The Haunted Bridge. A mystery to solve ... I have this postcard called "The Haunted Bridge" but cannot identify it. It's described as a British beauty spot. The card was posted from Nottingham, early 20thc.

An entry from the #HooklandEncyclopædia, this time on Dracula Buses and the censorship of #horror films. Also, context for later tonight.

One for #Yorkshire. Goodness knows what Old Mother Shipton foretold for St Robert.

'Concert Hall', Queen's Hall, Langham Place (1929) by Sybil Andrews (Glenbow Museum)

Celebrating 10 Years of Publications -- 2023 -- titles, prizes & more!!! vpresspoetry.blogspot.com

Dear friends, As have become a habit, I mark each #autumnequinox by sharing a small poem by Xin Qiji. I also start my translation cycle of Chinese and Japanese poems and prose that mark the twenty-four lunisolar micro-seasons. Translation notes blogged here: #everynightapoem

we’re in denial our late-summer lettuces delicate with frost

@northseapoets.bsky.social Ekphrastic working. Another illuminating rich workshop this evening from @johnglenday.bsky.social , 'scrutiny +memory =imagination'. 👌

Only a handful of places left on our 2026 retreats at Galloway House Estate - if you’re tempted, now’s the time to snap one up! More information here: www.gallowayhouseestate.org/copy-of-retr...

Sorted my plan for this today. Gonna be a cracking event and the book is brilliant. Any @hookland.bsky.social and @scarfolk.bsky.social peeps in the area might wanna join us 👀👀👀

8 days left to watch this extraordinary archival testimony from the likes of Quentin Bell, Duncan Grant, Leonard Woolf & Angelica Garnett. It really is a time capsule to another realm:

#poetsofbluesky #promptcombo #poemsabout Hope you don't mind a polite shout-out for this zoom event happening soon! Would love to see many of you there to hear these fantastic poets. DM me for zoom link x

Join poets @poetbex.bsky.social @alicestainer.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social Martin Kennedy Yates @judemarr.bsky.social @miriamo77.bsky.social @marcellenewbold.bsky.social @annpelletiert.bsky.social 7.00pm - 8.30pm UK time Free on Zoom www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/last-satur...

A #LifttotheSky for the brilliant @louisepoetical.bsky.social - no one does more for poetry, a very talented poet and endless supporter for us all. Organises fantastic readings with Last Saturday Poets free on Zoom - and an awesome book out too @alanparrywriter.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social

This is going to be a real treat...

A piece in the Guardian today focuses on the Irish game of road bowling; it reminded me of this work (1941) by Gabriel Hayes showing the game in action - it used to be confined to West Cork. share.google/6u9a5XNcui7J...

The text of my poem Homecoming, recorded above for @victoriaspires.bsky.social's #PromptCombo theme #Ancestry, can be found in the link in the post below at the excellent @eunoiareview.bsky.social site. #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky #poetry #booksky #writingcommunity

And yet a third #LifttotheSky for The Candyman’s Trumpet @dreich.bsky.social a new online mag curated by the supportive and generous Jack Caradoc. It’s already published great work by fantastic poets and it’s free to subscribe (and submit). Get to know it! #poetrycommunity @alanparrywriter.co.uk

One for @victoriaspires.bsky.social #promptcombo #ancestors. Autumn term writing. Thanks.

For any Steam train enthusiasts, the NYMR webcam is live at Grosmont Station #NYorks 🚂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJNc...

This week’s #PromptCombo theme is #ancestry, with the award-winning @victoriaspires.bsky.social presiding and also leading the way with her reflections on fenland provenance 👇. Post something this week under the hashtags above and tag Victoria.

The delightful #poetry of Beth Brooke, perfect for a Sunday Lunchtime read, or indeed any day of the week. @bethbpoet.bsky.social

Ever been stopped on the street by an insistent old man with eyes that seem to penetrate to the depths of soul? Was he just asking for money? A Jehovah's Witness? Or an Ancient Mariner? There are some strange tales in the world of #poetry. This one has zombies, curses and spirits of the deep.

The ninth edition of #SixtyOdd Poets is out today. You can get it from Amazon, but even better, you can get it from me and meet the people who wrote the #poetry at the launch in Mexborough next Sunday afternoon (you do know where Mexborough is don't you?)

