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Are you planning to #DownTools this summer.
If you're stuck for reading ideas, we asked some of the attendees at our Awards and Summer Party for their all-time favourites.
Which ones would you add to your list?
If you're stuck for reading ideas, we asked some of the attendees at our Awards and Summer Party for their all-time favourites.
Which ones would you add to your list?
August 12, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Are you planning to #DownTools this summer.
If you're stuck for reading ideas, we asked some of the attendees at our Awards and Summer Party for their all-time favourites.
Which ones would you add to your list?
If you're stuck for reading ideas, we asked some of the attendees at our Awards and Summer Party for their all-time favourites.
Which ones would you add to your list?
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Another by Wendell Berry, this one from The Country of Marriage (1973).
August 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Another by Wendell Berry, this one from The Country of Marriage (1973).
Too good not to share. Out of order notices don't have to be boring.
August 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Too good not to share. Out of order notices don't have to be boring.
Here's another sestina... very different ecosystem. I wrote this in the early 1990s.
August 5, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Here's another sestina... very different ecosystem. I wrote this in the early 1990s.
August 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
@johnlooker.bsky.social's masterly example of using a challenging poetic form with purpose, rather than for the sake of it.
I don't know if the form of this poem is of interest. With 39 lines and a complicated scheme of repetition it is of course the dreaded sestina.
I felt this would convey the sense of movement while apparently getting nowhere that the Pacific travellers themselves must have experienced mid-voyage.
I felt this would convey the sense of movement while apparently getting nowhere that the Pacific travellers themselves must have experienced mid-voyage.
My 5th poem lauds a seafaring people – their skills and mental qualities.
"Onwards they sail, birds and bird-men carved on their craft.
Whatever propelled them, one momentous day
They left, a speck between the ocean and the sky"
#poems #poetry #journey #newzealand
"Onwards they sail, birds and bird-men carved on their craft.
Whatever propelled them, one momentous day
They left, a speck between the ocean and the sky"
#poems #poetry #journey #newzealand
August 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
@johnlooker.bsky.social's masterly example of using a challenging poetic form with purpose, rather than for the sake of it.
It's a pleasure and an honour.
Thank you Bennison Books – I really do appreciate your support and encouragement.
August 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
It's a pleasure and an honour.
We are so proud to have published this collection of poetry by @johnlooker.bsky.social It is filled with beautiful, finely crafted and thought-provoking poetry. Find it here: www.amazon.co.uk/Shimmering-H...
July 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
We are so proud to have published this collection of poetry by @johnlooker.bsky.social It is filled with beautiful, finely crafted and thought-provoking poetry. Find it here: www.amazon.co.uk/Shimmering-H...
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As I don’t know Kolkata or Bengal, I depended on a valuable source document when writing this poem: a memorandum by Rabindranath Tagore entitled My Reminiscences (English translation by Surendranath Tagore 1917).
July 29, 2025 at 10:06 PM
As I don’t know Kolkata or Bengal, I depended on a valuable source document when writing this poem: a memorandum by Rabindranath Tagore entitled My Reminiscences (English translation by Surendranath Tagore 1917).
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“So why this madness? Maybe as a lad
his heart had danced with the ships sailing out from the port
from Tangier, or swayed with the caravans leaving in line.”
Here’s the 2nd in a series of poems. This one, located in medieval North Africa, picks the moment of setting out on adventure.
#poems
his heart had danced with the ships sailing out from the port
from Tangier, or swayed with the caravans leaving in line.”
Here’s the 2nd in a series of poems. This one, located in medieval North Africa, picks the moment of setting out on adventure.
#poems
July 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“So why this madness? Maybe as a lad
his heart had danced with the ships sailing out from the port
from Tangier, or swayed with the caravans leaving in line.”
Here’s the 2nd in a series of poems. This one, located in medieval North Africa, picks the moment of setting out on adventure.
#poems
his heart had danced with the ships sailing out from the port
from Tangier, or swayed with the caravans leaving in line.”
Here’s the 2nd in a series of poems. This one, located in medieval North Africa, picks the moment of setting out on adventure.
#poems
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I’m posting a few poems from a sequence that contemplates an archetypal journey (taken from my collection Shimmering Horizons, from Bennison Books).
Each poem takes a historical or legendary figure from a different continent.
Each poem takes a historical or legendary figure from a different continent.
July 28, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I’m posting a few poems from a sequence that contemplates an archetypal journey (taken from my collection Shimmering Horizons, from Bennison Books).
Each poem takes a historical or legendary figure from a different continent.
Each poem takes a historical or legendary figure from a different continent.
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Fantastic opportunity! All details on submitting your entry go to: munsterlit.ie/o-faolain-sh...
May 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Fantastic opportunity! All details on submitting your entry go to: munsterlit.ie/o-faolain-sh...
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“Somehow things happened, odd things, when Muriel was around,” recalled her friend Shirley Hazzard. “Everything that happened to Muriel,” according to … Barbara Epler, “had been foreseen”, usually in her books themselves.
—The unnerving vision of Muriel Spark
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
—The unnerving vision of Muriel Spark
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
‘Odd things happened when she was around’: the unnerving vision of Muriel Spark
From blackmail to burglary, the events of Spark’s life often uncannily echoed those of her novels – no wonder the author of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie believed she could predict the future
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June 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
“Somehow things happened, odd things, when Muriel was around,” recalled her friend Shirley Hazzard. “Everything that happened to Muriel,” according to … Barbara Epler, “had been foreseen”, usually in her books themselves.
