Caroline Davies
@carolinemdavies.bsky.social
Poet and poetry enthusiast
#SealeyChallenge 2026, Day 31/31: The I of my Storm by Sarah Wedderburn @greenbottlepress.bsky.social
"Our father in blackberries just beyond reach/of my bramble-torn fingers."
"Our father in blackberries just beyond reach/of my bramble-torn fingers."
August 31, 2026 at 2:40 PM
#SealeyChallenge 2026, Day 31/31: The I of my Storm by Sarah Wedderburn @greenbottlepress.bsky.social
"Our father in blackberries just beyond reach/of my bramble-torn fingers."
"Our father in blackberries just beyond reach/of my bramble-torn fingers."
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coming soon: an anthology of Hungarian women's poetry, to be published by Seagull Books in January
Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, ed. by Ottilie Mulzet
Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, ed. by Ottilie Mulzet
November 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
coming soon: an anthology of Hungarian women's poetry, to be published by Seagull Books in January
Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, ed. by Ottilie Mulzet
Under a Pannonian Sky: Ten Women Poets from Hungary, ed. by Ottilie Mulzet
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Book 29/31
Ruth Padel – Girl
"So I wake in the dark and walk downstairs / in the beautiful silence of made things." ('The Blue Gate of Morning')
#SealeyChallenge #poetry
Ruth Padel – Girl
"So I wake in the dark and walk downstairs / in the beautiful silence of made things." ('The Blue Gate of Morning')
#SealeyChallenge #poetry
August 29, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Book 29/31
Ruth Padel – Girl
"So I wake in the dark and walk downstairs / in the beautiful silence of made things." ('The Blue Gate of Morning')
#SealeyChallenge #poetry
Ruth Padel – Girl
"So I wake in the dark and walk downstairs / in the beautiful silence of made things." ('The Blue Gate of Morning')
#SealeyChallenge #poetry
#Sealeychallenge 2026, Day 27/31: Making the Wedding dress by Jackie Wills
"I'm learning silk's tendency to fray/but mostly how it catches light"
From @saltpublishing.com
"I'm learning silk's tendency to fray/but mostly how it catches light"
From @saltpublishing.com
August 29, 2026 at 12:28 PM
#Sealeychallenge 2026, Day 27/31: Making the Wedding dress by Jackie Wills
"I'm learning silk's tendency to fray/but mostly how it catches light"
From @saltpublishing.com
"I'm learning silk's tendency to fray/but mostly how it catches light"
From @saltpublishing.com
#SealeyChallenge 2026, Day 26/31: Longshore Drift by Katrina Porteous with Linocuts by James Dodds. A radio poem from Aldeburgh @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social
August 27, 2026 at 3:53 PM
#SealeyChallenge 2026, Day 26/31: Longshore Drift by Katrina Porteous with Linocuts by James Dodds. A radio poem from Aldeburgh @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social
Reposted by Caroline Davies
Book 26/31
Kathleen Jamie – The Overhaul
"It was August. She travelled / with a small valise / of darkness, and the first few stars / returning to the northern sky, // and my room, it seemed, / had missed her." ('Moon')
#SealeyChallenge #poetry
Kathleen Jamie – The Overhaul
"It was August. She travelled / with a small valise / of darkness, and the first few stars / returning to the northern sky, // and my room, it seemed, / had missed her." ('Moon')
#SealeyChallenge #poetry
August 26, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Book 26/31
Kathleen Jamie – The Overhaul
"It was August. She travelled / with a small valise / of darkness, and the first few stars / returning to the northern sky, // and my room, it seemed, / had missed her." ('Moon')
#SealeyChallenge #poetry
Kathleen Jamie – The Overhaul
"It was August. She travelled / with a small valise / of darkness, and the first few stars / returning to the northern sky, // and my room, it seemed, / had missed her." ('Moon')
#SealeyChallenge #poetry
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Sign up for Daniel Sluman and Out-spoken Press's new poetry book club. Tree of Knowledge 9/2 and 9/16 via Zoom. Support a wonderful press and register here. @outspokenpress.bsky.social www.outspokenldn.com/book-c...
Book Club — Out-Spoken
www.outspokenldn.com
August 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Sign up for Daniel Sluman and Out-spoken Press's new poetry book club. Tree of Knowledge 9/2 and 9/16 via Zoom. Support a wonderful press and register here. @outspokenpress.bsky.social www.outspokenldn.com/book-c...
5/31 #SealeyChallenge Wednesday is Eve Ellis Spit Valve. Reunion is my favourite poem from this one.
@eveellis14.bsky.social
"She played/ a last flurry of notes and emptied her spit valve"
#sealeycommunity
@eveellis14.bsky.social
"She played/ a last flurry of notes and emptied her spit valve"
#sealeycommunity
August 6, 2026 at 2:41 PM
5/31 #SealeyChallenge Wednesday is Eve Ellis Spit Valve. Reunion is my favourite poem from this one.
