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Joseph Nutman
@joseph-nutman.bsky.social
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Poet - Work has appeared in: Sunday Mornings at the River, Acid Bath Publishing, Shearsman, LABRC, Spelt.
Shortlisted for Plough Arts Prize 2025.

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Will be having a digital hermititude for a while, but I will be posting weekly from my Substack - you can see the frist one here... open.substack.com/pub/jdnutman...

#poetry #onwriting #inspiration #substack #writersofbluesky
Hello, empty room!
...where I finally post from my Substack account
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November 1, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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liambatespoet.bsky.social
the poetry competition is pounding at the door; your tithes are overdue
October 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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A jazzy (and recently rejected) one, symbolic, and surreal if you imagine your personal anxiety personified as a flat mate walking in on you bitching about them - then you let them have it.

#poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets
Versified Anxiety The beast is agitated, paces behind bone bars to a beehive buzz, its shame always worries stitches, should wear a cone, sick pet –. Demands attention though the demand trips on the tongue, can't articulate the want – doesn't quite know, does it? Regardless – jumps the queue, brings 'what about' problems to any solution. Okay, but what would you have me do? I get you're as tender as a bruise a day after a blow, burn like a wick far from the purse of a mouth, whine like a wire the wind tucks to a chin and bows as blue as the wail of late night saxophones; felt with no words, only punctuation – sometimes a row of full stops thinking... occasionally – when the blood is up – an exclamation! Hint that a eureka is coming, or a stubbed toe. Less an explanation than an obelisk, it could be enigmatic if it wasn't enervating. The capped pen, clean sheet, tidy desk, fallow field, becalmed sea, bloodless genitals, empty head – nothing of consequence though massively consequential, pretty penniless except for the bad penny, without fail.
October 21, 2025 at 7:23 AM
joseph-nutman.bsky.social
My answer to a frequent question I get - Do you get inspiration out of nowhere? This article for the SoW Substack was my answer...

open.substack.com/pub/sowcic/p...

#writinginspo #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets
Breath of Fresh Air
by Joseph Nutman
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October 15, 2025 at 6:27 AM
joseph-nutman.bsky.social
Are you struggling to write today? I was too when I was asked to write a blogpost for the ShoutOrWhisper CIC, maybe what I wrote will help you?
open.substack.com/pub/sowcic/p...

#poetspfbluesky #Writersinspo #writinginspo #blueskypoets
Cold Comfort
by Joseph Nutman
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October 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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A recording I did of one of my poems will be on BBC Upload tonight, so if you are in the East of England, you will be able to listen to it on your local show (Three Counties, Cambs, Norfolk, Suffolk). #bbcupload #poetsofbluesky
October 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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victoriaspires.bsky.social
For @hool415.bsky.social and this week's #promptcombo #visitor (s), an old TTT one I had forgotten about from around this time last year.

I've not caught up to anyone else's contributions yet but will do so before the week is out 😘
October 8, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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thebrokenspine.co.uk
It’s Wednesday. Got a WIP?

Doesn’t matter if it’s raw or rolling. If it’s yours, it belongs.

Drop a line. Share a note. Let us know where you’re at.

#WednesdayWIPs #PoetsOfBluesky #BlueskyWriters #PoemsAbout
A halftone white hand holding a pen on a green background. Text reads “#WednesdayWIPs – It’s Wednesday, got a WIP?” The Broken Spine logo is bottom left.
October 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
joseph-nutman.bsky.social
One for the #promptcombo offered by @hool415.bsky.social - this week on the theme of #visitor - #blueskypoets ##poetsofbluesky
October 6, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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ICYM this publishing opportunity #poetrycommunity ##poetsofbluesky
October 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
joseph-nutman.bsky.social
Stumbling bleary-eyed upon this spot at dawn one day last month, adding this to my list of poetic sites I have visited!
October 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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marcellenewbold.bsky.social
Lovely news last night of a nomination for Best of the Net from Gothic Keats Press for a poem in their Bryon anthology. Many thanks to Clay. Best of luck to everyone! 🌳🖊️🎉

www.gothickeatspress.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:29 AM
joseph-nutman.bsky.social
A poem inspired by the statue of Sappho in Letchworth Garden City, a favourite writing spot of mine.

#blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #sappho #inspiration #Hertfordshire
October 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
joseph-nutman.bsky.social
In the midst of moving home
a thousand-and-one mundane
hairsplitting thoughts
chase me from bed,
I'll be running on fumes today -
but I have coffee, a notebook,
and October wind
browbeating leaves
off the trees
in oceanic whisper hymns,
beckoning the tide
of my waking dreams, in.