—The unnerving vision of Muriel Spark
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
—The unnerving vision of Muriel Spark
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www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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This wonderful collection, which Bennison Books had the honour to publish, is available from Amazon. We're very proud to have published several collections of John's poetry. He's a special talent.
Adored Shimmering Horizons by @johnlooker.bsky.social, a wonderful collection of poetry about journeys. One part conjures a woman named Odyssea returning from a modern war. The quote comes from another, when I could picture the poet gazing out a window on his travels.
#poetry #bookreview #booksky 💙
#poetry #bookreview #booksky 💙
June 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This wonderful collection, which Bennison Books had the honour to publish, is available from Amazon. We're very proud to have published several collections of John's poetry. He's a special talent.
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Letter published in @financialtimes.com - life achievement unlocked. (Or proof that I’ve too much time on my hands - must start on a new book.)
May 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Letter published in @financialtimes.com - life achievement unlocked. (Or proof that I’ve too much time on my hands - must start on a new book.)
A recent wonderful find in a charity shop: a 1916 copy of '1914 & Other Poems' by Rupert Brooke. The only dog-eared page is where the poem 'The Soldier' appears ('If I should die, think only this of me'). The inscription reads 'With all good wishes for March 5th 1916, From Mother'.
May 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
A recent wonderful find in a charity shop: a 1916 copy of '1914 & Other Poems' by Rupert Brooke. The only dog-eared page is where the poem 'The Soldier' appears ('If I should die, think only this of me'). The inscription reads 'With all good wishes for March 5th 1916, From Mother'.
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Today marks 100 years since the publication of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. This groundbreaking Modernist novel weaves together the inner monologues of its characters on one June day in London, as Clarissa Dalloway prepares to give a dinner party.
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May 14, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Today marks 100 years since the publication of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. This groundbreaking Modernist novel weaves together the inner monologues of its characters on one June day in London, as Clarissa Dalloway prepares to give a dinner party.
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There are lots of recordings of livestreamed supernatural tales on the Nunkie Films YouTube channel - wny not visit and subscribe to it today, here
www.youtube.com/c/NunkieFilms
and definitely tune in on Sunday night at 8pm for stories by R H Benson, here
youtube.com/live/qXSNIxg...
www.youtube.com/c/NunkieFilms
and definitely tune in on Sunday night at 8pm for stories by R H Benson, here
youtube.com/live/qXSNIxg...
April 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
There are lots of recordings of livestreamed supernatural tales on the Nunkie Films YouTube channel - wny not visit and subscribe to it today, here
www.youtube.com/c/NunkieFilms
and definitely tune in on Sunday night at 8pm for stories by R H Benson, here
youtube.com/live/qXSNIxg...
www.youtube.com/c/NunkieFilms
and definitely tune in on Sunday night at 8pm for stories by R H Benson, here
youtube.com/live/qXSNIxg...
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I read that poetry is enjoying a boom in France and Canada, and not simply through short poems on social media: book sales are going up and up.
It seems people want poems as a relief from ‘all those conspiracy theories, fake news and dictators’
Moi aussi.
#poetry #poésie #books #literature
It seems people want poems as a relief from ‘all those conspiracy theories, fake news and dictators’
Moi aussi.
#poetry #poésie #books #literature
March 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I read that poetry is enjoying a boom in France and Canada, and not simply through short poems on social media: book sales are going up and up.
It seems people want poems as a relief from ‘all those conspiracy theories, fake news and dictators’
Moi aussi.
#poetry #poésie #books #literature
It seems people want poems as a relief from ‘all those conspiracy theories, fake news and dictators’
Moi aussi.
#poetry #poésie #books #literature
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"We are drawn by a dream, by a spell: with all our sails unfurled
we're more than a leaf in the wind but less than a bird,
feeling the sea beneath us,
hearing its call."
- Shimmering Horizons by @johnlooker.bsky.social
#FirstLines #CurrentlyReading #poetry #quotes #booksky
we're more than a leaf in the wind but less than a bird,
feeling the sea beneath us,
hearing its call."
- Shimmering Horizons by @johnlooker.bsky.social
#FirstLines #CurrentlyReading #poetry #quotes #booksky
March 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"We are drawn by a dream, by a spell: with all our sails unfurled
we're more than a leaf in the wind but less than a bird,
feeling the sea beneath us,
hearing its call."
- Shimmering Horizons by @johnlooker.bsky.social
#FirstLines #CurrentlyReading #poetry #quotes #booksky
we're more than a leaf in the wind but less than a bird,
feeling the sea beneath us,
hearing its call."
- Shimmering Horizons by @johnlooker.bsky.social
#FirstLines #CurrentlyReading #poetry #quotes #booksky
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Oh my, how standards of behaviour have slipped :
“The Bullevants were looked down on by some of the people in Corunna Road because Mr Bullevant always breakfasted without a collar”
(The story of a British family summer holiday about 1930. Delightful details)
#books #literature 💙📚
“The Bullevants were looked down on by some of the people in Corunna Road because Mr Bullevant always breakfasted without a collar”
(The story of a British family summer holiday about 1930. Delightful details)
#books #literature 💙📚
March 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Oh my, how standards of behaviour have slipped :
“The Bullevants were looked down on by some of the people in Corunna Road because Mr Bullevant always breakfasted without a collar”
(The story of a British family summer holiday about 1930. Delightful details)
#books #literature 💙📚
“The Bullevants were looked down on by some of the people in Corunna Road because Mr Bullevant always breakfasted without a collar”
(The story of a British family summer holiday about 1930. Delightful details)
#books #literature 💙📚