@eveellis14.bsky.social
"She played/ a last flurry of notes and emptied her spit valve"
#sealeycommunity
@eveellis14.bsky.social
"She played/ a last flurry of notes and emptied her spit valve"
#sealeycommunity
#SealeyChallenge 4/31 Tuesday Jo Harjo A Map to the next World. These poems sing and then grab you by the throat and make you listen
"Crucial to finding the way is this: there is no beginning or end/ You must make your own map"
#sealeycommunity
"Crucial to finding the way is this: there is no beginning or end/ You must make your own map"
#sealeycommunity
August 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
#SealeyChallenge 4/31 Tuesday Jo Harjo A Map to the next World. These poems sing and then grab you by the throat and make you listen
"Crucial to finding the way is this: there is no beginning or end/ You must make your own map"
#sealeycommunity
"Crucial to finding the way is this: there is no beginning or end/ You must make your own map"
#sealeycommunity
#SealeyChallenge 3/31 Monday Australian poet Philip Neilsen's Without an Alibi.
"Poetry comes without an alibi,/ in lightning flashes of insanity."
#sealeycommunity
"Poetry comes without an alibi,/ in lightning flashes of insanity."
#sealeycommunity
August 4, 2026 at 1:37 PM
#SealeyChallenge 3/31 Monday Australian poet Philip Neilsen's Without an Alibi.
"Poetry comes without an alibi,/ in lightning flashes of insanity."
#sealeycommunity
"Poetry comes without an alibi,/ in lightning flashes of insanity."
#sealeycommunity
#Sealeychallenge 2/31 On Sunday I read Matthew Welton's Small Birds Singing. A book length poem takng you through the year from September in linked but fragmented couplets
"the rustle of something drifting into existence,/ and the echo of the thing we'll never know again."
#sealeycommunity
"the rustle of something drifting into existence,/ and the echo of the thing we'll never know again."
#sealeycommunity
August 3, 2026 at 4:50 PM
#Sealeychallenge 2/31 On Sunday I read Matthew Welton's Small Birds Singing. A book length poem takng you through the year from September in linked but fragmented couplets
"the rustle of something drifting into existence,/ and the echo of the thing we'll never know again."
#sealeycommunity
"the rustle of something drifting into existence,/ and the echo of the thing we'll never know again."
#sealeycommunity
#SealeyChallenge 1/31 First day I read Sarah Westcott's Pond. A year in the life of an ordinary pond make extra-ordinary by close attention.
"and then the pond was too full to speak of much --which thread to pull on first, to loosen pull of mouth
#sealeycommunity
"and then the pond was too full to speak of much --which thread to pull on first, to loosen pull of mouth
#sealeycommunity
August 2, 2026 at 11:16 AM
#SealeyChallenge 1/31 First day I read Sarah Westcott's Pond. A year in the life of an ordinary pond make extra-ordinary by close attention.
"and then the pond was too full to speak of much --which thread to pull on first, to loosen pull of mouth
#sealeycommunity
"and then the pond was too full to speak of much --which thread to pull on first, to loosen pull of mouth
#sealeycommunity
And you'll get it in time for the Sealey challenge running throughout August.
A hobby of mine is suggesting you get my and many other brilliant books for less in the Broken Sleep flash sale: www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
FLASH SALE: 20% off until Sunday night.
If there's a book you've been circling, or you fancy taking a punt on something new, now's a good time.
Every order goes straight back into publishing writers the bigger presses overlook. That's the whole point of us.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/books
If there's a book you've been circling, or you fancy taking a punt on something new, now's a good time.
Every order goes straight back into publishing writers the bigger presses overlook. That's the whole point of us.
www.brokensleepbooks.com/books
July 31, 2026 at 4:25 PM
And you'll get it in time for the Sealey challenge running throughout August.
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First book of the day was The Treasures by Harriet Evans!
July 11, 2026 at 8:40 AM
First book of the day was The Treasures by Harriet Evans!
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These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men
21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82
21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant
Nobody rioted over their murders
www.bbc.com/news/article...
21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82
21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant
Nobody rioted over their murders
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A picture of violence: The 30 women killed in more than four years
In at least 21 of the 30 deaths, the killers - or the suspects in their killings - were well-known to the women.
www.bbc.com
June 11, 2026 at 6:29 PM
These are the 30 women killed since 2020 in Northern Ireland, all by white men
21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82
21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant
Nobody rioted over their murders
www.bbc.com/news/article...
21 killed in their homes by men they knew. The youngest 20, the oldest 82
21 were mothers, 4 were killed with their children in the home. Two were pregnant
Nobody rioted over their murders
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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#TheDeeperRead 22 is here, featuring "Many Happy Returns" by Jill Abram from her @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social pamphlet Forgetting my Father. Works cited include Glyn Maxwell @gregfreemanpoet.bsky.social and the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
June 5, 2026 at 8:31 AM
#TheDeeperRead 22 is here, featuring "Many Happy Returns" by Jill Abram from her @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social pamphlet Forgetting my Father. Works cited include Glyn Maxwell @gregfreemanpoet.bsky.social and the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
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Spanish artist Raquel Rodrigo from Valencia creates stitched street art #WomensArt
June 1, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Spanish artist Raquel Rodrigo from Valencia creates stitched street art #WomensArt
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🚨 Right now, Tommy Robinson is in London claiming to speak for us.
