Juliet@Blood Lines
@blood-lines.bsky.social
Author, blogger, writer, poet 🏴. Living with Leukaemia (AML). See my outdoor learn/play work @creativestar.bsky.social Latest book, Blood Lines: Living and dying with cancer - a lyrical journey now pub. by @crownhousepub.bsky.social
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Magma Poetry@magmapoetry.bsky.social · 10mo agoCALL OUT FOR SUBMISSIONS! Magma 95 - 'Architecture' Closing date: 10th Dec 2025 Editors Leo Boix & Stav Poleg look forward to reading your work—your rooms, your ruins, your bridges of language... Image: Charles Schridde magmapoetry.com/call-for-sub...
It's a wee fundraiser which could be fun. #BloodLines #cancer #cancerpoetry #cancerstories #poetry #AML #bloodcancer #ScottishPoetry #newbook #creativewriting #haematology #oncology #BloodLines #BooksThatMatter @crownhousepub
Juliet Robertson@creativestar.bsky.social · 10mo agoThe "Pass-it-on" Experiment - let me know your thoughts TIA open.substack.com/pub/julietro...
Her #poetry collection #BloodLines explores her experience of illness with honesty and grace. You can order a copy here: buff.ly/g29Mv0w #AML #Cancer #Poetrysky @blood-lines.bsky.social @itlworldwide.bsky.social
Blood Lines: Living and dying with cancer – a lyrical journey – Independent Thinking Press
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Her #poetry collection #BloodLines explores her experience of illness with honesty and grace. You can order a copy here: buff.ly/g29Mv0w #AML #Cancer #Poetrysky @blood-lines.bsky.social @itlworldwide.bsky.social
Blood Lines: Living and dying with cancer – a lyrical journey – Independent Thinking Press
£14.99
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Coming everyday next week, on Radio 4, Hayden Lorimer's expanded vision of our work on wintering well and SAD. The nights are fair drawing in www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Winter Well
A survival guide to winter, offering advice on how to get through the dark months.
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Surprise of the evening! I am featured on RADIO 4's PICK of the WEEK It's the final pick of the show 37m 54s. No idea that was going to happen. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #BloodLines #cancer #cancerpoetry #cancerstories #poetry #AML #bloodcancer #ScottishPoetry #terminal #illness
Pick of the Week - James Crawford - BBC Sounds
James Crawford presents a selection of the best bits of audio across the BBC.
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Thank you Radio Scotland Out-of-Doors programme for creating a podcast from our blether about outdoor learning, impact of the outdoors on ourselves and much more. Listen at www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #outdoor #learning #education #cancer #geese #poetry #blether #leukaemia
BBC Sounds - Music. Radio. Podcasts
Listen without limits, with BBC Sounds. Catch the latest music tracks, discover binge-worthy podcasts, or listen to radio shows - all whenever you want.
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Delighted to be featured on Radio Scotland's Out-of-Doors programme last Saturday. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #outdoor #cancer #geese #poetry #blether
Out of Doors - A Kitchen Garden, the Trossachs Explorer and 200 Years of the Modern Railway - BBC Sounds
Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors.
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@blood-lines.bsky.social has shared 7 essential principles for outdoor learning in Scottish schools in her new Tes magazine article - from mentoring to residential trips. Read it in full here: buff.ly/qD75xW8 📚 You can find more ideas in her books #DirtyTeaching and #MessyMaths.
Alongside her education work, Juliet has also written a poetry collection, #BloodLines, which explores her experience living with cancer through the medium of poetry: buff.ly/hs2jMHA
Blood Lines is a fundraising book. If you want to see which charities I've chosen look here: julietrobertson.substack.com/p/where-are-... #cancer #cancerpoetry #cancerstories #poetry #AML #bloodcancer #ScottishPoetry #newbook #creativewriting #haematology #oncology #BloodLines
Where are all the Blood Lines royalties going?
Which charities may benefit from Blood Lines
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Crown House Publishing@crownhousepub.bsky.social · 11mo agoAll royalties donated to UK cancer charities, get your copy at: buff.ly/iY5jc6N @blood-lines.bsky.social @itlworldwide.bsky.social #Poetrysky #Booksky #Cancer #Charity
The National Poetry Centre in Leeds - really looking forward to this become a reality. More info on their website nationalpoetrycentre.org.uk
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Delighted to see another positive review about #BloodLines esp. the comment "Unreservedly recommended for personal, professional, community, and college/university library cancer and medical issues..." #cancer #poetry #AML #bloodcancer #ScottishPoetry #newbook #creativewriting #haematology #oncology
Independent Thinking Press@itpressuk.bsky.social · 12mo agoDelighted to see #BloodLines by Juliet Robertson (@blood-lines.bsky.social) reviewed in the Midwest Book Review! This moving poetry collection exploring her journey with cancer offers comfort & hope, plus all royalties go to charity. 👉 Read more: buff.ly/4S5j2ZF 📖 Get the book: buff.ly/n7GJYHV
And if you haven’t order a copy of #BloodLines yet, you can do so here – royalties are donated to UK cancer charities: buff.ly/n7GJYHV @blood-lines.bsky.social @byleaveswelive.bsky.social @itlworldwide.bsky.social #Poetrysky #cancer #AML
**AUDITIONS OPEN IN 14 DAYS** From Sep 20th-27th, auditions for @iambapoet.com open for the first time since 2022 – and for just ONE week! Be ready when the submission form goes live. Head to the journal's Audition page for full details. Good luck with your audition! 🍀 iambapoet.com/audition
Audition for poetry journal iamb in Sept 2025
Audition to be part of quarterly poetry journal iamb between the 20th and 27th of September 2025.
