Rich fresh wine of June, we stagger into you smeared with pollen 🖤

‘Oh, to be a Moomin and to dance in the waves while the sun gets up! The night was forgotten and a long June day lay before them.’ ~ Tove Jansson. #BookWormSat

The magic wrought by simple poems I will always defend, for their universality is such that you can quite often slot yourself effortlessly into them and find a pocket of unquantifiable freedom waiting for you. • Sara Teasdale •

I am, O Anxious One ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Are these yours, @jbrehm.bsky.social ? So many John Brehm poems are resonating at the moment…

P.S. ~ Franz Wright

Can anyone help me find the poem ‘To Sandra’ by Phillip Gross please? Got ‘cat’s whiskers’ thinking it might be in there but it’s not…

Enjoying discovering Alex Dimitrov

For this most Monday of Mondays, a Monday poem 🖤 'Doesn't it bother you sometimes what living is, what the day has turned into? So many screens and meetings and things to be late for.'

Can anyone help me find the poem ‘To Sandra’ by Phillip Gross please? Got ‘cat’s whiskers’ thinking it might be in there but it’s not…

londongrip.co.uk/2026/01/lond... Thank you so much @pamthompson240.bsky.social for your kind, detailed and perceptive reading of Lilith.

The gift Sometimes the recompense arrives so far ahead of what you’ll give that you will fail to recognise the reciprocity, the love that circles in the universe: this life a grace advanced, its knack to meet requital with its cause – the offering up, the giving back. Kona Macphee

That face. I know it well.

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James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

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#FolktaleWeek prompt #4: Book Brigid was the Celtic goddess of poetry & wisdom. Christian monks later made Brigid the Saint of poets. It seemed only fitting I should quote an Irish poet here: the divinely talented @nikitagill.bsky.social @FolktaleWeek #FolktaleWeek2025 #FolktaleweekBook

Billy Collins

"I have left my body many times. Once I misplaced myself inside my mother’s voice. She was peeling a carrot with a small knife, the blade so thin it sang against the curling skin." Contributor and poetry reader @andhow.bsky.social has a new poem in @diodeeditions.bsky.social ❤️: buff.ly/yTTHHpD

can't wait to read your poems. Send me your bangers, both quiet and noisy!

Congratulations to Vidyan Ravinthiran, who has jointly won (with Karen Solie) the Forward Prize for Best Collection with Avidyā (Bloodaxe). Its brilliant final poem, "as a child", describes how an early speech impediment led him to be "a scrutineer of sound" with a love of "the avid void of English"

For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper

❛ Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock. Denise Levertov, born #OTD in 1923.