Poetry Upload

Hearing and sharing women's verse from the Victorian era. Click on tweet links to hear/watch our regular poetry uploads.

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@BBCNews I’ve just heard the Radio 3 bulletin mention windsurfers in the same breath as friends meeting in groups and people having barbecues on the beach. Is there something particular to windsurfing which means it’s disallowed as a legitimate form of exercise?

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It’s not from the nineteenth century, and it’s not a poem. It’s an aide-mémoire to a fun evening. @SinkThePinkLDN, you made me feel uplifted! P.S. Forgive my calling you ‘band’, not ‘collective’. #TurningTidesFestival #pride   https://t.co/5rEt9q7w0F… https://t.co/3VOyivrzP5

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All, intent in earnest grapple/That the All may let it be:/Force, in unity, at variance/With its own diversity.
From 'Morning', by L. S. Bevington (1845-1895).

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@PBS Dismayed by service's decision to redo Mary Beard's narration in the upcoming US version of BBC series, 'Civilisations'. What possible justification could there be for the partial silencing of one of the most distinguished and exciting historians of our generation?

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Poetry Upload is dismayed by PBS's extraordinary decision to redo much of historian Mary Beard's narration in the US version of forthcoming BBC series 'Civilisations'. PBS, please do the right thing and restore her narration in its entirety. #WeWantToHearMarySayWhatSheSaid

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Seamus Heaney HomePlace opens 30 Sept, Bellaghy. Opening Programme now out: https://t.co/nckaSbQdEG #NorthernIreland #poetry #literature

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Are you an experienced, London-based black American actress who loves performing poetry? Please get in touch at [email protected].

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Happy to have discovered Thompson's work. Enjoying her volumes, 'Ethiope Lays' and 'Gleanings of Quiet Hours.'

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'And often, in the young night,/When memories, beguile,/We drift behind the foot-lights,/And play with them awhile;' #PriscillaJaneThompson

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But as I knit, a fairy web/My brain wore in its dreaming,/And in each stitch my fancy saw/Some bright poetic gleaming. #MaryTucker #Knitting

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'we do too much regard/Others' opinions, but neglect their feelings;/Thrice happy if such order were reversed.' #LEL #AHistoryOfTheLyre

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'No, let it stay. It speaks but truth:/My Autumn's day is dawning.' #TheFirstGreyHair #MaryETucker

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'The land where Poetry and Science meet/Streaks the far distance with a magic light:'
#ConstanceNaden #UndiscernedPerfection #VictorianPoem

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Like @GayTheatre with a feminist slant? Then don't miss WAKING BEAUTY, 9pm from the 2nd May. https://t.co/7GyT7k6aa1

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'O Priestess, how shalt thou be found and wooed?' Hear Helen Hunt Jackson's 'Solitude' @ https://t.co/ZZCgCEaI6m. #solitude #AmericanPoetry

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Hear/Read 'Lines', by Frances Anne Kemble (1809-1893). Read by Alexandra Burton. With text on screen. https://t.co/RtpauMlBH1 #bereavement

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Hear 'Lines', by Frances Anne Kemble (1809-93), at https://t.co/maVh0AYUQF. #FrancesKemble #bereavement #memory #imagination #longing

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'And newest friend is oldest friend in this,/That, waiting him, we longest grieved to miss/One thing we sought.' #HelenHuntJackson