Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶

@deborahharvey

Poet. Bristolian. 6th collection, 'Love the Albatross', from Indigo Dreams Publishing. Neurodishevelled (AuDHD) She/her

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Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Jun 23

June’s Silver Street #Poetry is on Friday 26th, with Dominic Fisher @domfishpoet.bsky.social reading. Event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue: St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Open mic slots on a first come, first served basis.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Apr 15

April’s Silver Street #Poetry is on Friday 24th, with Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social reading. Event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue: St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Open mic slots on a first come, first served basis.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Mar 28

An oasis in the desert that is currently the North #Bristol #poetry scene. Bring a poem of your own to read ... and one by someone else (time permitting). Or just come to listen and patronise the bar ...

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Mar 21

On this #WorldPoetryDay, I’m delighted to commend the resurrected #poetry journal ‘Outposts’. It’s a real honour to have three poems in this first issue, rubbing shoulders with work by so many of my poetry heroes. For details on how to submit and subscribe: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

The first issue of the resurrected poetry journal, Outposts - with a monochrome retro cover - lies on a blue linen runner.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Mar 20

Equidies. We made it. #sunrise #equinox #bristol

An orange sunrise has coloured in the sky in a scribbly sort of way

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Mar 17

I struggle to feel a sense of achievement, but today I’ve had news that's put all of spring – bluebells, chiffchaffs, the lot – in my step: that Peter Roe & Izzy Robertson of Jawbone Journal have nominated my poem, A brief feather confession, for a Forward Prize. Many thanks to them both #poetry

A green woodpecker feather against the forest floor

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Mar 16

Thrilled to be reading at the launch of @domfishpoet.bsky.social's pamphlet 'Migrations', along with Matthew Barton and Emily Reynolds this Saturday, 2pm, Inn on the Green. Second pub on the right past the daffodils, if you're coming up from town #Bristol #poetry

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Mar 6

On Tuesday 24th March at 8pm, I'll be guest-poetting with Dominic Fisher and Martin Rieser at the Berkeley Square Poetry Revue, Cellar Bar, Berkeley Square Hotel, Clifton, BS8 1HB. Music by Guy Calhoun. Tickets £5. If you're in Bristol, do come along. #poetry #bristol

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Feb 18

Fantastic reading by Natalie Diaz for the @bristolpoetry.bsky.social last night. It’s rare for my attention to be corralled and focused for five minutes, let alone over an hour, but these poems managed it. I made my way home in that holy space that is the aftermath of a great poetry experience.

Natalie Diaz reading on a dark stage beneath a projected banner with a photo of herself

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Feb 11

February’s Silver Street #Poetry is on Friday 27th, with Welsh poetry legend Peter Gruffydd reading. Event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue: St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Open mic slots on a first come, first served basis.

Photo is head and shoulders portrait of Welsh poet, Peter Gruffydd

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Feb 11

Local goat, possibly wishing it would stop raining #bristol

A white goat stands in the middle of a ruined ring of heavy anti-aircraft batteries dating from World War II and now covered in graffiti. The surrounding grass is puddled with rain and there are bare trees behind against a grey sky.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Jan 23

It's January in the UK and I spotted all of these ladybirds on a stretch of wall today at Snuff Mills in Bristol. Tell me again how #climatechange is a hoax.

A collaged of thirty-five ladybirds, all spotted on a stretch of stone wall in Bristol, UK on a January afternoon. Also visible, areas of moss, an ivy leaf and a few other small, aphid-type insects.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Dec 4

Sun and mist in December woods #Bristol

Mist rising from a brook, with shafts of sunlight bursting through the last of the autumn leaves

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Nov 18

What a tender, life-affirming experience. Thank you, Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley ❤️ Can't recommend enough x

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Nov 17

November's Silver Street #Poetry is on Friday 28th, when our guests will be @chaucercameron.bsky.social & @helendewbery.bsky.social Event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue: St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Wrap up warm & bring a (not epic) poem to share!

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Nov 16

PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME GO THERE

A border collie with a worried look on her face sits at the entrance to a footpath close to an old milestone with the legend 'To Bath 9 1/4' inscribed on it

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Nov 8

Night after night of ultra-loud fireworks. This is my poor collie, Cwtch, hiding in an old airing cupboard. #fireworks #dogsofbluesky

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Nov 4

Autism, ADHD and me deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2025/11/auti... #Autism #ADHD #AuDHD #neurodivergence #poetry

A woman with brown hair, wearing sunglasses, is smiling into the camera. She has a leafy branch caught in her hair and a smudge of green face paint on the end of her nose.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Oct 23

Dragon's breath on the fields and down the lanes #Winterbourne #Bristol #autumn

A small border collie stands in a lane leaved with autumn foliage; in the adjacent fields misty sunlight

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Oct 22

Remembering Andi Langford-Woods #poetry #bristol #transrightsarehumanrights deborahharvey.blogspot.com/2025/10/reme...

Text of poem written about poet Andi Langford-Woods' funeral and read at her memorial in Bristol

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Oct 18

Well, at least it's quite autumnal looking ... #bristol #love

A man in a black coat and a border collie are walking through a wood, away from the viewer, having passed a truncated oak with the words Fuck Love sprayed on it in orange paint

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Oct 17

Join us at Silver Street #Poetry & #OpenMic on Friday 31st October, when our guest poet will be David Goldstein. Our event runs from 12.30 - 2pm, with entry £4 or what you can afford. Venue is St Stephen's Church off #Bristol City Centre. Wrap up warm & be sure to bring a (not epic) poem to share!

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Oct 11

The evenings are drawing in #autumn #seasonalaffectivedisorder

Sunset by a railway siding, a light taking the place of the moon

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Oct 4

Happy UK Fungus Day! Tentative IDs (clockwise): Beefsteak fungus, Black Bulgar, Earth Star, Dryad's Saddle, Amethyst Deceiver (I think), Turkey Tail #ukfungusday #fungi

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Sep 30

Can't eat - or even contemplate - an orange without thinking of this poem by Brian Patten. RIP. 🍊💔 🍊

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Sep 22

'Well, hello, Mistress Squizzle with an acorn in yer gob'

In the branches of a tree, a grey squirrel with wide eyes and an acorn in its mouth looks straight down the lens of the camera

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Sep 7

Before the thunderstorm #bristol

Dawn, in a welter of colour, above a horizon of trees and distant hills

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Aug 26

Cwtch the Collie (the best girl there ever was) says Happy International Dog Day 2025 and why not give @niallharbison.bsky.social of Happy Doggo a follow?

A small tri border collie, with possibly a bit of terrier in there somewhere, is sitting on fallen leaves. She's wearing a turquoise harness and looks every inch the very very good girl that she is.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Aug 20

We only saw the notice prohibiting dogs during the summer months afterwards. Apologies to anyone we might have disturbed. #nodogsallowed

A small black and white border collie stands on an empty sandy beach. In the background, the distant mountains of the Lake District.

Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶@deborahharvey· Aug 13

Remembering Andi Langford-Woods, poet, who died yesterday. Organiser of Bristol Acoustic Night, and a pivotal member of the #bristolpoetrycommunity. I think it's safe to say we'll never forget you, Andi 🎇 🎇 🎇 #bristol #poetry #poetrycommunity