Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶
@deborahharvey.bsky.social
Poet. Bristolian. 6th collection, 'Love the Albatross', from Indigo Dreams Publishing. Neurodishevelled. She/her https://indigodreamspublishing.com/deborah-harvey
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June’s Silver Street #Poetry is on Friday 26th, with Dominic Fisher @domfishpoet.bsky.social reading. Event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue: St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Open mic slots on a first come, first served basis.
April’s Silver Street #Poetry is on Friday 24th, with Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social reading. Event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue: St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Open mic slots on a first come, first served basis.
On this #WorldPoetryDay, I’m delighted to commend the resurrected #poetry journal ‘Outposts’. It’s a real honour to have three poems in this first issue, rubbing shoulders with work by so many of my poetry heroes. For details on how to submit and subscribe: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
I struggle to feel a sense of achievement, but today I’ve had news that's put all of spring – bluebells, chiffchaffs, the lot – in my step: that Peter Roe & Izzy Robertson of Jawbone Journal have nominated my poem, A brief feather confession, for a Forward Prize. Many thanks to them both #poetry
Thrilled to be reading at the launch of @domfishpoet.bsky.social's pamphlet 'Migrations', along with Matthew Barton and Emily Reynolds this Saturday, 2pm, Inn on the Green. Second pub on the right past the daffodils, if you're coming up from town #Bristol #poetry
Fantastic reading by Natalie Diaz for the @bristolpoetry.bsky.social last night. It’s rare for my attention to be corralled and focused for five minutes, let alone over an hour, but these poems managed it. I made my way home in that holy space that is the aftermath of a great poetry experience.
Don’t forget the Never Too Late Award from the Bridport Prize which recognises entries from writers over 60 across all categories of prizes. Link below Please share :)
Never Too Late 60+ award - Bridport Prize
This £500 award is for the highest placed writer aged 60+ across poetry, short story, novel or flash fiction.
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It's January in the UK and I spotted all of these ladybirds on a stretch of wall today at Snuff Mills in Bristol. Tell me again how #climatechange is a hoax.
Pulitzer prize-winning poet, Natalie Diaz, will be reading at the Wills Memorial Building, Bristol, at 6.30pm on Tuesday 17th February. Entry: free. An important poet to hear at any time, but especially now. #poetry #bristol www.facebook.com/events/12187...
BPI Annual Reading: Natalie Diaz
Event in Bristol, United Kingdom by Bristol Poetry Institute on Tuesday, February 17 2026
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I kept having to rewind this because I was getting distracted by the thoughts it provoked, but it’s absolutely life- and death-affirming and will repay the (probably rather shorter) time it might take you to listen. Patti Smith, hero. And what a great series of podcasts. youtu.be/JmEaX5NlSV0?...
Patti Smith on the ‘sacred wounds’ of grief
YouTube video by CNN
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Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE in Minneapolis, was a #poet. Rest in power, Renee. lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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Securing justice for her grandmother, Louisa, has been transformative for my friend, Mary. Cold cases should never be closed. Murderers should never be able to think they're off the hook.
What happened next: how a shocking rape and murder case was solved – 58 years later
In Portishead, a dusty box of forgotten files led Jo Smith and her team to a criminal who had escaped justice for more than half a century. This was the longest-running cold case to be solved in the U...
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What a tender, life-affirming experience. Thank you, Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley ❤️ Can't recommend enough x
November's Silver Street #Poetry is on Friday 28th, when our guests will be @chaucercameron.bsky.social & @helendewbery.bsky.social Event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue: St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Wrap up warm & bring a (not epic) poem to share!
Thrilled to have some poems in the Street! initiative organised by Ralph Hoyte & @bristollibraries.bsky.social. Here's how to access them; plus, at 1.30, a snatch of my poem about my great-great grandmother who lived on Christmas Steps in 1880s #Bristol #poetry www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8oo...
STREET - geo located poetry of the street
YouTube video by Ralph Hoyte
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Night after night of ultra-loud fireworks. This is my poor collie, Cwtch, hiding in an old airing cupboard. #fireworks #dogsofbluesky
Big birthdays aren't the ones with a 0 in them, they're the ones when Paul McCartney writes you a song. I've been waiting for today since I was five. Reckon I'm coming into my own now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUDR...
The Beatles - When I'm Sixty Four (Official Video)
YouTube video by TheFreddyShow
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We want the media and politicians to recognise that there is a large number of women who are supportive of the trans+ community. We call on them to report truthfully about the sources of violence against women and to address the systems that perpetuate harm. notinourname.org.uk/petition/not...
Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
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