Here's something I wrote earlier for #poemsabout #static. Happy new year everyone and thanks as always to @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the great prompt! #poems #poetry

#PoemsAbout #Static is live. Write into the interference. The hiss between words. Signals crossed. Messages stalled. What won’t resolve. What keeps buzzing. Post from today. Tag #PoemsAbout #Static to be read and shared. Use Alt Text. Take care with each other.

Poetry publication opportunity - call from Wed 28th January to Sun 1st Feb. Normal submis*ions are submit up to 3 poems but you can submit 5 if you bought our current anthology ❄️ 🦌 www.blackboughpoetry.com/events @paulwritespoems.bsky.social

There's been a fair bit of snow this week...

A very useful list for those with an interest in emerging policy ideas and social research

Thanks @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for the first #promptcombo of the year - #nightfall is a great choice. Bit slow getting up to working speed today but here's a quick poem to wish everyone a happy new year #poetry #poems

We’re not looking for cleverness. We’re looking for work that carries weight. If a poem hasn’t let you go, this window is for it. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry

Wishing you all a very merry Christmas and a peaceful, safe and fun new year! Here's a picture of the Christmas Day fire, lit with last year's tree...

Sunrise, Christmas Eve (9.15am)… looking across the Sound of Sleat towards Mallaig

A huge thank you to all who have liked and written such lovely comments on my #PoemsAbout and #PromptCombo poems this year, and to those who have shared their work too. It's great to feel part of a warm, supportive community of such amazing poets! Here's to more good writing next year! #poetry

Thought I'd share a poem, written earlier this year for an academic project on #censorship of thought and ideas. Seems a timely subject for this #redacted age #poems #poetry

A quick write for #poemsabout #money: greed destroyed our communities in the first clearances, now the same greed takes our houses for trophies and holiday homes! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk. Off to the school church service and will check in with others later! #poems #poetry

Here's an interview I did with @popvoxfdn.bsky.social Modern Parliament substack talking about parliamentary AI and the new IPU Maturity Framework modparl.substack.com/p/ai-in-parl...

Who's joining me, not-so-mystery guest @victoriaspires.bsky.social, host @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and a ... er ... host of other talented types at tonight's @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic? I'm bringing a Christmas vibe – albeit a typically dark one. See you there? bit.ly/BlackBoughPo...

Thanks @hool415.bsky.social for this week's #promptcombo; #dilemmas/decisions has ironically had me choosing between two poems! I chose this wee one as it's appropriate for the season! #poems #poetry

Hullo @rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social All welcome, tag me @hool415.bsky.social and use as well #promptcombo #dilemmas/decisions **TILL 5pm FRIDAY!!** (NB The four-legged one is doing ok currently with some new meds…)🤞

I managed a quick #fridaypoem for this week's #poemsabout #youshouldnthave prompt between meetings! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk for yet another challenging prompt! #poetrycommunity #poems #poets #christmas #poetsofbluesky

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #Imps Unleash your tricksters. Write what hides behind holiday cheer. Chaos in small doses. Or full-blown curse. Tag it. Use Alt Text. Post from Friday. Saturday prompts hit inboxes: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

Well, I really struggled with this weeks #poemsabout prompt, #imps. Nice one @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for that, really had me working hard. Well done everyone who managed something, I think I might have gone a bit off piste, as it were 😂 #poems #poetry

Well, the Spotify wrappy-up-thingy shows two things. 1. My efforts to purge the 7-year old from my account have had limited success; and 2. his tastes have shifted very much from Bluey to Scottish trad and pipes 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Our hardback Christmas and Winter anthology adorning the Christmas tree. Packed with festive, poetic gems! www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

Here's a fabulous list of poetry to buy for Christmas (or any other day of the year, tbh)!

Here's a poem from my new collection. I think it works for @victoriaspires.bsky.social excellent #promptcombo #ThisPoem The original is waiting here, in case you'd like a copy 😀 www.lulu.com/shop/andrew-... (you'll also find it on Amazon)

Delighted to see the Maturity Framework for AI in Parliaments launch at the AI in Parliaments event in Malaysia, something I've been working on for the last six months! In English here (French and Spanish to follow soon): www.ipu.org/resources/pu...

Here's my second poem written for #poemsabout #nofuture, thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk for the prompt, a bit of a tricky one for me! #poems #poetry

A tricky @poemsabout this week, but in the end I wrote two poems for #nofuture. Here's the first, a wee bit tongue-in-cheek, perhaps! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poems #poetry

I just read through the #PoemsAbout #dogtag posts from the weekend. some great stuff. I didn't contribute this week. Been busy preparing poetry for the Leeds Song Festival. I've been teamed up with a composer for a performance next April. We were asked to tag it on our social media so heres a tag.

