Delighted to have my poem ‘If’ published in this quarter’s Beyond Queer Words magazine. Hope you enjoy it. #poetry #PoetsOfBluesky #lgbtqia+ #QueerPoetry

Please fill in if you can, whether you are a @societyofauthors.bsky.social member or not. #NoToAI #GenerativeAI #Books #Authors #Reading societyofauthors.org/2025/07/11/h...

Pre-order Chris Emery’s new collection ‘WONDER, with a massive 25% discount from Waterstones today – head to bit.ly/3GWJNdA You will need to enter “SUMMER25” at the checkout to redeem the offer to receive 25% off RRP Offer ends 31 July. #WPreorder #BookSky

I am so excited to be starting to work on my new/first collection with the much-needed counsel of @hironstom.bsky.social. I have a framework, I think I have a title—now it’s down to making shortlists of poems and editing. Hard work ahead, but I know it will be worth it🤞🏻. #PoetsOfBluesky #Poetry

She’s not on here, but today’s #LiftToTheSky is for Joelle Taylor (elsewhere as @jtaylortrash) and her newest collection ’C+nto’ which has been a revelation & delight to me. Really—read it. @brokenspinearts.bsky.social #PrideMonth 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜

I added my name to demand real action from the UK government – not just words - to protect civilians and humanitarian workers in Gaza with @dotwuk.bsky.social. 💙 Please take a minute to do the same. petition.doctorsoftheworld.org.uk/page/171651/...

Wednesday is #gardening day for me, so I present to you (with pride) my beautiful, just picked French Breakfast Radishes. I may write a poem about their peppery crunchiness, and the way they feel in the mouth when I put sea salt with them. Later, though, when I’ve finished the weeding…

Hooray! Just discovered #ThickTrunkTuesday is here. This is one of my own favourites—an ancient oak in Somerset, where I used to go for a writing retreat every January. He has very comfortable roots to lie in and dream.

A #LiftToTheSky @brokenspinearts.bsky.social this week for poet and writer @nikitagill.bsky.social whose work on myths and goddesses is stellar, and whose poetry uplifts me every time I read it. Here’s one of hers about rage and justice, very appropriate for the times we live in.

A #LiftToTheSky @brokenspinearts.bsky.social this week for poet and Clarion Poetry lit journal editor @hironstom.bsky.social whose poetry lifts the soul. Honestly, if you haven’t read ‘Sometimes A Wild God’ yet, what are you waiting for? tomhirons.com/poetry/somet...

Part of my poem 'How To Heal Your Own Wolf Souls' which I read at last night's launch for Clarion 5 (recording here: clarionpoetry.com/videos) It was a wonderful evening full of love and poetry, compèred most ably by Clarion Poetry's founder and editor-in-chief, @hironstom.bsky.social #poetry

There's a tradition of challenges by female deities and mythological characters to their lovers (or tormentors)—this is mine. Not much is known about the nymph Cyrene of Thrace/Ares’ relationship, which leaves a lovely big information void for me to write what I needed to. #PoetsOfThreads #Mythology

Please share. This ship of humanitarian aid workers needs rescue NOW. #HumanitarianAid #Gaza #SOS

A new birthday poem from the lakes of Switzerland. And a statutory selfie to mark the day, from the same place. #Poem #PoetsOfBluesky #HappyBirthday #Switzerland

A new sad love poem for small poem Sunday. Enjoy! #SmallPoemSunday #PoetsOfBluesky #Love

'It's my life, their life, and our shared story… This is Gaza as it truly is' MOTAZ AZIZA We Are Not Numbers is so close to becoming the first UK bestseller of the year written by a Palestinian @wearenotnumbers.bsky.social Order your copy now: uk.bookshop.org/a/1353/97815...

I’m beginning to chronicle my poetry journey over on Substack. Free for now. I hope you’ll join me. #Substack #PoetsOfBluesky #WritersofBluesky 📚💙 open.substack.com/pub/lucycoat...

For my trans sisters and brothers, a poem I wrote for you after yesterday’s terrible news. #PoetsOfBluesky #TransRightsAreHumanRights

I stand with my trans sisters and brothers, and against JKR’s hatred and bigotry every day of the week and twice on Sundays. Just so we’re crystal clear here. #transrights #transwomenarewomen #transmenaremen

This is where your Harry Potter money goes

CALLING ALL #AGENTS In this thread are three packs of GREAT WRITERS who are looking for representation. Check them out and you won’t be disappointed. Everyone else, please repost to help these brilliant people if you can. PACK ONE (full). Thank you! #amquerying #querying #writingcommunity #booksky

It’s Monday. I’m utterly enraged by all those who so casually play the AI ‘action doll’ game. Does nobody realise it’s based on art stolen from actual artists? So…I wrote a sweary thing. Call me a killjoy. I don’t care. #PoetsOfBlueSky #GenAI #ActionDolls

Early Muse call this morning at 5.30. I dictated this draft from her in the drifting space between sleep and waking for day 5 of #NaPoWriMo after seeing yet more horrifying video footage last night. Anyone else have a Muse prodding them into action? 🆓🇵🇸 #PoetsOfBluesky #Poetry #Mythology #Goddesses

The Society of Authors needs to change. But it won’t without you. Join – or rejoin – as a Full Member by Wednesday 30th April to vote in this year’s Management Committee elections. Writers, translators & illustrators face huge challenges right now… (1/5)

Never written a folk horror poem before, so was thrilled to get this one published in Vial of Bones zine’s ‘My Eldritch Horsey’ edition last month. Prepare to have your socks scared off by the Mari Lwyd. #Poetry #PoetsOfBluesky #Horror #Folklore

And if you can’t get there in person, raise your voice however and whenever you can. Ironically, I’ll be ranting about it on *checks notes* insta….

