See, a proper book, (little book, but a proper one) with an ISBN number and everything. Cover reveal and ordering details coming soon-ish. And yes, there is an-anti piracy, anti LLM curse embedded in the text. It is Hookland – you'd expect nothing less.

Recent violence & how it has been provoked by bigoted malevolents & rationalised in the media stir me to record my poem Cloaca Maxima, first published in @manchesterreview.bsky.social & share it for @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social’s #promptcombo theme #NothingMakesSenseNowadays #poetrycommunity

There are, in my view, 25 things everyone needs to understand in light of recent events: 1) Those out in our communities last night were not protestors, but organised far right extremists. 2) Their actions align with fascist ideologies. 3) So yes: these are fascist practices on our streets. 🧵

Utagawa Yoshifuji's "Rabbit Sumo". 1868. Ota memorial Museum of Art

We have a new window. It's BEAUTIFUL. Or should that be it's AGLAZING. Created by York Glaziers Trust it was made to commemorate the Coronation of King Charles III and the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. It also showcases Britain's flora and fauna...are you ready to see some close ups?

Charles Rennie Mackintosh's reputation in his lifetime, and to the present day, was based not just upon his work as an architect, but also as a designer and painter. In 1923, with his wife Margaret, he settled in Port Vendres in the Mediterranean. 'The Little Bay,' is from 1927.

A pigeon crosses your feed

Thanks to @zoomburst.substack.com for filling the #PoemsAbput space with #OddFriday #PoemsOn #OpportunityKnocks Ob portum veniens (coming toward a port) is a Latin phrase used when a favorable wind blew ships safely toward the harbour. Over time, this evolved into the English word "opportunity".

*Drawn towards integrating historical & topical issues into my own poetry, is what I meant below. 🪶 Hopefully @fiftywords.bsky.social doesn't mind his books being referenced here, but his collections are compelling, especially if you're exploring your own process of writing poetry in this way. 1/🧵

Lovely to see that my latest poetry pamphlet ‘Cry’ is now available to buy online from good bookshops, and . It’s also in stock at The Poetry Pharmacy, York. But if you’d like a copy, please consider buying directly from myself, my publisher Valley Press or support local bookshops. Thank you!

For fellow poets out there, may I recommend Beth's substack - full of reflections on the art of writing and her sources of inspiration bethbrooke.substack.com?r=1tirk3&utm... @bethbpoet.bsky.social #poetry

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j... << me in The Guardian today, briefly on some fine and intriguing new poetry collections.

Morning #OddFriday poets! Here is my #PoemsOn (or is it #PoemOn ? ) #OpportunityKnocks. Well done and thank you @zoomburst.substack.com for sorting! Sorry if you’ve see this one before. Happy Friday! 😊 #poetry #youngcarer

It's an #OddFriday with no #PoemsAbout so @zoomburst.substack.com has created #PoemsOn #OpportunityKnocks so we can still have some Friday fun. Thanks Mike ☺️ I am combining mine with #AmpersandAfterDark by @madp03t.bsky.social too as I only had time to write one poem! Have a great weekend all ❤️

I don't really talk about this, because I'm actually quite private about my personal life, but many many years ago Tony Head took me under his wing and showed me the kind of person I could be. It's not an exaggeration to say that I'm the person I am today because of the kindness he showed me.

@zoomburst.substack.com #Odd #OpportunityKnocks In the spirit of alternative #PoemsAbout while @alanparrywriter.co.uk takes a break today..here's a very early one, first appeared in Dreich Love Anthology. Be back after a day walking in the Yorkshire Wolds....

For today’s #vss365

Goodnight from Thurstone’s slightly drunken villagers, waiting for the prophetic pyre of St. Petroc to be lit. Goodnight from the Pavel Mikoyan Support Group in Ashcourt, where the attempt to make psychic contact with the cosmonaut has left everyone screaming again. Goodnight from Hookland.

Painting by Dorothy Steel (1927–2002) ‘The Glen, Port Glasgow‘ 1976. Oil on canvas. Measurements H 127.5 x W 91.3 cm.

Publication Day! ‘Ask me about The Double Deckers and The Banana Splits Ask me about the Pet Shop Boy who smiled at me outside The Ritz’ My new book ASK is finally out in the world! ☀️ available from @jebookshull.bsky.social @holdernessnews.bsky.social and tinyurl.com/3rhajmz2 #poetry

Extraordinary writing. Off to find Volumes 2 through 5.

