Clare Bryden
@clarebryden.bsky.social
Born at 325ppm clarebryden.co.uk For an intro, see the pinned post Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? — Mary Oliver May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder. — John O’Donohue
My first book, A Necessary Presence, is coming out on 13 November, which every year is World Kindness Day! So I’m going to be giving away one copy of the book as a Random Act of Kindness to a random lucky person?! Here’s how it will work 👇 @rakfoundation.bsky.social #Kindness #Gift #Poetry
Very excited... The print copies of my new book have arrived! I will probably have a few with me wherever I go, so grab me to get hold of a copy pre official publication. Or currently available to pre-order in the UK only at lifebeltpress.co.uk #PoetryPamphlet #Poetry #PoetsOfBluesky
"Blue, the colour of home" The sky was a deep blue, cloudless, no distance to focus on, nothing to measure by. I lay on my back and stared upwards into the sky, and lost myself. #Blue #LapisLazuli #Ultramarine #RebeccaSolnit #Earthrise clarebrydenmakes.substack.com/p/blue-the-c...
Blue, the colour of home
The sky was a deep blue, cloudless, no distance to focus on, nothing to measure by. I lay on my back and stared upwards into the sky, and lost myself.
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Something of a riposte to You-Know-Who. Most of #England’s population arrived on small boats in waves of immigration from neolithic times. Also because #RNLI volunteers are heroic. And because I can accompany the #poem with one of my favourite photos. clarebrydenmakes.substack.com/p/poem-us-en...
Poem: “Us English”
Something of a riposte to You-Know-Who. Most of England’s population arrived on small boats in waves of immigration from neolithic times.
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Wiggle Room in the Universe Revisiting “Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities” by the mighty Rebecca Solnit Tell the #stories, #celebrate the successes, remember that others have achieved what they also once believed #impossible 💪💪💪 clarebrydenmakes.substack.com/p/wiggle-roo...
Wiggle Room in the Universe
Revisiting “Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities” by the mighty Rebecca Solnit
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Yesterday I approved the proofs of "A Necessary Presence" 🎉🎉🎉 I'm going to find it very hard to wait until it arrives from the printers, but I'm so glad that this is happening. #WritingLight #Poetry
#Poems: Chaos and scribbles ...for Ada Lovelace Day and the Feast of St Edward the Confessor Featuring #ChaosTheory #Butterflies #Weather #AdaLovelaceDay @exetercathedral.bsky.social and the tender possibility of change for the better clarebrydenmakes.substack.com/p/poems-chao...
Poems: Chaos and scribbles
...for Ada Lovelace Day and the Feast of St Edward the Confessor, with not much in common other than me, monarchs, and an element of chaos.
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Just discovered that Alice Oswald's lectures as Oxford Professor of #Poetry are all available online at podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/poetr...
Poetry with Alice Oswald
The Oxford Professor of Poetry holds a public lecture each term. Alice Oswald served as the Oxford Professor of Poetry from October 1, 2019, until September 30, 2023. She was the first woman appointed...
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I recently decided to start a #Substack as a hopefully effective way of sharing my bit of light in the world's darkness. Who else is there? Please make yourself known 😊 And here's my article for today substack.com/home/post/p-... #HolyCross #BVM #Knitting #PetrarchanSonnet #Poetry #PoetsOfBluesky
Poem: “Knitting Madonna”
...for Holy Cross Day, 14th September
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#Poets, what's the longest period you've experienced between submission to a magazine and acceptance (hopefully) or rejection (@#$%^&*) ??? I've just received a #rejection almost exactly 18 months after sending! #PoetsOfBluesky #Poetry #ExistentialQuestions
Embracing the betwixt and between... www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/04/t...
The Power of Being a Threshold Person: Liminality, Communitas, and the Anti-structures of Possibility
“All things are so very uncertain, and that’s exactly what makes me feel reassured,” one of the Moomins observes in Tove Jansson’s masterwork of philosophy disguised as a children…
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Unification Sunflower Festival near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Yeoncheon, South Korea #TinyJoys #BloomScrolling www.reuters.com/pictures/pic...