It’s the ultimate distraction from the very real problems we face.
But we know the truth: migrants aren’t the problem, far-right billionaires are.
✊ Share this post to make it clear: Tommy Robinson does not speak for us.
It’s the ultimate distraction from the very real problems we face.
But we know the truth: migrants aren’t the problem, far-right billionaires are.
✊ Share this post to make it clear: Tommy Robinson does not speak for us.
May 16, 2026 at 12:01 PM
🚨 Right now, Tommy Robinson is in London claiming to speak for us.
It’s the ultimate distraction from the very real problems we face.
But we know the truth: migrants aren’t the problem, far-right billionaires are.
✊ Share this post to make it clear: Tommy Robinson does not speak for us.
It’s the ultimate distraction from the very real problems we face.
But we know the truth: migrants aren’t the problem, far-right billionaires are.
✊ Share this post to make it clear: Tommy Robinson does not speak for us.
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Delighted that @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social's Crowd Voltage is @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social Book of the Month: review below.
See him with Isabelle Baafi in #miltonkeynes this Sat: tickets (inperson/zoom) on website.
poetrypharmacy.co.uk/blogs/newsle...
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #poetry
See him with Isabelle Baafi in #miltonkeynes this Sat: tickets (inperson/zoom) on website.
poetrypharmacy.co.uk/blogs/newsle...
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #poetry
I'd rather be starfish than the sun
This evening, Saturday March 28th marks Earth Hour, a simple, shared gesture that circles the globe each year. For one hour, at 8.30pm local time, lights are dimmed, switches are turned off, and the b...
poetrypharmacy.co.uk
April 23, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Delighted that @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social's Crowd Voltage is @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social Book of the Month: review below.
See him with Isabelle Baafi in #miltonkeynes this Sat: tickets (inperson/zoom) on website.
poetrypharmacy.co.uk/blogs/newsle...
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #poetry
See him with Isabelle Baafi in #miltonkeynes this Sat: tickets (inperson/zoom) on website.
poetrypharmacy.co.uk/blogs/newsle...
@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social #poetry
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Poem of the week at @faberbooks.bsky.social is The Way You Say Pen by Isabelle Baafi, who'll be reading for us in-person on or livestream next Saturday - tickets available on our website. #isabellebaafi #poetry #miltonkeynes
www.faber.co.uk/journal/poem...
www.faber.co.uk/journal/poem...
Poem of the Week: 'The way you say pen' by Isabelle Baafi
This week, our Faber Poem of the Week is ‘The way you say pen’, from Chaotic Good, Isabelle Baafi's piercing debut about how we are made, how we get lost and how we find new selves.
www.faber.co.uk
April 19, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Poem of the week at @faberbooks.bsky.social is The Way You Say Pen by Isabelle Baafi, who'll be reading for us in-person on or livestream next Saturday - tickets available on our website. #isabellebaafi #poetry #miltonkeynes
www.faber.co.uk/journal/poem...
www.faber.co.uk/journal/poem...
Lots of excellent poems. My favourite so far is Last Poem for Erin by Amy L King
Issue Nine is OUT NOW.
andotherpoems.com/issue-nine/
Photo credit: Andrew Gwizdowski (andrew_gwiz) on Unsplash.
andotherpoems.com/issue-nine/
Photo credit: Andrew Gwizdowski (andrew_gwiz) on Unsplash.
April 10, 2026 at 10:39 AM
Lots of excellent poems. My favourite so far is Last Poem for Erin by Amy L King
#NaPoMo #poetry
Every poet needs a treasure hoard says @hollyhopkins.bsky.social youtu.be/v1xfNTXzwjE?...
Every poet needs a treasure hoard says @hollyhopkins.bsky.social youtu.be/v1xfNTXzwjE?...
Holly Hopkins - build a treasure hoard
YouTube video by The Poetic Licence - Jo Bell
youtu.be
April 9, 2026 at 3:48 PM
#NaPoMo #poetry
Every poet needs a treasure hoard says @hollyhopkins.bsky.social youtu.be/v1xfNTXzwjE?...
Every poet needs a treasure hoard says @hollyhopkins.bsky.social youtu.be/v1xfNTXzwjE?...
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For National Poetry Month, during war time.
April 8, 2026 at 11:18 AM
For National Poetry Month, during war time.
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John McCullough (@mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social) will be reading from his just-published fifth collection Crowd Voltage @mklitfest.bsky.social on 25 April, alongside Isabelle Baafi.
Award-winning poets Isabelle Baafi and John McCullough explore identify, togetherness and separation, and the human search for joy.
In-person or livesteam: mklitfest.org/in-person-ev...
#poetry #poets #JohnMcCullough #isabellebaafi @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social
In-person or livesteam: mklitfest.org/in-person-ev...
#poetry #poets #JohnMcCullough #isabellebaafi @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social @faberbooks.bsky.social
March 27, 2026 at 9:11 AM
John McCullough (@mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social) will be reading from his just-published fifth collection Crowd Voltage @mklitfest.bsky.social on 25 April, alongside Isabelle Baafi.