Dorrit Black is a significant painter in Australia for bringing a form of cubism to the country in the late 1920s. This picture shows the village of Mirmande in the Drôme Valley, France, where her mentor André Lhote founded a summer art school.

In October I’ll be running some writing workshops based on the John Atkinson Grimshaw exhibition at Scarborough art gallery. Come join me? www.ticketsource.com/whats-on/nor...

Hullo #vss365 and to #rein

In hand, Eastern light. Congratulations to @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social on this gorgeous poetry collection 💫

Give me the ghost of the glass. Give me the phantom locked in fused silicon dioxide. The spectre who whispers to vandals about stones and freedom. The temporal shade who peers through windows is a friend of mine. – #CJosiffe 1982 #Ghosts

Fabulous workshop yesterday evening @northseapoets.bsky.social, informative & plenty of grist for the mill. Looking forward to the next one with @johnglenday.bsky.social

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

Beautiful.

Autumn is in the alleys, cut-throughs and wynds. In the next few days they will be carpeted by squidged rosehips, crushed apples. Their shadows seem stronger. Their ghosts more awake. Everywhere, the luck of falling leaves waiting to be caught. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #Autumn

Charles Ginner 1878–1952. The Timber Yard Leeds c.1915. Oil on canvas 30 x 40 in (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

#NotJustPretty — we don’t platform women to show them. We publish them to hear them. Poetry. Art. Defiance. Read it: thebrokenspine.co.uk/2025/09/14/notjustpretty-womens-voices-womens-power/ @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @jenwithwords.bsky.social @petitecreature1.bsky.social

Still a couple of weeks to go before the launch of the new #PoetryTheme prompt #AMPHIBIAN Please read the details on how and when to submit in the thread below 👇👇👇 and please repost and share with the #poetrycommunity #poetsonbluesky

Apparently a small artistic adjustment to the viral St George's Crosses = Battenberg. #TheGreatEnglishBakeOff (also thanks to Mr Heppel)

In 'The Purpose', Clara-Læïla Laudette's speaker reveals a number of surprises and in so doing, takes us through a range of emotions. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/clara-laeila/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission

If you hadn’t guessed, this is my approach to Hookland.

It can be a struggle to work out if what is being depicted is the Wicker King, the Lumbering Man or even one of the Children-Made-of-Thorns. It can be even harder to work out if the intent was ward or summons. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1981

The south entrance, Rose Window and central tower of York Minster, from Minster Gates. #photo #photography

So happy to publish Martin! Huge congrats! Looking forward to selecting from the work that was submitted this summer for publication next year.

I am absolutely thrilled to have five pieces published & beautifully presented on the splendid @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social site, edited by that great member of the #poetrycommunity @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social #poetsonbluesky #poetry #writingcommunity #booksky

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS I’m looking for #poetry for the Sixty Odd Poets Page on Sunday September 28th. I am happy to read pieces from any angle, spiritual, secular, philosophical or just plain daft. I think its a fascinating subject. More information about submitting at bit.ly/60_Odd_Submi...

Hookland had its own rival to Derek Fowler - Sarah Stowen who produced mice cottages, dormice churches and stately squirrel dreys as nightlights in the 1970s.

The Starbeck Orion Showcases The Poetry Of Maggie Mackay Day Ten Of Twenty-Five: open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

Goodnight from Nell Peck, bleary-eyed from an evening cutting up newspapers to make threats to post to her rivals for the title of Harvest Queen. Goodnight from Mags Palter, suddenly afraid of the dark and wishing she still had her childhood ceramic cottage night light. Goodnight from Hookland.

Out tomorrow with absolutely exceptional work included. And just look at this cover art! Amazing team effort from all involved & the wonderful contributors ❤️

An evening walk on York’s medieval city walls. The earthworks on which it is built are older, and this stretch probably follows the western perimeter of the Roman colonia - the civilian area of the city south of the River Ouse, with the military fortress on the other side. #photo #photography

“The tide has again receded over the sand-flats. The remaining framework of a wooden ship is half-sunken in the sand. On one of the ribs a cormorant stands with wings lifted” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe