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Clare Proctor

@almostasif

Teacher and Poet. First pamphlet out with Litfest and Wayleave Press. https://teapawt.net/t.co/w4IcN37NKU

Joined June 2016
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We are not hard set - every day, erosion; every day, growth. #haiku #haikuchallenge
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Am beginning the long overdue migration to bluesky. Same details. Hope to find my Twitter poetry friends there or elsewhere.
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Lancaster Litfest@Litfest28 Jan 2025
Welcome to Litfest 2025! Today, we’re delighted to launch the full programme for our 46th Lancaster Literature Festival —‘The World Into Words’. geni.us/Litfest2025 This year there are over 50 ways to get involved inc. activities, co-creation opportunities and workshops!
Against a blue fabric background, a stylised Lancaster skyline with multicoloured notable buildings made our of words including Lancaster Cathedral, Lancaster Castle, Ashton Memorial, the Butterfly House, The Priory, the Queen Victoria Memorial, The Storey Institute and the Maritime Museum. The red Litfest logo is in the top right corner. White text reads "www.litfest.org 46th Lancaster Literature Festival 7-17 March 2025. Black text reads "The World into Words."

ALT Against a blue fabric background, a stylised Lancaster skyline with multicoloured notable buildings made our of words including Lancaster Cathedral, Lancaster Castle, Ashton Memorial, the Butterfly House, The Priory, the Queen Victoria Memorial, The Storey Institute and the Maritime Museum. The red Litfest logo is in the top right corner. White text reads "www.litfest.org 46th Lancaster Literature Festival 7-17 March 2025. Black text reads "The World into Words."

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The Poems I Have Not Written poets.org/poem/poems-i-have-…

The Poems I Have Not Written

I’m so wildly unprolific, the poems

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Amiri Baraka ♥️
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Diane Seuss ♥️
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Many thanks to @ex_puritan and guest editor @Puneet_Dutt for giving this poem a home.
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John Ashbery ~ Fifty years have passed since I started living in those dark towns I was telling you about. Well, not much has changed.
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Brilliant poem for difficult days by @Nettie31
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.On days like these – Jeanette Burton @Nettie31 atriumpoetry.com/2024/11/22/…
On days like these – Jeanette Burton

On days like these – Jeanette Burton

On days like these .. .. Jeanette Burton is a tutor with The Writing School. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Wales, Mslexia, Dreich, The Friday Poem and she has been placed in several competition…

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‘You didn’t teach me how to be beautiful’ — Anne Champion #mypoetrybookshelf
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To be lonely like "wood, with a gift for burning":
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Really enjoying this new collection by @RaymondAntrobus , its exploration of family/parenthood/self and its journeying beyond (‘Everything/ is a piece of some larger and endless/ subject’)
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Lancaster Litfest@Litfest14 Oct 2024
We are DELIGHTED to announce our shortlist of readers for the Litfest & Wayleave Press Poetry Pamphlet Competition! You can book to attend the shortlist reading MC'd by Eoghan Walls at 2pm on 18/10 here! geni.us/LF24A
Against a blue watercolour background, white text "Litfest and Wayleave Press Poetry Pamphlet Competition Shortlist Readers. Maria Isakova Bennett Rebecca Bilkau David Canning Duncan Darbishire Isobel Dixon Ilse Pedler Clare Proctor Terry Quinn Ruth Taaffe Barry Wilson

ALT Against a blue watercolour background, white text "Litfest and Wayleave Press Poetry Pamphlet Competition Shortlist Readers. Maria Isakova Bennett Rebecca Bilkau David Canning Duncan Darbishire Isobel Dixon Ilse Pedler Clare Proctor Terry Quinn Ruth Taaffe Barry Wilson

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Lancaster Litfest@Litfest14 Oct 2024
Replying to @Litfest @RBilkau
Congratulations to Maria Isakova Bennett, @RBilkau, @CanningDavid, Duncan Darbishire, Isobel Dixon, @IlsePedler @almostasif, Terry Quinn, @ruthtaaffe and Barry Wilson!
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Would be great to see some familiar faces at this event, either in person or online. Am reading with the brilliant Ilse Pedler and Anne Banks. breweryarts.co.uk/event/brew…

What's On

Find out about the exciting programme of events for the season.

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@NewYorker18 Sep 2024
A poem by Megan Fernandes. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Ik…
An excerpt from “For Better of Worse,” by Megan Fernandes.

ALT An excerpt from “For Better of Worse,” by Megan Fernandes.

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A reminder that Mary Oliver also wrote this:
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Dylan O'Sullivan
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Aldous Huxley
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@social_rate15 Jul 2024
if you’re so smart why are you so serious all the time
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So looking forward to this. My hope is to write new poems, but whether or not that happens I know in a Kim workshop I am guaranteed to read great poems, Think, and learn new things…
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