry #poems. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Washing machine soak and a rinse getting everything ready chemicals surging through corroded pipes relaxing the load relieving the tension faster and faster with power and rhythm sheet pressed against sheet centrifugal force tearing them apart their world shudders draining to a whisper until the door opens cycle over
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Excited that my new #poetry collection, 'Through salt-heavy seas' is out! This book marks a milestone for me, so I'm delighted to see it in print! DM me if you'd like to review it!

Get it here: www.lulu.com/shop/andrew-...

#writingcommunity #poems #scottishpoetry #PublishingScotland #booksy
Through salt-heavy seas
Through salt-heavy seas navigates the emotional geography of displacement and belonging, weaving together the coastlines of Aotearoa New Zealand, the Scottish Highlands and Islands, and the mountains ...
www.lulu.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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A wee contribution to this week's #poemsabout #desire. Short, simple, an old poem re-written, nice to revisit it. Thanks everyone for the wonderful sharing, particularly thinking of @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
You I ache for you we cannot be together without this ocean in between I desire you the landscape of your body mapping softness to my touch your head resting on my shoulder
November 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Poets, are you ready?

Full details here: paulwritespoems.com/2025/09/08/t...
November 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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This week was #RemembranceDay. Today is the anniversary of my Great Uncle's death in the early morning of November 13th on a battlefield on the Somme. He died along with another 240 men of the Shropshire Light Infantry. I wrote this for him so I don't forget #poems #poetry #blueskypoems #ww1
In Bernafay Wood you came unbidden the girl I always loved the one my heart could not set free sunlight through an open window tells us it is time for me to leave not knowing if war will spare me another night of broken sleep death all around I see your face hear your voice you will read my words when the guns fall silent when the guns fall in silence you will know I am gone
November 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Hello everyone, slow of the blocks this week, so I've decided to share a wee poem I wrote a long time ago for #promptcombo and @hool415.bsky.social's prompt of #workinglove. Thanks Ju for hosting and everyone else for being so inspiring! #poems #poetry
First love, lost [your] fear will never be more powerful than [my] love but [my] love will never be enough to save [you]
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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Something very rough and ready for #poemsabout #lockeddoors, definitely a work in progress! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @thebrokenspine.co.uk and everyone who keeps this wonderful thing going!
What kind of life why are you so in love with an idealised kind of kind of life it all goes on behind locked doors behind a mask of modestly safe suburban world is that all you aspire to or is it hiding a disappointment we can both see I dare you to dream to dream out loud make the world you really desire with me
November 7, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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This week isn’t about escape. It’s about what stays shut.
Secrets with a latch. Regret with a bolt.
Write the room you can’t re-enter. The letter never sent.
Tag your post. Use Alt Text. Share from Friday.
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A black-and-white photo of a sealed, arched iron door set into a brick wall. The shot is taken from ground level, rough cobblestones leading the eye toward the door. Top left: The Broken Spine logo (a black fountain pen nib). Top right: “@thebrokenspine.co.uk” in white. Bottom right: bold white text—“Read Repost Reply #POEMSABOUT #LOCKEDDOORS”.
November 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Found this lurking in the kitchen this morning... an Ender dragon, apparently. Hopefully it's friendly (it did have Shreddies for breakfast)... #halloween #samhain
October 31, 2025 at 11:40 AM