#poem #cantsleep
October 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
joseph-nutman.bsky.social
A video poem inspired partly by dawn walks on the beaches of Catalonia last month, a Jim Morrison quote, and using an unusual narrator to answer my recurring question of "why am I up so early?" - complete with lapping Mediterranean waves and gorgeous views of Sitges.

#poetry #blueskypoets #sitges
October 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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‘Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.’
– Pat Conroy
writingforwellbeing.co.uk
#writing #WritingCommunity #WritersCommunity
Pat Conroy at writing desk
October 2, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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The wonderful Sunday Mornings At The River have an open call for a new poetry anthology called 'For those who despair' -

www.sundaymorningsattheriver.com/submit

#poetry #opencall #anthology #sundaymorningsattheriver
Submission Opportunities — Sunday Mornings at the River
www.sundaymorningsattheriver.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
joseph-nutman.bsky.social
The wonderful Sunday Mornings At The River have an open call for a new poetry anthology called 'For those who despair' -

www.sundaymorningsattheriver.com/submit

#poetry #opencall #anthology #sundaymorningsattheriver
Submission Opportunities — Sunday Mornings at the River
www.sundaymorningsattheriver.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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roguestrands.bsky.social
Every day is National Poetry Day in this household, as my long-suffering wife and son would readily testify.
October 2, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Whipping this little poem back out for #NationalPoetryDay and this year's theme #Play
francesca-laura.bsky.social Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social · May 16
Sharing an old one this week for #PoemsAbout #NeverForget
Title: Play Poem: Fold me up, Put me away, In safe keeping, For another day, Maybe then, You'll want to play. By Francesca L Rolle
October 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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The second of two poems for #@nationalpoetryday on the subject of #play - this one is called 'Athlete' @poetrydayuk.bsky.social
Athlete The first event I entered I won – it was a swim, first in around 200 million, no medal for me – I had no neck; nine months later I stood on the podium, soaking wet, bawled my eyes out to celebrate. Next event: Duathlon. Stage one – a toddle across the concourse of the court to my father and his solicitor; no idea who they were, but at the end of my sprint my smile was returned. Stage two was not up to me, down to a judge – deemed me to be my father's son, in his eyes (having failed the blood test) that was a loss, no split decision here, it was unanimous. My prize? £9 a fortnight for the next sixteen years, and my name, some daddy issues, shame. It didn't feel like I'd won. Next event: Iron man. Fuelled by cold fusion where my heart was meant to be, cardiovascular efficiency left no room for empathy. caused damage on the field of play to cover myself in glory with my ideas of what a man should be. Maybe I should rehab my old injuries – quit competing, take my losses graciously, throw out my expensive shoes, hold a conference on the news, retire and live a humble life; always take the scenic route, stop to enjoy the view, at a pace I can enjoy, and run barefoot.
October 2, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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theguardian.com
UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development
UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development
Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years * ‘Desecration of landscape’: the fight over development in areas of outstanding natural beauty * Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day Nature and farmland equivalent in size to that of the New Forest – 604 sq km – was lost to concrete and bricks and mortar in the UK between 2018 and 2023, according to an investigation by the Guardian and European partners. In the same period the loss of some of the most protected and special natural areas in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, known as national landscapes, reached 12 sq km; equivalent to 1,680 football pitches worth of natural land. Continue reading...
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October 2, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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The first of two poems on the theme of #play for @poetrydayuk.bsky.social - A Pacman inspired metaphor on the shunning of the rat race and a craving for depth called 'Game Over'. #nationalpoetryday #pacman #gameover
Game Over Lost in a maze, where all that matters is levelling-up, rapid consumption gobbling up everything in sight. . . . . Always against the clock, fruits of labour never near, surge from that pill fades and you're vulnerable again. . . . . All that matters is your Hi-Score and of that I've had enough, so I take my hands off the joystick and let all the ghosts catch up . . .
October 2, 2025 at 3:53 AM
joseph-nutman.bsky.social
The first of two poems on the theme of #play for @poetrydayuk.bsky.social - A Pacman inspired metaphor on the shunning of the rat race and a craving for depth called 'Game Over'. #nationalpoetryday #pacman #gameover
Game Over Lost in a maze, where all that matters is levelling-up, rapid consumption gobbling up everything in sight. . . . . Always against the clock, fruits of labour never near, surge from that pill fades and you're vulnerable again. . . . . All that matters is your Hi-Score and of that I've had enough, so I take my hands off the joystick and let all the ghosts catch up . . .
October 2, 2025 at 3:53 AM