This week in the poetry blogs with @wendypratt.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @angelatopping.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/03/poet...

I’m happy for a squirrel to eat SOME of the bird food I put out but how do I stop such acrobatic thieves grabbing it ALL (I thought that long string would beat them)?

Do you love to write about your garden or perhaps you're interested in writing for gardening magazines? We'll cover a range of styles on this friendly, supportive workshop, incl. creative non-fiction & memoir. Plus writing sessions in the beautiful @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/3wmpuz6d

Gift from my son - the timing’s ironic but my wanting to read it comes from my lifelong love of Mary Renault’s Grecian novels and a recent return to Bunting’s Briggflatts.

What effect do the dreadful events of the last few years have on what people write and how they feel about their writing?

I Had Hope When Violence Was Ceas't

 Dawnlight freezes against the east-wire. The guards cough 'raus! 'raus! We flinch and grin, Our flesh oozing towards its last outrage. That which is taken from me is not mine.
 Geoffrey Hill

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This week in the poetry blogs with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @beckyltuch.bsky.social @kathrynanna.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/02/poet...

Will the winter never be over, Will the dark days never go? Must the buttercup and the clover Be always hid under the snow? Ah, lend me your little ear, love! Hark! 'tis a beautiful thing; The weariest month of the year, love, Is shortest and nearest to spring. Adeline Whitney

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The early-flowering spring iris is a February birth flower, named for Iris, the radiant Greek goddess of the rainbow and messenger between heaven and earth. Long linked with brighter days and good news, the iris symbolises courage, faith, wisdom and valour in folklore tradition.

I really like this from the preface to Helen Vendler’s Inhabit the Poem’: The intrinsic drama of lyric poetry is constituted by the constant volatility of consciousness as well as by its occasional stabilization.’

Bravo Poland! I would have hoped to see an EU-wide initiative of this kind, but if it exists I am not aware of it.

Boccaccio Boccaccino - Gypsy Girl 1504-5 (Uffizi Gallery)

Maud' was the poem Tennyson always recited - in full. His wife sometimes left the room, quietly. Who could blame Emily? But, amongst the ranting, the poem kept its wild heart from Tennyson's youth: 'O that 'twere possible'.

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From ‘The Sunday Poem: ‘Mineral’ by Kathleen Jamie’ Where is our kingfisher? Unseen nearby, a reed bends beneath her scintilla of weight. The fisher-bird sees through surfaces. The river is planes of light. Illustration by Chris Riddell observer.co.uk/culture/book... #poetry

Libraries are transformative. In fact, Farnham Library saved me. Kept me afloat when I was being bullied at South Farnham Middle School in the 1980s. This poem from Whatever You Do, Just Don't is my homage to it...

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Some thoughts on a phrase in Shelley's Ode to the West Wind: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2911

The first poetry blog digest of 2026 with @lauragraceweldon.bsky.social @kristybowen.bsky.social @grimalkingerry.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @kerstenak.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @pearlpoet.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2026/01/poet...

31 Dec: On the cusp of a New Year, nature carries its promise. These winter buds hold next season’s life, hope wrapped tightly within, waiting for the light to return. As midnight nears, we celebrate new beginnings already stirring beneath the earth and in the trees. #NewYearsEve

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My review for The High Window of D M Black's translation of Dante's Paradiso, which brilliantly renders the Italian into English poetry: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2906 With thanks to David Cooke and thehighwindowpress.com/the-high-win....

Back in the park

Our neighbours’ towering lime after the tree surgeons have been at it. I guess it was already here when these streets were fields.

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A commitment to express the inexpressible from @alinaetc.bsky.social @victoriamoul.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @annettemakino.bsky.social @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social 2/4 www.vianegativa.us/2025/11/poet...

Halloween week in the poetry blogs with thetenderbetween.bsky.social @renee-emerson.bsky.social aempoet.bsky.social pfanderson.bsky.social webbish6.bsky.social thepoetslizard.bsky.social kristybowen.bsky.social matthewepaul.bsky.social matriches.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/11/poet...

This week in the poetry blogs with @kathrynanna.bsky.social @matthewepaul.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...

If only this were @teamlabouruk.bsky.social …

On Rhythm & Poetry —Ellen Bryant Voigt 💕 #poetry #poem #poetrytheory

These 2026 Calendars are now available to pre-order. The link to my website is in my bio on my profile page. Lots of lovely Christmas cards to browse through too! #SmallBusiness #flowers #photography

#BlueSkyArtShow #Inside #DailyMono

This week in the poetry blogs w/ @matriches.bsky.social @rmhaines.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social @beckyltuch.bsky.social @shotscarecrow.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...

A Columbus Day edition of the digest with @myheadtheforest.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @writtenbyallison.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social @velveteenrabbi.bsky.social @garybarwin.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...

Interesting times as always this week in the poetry blogs with @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @wendypratt.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @kimmoorepoet.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @salenagodden.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/10/poet...

A few thoughts on Tolkien's Lament for Boromir and its setting by Clamavi De Profundis, brief reference to metre followed by broader impressions: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2900

Hey sonnet geeks, heads up. Excellent piece here by Paul Muldoon. thelondonmagazine.org/essay-scanty...

An imagined history of the Green Man, anti-capitalist work poetry, the dactylic hexameter line & more with @robinhoughton.bsky.social @richfergusonpoet.bsky.social @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social @webbish6.bsky.social @aempoet.bsky.social 3/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...

This week in the poetry blogs with @emmalee1.bsky.social @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @vanopticon.bsky.social @johnglenday.bsky.social @pi-and-anne.bsky.social @clareshawpoet.bsky.social @alinaetc.bsky.social @suefinch.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...

The perfect poem, the extremes of poetry, and more with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @robin-gow-poet.bsky.social @edmundprestwich.bsky.social @kent-nj.bsky.social @thepoetslizard.bsky.social @mcrucefix.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social 2/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...

I've always enjoyed the poems in Tolkien's Ring books and found several very moving but the Clamavi De Profundis group sets and sings them in a way that gives their emotional content new depth: the voices and music are beautiful but it's their sensitive feeling for the words that really makes them.

I've loved the opening of Bunting's Briggflatts since uni but Don Share's annotated edition gives new delight, eg this note by BB himself: "In spring, the bull does, in fact, if he's with the cows, dance on the tips of his toes, as part of the business of showing off, showing that he's protecting

Brief reflections on Michelene Wandor's Ergo from Arc Publications, as in issue 71 of The North: edmundprestwich.co.uk?p=2896

Tomas Transtromer's 'Romanesque Arches' - profoundly moving in Robin Fulton's translation for Transtromer's New Collected Poems by @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social. Read it aloud - in Fulton's words each phrase becomes a vividly charged moment in an arc of evolving experience.

This week in the poetry blogs with @victoriamoul.bsky.social @matriches.bsky.social @shawnalemay.bsky.social @robmclennan.bsky.social @emmalee1.bsky.social @jwikeley.bsky.social @richardjnewman.bsky.social @billymills.bsky.social 1/3 www.vianegativa.us/2025/09/poet...

Today is Arvo Pärt's 90th bday. My favorite living composer. I'm over the moon that my church choir is scheduled to sing The Deer's Cry in the spring. His De Profundis blows me away every time I listen. I am grateful for the life & music of Arvo Pärt! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQtW...

Superb poet.