Crack on peeps!

Goodnight from Cecelie Walker, wishing she hadn’t read that story about Marrow-suckers to children that are now crowding her bed. Goodnight from Jonny Kew, desperately circling in his Piper PA-34 as he tries to find an airfield seemingly vanished into time. Goodnight from Hookland.

Another super evening of poetry at The Book Bag Open Mic Session 5. Always humbled at the poems shared and appreciate that readers feel comfortable to take risks and experiment 🙏

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Back with Mr Caradoc, a home for this quirky little poem. June issue #TheCandyman'sTrumpet. Full poem in alt.

#SundayAfternoonCallaghan in which DI Callaghan and DS Nokes discuss egregious irritants and ghost ponces.

Green Man - one piece becomes many …

#Caturday Piper Minnaloushe rehearsing for the role of Blofeld's white cat. Might need a costume.

Durham County Council, run by Reform, pulled £2,500 from Durham Pride. But the Durham Miners Association, mindful of the support from LGBT communities during the miners strike, stepped in and, along with other Unions made contributions to make this year’s Durham Pride bigger than ever before. 🏳️‍🌈💪❤️

I look up at transmission towers and wish for The Hum again. I miss connection to the electric ley of the land. I miss following the march of pylons across pathless fields, through bosky woods. Miss the strange enfoldment. – Signal-catcher Rose, ex-Child of The Hum, 1982 #VOH

This week's #PoemsAbout for #EarnTheRight took me in lots of directions. This was one. Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk #poetrycommunity #poetry #poem #poems #skypoets #blueskypoets #blueskypoetry #poetsofbluesky #skypoet #writingcommunity

Morning @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk My #PoemsAbout #EarnTheRight is for the fabulous Helen and all her team. #fostering Happy Friday! #poetry #writing

big thanks to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk for hosting #PoemsAbout #EarnTheRight its about my ma and Pa wartime divorce/romance earning them the right to happiness . Looking forward to seeing everyone else's poems

One from the allotment plot. Too hot for weeding now. First aired by @zoomburst.substack.com in Sixty Odd. @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #PoemsAbout #Earntheright

I love owt like this, me.

Hi @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk My #PoemsAbout #EarnTheRight #poetry #writing:

I’ve obviously been in a reflective mood this week and this is the result for #PoemsAbout #EarntheRight Thanks as ever to @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk

Electrolysis — decomposition using electricity Hydrolysis — chemical breakdown using water Paralysis — para- (“beside, beyond”) + lysis → “loosening beside” → loss or impairment of movement/control [2/2]

Judy Garland in ( i believe) the only recorded stage performance of 'Over the Rainbow 'She had just danced as the little tramp, then sat at the edge of the stage and gave this wrenching, unforgettable performance youtu.be/ss49euDqwHA

@catherineredford.bsky.social Fabulous reading @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social in #York this evening. The poems are moving, interesting and strangely (for a collection about grief) life - affirming. Off to find my post-it notes..

For today’s #vss365

'The Brothers.' (1928) A child prodigy, Joan Manning-Sanders was aged 15 when this work was painted and was the youngest artist to have shown at the RA Summer Exhibition in the late 1920s.

Hullo #vss365 and to #signal An old poem today, in fact the first one I got published. My son is now at university but was five or six here…#poetry

Mood. Piper Minnaloushe agrees. Writing later. #Yorkshire

Today's the feast of St Bede, 7th/8th Century Benedictine scholar best known for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Here he is writing it, in glass by Moira Forsyth, 1964 in Norwich Cathedral.

Goodnight from Seth Rushton, wondering who’s cursed him so he barks like a fox every time he steps across the threshold of The Burnished Head pub. Goodnight from Little Wanting, where old shame haunts as discarnate leper bells ring the way to Weychester. Goodnight from Hookland.

Want to read your poetry in a supportive environment? 2poems / upto 5 mins to share your roughcut coals or polished gems. The Book Bag Open Mics… www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-book-b...

It's an Odd life. But take heart - The 2nd issue of Odd ; the Journal of the Fellowship of the Sixty Odd Poets is out now. Its neing launced at the Fox Gallery in Mexborough (S64 9JP) on Sunday May 31st at 3pm. If you cant make it, you can still buy a copy, (and the 1st too if you want) on Amazon