This is my current favourite by Judy Brown I wish I could write as richly about something so mundane. She makes it look easy.
'How the rest works, I can't tell.' She's only interested in her experience of it. Love it.

#mypoetrybookshelf the joy of subscribing is coming home to poetry you don't know.

‘There is the happiness you have / And the happiness you deserve.’ — Jericho Brown (Jericho Brown)

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If you’d like to read more contemporary poetry but don’t know where to start then check out the #mypoetrybookshelf hashtag launched by our Creative Writing Lecturer, Christina Thatcher. She has posted over 200 poems this year already. Enjoy! 📝❤️

‘She’s taken a good, hard look at the state / of our relationship.’ — Kathryn Bevis (Kathryn Bevis)

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I love every poem in this collection.
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Absolutely romped through this irreverent book ❤️ Glos Mythos. My new fave curse “You are / the human equivalent / of a participation award” 🤣🤣 #mypoetrybookshelf

#mypoetrybookshelf earl grey rose tea and poetry to ignore my life for a bit. This is another from the desk pile I haven't gotten to yet.

Christina Thatcher Bare Fiction Thank you! It's been great seeing your #mypoetrybookshelf tweets and discovering so much.

‘Consider the deer who, when I say deer, doesn’t know / whether or not I mean a single one, though there were two’ — Taylor Johnson (Taylor Johnson)

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‘Because you refused to let me / record your voice / I’ve brought this parrot / all the way from Brazil, / the last speaker of a vanished tribe.’ — Pascale Petit (Pascale Petit FRSL🐅🌴🐆🌳🦌)

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#mypoetrybookshelf Modern Poetry in Translation I'm probably late in getting around to reading this but I'm taking time to appreciate this poem and the origin story of the poet, which is the sort of thing you never get in a bio anymore. 😂

Just grabbed this off #mypoetrybookshelf what a dude. Ed Dorn, Collected Poems.

'He'll remind me how precious each breath is / as I coax your voice from his beak' 'My Father's Voice' from The Zoo Father, thankyou Christina Thatcher #mypoetrybookshelf Seren My father died of emphysema, was on oxygen in his room when I discovered him, total #lockdown 5yrs

I found a copy of 'Crow' (along with the others pictured below) on a long walk. Many thanks for reminding me to start it, and for all your great choices re #mypoetrybookshelf . 🖊️📖🦋

‘Dalek generation can’t tell a Bee / from a Wasp.’ — Helen Moore

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‘Brian is six years old and from Listowel.’ — Stephen James Smith (Stephen James Smith)

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‘There’s a dark so deep beneath the sea the creatures beget their own / light.’ — Paul Tran (Paul Tran)

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‘a devastating pestilence swept through London’ — Shazea Quraishi

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‘Crow realized God loved him — / Otherwise, he would have dropped dead.’ — Ted Hughes

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Gorgeous, meditative #SundayReading in bed this morning from ‘Slowly as Clouds’ Jane Campbell’s award winning debut collection from IDP #MyPoetryBookshelf

Christina Thatcher Seren What a lovely surprise to wake up to! Huge thanks for including me & the hermit crabs in your most excellent #mypoetrybookshelf