I’m supporting The Society of Authors today in their action against the book thieves Meta, who have stolen millions of authors’ books to train their AI. 13 of mine. It’s bloody iniquitous and I am so angry. #BookThreads #DoTheWriteThing

Absolutely delighted to have been shortlisted for this year’s Latin Programme Poetry Prize for ‘the child of khaos makes herself’. I wrote it for all the babies who were never born in Gaza because of weapons our governments sell. I know it’s not an easy read. #PoetsOfBluesky #Poetry #FreePalestine

I loved reading the entries for the March competition! Congratulations to our winner @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social and commended poets Lucy Coats @lucycoatswriter.bsky.social Laura Cooney @lozzawriting.bsky.social Chris Campbell @citizen-chris.bsky.social Wendy Howe, Miriam Grace & Erwin Arroyo.

Happy Spring Equinox to you all. Here’s one of mine that was published in @fracturedlit.bsky.social last year. Inspired by the great Mahmoud Darwish’s ‘Think Of Others’. #PoetsOfBluesky #SpringEquinox

A little ditty for Valentine’s Day. 💔🖤🤍💚 #ValentinesDay

Off to Totleigh Barton tomorrow (body willing, which I hope it will be) to explore feminine creativity in the excellent company of @nikitagill.bsky.social and @salenagodden.bsky.social — hoping that many poems will be written and much fruitful discussion had. I’ll taking a SM break for the duration.

In memory of Hind Rajab. Killed by the Occupation on 29 January 2024 by 335 bullets. She was five years old. Remember her. Remember them all. Speak out. Witness. #PoetsOfBluesky 💙📚 #HindRajab #FreePalestine

"We cannot afford to tread lightly or wait for this banning surge to peter out. Fight wisely, fight efficiently, and fight bravely." How to support libraries & librarians - lots of excellent advice & analysis in this piece by @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social reactormag.com/book-bans-af...

i cannot make the world around us less dark, but i will lend you what light and warmth i have to remind you that the darkness has edges, seams, that it cannot swallow everything

The clinical neuroscience of lucid dreaming: We reviewed the link between lucid dreams and conditions like nightmare disorder, depression, anxiety, psychosis, and dissociative states, and the possible neurobiological basis of these associations. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One of the most commonly called upon ghosts in Greek myth is the transitive Tiresias, the great intersex seer whose insights even Zeus and Hera sought. Called to offer advice and counsel the living, many trips to the Underworld are just to visit them #FolkyFriday 🖼: H. Fuseli

As more of you flee here from the billionaire-owned hellsites, come and join the book community - a nice shortcut to finding your people. Here’s the first starter pack and I’ll post up the 2nd one shortly. Welcome! go.bsky.app/MjnUSwF

Family & serendipitous connections are important to me. My father was brought up in Burns’ village in Ayrshire. My OH is Burns’ great+++grandson. This quote from 1792 sums up the times we live in, I think. Happy Burns Night—whisky & freedom gang tegither. #BurnsNight #PoetsOfBlueSky 📚💙 #Scotland

Red K Elders’ extraordinary and beautiful art brings me joy literally every day. She is a wonder. Do follow her. #ArtistsOfBluesky #Artist #Mythology

I start the year with a study of fear, the way we speak to fear, the way we listen to fear or even ignore and shush our fear, and how this blocks hope, my lovely friends, may we be kinder to fear and sorrow and find more fearlessness and joy in this already absurd 2025 - read more on my #substack

Today, I’d like to share a quote from @matthaig.bsky.social. Love, not hate, always.

Use your excitement and relief to help a Palestinian in Gaza today - share their fundraisers, donate, use this energy to help them survive. They have a long road ahead.

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 20 Again, the Alt Text might be interesting. #Books #BookSky 💙📚👀 #BookChallenge #Mythology #LookInTheAltText #GreekMyths #UKKidLit

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 19 Definitely look in the Alt Text today! #Books #BookSky 💙📚👀 #BookChallenge #geography #LookInTheAltText #AncientHistory #maps

Woke up to a world of ice and wrote this. #poetry #PoetsOfBluesky #winter

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 18 #Books #BookSky 💙📚👀 #BookChallenge #Mythology #LookInTheAltText #GreekMyths

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 17 #Books #BookSky 💙📚👀 #BookChallenge #UKKidLit #LookInTheAltText #Fairytales

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 17 #Books #BookSky 💙📚👀 #BookChallenge #UKKidLit #LookInTheAltText

#writingcommunity we want your stories/poems related to the theme of LINES. Straight lines, squiggly lines, fishing lines, clothes lines, frontlines, punchlines, pick up lines, bloodlines and laughter lines. Let your imagination run wild! Full submission guidelines: Penstricken.com/submissions