Unification Sunflower Festival near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Yeoncheon
A woman holding a sunflower-shaped parasol takes photographs of her friend amid a sunflower field during the Unification Sunflower Festival near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Ye...
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Here's a poetic triptych relating to boat people, St George as asylum seeker, and our shameful response Thanks to @elsewherejournal.bsky.social for publishing "Us English" earlier this year www.elsewhere-journal.com/palimpsest/2... #PoetsOfBluesky #PoetryCommunity #BoatPeople #StGeorge #Flags
Thanks to Amethyst Magazine for publishing Transfigurations today. It's in three parts: Hand, Apple, Leaf. Here's Leaf... amethystmagazine.org/2026/08/30/t... #UKPoets #Poetry #Attention
I just harvested the last lot of plums this afternoon. I've probably eaten as many again over the last couple of weeks. This is the first year the cordon has produced anything #TinyJoys
Coincidentally, alongside this @churchtimes.bsky.social piece, I also have out this weekend "Recycling" (a very different take!) and five other poems in @sixtyoddpress.bsky.social sixtyoddpoets.substack.com/p/108-clare-...
108. Clare Bryden
making connections and finding patterns in the physical realm and beyond
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Clare Bryden@clarebryden.bsky.social · 2mo agoIncluding a short article I wrote about what to do with your copy after reading. Hints: - May involve #Compost - Don't #BurnAfterReading www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Including a short article I wrote about what to do with your copy after reading. Hints: - May involve #Compost - Don't #BurnAfterReading www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...
Read, reuse, recycle, repeat
Clare Bryden finds a multitude of uses for this publication
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@churchtimes.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe latest issue of the Church Times is out today 🗞️ The Bishop of Dudley, the Rt Revd Martin Gorick was among the residents who were evacuated from their homes in #Stourbridge following #wildfires that broke out on Thursday of last week
Exeter Food Action rescues excess food from shops, providing it to 70 food banks and communities in Exeter & Devon, supporting 1,000s of people. Right now, rising costs and funding shortfalls have put severe pressure on finances and their future is uncertain. Can you help? exeterfoodaction.org.uk
Home - Exeter Food Action
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Today we heard at @exetercathedral.bsky.social about the corbel of Mary with Christ Child, above a Green Man. "Such images speak of an overcoming of sin, renewal of life, and the salvation of [hu]mankind." devonchurchland.co.uk/blog/the-gre...
A new poem, published on the Ekphrastic Review website on Sunday www.ekphrastic.net/the-ekphrast... Thanks to @morwennaexe.bsky.social for originally introducing me to this detail from The Buxtehude Altar #Ekphrasis #Poetry
Knitting Madonna, by Clare Bryden
Knitting Madonna Jesus has grown — no manger bed, no showers of stars — to bide in shade of appled trees. For now, casting off childish toys, he reads in passing peace amid the snake’s...
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I really enjoyed doing this. Thanks @dianafmoore.bsky.social !
Websites Ahoy!@websitesahoy.bsky.social · 3mo agoLive today! My conversation with Diana Moore about the importance for community groups and enterprises of having a website – not only to present your work but also to control your messaging. Listen at moorethantalk.podbean.com/e/3_websites... or wherever you get your podcasts ⬇️
I think it's fair to say that I've been eating too many blackberries! It's been a good year for them. Trying to sample all 375... clarebryden.co.uk/blackberryin...
Blackberrying for beginners - Clare Bryden
Clare Bryden. Blackberrying for beginners. Resurgence Magazine, Sep/Oct 2013. Shortlisted essay from the Resurgence & Ecologist Nature Writing Competition.
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My social media profile image is staying remarkably young, even as I continue in the attic getting ever more battered by the years. So here's a proposal for a social media network: one that shows our avatars fading into decrepitude, while we go about our lives as spring chickens.