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It was such a delight recording my poems for @iambapoet.com And what an utterly gorgeous presentation of words and audio by the incredible @markantonyowen.com This poem was originally published by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social ed. by the brilliant @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #poetry #poets #nature
𝒊𝒂𝒎𝒃 ~ 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅@iamb.uk · last yr.' ... a couplet of nests sit snow-cloaked and silent, on this, our shortest day – awaiting the return of the lengthening light, of pink blossom riots, the renewal of leaves ... ' iambapoet.com/wave/22-wren...
Wow! #SquarePegs is included in Tes magazine's #SEND and inclusion reading list! buff.ly/zXKfakk 📚 Start the new school year strong with this ultimate guide for inclusivity, compassion and fitting in. Available from Independent Thinking Press: buff.ly/w0MoHL5 @itlworldwide.bsky.social
SEND and inclusion: a recommended reading list
Margaret Mulholland shares her recommended reads on equitable school leadership and how to further develop your inclusive practice
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Reading and writing poetry was and still is a cathartic release for managing all the ins and outs of cancer. What creative activities do you do when coping with adversity? www.buzzsprout.com/2512967/epis... #BloodLines #poetry #AML #bloodcancer #ScottishPoetry #creativewriting #haematology #oncology
Taking Action with the real David Cameron and Juliet Robertson - Taking Action
This episode is with the remarkable Juliet Robertson. It focusses on her collection of poetry, Blood Lines, which deals with the trauma of living with a diagnosis of terminal cancer. The book is aston...
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Rannan Chloinne / Children’s Verses Just 4 days left to enter the competition for new children's verses in Gaelic. This is a collaborative project by the Scottish Poetry Library and Gaelic Books Council. All the details here: www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/rannan-chloi...
Rannan Chloinne / Children's Verses
Call for Scottish Gaelic Poems for Children. Rannan Chloinne / Children's Verses.
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Don't miss this opportunity! Women Poets Wanted! #ScottishPoetry #Women #livedexperiences #letswriteourheartsout
Scottish Poetry Library@byleaveswelive.bsky.social · last yr.WOMEN POETS WANTED For a new collection that "scans the breadth of lived experience across identities, cultures & generations reflecting the richness of women’s experiences today." Deadline: 12 Oct 25. For details/how to submit visit the RSF website: www.rebeccaswiftfoundation.org/anthology-of...
Yes, finally an update... the last few months haven't gone to plan. Will do a Caring Bridge one in due course. julietrobertson.substack.com/p/blood-line... #BloodLines #Cancer #poetry #poetry #AML #bloodcancer #ScottishPoetry #newbook #creativewriting #haematology #oncology #BooksThatMatter
Blood Lines - An update!
Thanks goodness this blog is not a library book - otherwise I'd be fined
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“Let’s make education more innovative, engaging, & inspiring – for the teachers, as well as the kids.” Read 5 ways to rethink the future of teaching in @ahargreaves.bsky.social’s Teach Secondary article (p21): buff.ly/5TOwodd Learn more in Andy’s latest book, #TheMakingofanEducator: buff.ly/wLKNyij
This is a brilliant book and every school needs a copy... challenges a lot of myths and assumptions but positive about changes in practice.
Independent Thinking Press@itpressuk.bsky.social · last yr.Learn more in Ian’s book, #ItsMoreThanFlagsandRainbows: buff.ly/XPK7E4q @itlworldwide.bsky.social #Edusky #Booksky #DEI
Need some last minute #STEM-themed back-to-school inspiration? 🧪📚 You’re in luck – #15MinuteSTEM by Emily Hunt is now on sale! Get 40% off a range of selected books for #teachers in our #BacktoSchool sale: buff.ly/07ZXpuT
I loved the @joshuaseigal.bsky.social workshop #blog #prompt inspired by @piecorbett.bsky.social: imagining our favourite places at nighttime in silence. I wrote about Sheringham. joshuaseigalpoet.blogspot.com/2022/06/poem... #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #seaside
As part of @mathsweek.scot there is an adult (any adult) and a secondary school category for writing fibs. Entries can be submitted 1st Sep to 3 October 2025. More detail in the weblink mathsweek.scot/schools/math... #poetry #competition #ScottishPoetry
Fibonacci Poetry Contest - Maths Week Scotland
For our poetry contest, we are inviting young people of secondary school age, as well as independent adults, to write their own poem based on the Fibonacci Sequence.
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Man, the timing of this: so sad. But what a legacy: brilliant theatre everyone could afford.
The Scotsman@scotsman.com · last yr.Acclaimed Citizens' Theatre director Giles Havergal dies aged 87 www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...
Another fab example of plants and books working well together. Also works well as our natural heritage and culture strongly influenced by our native plants.
Orkney Library & Archive@orkneylibrary.bsky.social · last yr.Today we'll be officially launching our new Interactive Orcadian Flora Trail, created to highlight the diverse native plant life found in #Orkney. The trail is also an opportunity to hear the local Orcadian dialect, with flower poems specially created and recorded by the Orkney Voices group.
