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The more often you do something, the better you get. Writing is like running—you have to keep using the muscles. This morning, I didn’t feel like I was running at my fastest average pace since I started using the app, but I was🏆

Sarah Manguso ~ Love Letter (Clouds) "The problem was finding that you were real and not just a dream of clouds." poetryfoundation.org/poems/49212/lo…

October mood ~ Visiting Sylvia Plath’s London home instagram.com/reel/DAlns-iod…

Fancy a read-along? I’m exploring “tough,” “unsentimental” &tc British & Irish women novelists circa midcentury to the present, kicking off with Fay Weldon’s Down Among the Women #reading #novels #style youtube.com/watch?v=Zwopu6…

A spooky, seasonal short story with matching song. Rest assured, this does not happen often. Enjoy 🍂🔥🍁🌧️☕️🕯️🧊❄️🩶🌊 open.substack.com/pub/agreenthou…

What an extraordinary, beautifully-written, discombobulating short story by 🐙🌊🍄Sophia-Maria 🌘🌿🦇 in Seaside Gothic seasidegothic.com/fiction/fickle…

Honoured to see my new short story published in Anna Potter’s exquisite journal of literary and fine arts, The Amphibian. You can read the digital or beautifully-made print editions pub.marq.com/ba17e33a-d905-…

no reason, just because 🌊 instagram.com/reel/DG0mrgRo3…

Adoring Gwyneth Lewis’s ‘The Long Crawl up Humanity’s Beach’ on the A-side of the latest ⁦Bad Lilies⁩ “Strange sea-creature that I have become, seeing light through ice cataracts, legs wasted, amphibious…” badlilies.uk/gwyneth-lewis

Amy Acre’s ode to a nightingale in ⁦bath magg⁩ is serving pure freshness of language 🙏 ⁦Amy Acre⁩ “spiky dreams nowhere filling up your mouth you were singing an unbroken high note your whole life…” bathmagg.com/amyacre3/

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Cassandra Delaney’s poem ‘Stirring Head to Tail’ in The Amphibian 🌊 “people who show up at a party with big ungainly ideas” 🩶

Reading & re-reading ‘Living as My Mother’, a poem by yong-yu “Last month, it occurred to me that you had lived my solitude already, decades ago. Whatever you survived, I could too.” 🌊🩶

“What did he say: prayer is moisture; hope is a well—I didn’t care…” 🌊🩶 The Rainmaker by ⁦Niall Campbell⁩ poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…

About time too.