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Joseph Nutman
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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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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.

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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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
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A lovely rainbow dawn over The Chalk Hills this morning! #dawn #sunrise #rainbow
October 1, 2025 at 12:03 PM