The BigDog says it feels like a Monday... #podenco #sighthound

Deadlines, deadlines... urgh! Not much time this morning but can't resist this little poem (based on last week's snow!) for #promptcombo #OnRoofs! Thanks @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social for the lovely prompt!

Thanks @paulwritespoems.bsky.social for hosting a great evening!

For #PoemsAbout #DogTags here is ‘Memorial Service’ Will catch up later @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Maybe a bit off-script for #poemsabout #dogtags but it's what emerged - a quick poem on names and seasons of a relationship. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poems #poetry

Tomorrow we mark the moment: #PoemsAbout #DogTags. Not just war—what we carry, what we’re called. Post from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout or you’ll vanish in the feed. Use Alt Text. Get your prompt boost: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

How's the weather where you are? Beautiful, crisp and cold. Plenty of snow (photo is the view from my study window taken just now)

🚨🚨🚨The Final Countdown🚨🚨🚨 Support Poets, Presses, Give Gift Ideas to Fellow Poetics. What collections/anthologies/pamphlets, chapbooks/zines would you recommend as a Christmas Gift? paulwritespoems.com/2025/10/17/t... #poetrycommunity #poets #poemsAbout

Excited that my new #poetry collection, 'Through salt-heavy seas' is out! This book marks a milestone for me, so I'm delighted to see it in print! DM me if you'd like to review it! Get it here: www.lulu.com/shop/andrew-... #writingcommunity #poems #scottishpoetry #PublishingScotland #booksy

#PoemsAbout #DogTags drops Friday. Write into memory, sacrifice, names etched or erased. Tags on a chain, weight on a neck. Post from Friday. Use Alt Text. Always tag it right. Prompts hit inboxes Saturdays: shorturl.at/0Xm7A

Enormously pleased to host #PromptCombo this week. Theme is #NorthStar Here's my poem 'Navigating a Wilderness' to kick us off. Tag me & use the hastags to get involved, open till Friday! @victoriaspires.bsky.social @hool415.bsky.social @rfsmith.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social

Thanks to @dragonslayerma.bsky.social for the wonderful #promptcombo #northstar. I've taken this to where stars are less certain: Matariki (Pleiades) rise in Aotearoa's mid-winter marking the New Year. Stars in the southern skies aren't fixed like in the north. Think decolonisation of knowledge!

An lovely afternoon stroll, still ice on the lochan as the sun goes down #lochandubha #isleofskye

Cold and crisp morning, lovely day to be out with BigDog #scotland #isleofskye #podenco

Our lovely little Procedure Browsable Space, freshly decked out in corporate colours. One for fans of the UK Parliament’s statutory instrument and treaty procedures api.parliament.uk/procedure-br...

This old poem always makes me smile. Any excuse to share it again so here's a second poem for this week's #poemsabout #desire #poetry #poems. Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk & @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Excited that my new #poetry collection, 'Through salt-heavy seas' is out! This book marks a milestone for me, so I'm delighted to see it in print! DM me if you'd like to review it! Get it here: www.lulu.com/shop/andrew-... #writingcommunity #poems #scottishpoetry #PublishingScotland #booksy

A wee contribution to this week's #poemsabout #desire. Short, simple, an old poem re-written, nice to revisit it. Thanks everyone for the wonderful sharing, particularly thinking of @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Poets, are you ready? Full details here: paulwritespoems.com/2025/09/08/t...

This week was #RemembranceDay. Today is the anniversary of my Great Uncle's death in the early morning of November 13th on a battlefield on the Somme. He died along with another 240 men of the Shropshire Light Infantry. I wrote this for him so I don't forget #poems #poetry #blueskypoems #ww1

Hello everyone, slow of the blocks this week, so I've decided to share a wee poem I wrote a long time ago for #promptcombo and @hool415.bsky.social's prompt of #workinglove. Thanks Ju for hosting and everyone else for being so inspiring! #poems #poetry

Something very rough and ready for #poemsabout #lockeddoors, definitely a work in progress! Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @thebrokenspine.co.uk and everyone who keeps this wonderful thing going!

This week isn’t about escape. It’s about what stays shut. Secrets with a latch. Regret with a bolt. Write the room you can’t re-enter. The letter never sent. Tag your post. Use Alt Text. Share from Friday. Sign up: shorturl.at/0Xm7A